Gesture recognition system
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a gesture recognition system which can easily be mastered, is highly reliable, and has a relatively small penalty to an erroneous input to a control mode. SOLUTION: This gesture recognition system is provided with a gesture signal generating means which generates the gesture signal corresponding to the existence and spatial position of a prescribed hand gesture by detecting the presence and spatial position of the hand gesture, an on-screen hand icon outputting and displaying means which outputs and displays an on-screen hand icon 26 to and at the position of an on-screen 12 corresponding to the spatial position at which the hand gesture is detected based on the output of the gesture signal generating means, and machine control signal generating means which detects the simultaneous generation of the on-screen machine control icons 28-42 of an on-screen hand icon 16 when the icon 16 is moved on the icons 28-42 in accordance with the movement of the hand gesture and generates the corresponding machine control signal in accordance with the simultaneous generation of the icons 28-42.