ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,065, issued on April 21, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Method and system for automatic pupil detection" was invented by Ahmed Gawish (Waterloo, Canada) and Idris S. Aleem (Kitchener, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of detecting pupillary positions on a head of a subject are described. While a camera and a light source are positioned in front of the head of the subject, the camera is caused to capture image data representative of a frontal portion of the head of the subject. From the image data, a face of the subject is detected. Up to two eyes are identified from the detected face. A ...