Gesture activated home appliance

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6937742
SERIAL NO

09965906

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Apparatus for operating home appliances using gesture recognition are disclosed. An image receiver receives a continuous stream of images of a gesture made within the image receiver's field of view. An image processor is connected to the image receiver for sampling the received stream of gesture images to form a gesture image sequence, and for recognizing whether the gesture image sequence corresponds to one of a predefined set of gestures. If the input gesture is recognized as being one of the predefined gestures, an operations processor, which is connected to the image processor, identifies a home appliance operation associated with the recognized gesture. An appliance controller is connected to the operations processor for causing the predefined home appliance operation to be performed. Home appliances and methods for operating home appliances using gesture recognition are also disclosed.

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  • BELLSOUTH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Nguyen, Hong Thi Atlanta, GA 79 2473
Roberts, Linda Ann Decatur, GA 71 1683
Silver, Edward Michael Atlanta, GA 94 2499

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