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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2010
Je-han Yoon, Seongnam-si, KR;
Hee-jun Song, Namyangju-si, KR;
Hyun-sik Shim, Yongin-si, KR;
Young-hee Park, Seoul, KR;
Jae-wook Jeon, Suwon-si, KR;
Tae-houn Song, Suwon-si, KR;
Cong-thien Pham, Suwon-si, KR;
Seung-hun Jin, Suwon-si, KR;
Duc-dung Nguyen, Suwon-si, KR;
Je-Han Yoon, Seongnam-si, KR;
Hee-Jun Song, Namyangju-si, KR;
Hyun-Sik Shim, Yongin-si, KR;
Young-Hee Park, Seoul, KR;
Jae-Wook Jeon, Suwon-si, KR;
Tae-Houn Song, Suwon-si, KR;
Cong-Thien Pham, Suwon-si, KR;
Seung-Hun Jin, Suwon-si, KR;
Duc-Dung Nguyen, Suwon-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Sunkyunkwan University Foundation for Corporate Collaboration, Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
An apparatus and method can effectively detect both hands and hand shape of a user from images input through cameras. A skin image detecting skin regions from one of the input images and a stereoscopic distance image are used. For hand detection, background and noise are eliminated from a combined image of the skin image and the distance image and regions corresponding to actual both hands are detected from effective images having a high probability of hands. For hand shape detection, a non-skin region is eliminated from the skin image based on the stereoscopic distance information, hand shape candidate regions are detected from the remaining region after elimination, and finally a hand shape is determined.