ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,567, issued on March 25, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"3D space carving using hands for object capture" was invented by Branislav Micusik (St. Andrae-Woerdern, Austria), Georgios Evangelidis (Vienna) and Daniel Wolf (Modling, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for carving a 3D space using hands tracking is described. In one aspect, a method includes accessing a first frame from a camera of a display device, tracking, using a hand tracking algorithm operating at the display device, hand pixels corresponding to one or more user hands depicted in the first frame, detecting, using a sensor of the displa...