US Patent Issued to Snap on July 8 for "Bimanual interactions between mapped hand regions for controlling virtual and graphical elements" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,632, issued on July 8, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Bimanual interactions between mapped hand regions for controlling virtual and graphical elements" was invented by Viktoria Hwang (Los Angeles) and Karen Stolzenberg (Venice, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for controlling the presentation of one or more virtual or graphical elements on a display in response to bimanual hand gestures detected by an eyewear device that is capturing frames of video data with its camera system. An image processing system detects a first hand defines a mapped region rel...