US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Jan. 27 for "Gesture detection apparatus and gesture detection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,827, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Gesture detection apparatus and gesture detection method" was invented by Taro Kumagai (Tokyo) and Takuya Murakami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a gesture detection apparatus that accurately detects a hand of an occupant in gesturing. The gesture detection apparatus includes a face frame information acquisition unit, a hand candidate detection unit, and a determination unit. The face frame information acquisition unit acquires face frame information. The face frame is set so as to surround the face of the occupant detected on the basis of ...