ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,267, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Silhouette-based limb finder determination" was invented by Jonathan R. Hoof (Bellevue, Wash.) and Daniel G. Kennett (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A silhouette-based limb finder may be used to detect limbs from a camera image. This limb determination may be used to control an application, such as a game, or a combination with other image processing. A first distance field indicating a distance from the edge of a silhouette in an image and a second distance field indicating distance from a location in the silhouette may be u...