US Patent Issued to SNAP on Aug. 4 for "User avatar movement control using an augmented reality eyewear device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,465, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"User avatar movement control using an augmented reality eyewear device" was invented by Lien Le Hong Tran (Santa Monica, Calif.) and William Miles Miller (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for performing operations on an augmented reality (AR) device. The system accesses, by the AR device, movement data comprising inertial measurement data and camera data. The system determines three-dimensional (3D) movement of the AR device based on the movement data. The system presents, by the AR device, an AR object on a real-worl...