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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2013
Applicant:
Pointgrab Ltd., Hod Hasharon, IL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Pointgrab Ltd., Hod Hasharon, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/78 (2006.01); G06K 9/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00355 (2013.01); G06K 9/00362 (2013.01); G06K 9/00375 (2013.01); G06K 9/42 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method are provided for controlling a device based on computer vision. Embodiments of the system and method of the invention are based on receiving a sequence of images of a field of view; detecting movement of at least one object in the images; applying a shape recognition algorithm on the at least one moving object; confirming that the object is a user hand by combining information from at least two images of the object; and tracking the object to control the device.