Video Processing Technologies on Toshiba’s SE1000 Quad Core HD Processor

Toshiba has developed technologies for hand gesture recognition and video indexing taking advantage of the powerful video processing performance of our SE1000 Quad Core HD Processor.

The hand gesture recognition technology detects three types of shapes of the user’s hand (upper figure) in video images captured by a camera mounted on a PC. This technology makes it possible to control applications on the PC by hand gestures without the need for a mouse or a keyboard.

The video indexing technology detects faces, shouts, handclaps, commercials, music, and corner changes in recorded videos. Such information provides users with a novel way of watching videos by accessing favorite scenes using an overview of the videos such as thumbnails of the faces (lower figure).

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Operation of PC by hand gestures

Accessing favorite scenes by face navigation