US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Jan. 13 for "Inference window for gesture input" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,625, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Inference window for gesture input" was invented by Michael Taylor (San Mateo, Calif.), Yasunori Matsui (San Mateo, Calif.), Yurika Kondo (Tokyo) and Mihee Kang (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is configured to determine a window of time during which to execute a particular gesture or voice command to a computer game. The system otherwise does not execute the command outside the window of time, helping to reduce false positives from unintended input."

The patent was filed on July 6, 2023, under Application No. 18/348,301.

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