US Patent Issued to Apple on March 18 for "System and method of tap detection on a three-dimensional image" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,176, issued on March 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"System and method of tap detection on a three-dimensional image" was invented by Dan Nussinson (Haifa, Israel), Yoed Arieli (Jerusalem), Jonathan Hauser (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Oriel Y. Bergig (Shoham, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, an electronic device may be in communication with one or more input devices, including a camera, and a remote sensing vibrometer. In some examples, the remote sensing vibrometer may be configurable to emit, using a light source, one or more light beams that are incident on the physical surface on which the ...