GRAPH ALGORITHM AND MOTION CAPTURE FOR IMPROVING MANUFACTURING PROCESSES

• Main Authors: Chen, Yen-Yu, Wang, Chia-Hsi
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 03.10.2024
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS

A method of automatically detecting whether a procedure in a scheduled process has been performed is disclosed. The method includes: capturing images of a person engaged in a plurality of predetermined steps in the scheduled process; estimating a human pose of the person in the captured images that includes a plurality of body parts of the human pose; tracking movement of the plurality of body parts of the human pose; generating a movement signal based on the tracked movement of the plurality of body parts; determining based on the movement signal whether a predetermined step of the plurality of predetermined steps in the scheduled process has been performed by the person; and recording a time at which the predetermined step of the plurality of predetermined steps in the scheduled process has been performed by the person when it has been determined that the predetermined step has been performed.