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Granted Patent B2
US 10,248,217 · App. 14/933,327 · Granted Apr 2, 2019

Motion detection 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 10,248,217
App. No.
14/933,327
Granted
Apr 2, 2019
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 (37)

1. A motion detecting system, comprising:

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

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

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

a control unit, coupled to the first gesture sensor, the navigation unit 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 unit,

identify a first posture of the first hand according to the first image data,

identify a position variation, for controlling the cursor movement, of the first posture according to the first image data after the first posture is identified, and

not identify the first posture of the second hand according to the second image data when the first posture is identified according to the first image data,

wherein dots of the cursor movement per inch position variation of the first posture 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 unit.

2. The motion detecting system of claim 1 , wherein the control unit is further configured to output a gesture control command of a first mode corresponding to a second posture different from the first posture.

3. The motion detecting system of claim 2 , wherein the first mode is a zooming mode, a scrolling mode, a paging mode or a click mode.

4. 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.

5. A motion detecting system, comprising:

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

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

a control unit, coupled to the first 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,

identify a first posture and a second posture, which is different from the first posture, of the hand according to the first image data,

identify a position variation, for controlling the cursor movement, of the first posture of the hand according to the first image data after the first posture of the hand is identified, and

output a gesture control command corresponding to a first mode corresponding to the second posture of the hand, wherein the first mode does not include a cursor control mode,

wherein dots of the cursor movement per inch position variation of the first posture of the 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 mouse device.

6. The motion detecting system of claim 5 , wherein the first mode comprises at least one of a zooming mode, a scrolling mode, a paging mode and a click mode.

7. The motion detecting system of claim 5 , further comprising a second gesture sensor configured to generate second image data, wherein the control unit is further configured to output another gesture control command according to the second image data.

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

9. A motion detecting system, comprising:

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

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

a control unit, coupled to the first 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,

identify a predetermined posture of the hand according to the first image data, and

identify a position variation, for controlling the cursor movement, of the predetermined posture of the hand according to the first image data after the predetermined posture of the hand is identified,

wherein dots of the cursor movement per inch position variation of the predetermined posture of the 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 mouse device.

10. The motion detecting system of claim 9 , further comprising a second gesture sensor configured to generate second image data, wherein the control unit is further configured to output a gesture control command according to the second image data.

11. The motion detecting system of claim 10 , wherein sensing ranges of the first gesture sensor and the second gesture sensor are partially overlapped or not overlapped with each other.

12. The motion detecting system of claim 10 , wherein the gesture control command corresponding to a second mode of the second gesture sensor does not comprise a cursor control mode for controlling the cursor movement.

13. The motion detecting system of claim 12 , wherein the second mode comprises at least one of a zooming mode, a scrolling mode, a paging mode and a click mode.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 5, 2015
From: CHANG, TING-YANG; CHANG, YEN-MIN; CHEN, NIEN-TSE
To: PIXART IMAGING INC.
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Priority Claims (2)
TW 101147554 A · Dec 14, 2012 · national
TW 102140448 U · Nov 7, 2013 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation In Part 14097442 · Dec 5, 2013
Related Publication 20160054809A1 · Feb 25, 2016
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