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Social media major Facebook has applied for patent protection in India for its innovation related to recognising gestures, which could be useful in various gesture recognition systems, virtual reality and others.
The patent application, filed with the Indian Patent Office, is for identifying an object based on the light it emits. The company elaborates that the invention is related to recognising object using optical projections onto a scene and is capable of detecting and tracking a user hand in three dimensions.
Predefined gestures or postures of a user's body parts may control a device, in which the computer or other
