US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 11 for "Camera focusing for video passthrough systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,145, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Camera focusing for video passthrough systems" was invented by Brett D Miller (San Carlos, Calif.), Bosheng Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kathrin Berkner Cieslicki (Los Altos, Calif.), Stephane P Bersot (San Mateo, Calif.) and Noah D Bedard (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for camera focusing for video passthrough devices. Gaze information from a gaze tracking subsystem, either alone or along with depth information from a depth tracking system, may be leveraged to determine depths at which to focus. Gaze information, or a comb...