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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2007
Applicant:
Evan Hildreth, Ottawa, CA;
Inventor:
Evan Hildreth, Ottawa, CA;
Assignee:
GestureTek, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/22 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method is described for determining a description of motion of a moving mobile camera to determine a user input to an application. The method may involve capturing a series of images from a moving mobile camera and comparing stationary features present in the series of images. Optical flow analysis may be performed on the series of images to determine a description of motion of the moving mobile camera. Based on the determined motion, a user input to an application may be determined and the application may respond to the user input, for example, by updating a user interface of the application.