US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 30 for "Motion mapping for continuous gestures using user-centric coordinate system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,973, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Motion mapping for continuous gestures using user-centric coordinate system" was invented by Vinay Chawda (Santa Clara, Calif.), Chase B. Lortie (San Francisco), Daniel J. Brewer (San Jose, Calif.), Julian K. Shutzberg (San Francisco), Leah M. Gum (San Francisco), Yirong Tang (San Francisco) and Alexander T. Wing (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A movement of a user input component is presented in accordance with a mapping of a user input motion from a user-centric spherical coordinate system to a 2D plane. An input motion by a user is detected. A...