US 12,439,145 B1
Determining an intended gesture when hands are occupied
Nathaniel R. Finney, San Francisco, CA (US); Jean-Charles Bernard Marcel Bazin, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Srimanth Gunturi, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Nathaniel R. Finney, San Francisco, CA (US); Jean-Charles Bernard Marcel Bazin, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Srimanth Gunturi, Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/448,638.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/083,341, filed on Sep. 25, 2020.
Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2022.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06V 40/20 (2022.01); H04N 23/611 (2023.01); H04N 23/65 (2023.01); H04N 23/695 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/611 (2023.01) [G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06V 40/28 (2022.01); H04N 23/651 (2023.01); H04N 23/695 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Anon-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable code executable by one or more processors to:
detect that a user of a wearable device is within a predetermined distance of a first registered object of a plurality of registered object;
in response to the detection, initiate, at the wearable device, hand tracking to monitor one or more hands of the user for an interaction with the first registered object,
determine a first gesture from the interaction based on the hand tracking,
determine a first object-specific action corresponding to the first gesture and the first registered object, and
trigger, by the wearable device, the first object-specific action,
wherein the wearable device triggers a second object-specific action for the first gesture when the first gesture is determined in association with a second registered object.