Methods and Apparatus for Using the Human Body as an Input Device

摘要

Described are apparatus and methods for reconstructing a full human skeletal pose or a partial skeletal pose by aggregating and fusing various data from various sensors, and for detecting the occurrence of gestures from poses that occur over a period of time.

主权项

1. An apparatus capable of interacting with at least one controllable device based upon a pose of at least a portion of a human body, the apparatus comprising:
one or more sensors that are sized for wearing on the human body, each of the one or more sensors emitting sensor data; and a detection unit that operates upon the sensor data to determine the pose of at least the portion of the human body and is capable of interacting with the at least one controllable device, the detection unit including:
a memory that stores at least one or more characteristics of human anatomy that are associated with the human body using at least a partial skeletal rendering of a human; anda detection processor, automatically operating under software control, that inputs, aggregates and fuses the sensor data from each of the one or more sensors using the at least one or more characteristics of human anatomy stored in the memory to determine the pose of at least the portion of the human body based upon a locality of said one or more sensors; wherein at least some of the one or more sensors and the detection unit are packaged in an integrated mechanical assembly.