U.S. Patent 7702130 was awarded to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on 2010-04-20 and describes a “User interface apparatus using hand gesture recognition and method thereof.” 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:

Provided is a user interface apparatus that can control a telematics terminal safely and comfortably while driving, by recognizing a hand gesture image received through a camera in the telematics terminal as a corresponding control signal, and a method thereof. The interface apparatus using a hand gesture recognition, includes: an input receiving block for receiving a command registration request signal and a command selection signal; a hand gesture recognizing block for storing the hand gesture image in connection with a specific command, and transforming the hand gesture image into the corresponding command by recognizing the hand gesture image from the image obtained in the image obtaining block; and a command performing block for performing an operation corresponding to a command transformed in the hand gesture recognizing block. Link: U.S. Patent 7702130

This patent was originally filed on 2005-09-29 which gives it a processing time of 1664 days, compared to an average processing time of 1578 in the field. Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute has 7333 total patents. The first named inventor is Dong-Sun Lim of Daejeon, . The primary examiner was Tom Y Lu.

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