US Patent Issued to HONGFUJIN PRECISION ELECTRONS (YANTAI), HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY on Aug. 5 for "Method for identifying human postures and gestures for interaction purposes and portable hand-held device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,726, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to HONGFUJIN PRECISION ELECTRONS (YANTAI) Co. LTD. (Yantai, China) and HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method for identifying human postures and gestures for interaction purposes and portable hand-held device" was invented by Yu-Hsiang Hao (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chien-Heng Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Yao-Che Peng (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting and identifying postures and gestures of a human user generates a reference model from a reference image and obtains an image of action or gesture being performed. The image is of a user and...