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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019
Filed:
May. 19, 2017
Facebook Technologies, Llc, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Kenrick Cheng-kuo Kin, Vancouver, WA (US);
Facebook Technologies, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A system includes an electronic display configured to display one or more simulated objects in accordance with display instructions, an imaging sensor configured to capture images of a user's hands, and a console. The console is configured to receive the captured images from the imaging sensor, extract joint information of the user's hands from the captured images, and determine one or more poses based on the extracted joint information. In response to the determined poses indicating the user's index finger positioned orthogonally to the user's thumb, and the thumb within a minimum distance to the index finger, the console detects a directional pad display gesture, and update the display instructions to cause the electronic display to generate a simulated directional pad adjacent to the user's thumb in a simulated environment that is presented to the user via the electronic display.