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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Victor Belyaev, San Jose, CA (US);
Bhavin Vinodkumar Nayak, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel J. Brewer, San Jose, CA (US);
Itay Bar Yosef, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Julian K. Shutzberg, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthias M. Schroeder, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Enabling gesture input includes obtaining hand tracking data based on one or more camera frames, detecting a contact event between a first finger and a second finger based on the hand tracking data, and determining a first contact location on the first finger and a second contact location on the second finger. In accordance with a determination that the first contact location and the second contact location are within a first predefined gesture zone for a first gesture, an input action is enabled corresponding to the first gesture.