US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 4 for "Vision-based hand gesture customization" (Pennsylvania, Washington, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,262, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Vision-based hand gesture customization" was invented by Abdelkareem A. Bedri (Pittsburgh), Gierad Laput (Pittsburgh), Cori T. Park (White Plains, N.Y.), Runchang Kang (Redmond, Wash.) and Soroush Shahi Vernousfaderani (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology provides vision-based hand gesture customization. An apparatus receives input data having image representations of a first hand gestures corresponding to different types of gestures. For each of the first hand gestures, the apparatus extracts features from one of the image representat...