ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,392, issued on May 12, was assigned to HTC Corp. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Pose calculating apparatus and method" was invented by Yen-Ting Liu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yu-Heng Hong (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Jia-Yau Shiau (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pose calculating apparatus and method are provided. The pose calculating apparatus receives a plurality of real-time images and a plurality of inertial measurement parameters corresponding to at least one inertial sensor worn by a user. The pose calculating apparatus determines a pose calculating mode corresponding to each of a plurality of body regions of the user based on the r...