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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2013
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Mark Schwesinger, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eduardo Escardo Raffo, Seattle, WA (US);
Oscar Murillo, Redmond, WA (US);
David Bastien, Kirkland, WA (US);
Matthew H. Ahn, Bellevue, WA (US);
Mauro Giusti, Redmond, WA (US);
Kevin Endres, Redmond, WA (US);
Christian Klein, Duvall, WA (US);
Julia Schwarz, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Charles Claudius Marais, Duvall, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An NUI system to provide user input to a computer system. The NUI system includes a logic machine and an instruction-storage machine. The instruction-storage machine holds instructions that, when executed by the logic machine, cause the logic machine to detect an engagement gesture from a human subject or to compute an engagement metric reflecting the degree of the subject's engagement. The instructions also cause the logic machine to direct gesture-based user input from the subject to the computer system as soon as the engagement gesture is detected or the engagement metric exceeds a threshold.