ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,863, issued on April 14, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Hand-based light estimation for extended reality" was invented by David Mandl (Graz, Austria) and Alexander Plopski (Graz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to hand-based light estimation for extended reality (XR). An image sensor of an XR device is used to obtain an image of a hand in a real-world environment. At least part of the image is processed to detect a pose of the hand. One of a plurality of machine learning models is selected based on the detected pose. At least part of the image is processed via the machine l...