JPH08272520A - Glove instruction call-originating equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a glove instruction call-originating equipment which recognizes, compares and judges hand movement so as to select one instruction and call-originate the instruction to a family computer game and a home electric appliance. CONSTITUTION: An extension/contraction detecting sensor 2a1, a pressure detecting sensor 3a1, etc., are attached to the finger part, a back part and a palm part of a glove 1 and construction which simultaneously input the signals of the respective sensors and a movement recognizing part 4 with construction which continuously processes the input signal pattern group so as to judge and decide a certain instruction by synthesizing results are provided. The movement recognizing part 4 gradually and continuously compares and judges the both pattern groups, that is, a signal pattern group which is obtained from an arranged signal size change pick-up equipment group and a multiple- instruction reference pattern group by a pattern comparison judging part having the extension/contraction mechanism group of a time direction and a size normalizing mechanism group and selects one instruction reference pattern group so as to call-originate it to an external device 7 with an instruction call- originating part 5.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a device which can issue a command by moving a hand in a NES game machine or the like without worrying about buttons on a keyboard.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Since a conventional NES game machine or the like has issued a command by operating a button on a keyboard, it has been difficult to handle.

[0003]

The problem is to say that the eyes say things like the mouth, but the hands say things like the mouth. Originally, people often gave instructions by hand, but the present invention sends instructions to the NES game home electric appliances by the action of the hand wearing gloves.

[0004]

The external appearance of the glove of the present invention shown in FIG. 1 will be described. The glove 1 is made of a stretchable cloth, and the stretch detection sensor 2a is attached to the first joint of the instep of the thumb.
1, 2b1 on the flat part, 2c1 on the instep part of the second joint, and 2d1 on the flat part are tightly fixed to the glove cloth. Select a sensor that expands and contracts well and has a linear signal. Attach the expansion / contraction sensor to many other appropriate parts. For example, the index finger is used as the expansion / contraction detection sensors 2a2, 2b2, 2c2, 2d2, etc., which are attached and installed in a matrix arrangement. At the tip of the thumb of the hand, a pressure detection sensor 3a1
b1, etc. Further, a pressure detection sensor 3a is provided on the tip of the human finger.
2, 3b2 etc. fixedly installed on the flat of the second joint. The pressure detection sensor is also installed in a matrix arrangement at an appropriate place on the entire glove. Each of the expansion / contraction detection sensor and the pressure detection sensor has a mechanism for connecting to the motion recognition unit 4 by wiring inside the glove cloth. The motion recognition unit 4 inputs sensor signals from the expansion / contraction detection sensors 2a1, 2b1, etc., and the pressure detection sensors 3a1, 3b1 etc. as an input signal pattern group. Expansion / contraction detection sensor The pressure detection sensors are arranged on the glove cloth in a matrix arrangement, and the motion recognition unit 4 processes these input signal pattern groups at the same time. In this processing, the input signal pattern group is subjected to pattern processing every moment, the signal pattern group is specified, and the command indicated by the movement of the glove at that time is determined. When a command is given, this information is passed to the command transmitter 5. The command transmission unit 5 converts this command into a standard coded code signal determined 1: 1 and transmits the command to the external device 7 by infrared rays or radio waves by the emitter 6. The battery unit 8 for operating the present device is also integrally installed on the glove so that the glove 1 can be easily operated.

[0005]

The operation will be described with reference to the block diagram of the present apparatus shown in FIG. Two
a1, 2b1, 2c1, 2d1, ..., 2a2, 2b2
Reference numerals 2c2, 2a3, 2b3, are expansion / contraction detection sensors, and 3a1, 3b1, 3c1, 3a2, 3b2.
Reference numerals 3c2, 3a3, 3b3, are pressure detection sensors, and are connected to the motion recognition unit 4, respectively. Here, a case of transmitting a so-called OK sign hand movement command will be described as an example. Reference numeral 2a1 denotes an expansion / contraction detection sensor for the instep of the first thumb joint, and 2a2 denotes an expansion / contraction detection sensor for the instep of the first finger joint of the human finger. Reference numeral 3a1 is a pressure detecting sensor at the tip of the thumb tip, and 3a2 is a pressure detecting sensor at the tip of the human finger. It is assumed that the glove 1 is worn and the OK sign is activated at some time. Of the input signal pattern group from each time sensor at this time,
The processing in the motion recognition unit 4 will be described. Further, how the input signal pattern group from each sensor is processed will be described with reference to FIG. The input signal pattern group 13 of each expansion / contraction detection sensor and each pressure detection sensor enters the signal magnitude change extractor group 9 in the motion recognition unit 4. The input signal pattern group 13 before entering the signal magnitude change extractor group 9 becomes a pattern group as shown in FIG. The figure shows that the signal changes from side to side as time flows downward in the figure. For example, when the expansion / contraction detection sensors 2a1 and 2a2 start to output an OK sign, the sensors start to expand, and the signals of both of them are shifted to the right in the figure. When the OK sign is over, the a contraction detection sensors 2a1, 2
Since a2 is still stretched, the signal is still swung to the right.
On the other hand, each of the pressure detection sensors 3a1 and 3a2 shows that when the thumb and the forefinger come into contact with each other, the pressure increases, so that the signal swings to the right. When these signal pattern groups pass through the signal magnitude change extractor group 9, the signal pattern group of (B) is obtained.
This is because the change in the signal is extracted and the amount of data is also compressed, and if the signal stays at the right and is constant, it becomes zero. For example, the thumb pressure detection sensor 3a
The signal of No. 1 has a signal pattern as shown in the figure by catching the change where the thumb touches and the pressure rises. In other words, the function of the signal magnitude change extractor group 9 eliminates the need for zero point adjustment of the sensor, and since the entire signal also approaches the zero point, the number of bits can be reduced when handling digital data in the subsequent processing. It can be processed with a small amount of data. The motion recognition unit 4 has a large number of command reference pattern groups 10 and is a series of reference pattern groups as shown in FIG.
Preliminarily stored therein are commands corresponding to commands such as V-sign, OK-sign, rock-paper-scissors goo, choki, and par. The pattern comparison / determination unit 11 includes an expansion / contraction mechanism group 17 for each signal in the time direction, and a signal size normalization mechanism group 18.
The pattern group of (B) is expanded or contracted in the time direction, and the size thereof is expanded or contracted to be standardized while being dynamically compared with a large number of instruction reference pattern groups 10. Since this time is the OK sign, it coincides with the OK sign pattern group of the large number of instruction reference pattern groups 10 in (C), and at that time, the OK sign is determined. The determination / comparison process of the pattern comparison / determination unit 11 is designed to be continuously and dynamically performed without interruption in the time direction. O
When the command is determined as the K sign, this information is sent to the command transmission unit 5, is replaced by the standard code determined here, and is transmitted to the external device 7 by the emitter 6 as the OK sign command.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described in which there is no pressure detection sensor and four expansion / contraction detection sensors are attached. Attach the expansion / contraction sensor as shown in Fig. 4. After molding the glove 1a, strain gauges 12a, 12b, 12c, and 12d are attached to the insteps of the thumb, the index finger, the middle finger, and the picked finger as expansion / contraction detection sensors, respectively. Alternatively, the cloth material of the gloves may have stretchable electric resistance characteristics, and the electrodes may be attached to sandwich the stretchable detection signal.
In this embodiment, the motion recognition unit 4a is installed in the external box 20. The strain gauge expansion / contraction detection signal enters the signal magnitude change extractor group 9a via the cable 14 as a group of four input signal patterns. The command transmitting unit 5a and the battery unit 8a are also installed in the external box 20. The transmitter 6 of the command transmitter 5a
a is an infrared emission system, and the light receiving sensor 1 of the external device 7
Fire the command in the format defined in 5. The motion recognition unit 4a has the structure shown in FIG. First, the flow of signal patterns of the thumb stretch detection sensor 12a, which is one of the four input signal pattern groups, will be described. In the case of the present embodiment, this signal is passed through one of the analog type signal magnitude change extractor groups 9a. After that, AD conversion is performed by the AD conversion group 16 into 2 bits, which is treated as a digital amount. The AD conversion group 16 performs AD conversion with a sample of 0.2 seconds. Here, as another embodiment, first, the A / D conversion group 16 converts the input signal pattern into 2 bits by A.
D-converted and then digital signal magnitude change extractor group 9a
The method of passing through may be used. Next, the pattern comparison / determination unit 11a
First, the 2-bit digital signal is held for 0.2 seconds and 16 samples for 3 seconds in the time direction stretching mechanism group 17a, and stretched from 1.4 seconds to 4.6 seconds to obtain 16 patterns. Have it ready. The above-described processing is similarly advanced for the expansion / contraction detection sensors 12b, 12c and 12d. On the other hand, a large number of command reference pattern groups 10a are stored in a large number of command reference pattern groups 10a, each set of four reference patterns corresponding to the four expansion / contraction detection sensors. For example, in the case of the V sign, the command reference pattern group is set with the four reference patterns as a set. In addition, OK sign, rock-paper-scissors goo, choki, par,
Many other command reference pattern groups are also installed. These patterns are 2 bits in size and 3 in 0.2 second samples.
It is standardized to the time width of seconds, and the signal magnitude is standardized. Here, in the expansion / contraction detection sensor 12a system, one pattern extracted from the expansion / contraction mechanism group 17a in the time direction enters the size normalization mechanism group 18a and normalizes in the signal size direction. The other extension / contraction detection sensors 12b, 12c, 12d are also standardized by the standardization mechanism group having the same size at the same time. The pattern comparison mechanism section 19 correlates and compares the four standardized patterns and the set of four instruction reference pattern groups of the plurality of instruction reference pattern groups 10a. That is, with respect to the four extension / contraction detection sensor systems, four patterns which are reduced to 1.4 seconds in the extension / contraction mechanism group 17a in the time direction are taken out and put in the standardization mechanism group 18a of the size, and the signal magnitude is set. Four patterns are standardized and prepared. Next, the pattern comparison mechanism 19 correlates the four V-sign reference patterns in the instruction reference pattern group 10a with each other. in this case,
The 1.4-second pattern and the 3.0-second command reference pattern are correlated and compared so that the start of time is aligned. If there is no judgment by the pattern judgment result calculator 21, the pattern comparison mechanism section 19 performs a correlation comparison with the four reference patterns of OK signs in the large number of instruction reference pattern groups 10a. After this, goo, next, choki, and all 4 in this procedure
Correlation comparison is performed with each instruction reference pattern. If there is no judgment by the pattern judgment result calculator 21, this time, 1. of the 16 pattern groups in the time direction expansion / contraction mechanism group 17a is selected.
Four patterns reduced to 1.6 seconds after 4 seconds are taken out and put in the size normalization mechanism group 18a to make four patterns in which the signal sizes are standardized and aligned. Similarly, the four patterns and the four reference patterns of the V sign in the large number of instruction reference pattern groups 10a are subjected to correlation comparison by the pattern comparison mechanism section 19 by matching the start times of the patterns. If there is no judgment by the pattern judgment result calculator 21,
Next, the four reference patterns of the OK sign in the many instruction reference pattern groups 10a and the pattern comparison mechanism unit 19 are subjected to correlation comparison, and this procedure is continued until the pattern determination result calculator 21 makes a correlation comparison determination. . When the four stretched patterns in the stretch mechanism group 17a in the time direction coincide with the four command reference patterns in the correlation comparison determination, the one having the four command reference patterns is set as the glove operation command. Since 16 patterns of 0.2 seconds from 1.4 seconds to 4.6 seconds of expansion and contraction occur, if 30 instructions are set as the instruction reference pattern group of 4 pieces, correlation comparison of 480 times is performed. It will be a judgment. Therefore, this is performed in 0.2 seconds. On the other hand, at the last timing of 0.2 seconds, all four 16 pattern groups expanded and contracted by the expansion / contraction mechanism group 17a in the time direction are held for 0.2 seconds 16 samples 3 seconds from the AD conversion group 16 after 0.2 seconds. Update from the pattern group. That is,
The correlation comparison determination process is dynamically promoted at intervals of 0.2 seconds. Note that the correlation comparison judgment determination is passed as command information to the command transmission unit 5a by the pattern judgment result calculator 21. The command transmission unit 5a standard-codes this and transmits it to the light-receiving sensor 15 of the external device 7 with infrared rays by the emitter 6a. Here, the amount of digital memory of the operation recognition unit 4a of the present embodiment is about 10 Kbytes, and it can be manufactured by several IC chips together with the amount of digital logic circuit elements. Although four stretch detection sensors are used in this example, a more advanced glove signal transmission device can be provided by using a large number of stretch detection sensors and pressure detection sensors.

[0007]

According to the present invention, the movement of the hand through the glove can be specified by the glove command transmitting device and transmitted to an external device, which can be enjoyed in a NES game or the like.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view of a glove of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of processing of an input signal pattern group.

FIG. 4 Example of the present invention

FIG. 5 is a structural diagram of a motion recognition unit

[Explanation of symbols]

 1,1a Gloves 2a1,12a Expansion / contraction detection sensor 3a1 Pressure detection sensor 4,4a Motion recognition unit 5,5a Command transmission unit 6,6a Launcher 7 External equipment 8,8a Battery unit 9,9a Signal magnitude change extractor group 10 , 10a Multiple command reference pattern groups 11, 11a Pattern comparison / determination unit 13 Input signal pattern group 14 Cable 15 Light receiving sensor 16 AD conversion group 17,17a Time direction expansion / contraction mechanism group 18,18a Size normalization mechanism group 19 patterns Comparison mechanism unit 20 External box 21 Pattern judgment result calculator

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A large number of stretch detection sensors and pressure detection sensors are attached at appropriate places on the fingers, the back, and the palm of the glove,
A mechanism for simultaneously inputting signals from each sensor and a series of input signal pattern groups for continuous signal size and time direction expansion / conversion conversion processing and normalization, and by combining the results, the command indicated by the glove action is judged and determined. A glove command transmitting device having a mechanism motion recognition unit, equipped with a command transmission unit that receives a judgment at that time and receives a determined command, standardizes it, and transmits it to an external device. 2. The motion recognition unit according to claim 1, wherein the input signal pattern groups input at the same time are processed by a signal size change extractor group, and a time direction expansion / contraction mechanism group, a size normalization mechanism group, The pattern comparison mechanism unit and the pattern comparison and determination unit provided with the pattern determination result calculator continuously and comparatively execute a large number of instruction reference pattern groups to select one instruction reference pattern group and issue an instruction as an instruction. It is characterized by having a mechanical procedure for transmitting to the transmitter.