Samsung Patents In-Air Gesturing for VR

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According to a report by Patently Mobile, Samsung recently filed a patent for an in-air gesture control system designed for AR and VR headsets. Such a system would use a color camera, a depth camera, and an infrared sensor with an infrared light for illumination, at the very least. Simple gestures detectable by the system might include pointing or grabbing, but there's also a section about a "performance mode" that would let the device detect more complex gestures.

Samsung further describes that in order to detect a user's complex gesture the full performance mode may be a mode of setting the depth sensor with the highest frame rate value and the IR sensor to emit an IR light with the highest illumination value. The headset performing in the full performance mode is able to detect the complex gesture and perform an operation corresponding to the detected complex gesture... Samsung filed this patent application in Q2 2018. It was published by USPTO earlier in Q4 2018. One of the inventors listed on Samsung's patent filing is Ji Soo Yi, a VP at Samsung leading an AI Strategy Group that worked on Bixby 2.0 and other projects.
 
So does this mean they will own all the Naruto / Minority Report hand movements when applied to technology?
 
I don't see this as being enforceable. How does one differentiate between a patented gesture and just hand movement in VR space?
 
BloodyIron said:
I don't see this as being enforceable. How does one differentiate between a patented gesture and just hand movement in VR space?
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Exactly, not to mention various software and VR apps have already done this for years via hardware like the leap motion.
 
its not a patent on the gestures.... thats not something that can be patented. They patented the method and tech in order to actually do it. you could totally do your own method and use a different approach then them and it would be fair game... and im sure someone is already working on patenting their implementation.
 
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*sigh* more useless fucking software patents that already basically exist. How this hasn't been covered by the MS Kinect I'll never know, yaya not in VR, bit still you make a gesture and software recognizes it and does something
 
so what happens if you're using one of their patented hand gestures while picking your nose with your free hand? Will that cause a patent violation?
 
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