Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for a high-speed marker-free motion capture, which is capable of powerfully detecting a body's feature points corresponding to a body's end portions such as a head, hands, feet, trunk, arms and legs at a high speed in an illumination change or background or noises of cameras. The extracted feature points of the body can be directly tracked stably in a 3-dimensional space. The position errors of the feature points due to the change of the illumination conditions or a shadow can be automatically corrected and the feature points can be stably tracked with respect to overlapping and disappearance of the feature points.

Abstract: In a method for controlling a posture of an articulated object, a user inputs an initial configuration of the object, a base point, an end point, a target point and a method for updating the posture. It is determined whether the number of joints positioned between the base and the end points is larger than or equal to three. If the number is smaller than or equal to two, it is determined whether the method for updating the posture is a two-segment or three-segment based method or another method for moving an intermediate end point. If the method is two-segment or three-segment based, the number is rechecked. If the number is smaller than or equal to two, the posture is modified according to the two-segment or three-segment based method. If the posture satisfies a predetermined condition, it is displayed on a screen.

Abstract: Disclosed are a system and method for transforming a shape of a virtual object in a virtual reality environment through the use of a motion and posture of virtual hand/fingers, and a contact condition with the virtual object, to thereby model the virtual object in the environment, without an additional acquirement of tools, which comprises a finger motion detector 110 and a hand motion detector 120 mounted on the actual hands/fingers of a user, for detecting a motion and posture of the actual hands/fingers; and a modeling system 130 for calculating a spatial region where virtual hand/fingers is contacted with the virtual object, which corresponds to the detected motion and posture of the actual hands/fingers, and transforming the virtual object by the calculated spatial region, thereby modeling the virtual object.

Abstract: An input device for use with a computer system is provided with a station connected to the computer system, supplied with an electric power therefrom, transmitting data of a plurality of connector for receiving various key value entries, which are formed on right, left, front and rear sides of the station, and peripheral devices connected to the computer system, controlling ports for communicating with the outside peripheral devices, and outputting input/output key values and data after process to the computer system, and a key pad by which the key entries for different purposes can be input via the connector of the station.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a system which is portable and attache the body of a trainee so that the trainee can practice navigating of a model airplane at an arbitrary location, contrary to the system of a large-sized airplane. According to an object of the present invention there is provided a trainee navigates a model airplane virtually by simulating a model airplane using a computer by combining the three-dimensional virtual image of a model airplane and the actual image of the training site by a computer.