| US 7,468,742 B2 | ||
| Interactive presentation system | ||
| Sang-Chul Ahn, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); Hyoung-Gon Kim, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); Ig-Jae Kim, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); and Chang-Sik Hwang, Seoul (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Assigned to Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 02, 2004, as Appl. No. 11/1,079. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 10-2004-0002700 (KR), filed on Jan. 14, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0151850 A1, Jul. 14, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04N 5/225 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 348—207.99 [348/207.1; 348/207.11; 348/211.11; 348/211.14; 345/156; 345/157; 345/158; 345/159] | 10 Claims |
| 1. An interactive presentation system, comprising:
an active infrared camera, arranged in front of a presenter, for taking a visible image and an infrared image of the presenter;
a command recognition system connected to the active infrared camera to perform a gesture recognition algorithm upon receipt
of the infrared image of the presenter from the active infrared camera and outputting a corresponding command;
an image synthesis system connected to the active infrared camera to synthesize the visible image of the presenter received
from the active infrared camera and a presentation material, and connected to the command recognition system to control the
presentation material upon receipt of a command signal outputted from the command recognition system; and
a screen arranged in front of the presenter to display the synthesized visible image and the presentation material received
from the image synthesis system, so that the presenter can perform a presentation while viewing the visible image of the presenter
synthesized with the presentation material in real time.
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