IP Library Granted Patent US 8,259,064
Granted Patent B2
US 8,259,064 · App. 12/428,087 · Granted Sep 4, 2012

Terminal device

Assignee: KDDI Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,259,064
App. No.
12/428,087
Granted
Sep 4, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

An operation estimating portion estimates an input operation on the basis of motions of a nail and a finger which are shot, the directions, the number thereof or others. On the basis of estimation results of the input operation, a controller controls display content on a display and an application now in execution. The operation estimating portion includes a skin region extractor for extracting a skin region (first region) containing a nail region (second region) from a shot image, a nail region extractor for extracting the nail region from the thus extracted skin region, and a motion detector for following up a temporal change in the thus extracted nail region to detect motions of the nail region, thereby estimating the input operation on the basis of detection results of the motion detector.

Claims (16)

1. A terminal device which is provided with a camera for shooting a subject continuously and a display,

the terminal device including:

first feature extraction means for extracting a feature from a shot image,

skin region extraction means for applying the extracted feature to a first learning model to extract a skin region,

nail region extraction means for applying a feature of the skin region to a second learning model to extract at least one nail region which is a part of the skin region,

motion detection means for detecting motions of the nail region, and

control means for controlling the terminal device on the basis of the detected motions.

2. The terminal device as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the motion detection means includes at least any one of a counter for detecting a number of the nail region, scaling detection means for detecting a scaling of the nail region, moving detection means for detecting movement of the nail region, and direction detection means for detecting a direction of the movement of the nail region.

3. The terminal device as set forth in claim 2 , wherein the control means allows an object on the display to move depending on the movement of the nail region.

4. The terminal device as set forth in claim 3 , wherein the number of the nail region is allocated to an axis which is used as a reference for moving the object.

5. The terminal device as set forth in claim 4 , wherein a first number of the nail region is allocated to the x axis, a second number of the nail region is allocated to the y axis, and a third number of the nail region is allocated to the z axis.

6. The terminal device as set forth in claim 2 , wherein the control means controls a color tone of the display, depending on the movement of the nail region.

7. The terminal device as set forth in claim 6 , wherein the number of the nail region is allocated to a color component to be controlled.

8. The terminal device as set forth in claim 2 , wherein the terminal device is provided with a speaker, and

the control means controls sound output from the speaker on the basis of the movement of the nail region.

9. The terminal device as set forth in claim 8 , a first number of the nail region is allocated to a frequency range, and a second number of the nail region is allocated to a magnitude of sound to be controlled.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 23, 2009
From: KATO, HARUHISA; YONEYAMA, AKIO
To: KDDI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 022588/0502 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2008-112416 · Apr 23, 2008 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20090267893A1 · Oct 29, 2009