ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,145, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Determining an intended gesture when hands are occupied" was invented by Nathaniel R. Finney (San Francisco), Jean-Charles Bernard Marcel Bazin (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Srimanth Gunturi (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hand tracking techniques are used to initiate actions at a computer even if a hand is occupied. Image data is received of a scene that includes a hand. A determination is mate whether the hand is occupied by a physical object. If the hand is occupied by a physical object, then the hand is monitored for a modified gesture based on the...