Method and apparatus for motion recognition
AssigneesSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd., University of Zurich
InventorsJun Haeng Lee, Tobi Delbruck, Hyunsurk Ryu, Keun Joo Park, Chang Woo Shin
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Abstract
A motion recognizing apparatus and method are provided. According to an aspect, a motion recognizing apparatus may include: an optical sensor configured to sense at least a portion of a subject where a motion occurs and to output one or more events in response thereto; a motion tracing unit configured to trace a motion locus of the portion where the motion occurs based on the one or more outputted events; and a motion pattern determining unit configured to determine a motion pattern of the portion where the motion occurs based on the traced motion locus.
Claims23
An apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of sensors configured to sense at least a portion where a motion occurs and to output a plurality of events in response thereto;
- a view difference calculator configured to calculate a view difference between the plurality of sensors, based on the plurality of events;
- and
- a depth calculator configured to calculate a depth of the portion where the motion occurs, based on the view difference.
A method comprising:
- receiving a plurality of events from a plurality of sensors, the plurality of events corresponding to at least a portion where a motion occurs;
- calculating a view difference between the plurality of sensors, based on histograms of events outputted from the plurality of sensors;
- and
- calculating a depth of the portion where the motion occurs, based on the view difference.
The method of 19, wherein the histograms comprise Bins with respect to addresses of a predetermined axis, the Bins corresponding to a number of sensing units that have the same address of the predetermined axis, the sensing units generating events simultaneously.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.