Patent ID: 8723796

Claim:
A multi-user interactive display system, comprising: a display including at least an information display region and a command control region; a digital image capture system positioned to capture a time sequence images of users; a data processing system; and a program memory communicatively connected to the data processing system and storing instructions configured to cause the data processing system to implement a method for interactively controlling content displayed in the information display region, wherein the method includes: analyzing a time sequence of images captured by the digital image capture system to detect a plurality of users who are viewing the display; designating at least one of the detected plurality of users to be a controlling user; displaying the captured time sequence of images in the command control region, wherein the detected users are demarked using graphical elements, and wherein the graphical element associated with the at least one controlling user is differentiated from the graphical elements associated with the other detected users to provide an indication of which of the plurality of users is the controlling user; and analyzing the captured time sequence of images to detect a gesture made by the controlling user and updating content displayed in the information display region in response to the detected gesture.