Method and apparatus for providing virtual touch interaction in the drive-thru
    1.
    再颁专利
    Method and apparatus for providing virtual touch interaction in the drive-thru 有权
    用于在驱动器中提供虚拟触摸交互的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:USRE41449E1

    公开(公告)日:2010-07-20

    申请号:US12027879

    申请日:2008-02-07

    IPC分类号: G06F17/00 G06K9/00

    摘要: The present invention is a method and apparatus for providing an enhanced automatic drive-thru experience to the customers in a vehicle by allowing use of natural hand gestures to interact with digital content. The invention is named Virtual Touch Ordering System (VTOS). In the VTOS, the virtual touch interaction is defined to be a contact free interaction, in which a user is able to select graphical objects within the digital contents on a display system and is able to control the processes connected to the graphical objects, by natural hand gestures without touching any physical devices, such as a keyboard or a touch screen. Using the virtual touch interaction of the VTOS, the user is able to complete transactions or ordering, without leaving the car and without any physical contact with the display. A plurality of Computer Vision algorithms in the VTOS processes a plurality of input image sequences from the image-capturing system that is pointed at the customers in a vehicle and performs the virtual touch interaction by natural hand gestures. The invention can increase the throughput of drive-thru interaction and reduce the delay in wait time, labor cost, and maintenance cost.

    摘要翻译: 本发明是一种通过允许使用自然手势与数字内容交互来向车辆中的客户提供增强的自动驾驶经验的方法和装置。 本发明被命名为虚拟触摸订购系统(VTOS)。 在VTOS中,虚拟触摸交互被定义为无联系的交互,其中用户能够在显示系统上的数字内容中选择图形对象,并且能够通过自然来控制连接到图形对象的过程 无需触摸任何物理设备(如键盘或触摸屏)的手势。 使用VTOS的虚拟触摸交互,用户能够完成交易或订购,而不用离开汽车,并且与显示器没有任何物理接触。 VTOS中的多个计算机视觉算法处理来自图像捕获系统的指向车辆中的客户的多个输入图像序列,并通过自然的手势执行虚拟触摸交互。 本发明可以增加驱动通过交互的吞吐量,并减少等待时间,人工成本和维护成本的延迟。

    Method and apparatus for providing virtual touch interaction in the drive-thru
    4.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for providing virtual touch interaction in the drive-thru 有权
    用于在驱动器中提供虚拟触摸交互的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US06996460B1

    公开(公告)日:2006-02-07

    申请号:US10679226

    申请日:2003-10-02

    IPC分类号: G06F17/00

    摘要: The present invention is a method and apparatus for providing an enhanced automatic drive-thru experience to the customers in a vehicle by allowing use of natural hand gestures to interact with digital content. The invention is named Virtual Touch Ordering System (VTOS). In the VTOS, the virtual touch interaction is defined to be a contact free interaction, in which a user is able to select graphical objects within the digital contents on a display system and is able to control the processes connected to the graphical objects, by natural hand gestures without touching any physical devices, such as a keyboard or a touch screen. Using the virtual touch interaction of the VTOS, the user is able to complete transactions or ordering, without leaving the car and without any physical contact with the display. A plurality of Computer Vision algorithms in the VTOS processes a plurality of input image sequences from the image-capturing system that is pointed at the customers in a vehicle and performs the virtual touch interaction by natural hand gestures. The invention can increase the throughput of drive-thru interaction and reduce the delay in wait time, labor cost, and maintenance cost.

    摘要翻译: 本发明是一种通过允许使用自然手势与数字内容交互来向车辆中的客户提供增强的自动驾驶经验的方法和装置。 本发明被命名为虚拟触摸订购系统(VTOS)。 在VTOS中,虚拟触摸交互被定义为无联系的交互,其中用户能够在显示系统上的数字内容中选择图形对象,并且能够通过自然来控制连接到图形对象的过程 无需触摸任何物理设备(如键盘或触摸屏)的手势。 使用VTOS的虚拟触摸交互,用户能够完成交易或订购,而不用离开汽车,并且与显示器没有任何物理接触。 VTOS中的多个计算机视觉算法处理来自图像捕获系统的指向车辆中的客户的多个输入图像序列,并通过自然的手势执行虚拟触摸交互。 本发明可以增加驱动通过交互的吞吐量,并减少等待时间,人工成本和维护成本的延迟。

    Method and system for detecting conscious hand movement patterns and computer-generated visual feedback for facilitating human-computer interaction
    5.
    发明授权
    Method and system for detecting conscious hand movement patterns and computer-generated visual feedback for facilitating human-computer interaction 有权
    用于检测有意识的手运动模式的方法和系统以及用于促进人机交互的计算机生成的视觉反馈

    公开(公告)号:US07274803B1

    公开(公告)日:2007-09-25

    申请号:US10403234

    申请日:2003-03-31

    CPC分类号: G06K9/00375

    摘要: The present invention is a system and method for detecting and analyzing motion patterns of individuals present at a multimedia computer terminal from a stream of video frames generated by a video camera and the method of providing visual feedback of the extracted information to aid the interaction process between a user and the system. The method allows multiple people to be present in front of the computer terminal and yet allow one active user to make selections on the computer display. Thus the invention can be used as method for contact-free human-computer interaction in a public place, where the computer terminal can be positioned in a variety of configurations including behind a transparent glass window or at a height or location where the user cannot touch the terminal physically.

    摘要翻译: 本发明是一种用于从由摄像机产生的视频帧流中检测和分析存在于多媒体计算机终端的个人的运动模式的系统和方法,以及提供所提取的信息的视觉反馈以帮助在 用户和系统。 该方法允许多个人存在于计算机终端之前,并且允许一个主动用户在计算机显示器上进行选择。 因此,本发明可以用作公共场合中的无接触人机交互的方法,其中计算机终端可以以包括透明玻璃窗后面或用户不能接触的高度或位置处的各种配置来定位 物理终端。

    System and method for passive face recognition
    7.
    发明申请
    System and method for passive face recognition 审中-公开
    被动人脸识别的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20060120571A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-06-08

    申请号:US11003229

    申请日:2004-12-03

    IPC分类号: G06K9/00

    CPC分类号: G06K9/00281 G06K9/00288

    摘要: A system and method of face recognition is provided. The method includes capturing an image including a face and registering features of the image to fit with a model face to generate a registered model face. The registered model face is then transformed to a desired orientation to generate a transformed model face. The transformed model face is then compared against a plurality of stored images to identify a number of likely candidates for the face. In addition, the face recognition process may be performed passively.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种面部识别系统和方法。 该方法包括捕获包括脸部的图像并登记图像的特征以适合模型面以生成注册的模型脸部。 然后将注册的模型面转换为期望的取向以生成变换的模型面。 然后将经变换的模型面与多个存储的图像进行比较,以识别脸部可能的候选者的数量。 此外,面部识别处理可以被动地进行。

    System and method for tracking articulated body motion
    8.
    发明申请
    System and method for tracking articulated body motion 审中-公开
    用于跟踪关节运动的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20060045310A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-03-02

    申请号:US10927206

    申请日:2004-08-27

    IPC分类号: G06K9/00

    摘要: A system and method for tracking the movements of persons. The system includes at least two video devices and a computing device. The computing device is coupled to the at least two video devices and it includes a computing section capable of performing calculations to support mode stratified particle filtering. The method includes visually capturing a scene encompassing one or more strata, re-sampling each of the stratum, and redefining each of the stratum. The method further includes adding new or subtracting old strata based upon the arrival or departure of isolated targets within the scene and normalizing each of the stratum.

    摘要翻译: 跟踪人员流动的系统和方法。 该系统包括至少两个视频设备和计算设备。 计算设备耦合到至少两个视频设备,并且其包括能够执行计算以支持模式分层粒子滤波的计算部分。 该方法包括在视觉上捕获包含一个或多个分层的场景,对每个层进行重新采样,并重新定义每个层。 该方法还包括基于场景内孤立的目标的到达或离开来添加新的或减去旧的层,并且对每个层进行归一化。

    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBJECT TRACKING USING APPEARANCE MODEL
    9.
    发明申请
    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OBJECT TRACKING USING APPEARANCE MODEL 审中-公开
    使用外观模型对象跟踪的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US20110187703A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-08-04

    申请号:US12696424

    申请日:2010-01-29

    IPC分类号: G06T15/00 H04N5/225 G06K9/00

    CPC分类号: G06K9/00 G06T15/00 H04N5/225

    摘要: A method and system are provided for tracking an object, such as a person, within in a scene. The system/method receives input to track an object of interest in a scene with one or more image capture devices, captures a 2D image of the object, creates via an image processing system a 4D model of the object, and then uses the model to provide enhanced tracking of the object.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种用于跟踪场景内的对象(例如人)的方法和系统。 系统/方法接收输入以利用一个或多个图像捕获设备跟踪场景中的感兴趣对象,捕获对象的2D图像,经由图像处理系统创建对象的4D模型,然后使用该模型 提供对物体的增强跟踪。

    Method and apparatus for robustly tracking objects
    10.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for robustly tracking objects 有权
    鲁棒跟踪对象的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US07317812B1

    公开(公告)日:2008-01-08

    申请号:US10618393

    申请日:2003-07-12

    IPC分类号: G06K9/00

    摘要: The present invention pertains generally to the field of computer graphics user interfaces. More specifically, the present invention discloses a video image based tracking system that allows a computer to robustly locate and track an object in three dimensions within the viewing area of two or more cameras. The preferred embodiment of the disclosed invention tracks a person's appendages in 3D allowing touch free control of interactive devices but the method and apparatus can be used to perform a wide variety of video tracking tasks. The method uses at least two cameras that view the volume of space within which the object is being located and tracked. It operates by maintaining a large number of hypotheses about the actual 3D object location.

    摘要翻译: 本发明一般涉及计算机图形用户界面领域。 更具体地,本发明公开了一种基于视频图像的跟踪系统,其允许计算机在两个或更多个相机的观看区域内以三维方式稳健地定位和跟踪对象。 所公开的发明的优选实施例以3D的方式跟踪人的附属物,允许对交互式设备的触摸免费控制,但是该方法和装置可用于执行各种各样的视频跟踪任务。 该方法使用至少两个相机来查看对象被定位和跟踪的空间量。 它通过维持关于实际3D对象位置的大量假设来操作。