Input apparatus, input method and computer-executable program
AssigneeLenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorsJun Sugiyama, Susumu Shimotono, Ryohta Nomura
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Abstract
One embodiment provides a method, including: capturing, using a camera, an image of an object in contact with a hand of a user; determining, using a processor, that the hand of the user contacts the object; thereafter capturing, using the camera, controlling gesture input; detecting, within the controlling gesture input, a gesture that emulates use of a pointing device; and controlling an application running on an information handling device based on the controlling gesture input. Other aspects are described and claimed.
Claims18
A method, comprising:
- capturing, using a camera, an image of a movable object, separate from an information handling device;
- thereafter, based upon detecting a hand of the user contacting the movable object, capturing, using the camera, movement of the hand of the user with respect to the movable object;
- detecting, while the hand of the user is in contact with the movable object, a gesture of the hand of the user with respect to the movable object that emulates an input operation of a pointing device;
- and
- controlling an application running on the information handling device based on the gesture.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a camera;
- a processor operatively coupled to the camera;
- and
- a memory having instructions that are stored and executed by the processor to:
- capture, using the camera, an image of a movable object, separate from the apparatus;
- thereafter, based upon detecting a hand of the user contacting the movable object, capture, using the camera, movement of the hand of the user with respect to the movable object;
- detect, while the hand of the user is in contact with the movable object, a gesture of the hand of the user with respect to the movable object that emulates an input operation of a pointing device;
- and
- control an application running on the information handling device based on the gesture.
An input apparatus, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory having instructions that executed by the processor to:
- accept, from a camera, an image of a movable object, separate from an information handling device;
- thereafter, based upon detecting a hand of the user contacting the movable object, accept movement of the hand of the user with respect to the movable object;
- detect, while the hand of the user is in contact with the movable object, a gesture of the hand of the user with respect to the movable object that emulates an input operation of a pointing device;
- and
- control an application running on the information handling device based on the gesture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.