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US 10,725,554 · App. 16/194,551 · Granted Jul 28, 2020

Motion detecting system

Inventors: Ting-Yang Chang (Hsin-Chu County, TW); Yen-Min Chang (Hsin-Chu County, TW); Nien-Tse Chen (Hsin-Chu County, TW)
Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
G06F3/017G06K9/00355H04N5/247
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Patent No.
US 10,725,554
App. No.
16/194,551
Granted
Jul 28, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention provides a motion detecting system, which includes a light source module, a plurality of image sensors and a control unit. The light source module illuminates at least one object. The image sensors respectively detect the object under the light emitted by the light source module to generate a plurality of detection results. The control unit is coupled to the image sensors, and generates a control command according to the detection results.

Claims (32)

1. A motion detecting system, comprising:

a first gesture sensor configured to sense reflecting light of a first hand to generate first image data;

a second gesture sensor configured to sense reflecting light of a second hand to generate second image data;

a navigation device configured to calculate a displacement with respect to a surface; and

a control unit, coupled to the first gesture sensor, the navigation device and the second gesture sensor, the control unit configured to

output a cursor control command for controlling a cursor movement according to the displacement calculated by the navigation device, and

identify a position variation, for controlling the cursor movement, of the first hand according to the first image data,

wherein dots of the cursor movement per inch position variation of the first hand identified according to the first image data generated by the first gesture sensor are larger than dots of the cursor movement per inch displacement calculated by the navigation device, and

the second image data outputted by the second gesture sensor is not used to control the cursor movement.

2. The motion detecting system of claim 1 , wherein the control unit is further configured to output a gesture control command according to a first posture of the first hand.

3. The motion detecting system of claim 2 , wherein the gesture control command is configured to control zooming, scrolling, paging or clicking.

4. The motion detecting system of claim 2 , wherein the control unit is further configured to identify a second posture, which is different from the first posture, of the second hand according to the second image data.

5. The motion detecting system of claim 2 , wherein the control unit is further configured to ignore the first posture of the second hand according to the second image data.

6. The motion detecting system of claim 5 , wherein the control unit is configured to ignore the first posture of the second hand for a predetermined time interval.

7. The motion detecting system of claim 1 , wherein sensing ranges of the first gesture sensor and the second gesture sensor are partially overlapped or not overlapped with each other.

8. The motion detecting system of claim 1 , wherein sampling rates of the first gesture sensor and the second gesture sensor are different from each other.

9. A motion detecting system, comprising:

a gesture sensor configured to sense reflecting light of a hand to generate image data;

a mouse device configured to calculate a displacement with respect to a surface; and

a control unit, coupled to the gesture sensor and the mouse device, the control unit configured to

output a cursor control command for controlling a cursor movement according to the displacement calculated by the mouse device, and

identify a position variation, for controlling the cursor movement, of the hand according to the image data,

wherein dots of the cursor movement per inch position variation of the hand identified according to the image data generated by the gesture sensor are larger than dots of the cursor movement per inch displacement calculated by the mouse device.

10. The motion detecting system of claim 9 , wherein the control unit is further configured to output a gesture control command according to a posture of the hand.

11. The motion detecting system of claim 10 , wherein the gesture control command is configured to control zooming, scrolling, paging or clicking.

12. A motion detecting system, comprising:

an image sensor configured to sense reflecting light of an object to generate image data;

a navigation device configured to calculate a displacement with respect to a surface; and

a control unit, coupled to the image sensor and the navigation device, the control unit configured to

output a cursor control command for controlling a cursor movement according to the displacement calculated by the navigation device, and

identify a position variation, for controlling the cursor movement, of the object according to the image data,

wherein dots of the cursor movement per inch position variation of the object identified according to the image data generated by the image sensor are larger than dots of the cursor movement per inch displacement calculated by the navigation device.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 19, 2018
From: CHANG, TING-YANG; CHANG, YEN-MIN; CHEN, NIEN-TSE
To: PIXART IMAGING INC.
Reel/Frame 047599/0978 →
Priority Claims (2)
TW 101147554 A · Dec 14, 2012 · national
TW 102140448 A · Nov 7, 2013 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 14933327 · Nov 5, 2015
Continuation In Part 14097442 · Dec 5, 2013
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