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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2014
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Robert Matthew Craig, Bellevue, WA (US);
Tommer Leyvand, Seattle, WA (US);
Craig Peeper, Kirkland, WA (US);
Momin M. Al-Ghosien, Samammish, WA (US);
Matt Bronder, Bellevue, WA (US);
Oliver Williams, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ryan M. Geiss, San Jose, CA (US);
Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Cambridge, GB;
Johnny Lee, Redmond, WA (US);
Mark Finocchio, Redmond, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method of tracking a subject includes receiving from a source a depth image of a scene including the subject. The depth image includes a depth for each of a plurality of pixels. The method further includes identifying pixels of the depth image that image the subject and deriving from the identified pixels of the depth image one or more machine readable data structures representing the subject as a model including a plurality of shapes.