Patent Document ID: 6075895
Application ID: 08879854
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for recognizing the gesture of the image of a being by identifying a gesture from a set of specific pre-defined gestures, the method comprising the steps of: retrieving a background image that does not include the being's image; retrieving a current image that includes the being's image and at least a portion of the background image; removing at least a portion of the background image from the current image to generate the being's image, which has a plurality of pixels; mapping the being's image directly to a plurality of templates, each having a plurality of pixels, based on matching at least one pixel of the being's image upon its corresponding pixel in each of the templates, to generate a plurality of template outputs; analyzing the template outputs to identify the specific pre-defined gesture that corresponds to the gesture in the image; and repeating from the step of retrieving to recognize another gesture of the image of the being based on the same background image.