ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,982, issued on May 19, was assigned to E.SOLUTIONS GMBH (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"Method and apparatus for determining a gaze direction of a user" was invented by Thomas Kohler (Furth, Germany), Shahrooz Zarei (Ingolstadt, Germany) and Sergiu Deitsch (Nuremberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for determining a gaze direction of a user (5) by employing a neural network (220) operating on the basis of image data of an image of a face of the user (5). The neural network (220) detects an ellipse (20) representing an outer border of an iris (17) of the user's eye (15) and outputs a first vector (31), a second ve...