ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,973, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automatic user adaptive triggering" was invented by Ke Han (Shanghai), Shouwei Sun (Shanghai), Hemin Han (Shanghai) and Liang Cheng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to automatic user adaptive triggering, such as triggering of always-on vision. A camera may be activated based on a result of applying a set of sensor features to a logic model. A label for the set of sensor features may be determined based on whether a face is detected or a face is not detected in a first set of images captured by the camera. The labeled senso...