According to a list recently announced by the United States Trademark and Patent Office (USPTO), Apple has obtained a patent for a smart ring that demonstrates a variety of interactive gestures, not only supporting pinching, drawing circles, etc. And supports playing the “Rock, Paper, Scissors” game.
This new patent is called “Skin-To-Skin Contact Detection” and mainly introduces various methods to achieve “contact or movement gestures between a first body part and a second body part.”
Apple said in the patent description: “This patent relates to devices and methods for detecting gestures. The user can wear a device such as a ring on one finger or multiple fingers to detect the relationship between the fingers of one hand and other body parts (such as the other fingers or thumb, or the thumb of the other hand).”
Apple outlines a variety of interactive gestures in the patent, including snapping your fingers, making scissors, rock, and paper gestures, using one finger to draw gestures on the palm of another hand, pinching and sliding, etc. Attached are the patent screenshot as follows:
