# US 11,308,597 B1 · Detection of hand obstruction for image capture device

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- Number: US 11,308,597 B1
- Document ID: US11308597B1
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B1
- Application number: 16/781,271
- Filed: 2020-02-04
- Granted: 2022-04-19
- Earliest claimed: 2020-02-04
- Assignees: GoPro, Inc.
- Applicants: GoPro, Inc.
- Inventors: Eva Coupeté; Matias Tassano Ferres; Nicolas Bessou
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11308597B1

## CPC

- G06T 7/0002: {Inspection of images, e.g. flaw detection}
- G06T 7/90: Determination of colour characteristics
- H04N 9/643: {Hue control means, e.g. flesh tone control}
- H04N 23/51: Housings
- H04N 23/54: Mounting of pick-up tubes, electronic image sensors, deviation or focusing coils
- H04N 23/55: Optical parts specially adapted for electronic image sensors; Mounting thereof
- H04N 23/60: Control of cameras or camera modules
- H04N 23/611: where the recognised objects include parts of the human body
- H04N 23/64: {Computer-aided capture of images, e.g. transfer from script file into camera, check of taken image quality, advice or proposal for image composition or decision on when to take image}
- H04N 23/698: for achieving an enlarged field of view, e.g. panoramic image capture
- H04N 23/84: for processing colour signals
- G06T 2207/10024: Color image
- G06T 2207/30088: Skin; Dermal
- G06T 2207/30168: Image quality inspection
- G06T 2207/30196: Human being; Person
- G06T: IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

## Abstract

An image capture device may detect presence of an on-housing hand within a periphery of a field of view of an optical element during capture of visual content through the optical element. The image capture device may generate an alarm to indicate the presence of the on-housing hand within the periphery of the field of view of the optical element.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An image capture device for detecting hand obstruction, the image capture device comprising:
a housing;
an image sensor carried by the housing and configured to generate a visual output signal conveying visual information based on light that becomes incident thereon, the visual information defining visual content;
an optical element carried by the housing and configured to guide light within a field of view to the image sensor; and
one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions to:
capture the visual content during a capture duration, the visual content captured through the optical element;
determine presence of an on-housing hand within a periphery of the field of view of the optical element during the capture duration based on analysis of a peripheral portion of the visual content, wherein the analysis of the peripheral portion of the visual content includes comparison of color values in the peripheral portion of the visual content with hand color values; and
responsive to the presence of the on-housing hand within the periphery of the field of view of the optical element, generate an alarm indicating the presence of the on-housing hand within the periphery of the field of view of the optical element.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The image capture device of claim 1, wherein the peripheral portion of the visual content is analyzed based on application of a mask to the visual content, the application of the mask outputting the peripheral portion of the visual content.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The image capture device of claim 1, wherein the hand color values are made darker and redder to account for shift in skin tone based on proximity of the on-housing hand to the optical element.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The image capture device of claim 1, wherein the color values in the peripheral portion of the visual content are converted from an RGB color space to a YCbCr color space for the comparison.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The image capture device of claim 1, wherein the comparison of the color values in the peripheral portion of the visual content with the hand color values outputs one or more clusters of pixels as potentially depicting the on-housing hand, and the one or more clusters of pixels are filtered based on size to remove one or more outliers.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The image capture device of claim 5, wherein the analysis of the peripheral portion of the visual content further includes analysis of sharpness of one or more filtered clusters of pixels.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The image capture device of claim 6, wherein the analysis of the sharpness of the one or more filtered clusters of pixels includes comparison of the sharpness of the one or more filtered clusters of pixels with sharpness of pixels in a center portion of the visual content.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The image capture device of claim 1, wherein the alarm includes an audible alarm, a visible alarm, and/or a haptic alarm.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The image capture device of claim 8, wherein the audible alarm is not generated responsive to concurrent capture of audio content with the visual content.

### Claim 10

A method for detecting hand obstruction, the method performed by an image capture device including one or more processors, an image sensor, and an optical element, the image sensor configured to generate a visual output signal conveying visual information based on light that becomes incident thereon, the visual information defining visual content, the optical element configured to guide light within a field of view to the image sensor the method comprising:
capturing the visual content during a capture duration, the visual content captured through the optical element;
determining presence of an on-housing hand within a periphery of the field of view of the optical element during the capture duration based on analysis of a peripheral portion of the visual content, wherein the analysis of the peripheral portion of the visual content includes comparison of color values in the peripheral portion of the visual content with hand color values; and
responsive to the presence of the on-housing hand within the periphery of the field of view of the optical element, generating an alarm indicating the presence of the on-housing hand within the periphery of the field of view of the optical element.

### Claim 11 (depends on 10)

The method of claim 10, wherein the peripheral portion of the visual content is analyzed based on application of a mask to the visual content, the application of the mask outputting the peripheral portion of the visual content.

### Claim 12 (depends on 10)

The method of claim 10, wherein the hand color values are made darker and redder to account for shift in skin tone based on proximity of the on-housing hand to the optical element.

### Claim 13 (depends on 10)

The method of claim 10, wherein the color values in the peripheral portion of the visual content are converted from an RGB color space to a YCbCr color space for the comparison.

### Claim 14 (depends on 10)

The method of claim 10, wherein the comparison of the color values in the peripheral portion of the visual content with the hand color values outputs one or more clusters of pixels as potentially depicting the on-housing hand, and the one or more clusters of pixels are filtered based on size to remove one or more outliers.

### Claim 15 (depends on 14)

The method of claim 14, wherein the analysis of the peripheral portion of the visual content further includes analysis of sharpness of one or more filtered clusters of pixels.

### Claim 16 (depends on 15)

The method of claim 15, wherein the analysis of the sharpness of the one or more filtered clusters of pixels includes comparison of the sharpness of the one or more filtered clusters of pixels with sharpness of pixels in a center portion of the visual content.

### Claim 17 (depends on 10)

The method of claim 10, wherein the alarm includes an audible alarm, a visible alarm, and/or a haptic alarm.

### Claim 18 (depends on 17)

The method of claim 17, wherein the audible alarm is not generated responsive to concurrent capture of audio content with the visual content.