Pose detection method, video game apparatus, pose detection program, and computer-readable medium containing computer program

摘要

A technique is disclosed for detecting a pose of a player in a video game using an input image supplied by a camera. The technique involves calculating a frame difference and/or background difference of an image of a predetermined region of an image captured by the camera which captured image includes a player image representing the pose of the player, and generating operations information corresponding to the pose of the player based on the calculated frame difference and/or background difference.