US Patent Issued to Toyota Jidosha on Aug. 25 for "Calibrating a gesture-based system for a vehicle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,446, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Calibrating a gesture-based system for a vehicle" was invented by Brian R Hilnbrand (San Jose, Calif.), Jimmy Chiu (San Jose, Calif.), Owen Davis (Berkeley, Calif.), Alexander Charles Granieri (Mountain View, Calif.) and Conor Powers Sullivan (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to gesture-based systems for vehicles. In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to initiating a calibration process, identifying calibration targets. The method also includes detecting positional inf...