US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on April 7 for "Translation of sign language in a virtual environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,496, issued on April 7, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Translation of sign language in a virtual environment" was invented by Celeste Bean (San Francisco) and Todd Tokubo (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided, including the following operations: receiving video of a first user; processing the video to identify signed communications in a first sign language made by the first user; translating the signed communications in the first sign language into signed communications in a second sign language; rendering an avatar of the user performing the translated signed communicat...