[sldev] Body motion and facial expression tracking, Microsoft did it

[Lawson English]

Philippe Bossut (Merov Linden) wrote:
> +1 on everything you said Ron. Spot on.
>
> On the 6-8 feet of space, this is indeed a critical technical aspect  
> of all those demos. Making the 3D reading work in the crammed space of  
> a typical cubicle setting is very challenging.
>
>   
In that context, I think that Apple's new patent for a distributed 
camera embedded in the video
screen has far more potential. Can't grok the math for the optics 
involved, but my intuition says
that near-distance mo-cap and gesture/facial-recognition will, in the 
long run at least,  be better-handled by
a camera whose aperture is measured in dozens of inches. It may not work 
as well at living room
distances, but for cubicals and mobile phones I think it will be more 
useful.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9059-invention-apples-allseeing-screen.html

http://www.pat2pdf.org/pat2pdf/foo.pl?number=20080297487  (autogenerated 
PDF takes forever)

OR:

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220060007222%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060007222&RS=DN/20060007222

http://aiw1.uspto.gov:80/.aiw?Docid=20060007222&homeurl=http%3A%2F%2Fappft1.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO1%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526d%3DPG01%2526p%3D1%2526u%3D%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsrchnum.html%2526r%3D1%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2526s1%3D%25252220060007222%252522.PGNR.%2526OS%3DDN%2F20060007222%2526RS%3DDN%2F20060007222&PageNum=&Rtype=&SectionNum=&idkey=10BA1EE90563



Lawson