• DocumentCode
    1945516
  • Title

    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