ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,567, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Vision-based teleoperation of dexterous robotic system" was invented by Ankur Handa (Seattle), Karl Van Wyk (Lynnwood, Wash.), Wei Yang (Seattle), Yu-Wei Chao (Seattle), Dieter Fox (Seattle) and Qian Wan (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A human pilot controls a robotic arm and gripper by simulating a set of desired motions with the human hand. In at least one embodiment, one or more images of the pilot's hand are captured and analyzed to determine a set of hand poses. In at least one embodiment, the set of hand poses is translated to a corresponding s...