Patent ID: 8279091

Claim:
A system comprising: a wearable glove having a palm portion and a plurality of finger portions; an RFID sensor reader, coupled to the wearable glove, having a detection region; plurality of RFID sensors, wherein each RFID sensor is coupled to the wearable glove near the tip of each finger portion and each tag is moveable between a position outside the detection region and a position inside the detection region; a controller, coupled to the wearable glove and connected to the RFID sensor reader, wirelessly connected to each RFID sensor via the RFID sensor reader; and a transceiver, coupled to the wearable glove, connected to the controller wherein the controller is configured to determine a hand gesture by a user of the wearable glove for communication by the transceiver based on a particular pattern of whether each of the respective RFID sensors is located within the detection region and to transmit a signal corresponding to the determined hand gesture.