ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,078, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Hand-tracking with IR camera for XR systems" was invented by Piotr Gurgul (Hergiswil, Switzerland), Sharon Moll (Lachen, Switzerland) and Pawel Wawruch (Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eXtended Reality (XR) system provides methodologies for capturing hand poses being made by a user in low-light environments. The XR system capture, using one or more visible light cameras, tracking video frame data of a hand pose of a user of the XR system. The XR system generates hand-tracking data based on the tracking video frame data. The hand-...