Granted Patent B2

US 12,498,793 · App. 18/402,454 · Granted Dec 16, 2025

Inventor: Mason Spong (Provo, UT)

Assignee: Snap Inc.

G06F3/017G06T19/006

Abstract

Claims (52)

1 . A machine-implemented method comprising:

providing an extended Reality (XR) user interface of an XR system, the XR user interface comprising a virtual object displayed to a user;

detecting a pinch gesture being made by the user, a selection location of the pinch gesture within a boundary of the virtual object;

determining an offset vector from a center point of the virtual object to the selection location;

generating a translated virtual object by translating the virtual object using the offset vector and a current location of the pinch gesture; and

displaying the translated virtual object to the user in the XR user interface.

2 . The machine-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein detecting the pinch gesture comprises determining that a thumb portion and an index finger portion of a hand of the user are within a threshold distance of each other.

3 . The machine-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the boundary of the virtual object comprises a collision boundary defined by a collider object associated with the virtual object.

4 . The machine-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein detecting the pinch gesture comprises using a machine learning model trained to detect pinch gestures.

5 . The machine-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:

detecting that the pinch gesture has ended based on a thumb portion and an index finger portion of a hand of the user exceeding a threshold distance from each other.

6 . The machine-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein translating the virtual object comprises updating a position of the virtual object relative to a center point defined for the virtual object.

7 . The machine-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:

while the pinch gesture is held by the user, repeating the operations of:

determining the current location of the pinch gesture;

generating the translated virtual object by translating the virtual object using the offset vector, the current location of the pinch gesture, and the center point of the virtual object; and

displaying the translated virtual object to the user in the XR user interface.

8 . A machine comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

providing an extended Reality (XR) user interface of an XR system, the XR user interface comprising a virtual object displayed to a user;

detecting a pinch gesture being made by the user, a selection location of the pinch gesture within a boundary of the virtual object;

determining an offset vector from a center point of the virtual object to the selection location;

generating a translated virtual object by translating the virtual object using the offset vector and a current location of the pinch gesture; and

displaying the translated virtual object to the user in the XR user interface.

9 . The machine of claim 8 , wherein detecting the pinch gesture comprises determining that a thumb portion and an index finger portion of a hand of the user are within a threshold distance of each other.

10 . The machine of claim 8 , wherein the boundary of the virtual object comprises a collision boundary defined by a collider object associated with the virtual object.

11 . The machine of claim 8 , wherein detecting the pinch gesture comprises using a machine learning model trained to detect pinch gestures.

12 . The machine of claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise:

detecting that the pinch gesture has ended based on a thumb portion and an index finger portion of a hand of the user exceeding a threshold distance from each other.

13 . The machine of claim 8 , wherein translating the virtual object comprises updating a position of the virtual object relative to a center point defined for the virtual object.

14 . The machine of claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise:

while the pinch gesture is held by the user, repeating the operations of:

determining the current location of the pinch gesture;

generating the translated virtual object by translating the virtual object using the offset vector, the current location of the pinch gesture, and the center point of the virtual object; and

displaying the translated virtual object to the user in the XR user interface.

15 . A machine-storage medium, the machine-storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

providing an extended Reality (XR) user interface of an XR system, the XR user interface comprising a virtual object displayed to a user;

detecting a pinch gesture being made by the user, a selection location of the pinch gesture within a boundary of the virtual object;

determining an offset vector from a center point of the virtual object to the selection location;

generating a translated virtual object by translating the virtual object using the offset vector and a current location of the pinch gesture; and

displaying the translated virtual object to the user in the XR user interface.

16 . The machine-storage medium of claim 15 , wherein detecting the pinch gesture comprises determining that a thumb portion and an index finger portion of a hand of the user are within a threshold distance of each other.

17 . The machine-storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the boundary of the virtual object comprises a collision boundary defined by a collider object associated with the virtual object.

18 . The machine-storage medium of claim 15 , wherein detecting the pinch gesture comprises using a machine learning model trained to detect pinch gestures.

19 . The machine-storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the operations further comprise:

detecting that the pinch gesture has ended based on a thumb portion and an index finger portion of a hand of the user exceeding a threshold distance from each other.

20 . The machine-storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the operations further comprise:

while the pinch gesture is held by the user, repeating the operations of:

determining the current location of the pinch gesture;

generating the translated virtual object by translating the virtual object using the offset vector, the current location of the pinch gesture, and the center point of the virtual object; and

displaying the translated virtual object to the user in the XR user interface.

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