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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2020

Filed:

Aug. 10, 2018
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventor:

Michael R. Brennan, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/03 (2006.01); G06T 7/246 (2017.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/03 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/0304 (2013.01); G06K 9/00355 (2013.01); G06K 9/00389 (2013.01); G06K 9/00885 (2013.01); G06K 9/03 (2013.01); G06T 7/248 (2017.01); G06K 9/6267 (2013.01); G06K 2009/00932 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10048 (2013.01);
Abstract

This relates to a device capable of automatically determining a user's gesture and/or finger positions based on one or more properties of the user's veins and methods for operation thereof. The device can include one or more sensors (e.g., a camera) to capture one or more images of the user's hand. The device can convert the image(s) to digital representations and can correlate the digital image(s) of the veins to one or more poses. From the pose(s), the device can determine the user's hand movements, and one or more gestures and/or finger positions can be determined from the hand movements. The device can interpret the gestures and/or finger positions as one or more input commands, and the device can perform an operation based on the input command(s). Examples of the disclosure include using the user input commands in virtual reality applications.


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