US Patent Issued to SNAP on Aug. 25 for "Multi-camera, multimodal gesture detection" (Austrian, Hungarian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,421, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Multi-camera, multimodal gesture detection" was invented by Attila Alvarez (Vienna), Marton Gergely Kajtar (Vienna), David Retek (Budapest, Hungary) and Balazs Toth (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-camera, multimodal gesture detection system for augmented reality devices combines outputs from multiple image sensors, using different modalities, to generate fused gesture detection trigger signals and gesture detection release signals. The system processes fused trigger signals using a trigger suspension component, which suppresses false triggers ba...