US Patent Issued to Google on May 12 for "Gesture detection using external sensors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,559, issued on May 12, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Gesture detection using external sensors" was invented by Katherine Blair Huffman (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Gregory Granito (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology provides for a system for determining a gesture provided by a user. In this regard, one or more processors of the system may receive image data from one or more visual sensors of the system capturing a motion of the user, and may receive motion data from one or more wearable computing devices worn by the user. The one or more processors may recognize, based on the image data,...