US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 5 for "Relative head-tracking for user-interface element selection on a head-mounted display device" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,590, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Relative head-tracking for user-interface element selection on a head-mounted display device" was invented by Stiven Guillaume Francois Morvan (New York), Konstantine Nicholas John Tsotsos (Corte Madera, Calif.), Dongeek Shin (San Jose, Calif.) and Tinglin Duan (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mounted display device may initiate display of a user interface on a display of the head-mounted display device. A head-mounted display device may compute an angular distance between a previous head orientation and a current head orientation based on head m...