ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,726, issued on April 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Collaborative tracking" was invented by Bijan Forutanpour (San Diego), Sebastien Mounier (San Diego) and Jonathan Kies (Encinitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system can receive an image of a portion of an environment. The environment can include an object, such as a hand or a display. The imaging device can identify a data stream from an external device, for instance by detecting the data stream in the image or by receiving the data stream wirelessly from the external device. The imaging device can detect a condition based on the image and/or th...