USER INTERFACE AND AUTHENTICATION FOR A VIRTUAL MIRROR

摘要

A method for operating a mirror-display including: operating the system in idle mode wherein image is displayed on the monitor and the processor awaits the presence of a user in front of the camera; once a user presence is identified, switching the operation of the mirror-display into mirror mode, wherein the camera continuously sends captured images to the processor, the processor flips the captured images to reverse right and left sides and applies transformation mapping to generate modified images that appear to mimic reflection of a mirror, and displaying the modified images on the monitor. During idle mode the camera continuously sends background images to the processor, and the user presence is identified by the processor detecting changes in the background images. The processor performs face recognition process on the captured image and interrogates a database to determine whether an account corresponding to the user exists in the database.

主权项

1. A method for operating a mirror-display system, the mirror-display system having a camera, a monitor, and a processor, the method comprising:
operating the mirror-display system in an idle mode wherein an idle image is displayed on the monitor and the processor awaits the presence of a user in front of the camera; once a user presence is identified in front of the camera, switching the operation of the mirror-display into mirror mode, wherein the camera continuously images the user and sends captured images to the processor, the processor flips the captured images about a vertical axis so as to reverse right and left sides of the captured images and applies transformation mapping to the captured images to generate modified images that appear to mimic reflection of a mirror, and displaying the modified images on the monitor.