US Patent Issued to CANON on Jan. 13 for "Gesture recognition apparatus, head-mounted-type display apparatus, gesture recognition method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,077, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Gesture recognition apparatus, head-mounted-type display apparatus, gesture recognition method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Yuki Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gesture recognition apparatus according to the present invention includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: a portion detection unit configured to detect from a captured image a portion making a gesture; a recognition unit configured to recognize the gesture on a basis of motion of the portion detected by the portion detection unit; a re...