US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 18 for "Camera field of view capturing eye reflection and eye views for gaze tracking" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,816, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Camera field of view capturing eye reflection and eye views for gaze tracking" was invented by Hao Qin (Saratoga, Calif.), Hua Gao (San Jose, Calif.), Oliver G Wenisch (Potsdam, Germany) and Tom Sengelaub (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and apparatus may implement a camera field of view capturing eye reflection and eye views for gaze tracking. A light source may emit light that reaches the surface of an eye. A camera may be implemented with a field of view that includes a portion of a surface of the eye and a portion of a reflective surfa...