US Patent Issued to Apple on July 7 for "Robust user presence detection" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,979, issued on July 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Robust user presence detection" was invented by William E Blumhardt (San Francisco) and Tyler R Calderone (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that monitors for user presence to determine if a head mounted device (HMD) display should be active or inactive. For example, a process may obtain first sensor data from a first sensor on the HMD. The sensor may be configured to capture sensor data corresponding to an eye box region in front of at least one display of the HMD. Based on...