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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2010
Alexandru Balan, Redmond, WA (US);
Matheen Siddiqui, Seattle, WA (US);
Ryan M. Geiss, San Jose, CA (US);
Alex Aben-athar Kipman, Redmond, WA (US);
Oliver Michael Christian Williams, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jamie Shotton, Cambridge, GB;
Alexandru Balan, Redmond, WA (US);
Matheen Siddiqui, Seattle, WA (US);
Ryan M. Geiss, San Jose, CA (US);
Alex Aben-Athar Kipman, Redmond, WA (US);
Oliver Michael Christian Williams, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jamie Shotton, Cambridge, GB;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for estimating a posture of a body part of a user are disclosed. In one disclosed embodiment, an image is received from a sensor, where the image includes at least a portion of an image of the user including the body part. The skeleton information of the user is estimated from the image, a region of the image corresponding to the body part is identified at least partially based on the skeleton information, and a shape descriptor is extracted for the region and the shape descriptor is classified based on training data to estimate the posture of the body part.