Sony patents wrist and finger tracking to expand display areas
Sony describes a system that tracks the position of a user's fingers and the rotation of their wrist to control what is shown on a screen. The device uses this data to decide whether to expand the visible area of content, such as when the wrist turns in a specific direction while fingers are in a certain state.
In the filing’s own words
An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires first information indicating a state of fingers of a user and second information indicating rotation of a wrist of the user; and a determination unit that determines an output mode of content output from a device on a basis of the state of the fingers of the user indicated by the first information and rotation of the wrist of the user indicated by the second information.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An information processing device, comprising: circuitry configured to: acquire first information indicating a state of fingers of a user and second information indicating rotation of a wrist of the user; determine, based on the first information and the second information, a display area of content on a display, wherein the display area expands upon a rotation of the wrist in a first rotational direction when the first information indicates that the state of the fingers of the user satisfies a predetermined condition; and send, based on the determined display area, a command to control the display.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
- Official title
- INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND DISPLAY DEVICE
- Publication number
- US20260277311A1
- Application number
- 19675534
- Filed
- May 13, 2026
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 3/011 Physics & computingG06F 1/163 Physics & computingG06F 3/165 Physics & computingG06F 2200/1614 Physics & computingMore from Sony in AR, VR & displays
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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