US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 8 for "Hand skeleton learning, lifting, and denoising from 2D images" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,637, issued on July 8, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Hand skeleton learning, lifting, and denoising from 2D images" was invented by Onur Guleryuz (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor identifies keypoints on a hand in a two-dimensional image that is captured by a camera. A three-dimensional pose of the hand is determined using locations of the keypoints to access lookup tables (LUTs) that represent potential poses of the hand as a function of the locations of the keypoints. In some embodiments, the keypoints include locations of tips of fingers and a thumb, joints that connect phalanxes of th...