ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,300, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Infrared camera-based method and system for estimating hand position through domain transfer learning" was invented by Woontack Woo (Daejeon, South Korea), Gabyong Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Tae Kyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a hand position estimation method and system for estimating a 3-dimensional hand position for quick hand movement, on the basis of domain transfer learning from a depth image to an infrared image, the hand position estimation meth...