US Patent Issued to Apple on March 17 for "Gaze direction-based adaptive pre-filtering of video data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,613, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Gaze direction-based adaptive pre-filtering of video data" was invented by Can Jin (San Jose, Calif.), Nicolas Pierre Marie Frederic Bonnier (Campbell, Calif.) and Hao Pan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-layer low-pass filter is used to filter a first frame of video data representing at least a portion of an environment of an individual. A first layer of the filter has a first filtering resolution setting for a first subset of the first frame, while a second layer of the filter has a second filtering resolution setting for a second su...