US Patent Issued to ULTRAHAPTICS IP TWO on March 25 for "Hand initialization for machine learning based gesture recognition" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,679, issued on March 25, was assigned to ULTRAHAPTICS IP TWO Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Hand initialization for machine learning based gesture recognition" was invented by Jonathan Marsden (San Mateo, Calif.), Raffi Bedikian (San Francisco) and David Samuel Holz (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed also initializes a new hand that enters the field of view of a gesture recognition system using a parallax detection module. The parallax detection module determines candidate regions of interest (ROI) for a given input hand image and computes depth, rotation and position information for the candidat...