ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,984, issued on May 19, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Hand touch detection using images" was invented by Fayez Alsalka (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An XR system is provided. This system captures images including images of a first hand of a user and a second hand of the user using one or more cameras. The XR system generates cropped images using the images, each cropped image including a surface of the first hand. The XR system detects a hand touch of the surface of the hand by a digit of the second hand using the cropped images. The hand touch is used as an input into an XR user interface of the...