Patent ID: 8922483
Filing Date: 2014-12-30
Classification: B60K,G06F

Abstract:
1. An information system comprising: a camera located at a central position in a horizontal direction in front of two users who face the camera and who are aligned side by side; a gesture recognizing unit configured to recognize a gesture of a hand of a user based on a target image captured by the camera; a determining unit that determines whether a central point in a width direction of an arm in the target image, is at a right side or at a left side with respect to a center of the hand in the target image, the target image including the gesture recognized by the gesture recognizing unit; and an operation user identifying unit configured to determine that a performer of the gesture is a right side user if the determining unit determines that the central point in the width direction of the arm in the target image is at the right side with respect to the center of the hand in the target image, and configured to determine that the performer of the gesture is a left side user if the determining unit determines that the central point in the width direction of the arm in the target image is at the left side with respect to the center of the hand in the target image.