Patent ID: 9483692
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K

Claim Text:
1. A gesture recognition apparatus using a steering wheel of a vehicle, the gesture recognition apparatus including imaging means disposed on a position capable of imaging a steering wheel and recognizing means for recognizing a position of a hand on the steering wheel based on an imaging data outputted from the imaging means, the steering wheel having a reference mark provided thereon; the recognizing means including a computer comprising: binarizing means for preparing, by the computer, a first binary image by binarizing the imaging data outputted from the imaging means by a predetermined method; rebinarizing means for preparing, by the computer, a second binary image, based on the position of said reference mark, by determining means for determining, by the computer, the hand as being recognizable if the hand can be recognized in the first binary image and/or in the second binary image.