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US 7,680,298 B2Granted
Methods, systems, and products for gesture-activated appliances
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L. P.
InventorsLinda Ann Roberts, Hong Thi Nguyen, Edward Michael Silver
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for operating home appliances using gesture recognition. A sequence of video images is received and compared to a stored sequence of gesture images. A recognized gesture is associated to a home appliance and to an operation of the home appliance. An appliance controller causes a response to the recognized gesture to perform the operation of the home appliance.
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A method for operating an appliance, comprising:
- receiving a sequence of video images;
- comparing the sequence of video images by a processor to a sequence of gesture images stored in memory;
- associating a recognized gesture to the appliance;
- accessing a data store in the memory that associates the recognized gesture to an operation of the appliance;
- and
- causing a controller to respond to the recognized gesture to perform the operation of the appliance.
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A system for operating an appliance, comprising:
- a processor executing code stored in memory that causes the processor to:
- receive a sequence of video images;
- compare the sequence of video images to a stored sequence of gesture images;
- associate a recognized gesture to the appliance;
- access a data store that associates the recognized gesture to an operation of the appliance;
- and
- cause a controller to respond to the recognized gesture to perform the operation of the appliance.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.