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Start Here!™ Learn Microsoft® Kinect API
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Start Here!™ Learn Microsoft® Kinect API

by Rob Miles
July 2012
Beginner to intermediate
272 pages
7h 17m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 6. Fun with the Depth Sensor

After completing this chapter, you will:

  • Understand how the depth sensor delivers depth information

  • Combine depth and image information to trigger a camera when an object moves close to it

  • Use the depth camera to make a program that lets you draw with your fingertip

  • Make use of the depth sensor to detect objects

  • Create an XNA game where you are the controller

Visualizing Kinect Depth Information

YOU HAVE SEEN HOW THE Kinect video camera works. At regular intervals the video camera sensor produces a lump of data containing a set of values for the red, green, and blue intensity for each pixel in the scene it is capturing. This data describes a single frame of video. A program can use the pixel values in the frame to ...

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