US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on April 21 for "Gesture recognition apparatus and method for recognizing gesture" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,979, issued on April 21, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Gesture recognition apparatus and method for recognizing gesture" was invented by Daiki Higuchi (Tokyo) and Daisuke Ohashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a gesture recognition apparatus that accurately identifies a hand that is an identification object. The gesture recognition apparatus includes a hand candidate identifying unit, a vehicle outside scenery identifying unit, and a false recognition identifying unit. The hand candidate identifying unit identifies, based on a picture in a cabin of a vehicle, at least one hand candidate that i...