US Patent Issued to SOFTBANK on Nov. 3 for "Electronic device operated in accordance with captured image data of hand" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,099, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SOFTBANK CORP. (Tokyo).

"Electronic device operated in accordance with captured image data of hand" was invented by Katsuhide Agura (Tokyo), Takuya Sakaguchi (Tokyo), Nobuyuki Oka (Tokyo) and Takeshi Fukuizumi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include: an acquisition section configured to acquire captured image data of a hand of an operator; a presumption section configured to presume, in accordance with the captured image data, skeleton data corresponding to the hand; and a determination section configured to determine, in accordance with the skeleton data, a cursor ...