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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2022
Daekun Kim, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Lei Zhang, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Youjean Cho, New York, NY (US);
Ava Robinson, Solana Beach, CA (US);
Yu Jiang Tham, Seattle, WA (US);
Rajan Vaish, Beverly Hills, CA (US);
Andrés Monroy-hernández, Seattle, WA (US);
Daekun Kim, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Lei Zhang, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Youjean Cho, New York, NY (US);
Ava Robinson, Solana Beach, CA (US);
Yu Jiang Tham, Seattle, WA (US);
Rajan Vaish, Beverly Hills, CA (US);
Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Seattle, WA (US);
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for detecting full-body gestures by a mobile device includes a host mobile device detecting the tracked body of a co-located participant in a multi-party session. When the participant's tracked body provides a full-body gesture, the host's mobile device recognizes that there is a tracked body providing a full-body gesture. The host mobile device iterates through the list of participants in the multi-party session and finds the closest participant mobile device with respect to the screen-space position of the head of the gesturing participant. The host mobile device then obtains the user ID of the closest participant mobile device and broadcasts the recognized full-body gesture event to all co-located participants in the multi-party session, along with the obtained user ID. Each participant's mobile device may then handle the gesture event as appropriate for the multi-party session. For example, a character or costume may be assigned to a gesturing participant.