Magic Wand: an intuitive gesture remote control for home appliances

Author

Ouchi, Kazushige ; Esaka, Naoki ; Tamura, Yuka ; Hirahara, Morio ; Doi, Miwako

Author_Institution

Corporate Res. & Dev. Center, Toshiba Corp., Japan

fYear

2005

fDate

19-21 May 2005

Firstpage

274

Abstract

Mickey Mouse controls several brooms using a magic wand in a Disney movie. Can we control home appliances in a similar way? MagicWand makes this dream comes true. Using MagicWand, we can operate more than one home appliance by intuitive actions. MagicWand has two 3-axis accelerometers to detect a control target by just pointing and to recognize command actions which are classified into some intuitive attributes common to multiple home appliances. It generates the control commands and sends them to the targeted home appliances via Bluetooth. We have connected it with the home network appliance system ´FEMINITY™´ and realized actual operation of air conditioner, lights, and so on.

Keywords

Bluetooth; accelerometers; domestic appliances; gesture recognition; home automation; telecontrol; 3-axis accelerometer; Bluetooth; Disney movie; FEMINITY™; MagicWand; Mickey Mouse control; home appliances; home network appliance system; intuitive gesture remote control; Accelerometers; Home appliances; Home automation; Light emitting diodes; Lighting control; Mice; Microcontrollers; Planning; TV; Target recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Active Media Technology, 2005. (AMT 2005). Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9035-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AMT.2005.1505336

Filename

1505336