US Patent Issued to LUXOTTICA GROUP on May 19 for "Interpupillary distance estimation method" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,985, issued on May 19, was assigned to LUXOTTICA GROUP S.P.A. (Milan).

"Interpupillary distance estimation method" was invented by Cristian Cascetta (Milan), Luca Mazzocchi (Legnano, Italy) and Fabio Mazzarella (Busto Arsizio, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system performs an interpupillary distance estimation method, which includes capturing a plurality of depth images of a user's face where each depth image comprises a 2D image and a 2D map of data representative of the distances of each pixel from an observation point. For each of the captured depth images, the system processes the captured depth image by correcting the ali...