US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 30 for "Electronic device for obtaining user input through virtual keyboard and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,955, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electronic device for obtaining user input through virtual keyboard and method of operating the same" was invented by Yanggeun Oh (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Byungjun Son (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sungjoo Ahn (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sungwook Youn (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jiyoon Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an electronic device configured to obtain a second image, by cropping a first image obtained through a camera, detect at least one finger object in the second image, the at least on...