ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,778, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to HTC Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Head-mounted display, tap input signal generating method and non-transitory computer readable storage medium thereof" was invented by Chao-Hsiang Lai (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mounted display, tap input signal generating method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium thereof are provided. The method determines whether a plurality of fingers conform to a contact mode corresponding to an entity plane based on a plurality of real-time images including the fingers of a user and an inertial sensing data. The method generates a t...