Patent ID: 8707216

Claim:
A system for controlling an object via gesturing comprising: at least one camera for receiving light from a device; a host computer coupled to the at least one camera for processing the received light to produce image data to determine a 3-dimensional location of a gesture, wherein receiving light comprises the at least one camera periodically capturing images associated with the light, and wherein the host computer processes the image data against a coordinate system to determine the 3-dimensional location of the gesture; and a storage device coupled to the host computer for storing a plurality of prototype sequences, wherein the host computer processes the image data to determine that the gesture has been performed by matching the image data against the plurality of prototype sequences, and wherein if the image data matches one of the prototype sequences a control action corresponding to the gesture is performed on the object, wherein the storage device further comprises a list that includes one or more modified prototype sequences corresponding to each of the plurality of prototype sequences, wherein the one or more modified prototype sequences are different versions of a corresponding prototype sequence.