US Patent Issued to Snap on July 15 for "Tracking hand gestures for interactive game control in augmented reality" (Ukrainian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,911, issued on July 15, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Tracking hand gestures for interactive game control in augmented reality" was invented by Ilteris Canberk (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Dmytro Kucher (Odessa, Ukraine), Dmytro Hovorov (Luhansk, Ukraine) and Artur Sydoran (Uzhhorod, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for presenting an interactive game in augmented reality on the display of a smart eyewear device. A hand tracking utility detects and tracks the location of hand gestures in real time, based on high-definition video data. The detected hand ...