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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2003
Applicants:
Norman Paul Jouppi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
April Marie Slayden, Redwood City, CA (US);
Inventors:
Norman Paul Jouppi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
April Marie Slayden, Redwood City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/34 (2006.01); G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of and system for determining the angular orientation of an object, such as a person's head. In one aspect, a plurality of images of the object is obtained. Values are assigned to a plurality of positions in a polar plot using data from the images. A centroid is computed based on the assigned values. An angle of the centroid with respect to an origin of the polar plot indicates the angular orientation of the object.