US Patent Issued to Google on May 26 for "Determining input modality of head-worn device based on input modality of handheld device" (Swiss, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,027, issued on May 26, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Determining input modality of head-worn device based on input modality of handheld device" was invented by Ruofei Du (San Francisco), David Kim (Zug, Switzerland), Fengyuan Zhu (Toronto) and Daniel Kalmar (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include determining, by a head-mounted device mounted on a head of a user, a number of degrees of freedom of an input modality of an auxiliary device; determining an input modality of the head-mounted device based on the number of degrees of freedom of the input modality of the auxiliary device; and presenti...