US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on July 14 for "Techniques for using floodlight LEDs when imaging sensors have an insufficient level of detail for identifying hand gestures, and mixed-reality systems and methods of using these techniques" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,106, issued on July 14, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Techniques for using floodlight LEDs when imaging sensors have an insufficient level of detail for identifying hand gestures, and mixed-reality systems and methods of using these techniques" was invented by Tsz Ho Yu (San Jose, Calif.) and Yiwen Wu (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example MR headset is provided. The example MR headset comprises (i) a set of imaging sensors and (ii) a set of floodlight-emitting diodes (flood LEDs), the sets of imaging sensors and flood LEDs disposed along a front-facing portion of the MR he...