ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,027, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Joint motion estimation based method for estimating continuous human postures" was invented by Canjun Yang (Hangzhou, China), Xin Wu (Hangzhou, China), Zhangpeng Tu (Hangzhou, China), Weitao Wu (Hangzhou, China) and Yuanchao Zhu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a key joint motion estimation based method for estimating continuous human postures. A motion estimation block matching algorithm is applied to human key joint tracking, so as to obtain continuous human posture results. Meanwhile, the results are con...