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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2014
Ailive Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Youding Zhu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Charles Musick, Jr., Belmont, CA (US);
Robert Kay, San Francisco, CA (US);
William Robert Powers, III, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dana Wilkinson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Stuart Reynolds, Mountain View, CA (US);
AiLive, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for performing accurate and automatic head pose estimation are disclosed. According to one aspect of the techniques, head pose estimation is integrated with a scale-invariant head tracking method along with facial features detected from a located head in images. Thus the head pose estimation works efficiently even when there are large translational movements resulting from the head motion. Various computation techniques are used to optimize the process of estimation so that the head pose estimation can be applied to control one or more objects in a virtual environment and virtual character gaze control.