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US 2016/0078290 A1Published application
Scanner gesture recognition
AssigneeNCR Corporation
InventorsJason Rambler, Janry C. Amada, Rodolfo Nacu, JR., Jeffrey Yap, Nico Ryan James Geguiera Sy, Wilfredo Brigoli Praca, JR., Rafael Leonard Remedio
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Abstract
A scanner having an integrated camera is used to capture gestures made in a field of view of the camera. The captured gestures are translated to scanner commands recognized by the scanner. The scanner executes the recognized commands.
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A method, comprising:
- detecting in a field of view of a scanner a hand;
- capturing an image of the hand as a gesture;
- and
- automatically performing a command on the scanner based on the gesture.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving a gesture image from a scanner, the gesture image produced by hand signals placed in a field of view of a camera interfaced to the scanner;
- matching the gesture image to a known gesture image;
- obtaining a scanner recognized command mapped to the known gesture image;
- and
- communicating the scanner recognized command to the scanner for execution on the scanner.
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A scanner, comprising:
- a camera adapted and configured to capture images of gestures placed in a field of view of the camera;
- a processor;
- and
- a gesture image transfer manager adapted and configured to:
- i) execute on the processor, ii) transfer the images of the gestures to a Point-Of-Sale (POS) system, iii) receive commands represented by the images of the gestures from the POS system, and iv) cause to execute on the processor the commands received from the POS system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.