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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2008
Eric Foxlin, Lexington, MA (US);
Dean Wormell, Westford, MA (US);
Thomas C. Browne, North Andover, MA (US);
Michael Donfrancesco, Westborough, MA (US);
Eric Foxlin, Lexington, MA (US);
Dean Wormell, Westford, MA (US);
Thomas C. Browne, North Andover, MA (US);
Michael Donfrancesco, Westborough, MA (US);
Thales Visionix, Inc., Clarksburg, MD (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for tracking the motion of a game controller and a player's body part are disclosed. The method includes receiving a video signal from a webcam, generating movement data corresponding to the motion of the game controller, tracking first predetermined degrees of freedom of motion of the body part, generating feature location data based on a location of at least one identifiable visual feature of the game controller, and estimating second predetermined degrees of freedom of a motion of the game controller.