Patent ID: 8428368

Claim:
A media device configured to generate commands based upon hand gestures made by a user that emulate device commands generated by a remote control device, comprising: an image capture device configured to capture a series of images of the user, and configured to generate image information corresponding to the series of captured images; a memory storing a plurality of predefined hand gesture commands, each of the predefined hand gesture commands uniquely corresponding to at least one of a plurality of remote control device commands; and a processor system communicatively coupled to the image capture device and the memory, wherein the processor system is configured to: receive the image information from the image capture device, identify a hand gesture made by the user from the received image information, determine a hand gesture command based upon the identified hand gesture, compare the determined hand gesture command with the plurality of predefined hand gesture commands, identify a matching hand gesture command from the plurality of predefined hand gesture commands corresponding to the determined hand gesture command, and generate an emulated remote control device command based upon the identified matching hand gesture command, wherein the emulated remote control device command is the same as the corresponding at least one of the plurality of remote control device commands, and wherein the emulated remote control device command controls operation of the media device, wherein the hand gesture command is a first hand gesture command and the matching hand gesture command is a first matching hand gesture command, wherein a second hand gesture command is determined from the image information, wherein the second hand gesture command is compared with the plurality of predefined hand gesture commands to identify a corresponding second matching hand gesture command from the plurality of predefined hand gesture commands, and wherein the generated emulated remote control device command is based upon the identified first matching hand gesture command and the second matching hand gesture command.