US Patent Issued to ULTRAHAPTICS IP TWO on March 4 for "Hand pose estimation for machine learning based gesture recognition" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,238, issued on March 4, was assigned to ULTRAHAPTICS IP TWO Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Hand pose estimation 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 performs hand pose estimation on a so-called "joint-by-joint" basis. So, when a plurality of estimates for the 28 hand joints are received from a plurality of expert networks (and from master experts in some high-confidence scenarios), the estimates are analyzed at a joint level and a final location f...