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Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016

Filed:

Aug. 14, 2013
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Inventor:

Robert Schiewe, Lake Forest, CA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, unknown;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/042 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/005 (2013.01); G06F 3/0325 (2013.01); G06F 3/0425 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04101 (2013.01);
Abstract

Approaches to analyze image data to detect a blob corresponding to a user's hand (or other feature) and analyze the depth information associated with the blob to determine a location on a display screen. For example, the user may be pointing one or more fingers towards a particular location on the screen and the computing device may analyze the depth information associated with the user's finger and hand to compute the corresponding location on the screen that finger should be mapped to. Additionally, the computing device may track the movement of the user's finger with respect to other portions of the user's hand (e.g., center of the hand) and adjust the mapped location on the screen based on the tracked movement.


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