US Patent Issued to KIBEAM LEARNING on Aug. 19 for "Systems and methods to identify page-turning using a portable device" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,287, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to KIBEAM LEARNING INC. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Systems and methods to identify page-turning using a portable device" was invented by Nelson George Publicover (Bellingham, Wash.) and Lewis James Marggraff (Lafayette, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described in which a light beam generated by a handheld device is used to point toward a printed page containing visual contents, for example displayed in a book or magazine. The page being pointed at may be identified using computer vison applied to images acquired by a device camera pointed in the same direction as the beam. ...