US Patent Issued to HTC on Sept. 30 for "Hand tracking system and method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,791, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HTC Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Hand tracking system and method" was invented by Min Chia Wei (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Ting-Wei Lin (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a hand tracking system. A camera is configured to obtain a hand image of a hand of a user. A tracker is adapted to be attached to an object and configured to obtain tracker data. A processor is configured to determine the hand being touching the object based on the hand image or the tracker data. The processor is configured to determine a contact portion of the object based on the object. The con...