System and method for controlling appliances using motion gestures

A method and system of controlling an appliance includes: receiving, from a first home appliance, a request to start video image processing for detecting a motion gesture of a user; processing a sequence of image frames captured by a camera corresponding to the first home appliance to identify a fir...

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Main Authors Al Jazaery, Mohamad, Mani, Suresh
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 25.05.2021
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL
CONTROLLING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS
MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS
PHYSICS
REGULATING
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Summary:A method and system of controlling an appliance includes: receiving, from a first home appliance, a request to start video image processing for detecting a motion gesture of a user; processing a sequence of image frames captured by a camera corresponding to the first home appliance to identify a first motion gesture; selecting a second home appliance as a target home appliance for the first motion gesture in accordance with one or more target selection criteria, including first target selection criteria based on a location of the user relative to the first home appliance and second target selection criteria based on a level of match between the first motion gesture and a first control gesture corresponding to the second home appliance; and generating a control command to control the second home appliance in accordance with the first control gesture corresponding to the second home appliance.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201816155698