Patent ID: 6385331
Filing Date: 2002-05-07
Classification: A63F,G06F,G06K

Abstract:
A hand pointing apparatus comprising:an illuminating device for illuminating a person to recognized; a plurality of image pickup devices, each of which picks up said person to be recognized, located in different positions, wherein said illuminating device and said plurality of image pickup devices are adjusted such that said person to be recognized, who is illuminated by said illuminating device, is within each of image pickup ranges corresponding to a respective one of said plurality of image pickup devices, and an illuminated range on a floor surface, which is illuminated by said illuminating device, is out of the pickup range of each of the image pickup ranges; and a determiner for determining one of a position or a direction pointed to by said person to be recognized on the basis of a plurality of images of situation picked up by said plurality of image pickup devices, the situation being indicative of said person to be recognized pointing to one of the position or the direction, by extracting an image part corresponding to said person to be recognized from the plurality of images.