US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Dec. 23 for "Content selection and action determination based on a gesture input" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,875, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Content selection and action determination based on a gesture input" was invented by Sarah Fay Smith (San Francisco) and Clement Dickinson Wright (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for content processing can include obtaining a gesture input and display data, determining content selected by the gesture input, classifying the gesture, and performing a particular data processing action based on the content selection and the gesture classification. The particular data processing action can vary based on gesture classification. The c...