Pursuits
Microsoft, Pfizer, Viacom: Intellectual Property
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Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software company, is seeking a patent on a system that would allow gestures to be used to input data to a computer.
According to application 20100199228, which was published in the database of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Aug. 5, the system includes a camera that captures gesture, and a “gesture recognizer engine” to identify the significance of the gesture.