Evolving universal gesture sets

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9019201-B2
Application number	US-68455610-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 8, 2010
Priority date	Jan 8, 2010
Publication date	Apr 28, 2015
Grant date	Apr 28, 2015

Abstract

In a gesture-based system, gestures may control aspects of a computing environment or application, where the gestures may be derived from a user's position or movement in a physical space. Gesture recognition data, used to recognize gestures from captured data representative of a user's input gestures, may be evolved based on captured data from a plurality of users. A common set or default set of gesture recognition data may be evolved by selecting a plurality of users for tracking. Captured data of the plurality of users may be processed to identify input gesture data for the plurality of users, and the gesture recognition data may be evolved based on features of the input gesture data that is common to multiple users. The evolved gesture recognition data may be implemented not only for the users tracked, but for users not tracked. An identifier may identify when the evolved gesture recognition data applies and implement the evolved gesture recognition data when the identifier is present.

First claim

What is claimed:

1. A method for evolving a gesture set in a gesture-based system, the method comprising:
capturing data representative of a user in a physical space;
processing the captured data to identify a first motion or pose for the user, the first motion or pose for the user being processed to determine a first confidence level that the first motion or pose is the same as a computer representation of a motion or pose for a particular gesture that invokes an input command…

Assignees

• Holmdahl Todd Eric
• Legrow Ian
• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Holmdahl Todd Eric
• Legrow Ian

Classifications

• G06F3/017 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06K9/00342

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06V40/23

  Physics · mapped topic