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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2007
Ho Sub Yoon, Daejeon, KR;
Su Young Chi, Daejeon, KR;
DO Hyung Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Hye Jin Kim, Incheon, KR;
Jae Yeon Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Ho Sub Yoon, Daejeon, KR;
Su Young Chi, Daejeon, KR;
Do Hyung Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Hye Jin Kim, Incheon, KR;
Jae Yeon Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for recognizing a gesture in an image processing system. In the apparatus, an input unit receives an image obtained by capturing a gesture of a user using a camera. A detector detects a face area in the input image, and detects a hand area in gesture search areas. The gesture search areas being set by dividing the image into predetermined areas with reference to a predetermined location of the detected face area. A controller sets the gesture search areas, determines whether a gesture occurs in the detected hand area, and selects a detection area with respect to the gesture to generate a control command for controlling an image device. A calculator calculates skin-color information and differential-area information for checking a gesture in the detected hand area. Accordingly, a hand area can be accurately detected, and a gesture can be separated from peripheral movement information, so that mal-functioning caused by gesture recognition can be reduced.