US Patent Issued to Snap on Nov. 11 for "Dynamic interaction zone system for accurate 3D button selection in augmented reality environments" (Austrian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,381, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Dynamic interaction zone system for accurate 3D button selection in augmented reality environments" was invented by Marton Gergely Kajtar (Vienna), Neken Aritia Symphonie Razafindrabe (Lachen, Switzerland) and Andras Sziffer (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-wearable apparatus improves user interactions with virtual interface elements in augmented reality (AR) environments. The apparatus tracks hand movements in 3D space, calculating velocity vectors and positions of fingers. For each virtual interface element, it determines a UI-to-finger vector a...