Apple continues to pursue in-air 3D gesture control technology, and on Monday was granted a patent for a machine vision system capable of recognizing human hand gestures with uncanny accuracy.

PreAct Technologies, a Portland, OR-based developer of near-field flash lidar, is acquiring Spanish software company Gestoos.

Recent progress in camera systems, image analysis, and machine learning have made optical-based gesture recognition a more attractive option in most contexts. However, current methods are hindered ...

It's easy to focus on the cool hardware tech in gesture recognition systems, but much of the real magic is in the sotware -- which makes the most of state of the art machine-learning algorithms.

And one definitely does not think of gesture recognition running on a homebrew breadboard version of a 6502 machine, and yet that’s exactly what [Nick Bild] has accomplished.

Gesture Recognition: The computational technique used to identify and interpret human movements, enabling a system to map physical gestures to digital commands or robotic actions.

Gesture control makes it easier to use built-in systems, and reduces the probability of causing a distraction-related accident by enabling drivers to better keep their eyes on the road.