US Patent Issued to FOVE on March 3 for "Visual line detection device and visual line detection program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,494, issued on March 3, was assigned to FOVE Inc. (Tokyo).

"Visual line detection device and visual line detection program" was invented by Iakov Chernyak (Minato-ku, Japan) and Grigory Chernyak (Mnato-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Technical Problem] To provide a gaze detection apparatus even when multiple bright spots cannot be observed on the cornea.Solution to ProblemIn this gaze detection device, when the bright spots observed on the cornea of the eye based on light emitted from the plurality of light sources are in a first state, the processor: (1-1) identifies the position of the center of the cornea based on multip...