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US 10,372,225 B2Granted
Video display device recognizing a gesture of a user to perform a control operation and operating method thereof
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsWooseok Ahn, Sangkyu Kang, Hyeongchul Oh, Sewon Park
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Abstract
An operating method of a video display device, and which includes obtaining an image of a user of the video display device; generating a plurality of gesture areas for the user from the obtained image; recognizing a position of a gesture object of the user from the plurality of generated gesture areas; recognizing a gesture of the user from the obtained image; and performing a control operation corresponding to the position of the recognized gesture object and the recognized gesture.
Claims15
An operating method of a video display device, the method comprising:
- obtaining an image of a user of the video display device;
- generating a plurality of gesture areas for the user from the obtained image;
- recognizing a position of a gesture object of the user from the plurality of generated gesture areas;
- recognizing a gesture of the user from the obtained image;
- recognizing a posture of the user from the obtained image;
- performing a control operation corresponding to the recognized position of the gesture object and the recognized gesture based on the recognized posture of the user,
- wherein the performing of the control operation comprises performing different control operations according to the recognized posture of the user even when the recognized gesture and the recognized position of the gesture object are identical,
- wherein the recognized posture of the user includes at least one of a user's standing posture, a user's sitting posture and a user's lying posture, and
- wherein the performing different control operations according to the recognized posture of the user comprises:
- performing a first control operation when the recognized posture of the user is a user's standing posture and the recognized gesture is a first recognized gesture and the recognized position of the gesture object is a first recognized position, and
- performing a second control operation when the recognized posture of the user is a user's lying posture and the recognized gesture is the first recognized gesture and the recognized position of the gesture object is the first recognized position, the second control operation being different than the first control operation.
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A video display device comprising:
- an image acquisition unit obtaining an image of a user of the video display device;
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- a control unit generating a plurality of gesture areas for the user from the obtained image, recognizing a position of a gesture object of the user from the plurality of generated gesture areas, recognizing a gesture of the user from the obtained image, recognizing a posture of the user from the obtained image, and performing a control operation corresponding to the recognized position of the gesture object and the recognized gesture based on the recognized posture of the user,
- wherein the control unit is further configured to perform different control operations according to the recognized posture of the user even when the recognized gesture and the recognized position of the gesture object are identical,
- wherein the recognized posture of the user includes at least one of a user's standing posture, a user's sitting posture and a user's lying posture, and
- wherein the performing different control operations according to the recognized posture of the user comprises:
- performing a first control operation when the recognized posture of the user is a user's standing posture and the recognized gesture is a first recognized gesture and the recognized position of the gesture object is a first recognized position, and
- performing a second control operation when the recognized posture of the user is a user's lying posture and the recognized gesture is the first recognized gesture and the recognized position of the gesture object is the first recognized position, the second control operation being different than the first control operation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.