ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,851, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Fingernail segmentation and tracking" was invented by Maksym Bekuzarov (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Andrii Didkivskyi (Kyiv, Ukraine), Sergei Korolev (Marina del Rey, Calif.) and Ihor Tymchyshyn (Kyiv, Ukraine).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extended Reality (XR) system provides methodologies for displaying virtual objects in a hand-centric XR experience. The XR system provides an XR user interface of an XR system to a user. The XR system captures video frame data of a hand of the user and detects the hand of the user based on the video frame data and ...