Abstract: A position detecting system with a position information providing apparatus, a transceiver, and a processor. The position information providing apparatus comprises a light emitting-out side having at least one position information region distributed on an outer surface of the light emitting-out side. The position information region comprises materials which are distributed on the outer surface and provide the position information. The light has position information from the position information region when the light emits out from at least part of the light emitting-out side. The transceiver receives the light with the position information. The processor determines a relative position between the transceiver and the position information providing apparatus according to the position information received by the transceiver.

Abstract: There is provided a pointing system including a first image sensor, a second image sensor and a processing unit. The first image sensor is configured to capture a first image. The processing unit is configured to recognize a predetermined hand posture according to the first image and to identify a click event according to a second image captured by the second image sensor when the predetermined hand posture is recognized.

Abstract: An electronic system includes an image-sensing device and a processor coupled with the image-sensing device, The image-sensing device includes an image-sensing area configured to generate a picture. The picture includes a noisy region. The processor is configured to select a tracking region from the portion of the picture outside of the noisy region. The tracking region corresponds to an operative region of the image sensing area.

Abstract: There is provided an image positioning method including the steps of: capturing an image frame with an image sensor; identifying at least on object image in the image frame; comparing an object image size of the object image with a size threshold and identifying the object image having the object image size larger than the size threshold as a reference point image; and positioning the reference point image. There is further provided an interactive imaging system.

Abstract: A distance measurement method comprising: projecting a light beam having a speckle pattern to at least one reference plane to show a plurality of images with the speckle pattern on the at least one reference plane. The speckle pattern has a plurality of speckles, so as to capture the image with the speckle pattern on the reference plane to obtain a plurality of reference image information. When the object enters the area illuminated by a light source module, an image with the speckle pattern on a surface of an object is captured to obtain an object image information. Then, a plurality of brightness relationships among each of the speckles with adjacent speckles rounding each speckle are computed according to the reference image and the object image information to obtain relative brightness information of each speckle, which is used to compute position of the object.

Abstract: An electronic system incorporates an image-sensing device and a processor coupled with the image-sensing device. The image-sensing device includes an image-sensing area configured to generate a picture. The picture includes a noisy region. The processor is configured to select a tracking region from the portion of the picture outside of the noisy region. The tracking region corresponds to an operative region of the image sensing area.

Abstract: A handwriting system includes a first light source module, a second light source module, an image sensing device and a processing circuit. The first light source module is configured to provide a first light to illuminate an object on a plane. The second light source module is configured to provide a second light to illuminate the object on the plane, wherein the second light source module is disposed under the first light source module. The image sensing device is disposed above the plane and configured to capture an image of the object reflecting the first light only or an image of the object reflecting the first and the second lights both. The processing circuit is electrically connected to the image sensing device and configured to receive the image captured by the image sensing device and generate control information according to light-spot information in the captured image.

Abstract: An optical detecting apparatus, which comprises: a detecting surface; a first light source, for providing light parallel to the detecting surface; an image sensor, for detecting an object close to the detecting surface, to generate object image data; and an object location determining apparatus, for computing location information of the object according to the object image.

Abstract: An image sensing module utilizes an image sensor to sense objects and a mirror image of the objects in a mirror through a plurality of first light filtering components with a first transmission spectrum and a plurality of second light filtering components with a second transmission spectrum for generating an image. A light filtering module substantially having the first transmission spectrum is disposed in front of the mirror. The image includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a first sub data and a second sub data. The image sensing module utilizes an image sensing controller to detect real images corresponding to the objects and virtual images correspond to the mirror image of the objects from the image according to the first sub data and the second sub data of the plurality of pixels.

Abstract: An interactive electronic device includes an image capture module, a response module and a processing module. The image capture module is for capturing images. The processing module is for generating a first or second command set according to the image and output a control signal. The response module is for driving the interactive electronic device to perform a first continuous reaction corresponding to a specific pattern contained in the image according to the first command set or drive the interactive electronic device to perform a second continuous reaction according to the second command set. The processing module is further for replacing, adding or deleting at least a command in the first command set in a random manner thereby obtaining the second command set.

Abstract: A distance measurement system and method are provided. The distance measurement method first projects a light beam with a speckle pattern to reference planes and an object to allow the reference planes and a surface of the object each have an image of the speckle pattern, the speckle pattern having a plurality of speckles. Next, images of the speckle pattern reflected by the reference planes are captured to generate reference image information, and an image of the speckle pattern reflected by the surface of the object is captured to generate an object image information. A processing module which may be a processing software can compare the object image information with the reference image information to obtain several similarity scores. If the most the most similarity score is greater than a threshold value, the processing module identifies the corresponding reference plane, thereby computing the position of the object.

Abstract: A resistive touch controlling system includes a first sensing module, a second sensing module and a processing circuit. The first sensing module includes a plurality of sensing line groups. The processing circuit is electrically coupled to the first sensing module and the second sensing modules. When the first sensing module senses at least two touch points, the processing circuit takes a combination of touch points sensed by the first and second sensing modules as a first candidate list. After that, the processing circuit turns off some of the sensing line groups of the first sensing module sensing one of the sensed touch points, and takes a touch point(s) sensed by the first sensing module and the second sensing module as the second candidate list. Finally, the processing circuit compares the first candidate list with the second candidate list to determine a current touch sensing result.

Abstract: An image denoising method includes the steps of: sequentially selecting a pixel in an image as a current pixel; dynamically determining a current search block and a strength parameter; pre-denoising the comparison block of each pixel in the current search block; comparing the comparison block of the pre-denoised neighborhood pixel and the comparison block of the pre-denoised current pixel to obtain a similarity between each neighborhood pixel and the current pixel in the current search block; determining a weighting of each neighborhood pixel related to the current pixel according to the strength parameter, and a distance and the similarity between each neighborhood pixel and the current pixel in the current search block; and weighted averaging each neighborhood pixel and the current pixel in the current search block according to the weighting to obtain a reconstruction value of the current pixel.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a sensor matrix including a plurality of sensing elements and a plurality of shutter control lines. Each sensing element includes an electronic shutter and a photo-detector, wherein the electronic shutter controls the exposure time of the photo-detector. Each shutter control line couples to a row or column of the electronic shutters, whereby different rows or columns of the electronic shutters can be independently controlled, and the photo-detectors in the same row or column can have the same exposure time.

Abstract: There is provided a gesture detection device including two linear image sensor arrays and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to compare sizes of pointer images in the image frames captured by the two linear image sensor arrays in the same period or different periods so as to identify a click event.

Abstract: There is provided a gesture detection device including two linear image sensor arrays and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to compare sizes of pointer images in the image frames captured by the two linear image sensor arrays in the same period or different periods so as to identify a click event.

Abstract: There is provided a pointing system including a first image sensor, a second image sensor and a processing unit. The first image sensor is configured to capture a first image. The processing unit is configured to recognize a predetermined hand posture according to the first image and to identify a click event according to a second image captured by the second image sensor when the predetermined hand posture is recognized.

Abstract: A distance measurement system and method are provided. The distance measurement method first projects a light beam with a speckle pattern to reference planes and an object to allow the reference planes and a surface of the object each have an image of the speckle pattern, the speckle pattern having a plurality of speckles. Next, images of the speckle pattern reflected by the reference planes are captured to generate reference image information, and an image of the speckle pattern reflected by the surface of the object is captured to generate an object image information. A processing module which may be a processing software can compare the object image information with the reference image information to obtain several similarity scores. If the most the most similarity score is greater than a threshold value, the processing module identifies the corresponding reference plane, thereby computing the position of the object.

Abstract: A method for gesture identification with natural images includes generating a series of variant images by using each two or more successive ones of the natural images, extracting an image feature from each of the variant images, and comparing the varying pattern of the image feature with a gesture definition to identify a gesture. The method is inherently insensitive to indistinctness of images, and supports the motion estimation in axes X, Y, and Z without requiring the detected object to maintain a fixed gesture.

Abstract: A storage media provided by the present invention, has a non-transitory processing software for computing a position of an object in a distance measurement system, the execution of the processing software comprising: receiving a plurality of reference image information contained in an image with a speckle pattern, wherein the image is projected from a light beam on a plurality of reference flat surfaces which are located on different position points, and the speckle contains a plurality of speckles; receiving an object image information contained in an image with the speckle pattern which is projected from the light beam on an object; obtaining a plurality of comparison results through comparing the plurality of reference image information with the object image information; and computing the position of the object through performing an interpolation operation to the plurality of comparison results.