US Patent Issued to VIZIO on Sept. 22 for "Systems and methods for providing on-screen virtual keyboards" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,176, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to VIZIO INC. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing on-screen virtual keyboards" was invented by Kiran Sanjeevan Cabeza (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing a virtual keyboard are shown and described. User gestures are captured by a camera and are mapped to spatial coordinates that correspond to the keys of a virtual keyboard. The user defines the coordinate system based on his or her range of motion and also defines the spatial dimensions of the virtual keyboard. The spatial dimensions are then scaled to provide a display image of the vi...