ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,096, issued on July 29, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"AR-based virtual keyboard" 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) device 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 determines using the one or more cameras, the user's selection of one or m...