US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 27 for "Line-of-sight detecting apparatus, observation apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,059, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Line-of-sight detecting apparatus, observation apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Fumihiro Shinobu (Tochigi, Japan) and Saki Nakamichi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus includes an observation apparatus, which includes a line-of-sight detecting apparatus that facilitates a measurement of an eyeball distance. Light sources illuminate an eyeball of a user observing the observation apparatus, from positions different from each other. An image pickup unit captures an image of the eyeball...