MUMBAI, India, April 20 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202514090540 A) filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, U.S.A., on Sept. 22, 2025, for 'monocular hand tracking.'
Inventor(s) include Caballero Garces, Pablo; Mostafa, Eslam A.; and Clifford, Timothy M.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Various implementations use one or more images from a single camera and enrolled hand data to predict a three-dimensional (3D) position and configuration of a hand. The enrollment data may provide information about 3D 5 hand shape and size (e.g., fixed/actual distances between joints). Such information may facilitate determining depth and other 3D characteristics for the 3D position and configuration using images from a single camera (i.e., using a 2D image from a single camera and without requiring triangulation using live images from multiple cameras or multiple viewpoints). The hand's 3D position 10 and configuration may be represented in a way (e.g., a format) that is appropriate for Bayesian optimization. Some implementations may use (e.g., fit) a predetermined hand shape/size with the captured image data to predict the hand's 3D position and configuration."
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