Nintendo patent for 'handheld device with infrared camera/distance sensor' surfaces

- based on Japanese applications filed with the Japan Patent office in September 2014
- assignee/applicant for the two of the three patent applications is not Nintendo, but some of the inventors
- 1st patent application was published on March 3rd, while the other two were published today
- 1st one explains how objects/user's hand gets detected, while the other two seem to expand on the concept
- 3rd doc emphasizes the fact that gestures/distance can trigger vibration and sound output
- Infrared camera and distance sensor
- Gesture recognition
- Distance measuring
- One example includes projector and GPS receiver (block diagram)