US Patent Issued to Snap on Aug. 18 for "Steerable camera for AR hand tracking" (Colorado, Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,828, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Steerable camera for AR hand tracking" was invented by Daniel Colascione (Melbourne Beach, Fla.), Patrick Timothy McSweeney Simons (Downey, Calif.), Weston Welge (Boulder, Colo.) and Ramzi Zahreddine (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for hand tracking for an Augmented Reality (AR) system. The AR system uses a camera of the AR system to capture tracking video frame data of a hand of a user of the AR system. The AR system generates a skeletal model based on the tracking video frame data and determines a location of the hand of the user based on the...