Gesture recognition in vehicles

摘要

A method and system for performing gesture recognition of a vehicle occupant employing a time of flight (TOF) sensor and a computing system in a vehicle. An embodiment of the method of the invention includes the steps of receiving one or more raw frames from the TOF sensor, performing clustering to locate one or more body part clusters of the vehicle occupant, calculating the location of the tip of the hand of the vehicle occupant, determining whether the hand has performed a dynamic or a static gesture, retrieving a command corresponding to one of the determined static or dynamic gestures, and executing the command.

主权项

1. A method for performing gesture recognition in a vehicle, comprising the steps of:
receiving one or more raw frames from a time of flight (TOF) camera of a vehicle occupant; performing clustering to determine one or more portions of interest of the vehicle occupant; defining one or more predetermined search spaces in accordance with the location of one or more of the one or more portions of interest of the vehicle occupant; defining one or more partition spaces within the one or more search spaces; and locating one or more of the one or more portions of interest of the vehicle occupant within the partition and search spaces.