Patent ID: 9360944
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: A63F,G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method of controlling a gesture-based interactive computerised system having a three-dimensional imaging system, a user-operated control device, a gesture recognition system, and a computerised system associated with the three-dimensional imaging system and the gesture recognition system, the user-operated control device being associated with at least one part of a user and being configured to allow free movement of hand and fingers at the same time in the gesture recognition system and comprising a housing; at least one sensing module including at least one control means mounted in the housing, each control means being capable of generating a control signal for the computerised system when operated; a feedback module mounted in the housing for providing contextual feedback to the user in accordance with an application operating on the computerised system; a communication module located within the housing and through which each control signal is transmitted to, and each feedback signal is received from, the computerised system; and a controller module mounted in the housing, the controller module controlling each sensing module, the communication module and the feedback module in accordance with each generated control signal, the three-dimensional imaging system including a three-dimensional camera having a frustum, the method comprising the steps of: a) capturing images using the three-dimensional imaging system; b) processing the captured images in the computerised system to recognise and track at least the three-dimensional information relating to the at least one part of the user; c) recognising gestures performed by the at least one part of the user using the gesture recognition system; d) generating control signals from the user-operated control device which include at least three-dimensional position information relating to the at least one part of the user with which the user-operated control device is associated; and e) using the three-dimensional position information provided by the user-operated control device to resolve ambiguities in the three-dimensional information relating to the at least one part of the user measured by the three-dimensional imaging system in order to control the gesture-based interactive computerised system.