MUMBAI, India, June 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202341087403 A) filed by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea, on Dec. 20, 2023, for 'method and electronic device for recognizing hand gesture.'
Inventor(s) include Vishakha S R; Bindigan Hariprasanna Pawan Prasad; Green Rosh K S; Akula Jayaprakash; Sung Soo Choi; Hyuntaek Woo; Chae Eun Lee; and Beomsu Kim.
The application for the patent was published on June 27, under issue no. 26/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Accordingly, the embodiments herein provide a method for recognizing a hand gesture by an electronic device (200). The method includes capturing a plurality of frames associated with a hand, when the hand is performing the hand gesture. Further, the method includes estimating a plurality of background planes for each frame of the plurality of frames. The hand gesture is performed in front of the plurality of background planes. Further, the method includes determining a movement of the plurality of background planes. Further, the method includes determining a movement of the electronic device (200) based on the movement of the plurality background planes. Further, the method includes determining the hand gesture, upon measuring a movement of the hand while performing the hand gesture relative to the movement of the electronic device (200)."
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