G06F 3/017
Gesture based interaction
Official title: {Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures (interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883)}
G06F3/017 (Gesture based interaction) appears on 17,072 US grants and 22,851 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 22,851
- Assignees
- 3,541
- Inventors
- 30,875
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2013 | 310 | 1023 |
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| 2015 | 902 | 1777 |
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| 2018 | 1403 | 1561 |
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| 2023 | 1281 | 1424 |
| 2024 | 1300 | 1456 |
| 2025 | 1210 | 1288 |
| 2026 | 744 | 938 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Augmented reality-based translations associated with travel6 Oct 2026US 12,754,032 B2Snap Inc.
- Multi-user hand gesture recognition6 Oct 2026US 12,754,287 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Unlocking XR glasses6 Oct 2026US 12,754,602 B1Snap Inc.
- Intent-based user interface modifications in an artificial reality environment6 Oct 2026US 12,754,604 B2Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Head-mounted device input6 Oct 2026US 12,754,607 B2Apple Inc.
- Gesture-Activated Electronic Toy with Text-Based Artificial Intelligence Response8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306963 A1
- Electronic device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310284 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Anonymized Human Body Tracking8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310288 A1Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Deep learning assisted textile sensor matrix for co-adaptive human-robot collaboration8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310292 A1Purdue Research Foundation
- Barcode reader with motion-based triggering8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310302 A1NIMMSTA GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock image1,368US 7,657,849 B2Apple Inc. · 2010
- Controlling power consumption of a mobile device based on gesture recognition1,214US 9,086,875 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated · 2015
- Hand gesture machine control system1,113US 5,594,469 AMitsubishi Electric Information Technology Center America, Inc. · 1997
- Method and apparatus for real-time gesture recognition924US 6,072,494 AElectric Planet, Inc. · 2000
- System and method for augmented and virtual reality924US 9,215,293 B2Magic Leap, Inc. · 2015