ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,342, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Gesture control on an eyewear device" was invented by Kyle Goodrich (Venice, Calif.), Andrew James McPhee (Culver City, Calif.) and Daniel Moreno (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for performing operations comprising: displaying one or more virtual objects on an eyewear device; detecting, by a camera of the eyewear device, a hand within view of the eyewear device; determining that a first finger of the hand is oriented along a same direction as the one or more virtual objects that are displayed; detecting movement of ...