ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,910, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"3D wrist tracking" was invented by Roman Furko (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Vladyslav Horbatiuk (Kyiv, Ukraine), Amir Iagudin (Moscow) and James Supancic III (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wrist tracking process is provided for use in Augmented Reality (AR) applications. A computing system captures video frame tracking data of a wrist of a user and generates 3D parameter data of the user's wrist based on the video frame tracking data. The computing system generates 3D render data of a virtual item based on the 3D parameter data of the user's w...