US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Region of interest sampling and retrieval for artificial reality systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,189, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Region of interest sampling and retrieval for artificial reality systems" was invented by Taehee Cho (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jixu Chen (Redwood City, Calif.) and Jeffrey Hung Wong (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device is configured to perform eye tracking. The imaging device comprises an image sensor and an image controller. The image sensor is configured to capture an image of a portion of a user's face. The image controller is configured to: in a first-access step, read out a set of sample pixels, from the image sen...