ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,333, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Hand-gesture activation of actionable items" was invented by Brett D. Miller (San Carlos, Calif.), Daniel K. Boothe (San Francisco) and Martin E. Johnson (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a method of performing an action is performed at a device including an image sensor, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes receiving, from the image sensor, one or more images of a physical environment. The method includes detecting, in the one or more images of the physical environment, one or more actiona...