ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,679, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Gestures for switching audio endpoints" was invented by Peter Siyuan Zhang (Spring, Texas), King Sui Kei (Spring, Texas), Yun David Tang (Spring, Texas), Lan Wang (Spring, Texas) and Alan Man Pan Tam (Spring, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes an image sensor, a plurality of audio endpoints, and an electronic device comprising a controller. The controller is to receive images of a user's face from the image sensor. In addition, the controller is to detect, in the images, a gesture of the user to point to a feature...