US Patent Issued to SNAP on Sept. 15 for "Visual and audio wake commands" (Florida, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,053, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Visual and audio wake commands" was invented by Daniel Colascione (Melbourne Beach, Fla.), Matthew Hanover (Los Angeles), Sergei Korolev (Playa Vista, Calif.), Michael David Marr (Monroe, Wash.), Scott Myers (Orange, Calif.) and James Powderly (Venice, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gesture-based wake process for an AR system is described herein. The AR system places a hand-tracking input pipeline of the AR system in a suspended mode. A camera component of the hand-tracking input pipeline detects a possible visual wake command being made by a user o...