US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 11 for "Vestibulo-ocular reflex based eye tracking prediction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,796, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Vestibulo-ocular reflex based eye tracking prediction" was invented by Simon Fortin-Deschenes (Santa Clara, Calif.), Axit H Patel (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ritesh Gangadhar Sholapur (San Carlos, Calif.) and Seyedkoosha Mirhosseini (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) eye tracking prediction method leverages head tracking functionality of a device to predict and compensate for latency caused by the VOR. Head motion may be accurately detected and predicted by a head tracking system of the device. The head motion prediction...