U.S. Patent 7668340 was awarded to Cybernet Systems Corporation on 2010-02-23 and describes a “Gesture-controlled interfaces for self-service machines and other applications.” This patent has been cited 311 times by other U.S. patents which places it in the top 500 cited patents since 2010 according to our law firm research, and makes it of the most innovative computer technology patents in the field of electrical engineering. The abstract states:

A gesture recognition interface for use in controlling self-service machines and other devices is disclosed. A gesture is defined as motions and kinematic poses generated by humans, animals, or machines. Specific body features are tracked, and static and motion gestures are interpreted. Motion gestures are defined as a family of parametrically delimited oscillatory motions, modeled as a linear-in-parameters dynamic system with added geometric constraints to allow for real-time recognition using a small amount of memory and processing time. A linear least squares method is preferably used to determine the parameters which represent each gesture. Feature position measure is used in conjunction with a bank of predictor bins seeded with the gesture parameters, and the system determines which bin best fits the observed motion. Recognizing static pose gestures is preferably performed by localizing the body/object from the rest of the image, describing that object, and identifying that description. The disclosure details methods for gesture recognition, as well as the overall architecture for using gesture recognition to control of devices, including self-service machines. Link: U.S. Patent 7668340

This patent was originally filed on 2008-12-02 which gives it a processing time of 448 days, compared to an average processing time of 1429 in the field. Cybernet Systems Corporation has 48 total patents. The first named inventor is Charles J. Jacobus of Ann Arbor, MI. The primary examiner was Abolfazl Tabatabai.

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