US Patent Issued to Roku on Sept. 9 for "Using gestures to control a media player" (Colorado, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,556, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Using gestures to control a media player" was invented by Michael Cutter (Golden, Colo.), Sunil Ramesh (Cupertino, Calif.) and Karina Levitian (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an example method includes (i) receiving, by a computing system and from an input device associated with the computing system, a command to map a customized gesture with a particular action of a plurality of actions that a media player is configured to perform; (ii) in response to receiving the command, monitoring, by the computing system and using a camera, a vi...