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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 03, 2014
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Mark Schwesinger, Bellevue, WA (US);

Tommer Leyvand, Seattle, WA (US);

Szymon Stachniak, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/213 (2014.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04N 13/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0412 (2013.01); G02B 27/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/005 (2013.01); G06F 3/011 (2013.01); G06F 3/012 (2013.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/0304 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/04815 (2013.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); H04N 13/0271 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0178 (2013.01); G06F 2203/012 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04101 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04106 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04808 (2013.01); G06F 2206/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method to identify a targeted object based on eye tracking and gesture recognition. The method is enacted in a compute system controlled by a user and operatively coupled to a machine vision system. In this method, the compute system receives, from the machine vision system, video imaging a head and pointer of the user. Based on the video, the compute system computes a geometric line of sight of the user, which is partly occluded by the pointer. Then, with reference to position data for one or more objects, the compute system identifies the targeted object, situated along the geometric line of sight.


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