ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,663, issued on July 15, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Gesture-based keyboard text entry" was invented by Sharon Moll (Lachen, Switzerland) and Dawei Zhang (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gesture-based text entry user interface for an Augmented Reality (AR) system is provided. The AR system detects a start text entry gesture made by a user of the AR system, generates a virtual keyboard user interface including a virtual keyboard having a plurality of virtual keys, and provides to the user the virtual keyboard user interface. The AR system detects a hold of an enter text gesture made by the user. While th...