ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,633, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Body-mounted sensor for improved pose forecasting" was invented by Thomas Faeulhammer (Vienna), Matthias Kalkgruber (Vienna), Thomas Muttenthaler (vienna) and Daniel Wolf (Modling, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In examples described herein, a sensor external to an extended reality (XR) device is connected to an extremity of a user of the XR device. The external sensor is communicatively coupled to the XR device. The XR device captures image data comprising one or more images of the extremity of the user. The XR device accesses external tracking data g...