Patents by Inventor Wei-Yih Ho

Wei-Yih Ho has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Gesture recognition system and method thereof
    Patent number: 8269722
    Abstract: A gesture recognition system includes an image pick-up device, a processor, an operation engine, an optimal template selection means, and a display terminal. The image pick-up device is for capturing an image containing a natural gesture. The processor is for finding out a skin edge of a skin part from the image, and then classifying the skin edge into multiple edge parts at different angles. The operation engine has multiple parallel operation units and multiple gesture template libraries of different angle classes. These parallel operation units respectively find out gesture templates most resembling the edge parts in the gesture template libraries of different angle classes. The optimal template selection means selects an optimal gesture template from the resembling gesture templates found out by the parallel operation units. The display terminal is for displaying an image of the optimal gesture template. Thereby, marker-less and real-time gesture recognition is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Jun-Mein Wu, Wen-Shiou Luo, Wei-Yih Ho, Chia-Chen Chen, Cheng-Yuan Tang
  • GESTURE RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF
    Publication number: 20100194679
    Abstract: A gesture recognition system includes an image pick-up device, a processor, an operation engine, an optimal template selection means, and a display terminal. The image pick-up device is for capturing an image containing a natural gesture. The processor is for finding out a skin edge of a skin part from the image, and then classifying the skin edge into multiple edge parts at different angles. The operation engine has multiple parallel operation units and multiple gesture template libraries of different angle classes. These parallel operation units respectively find out gesture templates most resembling the edge parts in the gesture template libraries of different angle classes. The optimal template selection means selects an optimal gesture template from the resembling gesture templates found out by the parallel operation units. The display terminal is for displaying an image of the optimal gesture template. Thereby, marker-less and real-time gesture recognition is achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Jun Mein Wu, Wen Shiou Luo, Wei Yih Ho, Chia Chen Chen, Cheng Yuan Tang