Patent ID: 7606411
Filing Date: 2009-10-20
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A robotic gesture recognition system to enable control of robotic devices by a human user using gestures can be recognized by the system comprising: a robotic unit, with one or more electric motors or actuators, a video camera affixed to the robotic unit, said video camera of recording in pixel, format, panning, tilting and zooming; a high level control computer in communication with said video camera for enabling recognition of dynamic gestures and static poses of a user in pixel space via video imagery recorded by the video camera; said high level control computer operating to store and run a high level control gesture recognition application code to transform said dynamic gestures and static poses in pixel space to waveform data, and generating user commands therefrom, said high level control computer including decision-making rules implemented by comparison of said waveform data to a set of thresholds and forces one of the decision rules to be implemented; a low level control computer in communication with the high level control computer and the robotic unit, said low level control computer storing and running a low level of control gesture recognition application code to transform the user commands received from the high level control computer to control voltage commands; wherein said robotic unit receives and responds to the control voltage commands received m the low level control computer.