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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2014
Applicant:
Omron Corporation, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, JP;
Inventor:
Takayoshi Yamashita, Kyoto, JP;
Assignee:
OMRON Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00355 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06K 9/00389 (2013.01); G06K 9/3241 (2013.01);
Abstract
A gesture recognition device configured to recognize a gesture of a hand from a captured image of a user, having a fingertip candidate detector that detects a fingertip candidate from the image, a finger detector that detects a skin area as a finger, the skin area extending by a predetermined length in a certain direction from the fingertip candidate detected by the fingertip candidate detector, and a gesture type specifying unit that specifies a type of the gesture based on the number of fingers detected by the finger detector.