Long-range touch gesture interface for Smart TV

This paper proposes a long-range touch interface for interacting with various types of contents and services provided through Smart TV. The proposed interface provides the same functionality as the touch interface adopted on common smart phones by recognizing bare hand gestures of the user at a long distance, about three meters. To verify and test the functionality, usefulness, and performance of the proposed system, we built a demonstration system of a smart phone connected with a TV. We could verify that most of the smart phone operations can be accomplished by the proposed interface. We expect that the proposed interface can be promising natural user interface for Smart TV.