ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,367, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to pop Inc. (Tokyo).

"Trigger signal generating apparatus and portable terminal" was invented by Yoshinori Kamiyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trigger signal generating apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention for generating a trigger signal indicating a timing when a gesture is performed on a portable terminal, the trigger signal generating apparatus includes a motion information detecting unit for detecting motion information in each of three axial directions of a coordinate system having the portable terminal as an origin, and a trigger signal generating unit for g...