US Patent Issued to Apple on July 21 for "Pose optimization in biometric authentication systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,268, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Pose optimization in biometric authentication systems" was invented by Martin Haller (Mountain View, Calif.) and Tom Sengelaub (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for biometric authentication in which a current eye pose is determined and evaluated to determine if the current pose is satisfactory, and in which the eye pose may be improved by the user manually adjusting the device or their pose/gaze direction in response to a signal from the controller, and/or in which the imaging system is mechanically adjusted at the direction o...