ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,783, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Hand chirality estimation for extended reality tracking" was invented by Markus Diem (Vienna), Thomas Muttenthaler (Vienna) and Daniel Wolf (Modling, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples in the present disclosure relate to hand chirality estimation. Tracking data captured by one or more sensors associated with an extended reality (XR) device is processed to determine positions of a plurality of joints of a hand of a person. A reference vector is generated based on a first subset of the positions. The first subset of the positions includes positions ...