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Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2026

Filed:

Apr. 26, 2023
Applicant:

Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);

Inventors:

Daniel Colascione, Melbourne Beach, FL (US);

Daniel Harris, San Francisco, CA (US);

Andrei Rybin, Lehi, UT (US);

Anoosh Kruba Chandar Mahalingam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Pierre-Yves Santerre, Bellevue, WA (US);

Jennica Pounds, Cape Coral, FL (US);

Assignee:

Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G06T 19/006 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0178 (2013.01);
Abstract

An AR system includes multiple input-modalities. A hand-tracking pipeline supports Direct Manipulation of Virtual Object (DMVO) and gesture input methodologies. In addition, a voice processing pipeline provides for speech inputs. Direct memory buffer access to preliminary hand-tracking data, such as skeletal models, allows for low latency communication of the data for use by DMVO-based user interfaces. A system framework component routes higher level hand-tracking data, such as gesture identification and symbols generated based on hand positions, via a Snips protocol to gesture-based user interfaces.


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