Patent Document ID: 9360888
Application ID: 13890709
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer system for interpreting distance and position as a set of computer commands comprising: a display; a camera, positioned adjacent the display, so as to provide a reflected field of view and a blocked field of view; a mirror, positioned adjacent the camera, so as to encompass the reflected field of view; a distance sensor, positioned adjacent the display, so as to provide distance to target information; a computer, connected to the camera and the distance sensor, programmed to carry out a computer implemented method having the steps of: defining an action area within the blocked field of view and the reflected field of view; retrieving a set of reflected distance to target information from the distance sensor, in the action area, in a first coordinate system; retrieving a set of position information, from the camera, in the first coordinate system; retrieving a set of image information, from the camera, in a second coordinate system; translating the set of reflected distance to target information and the set of position information, from the first coordinate system into the second coordinate system; interpreting the set of reflected distance to target information and the first set of position information as a computer command of the set of computer commands, based on the set of image information; wherein the camera gathers image data comprising an image based on the reflected field of view and the blocked field of view; wherein a first portion of the image based on the blocked field of view is based on a first coordinate system reference; wherein a second portion of the image based on the reflected field of view: comprises a reflected image based on light reflected from the mirror, and is based on a second coordinate system reference comprising an axis that is different from an axis of the first coordinate system; and, wherein the second coordinate system reference comprises two axes that are reversed from two axes of the first coordinate system reference.