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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2013
Nippon Systemware Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Honda Access Corp., Saitama, JP;
Tsuyoshi Kondou, Tokyo, JP;
Teruo Uchimura, Tokyo, JP;
Shinichi Horisaki, Tokyo, JP;
Atsuki Kakinuma, Saitama, JP;
Toshiaki Hosogai, Saitama, JP;
NIPPON SYSTEMWARE CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
HONDA ACCESS CORP., Niiza-Shi Saitama, JP;
Abstract
A gesture recognition apparatus capable of recognizing a hand by means of a binary image regardless of direction of light contacting the hand. A binarizing processing section binarizes an input image from a camera to a hand recognizing section to prepare a first binary image by a predetermined method. A rebinarizing processing section only rebinarizes a predetermined area of the input image to prepare a second binary image. A contraction processing section performs a contraction processing on the second binary image. The rebinarizing processing can increase the possibility of recognizing the hand by classifying a portion of the hand that was classified into black in the first binary image into white. The hand is determined to be recognizable if the hand can be recognized in the first binary image and/or in the second binary image.