ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,886, issued on April 14, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Low latency hand-tracking in augmented reality systems" was invented by Jan Bajana (Vienna), Bernhard Jung (Perchtoldsdorf, Austria) and Daniel Wagner (Vienna).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing motion-to-photon latency for hand tracking is described. In one aspect, a method includes accessing a first frame from a camera of an Augmented Reality (AR) device, tracking a first image of a hand in the first frame, rendering virtual content based on the tracking of the first image of the hand in the first frame, accessing a second frame from the c...