US Patent Issued to PROPHESEE on Sept. 1 for "Pupil detection using an event-based sensor" (French, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,517, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to PROPHESEE (Paris).

"Pupil detection using an event-based sensor" was invented by Xavier Lagorce (Saint-Maur-des-Fosses, France), Germain Haessig (Vienna), Damien Joubert (Rouen, France) and Thomas Finateu (Veneux les sablons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a pupil of an eye with an event-based vision sensor, comprises the steps of directing a first light source towards the eye; observing the eye with the event-based vision sensor; and intermittently submitting the event-based vision sensor to a uniform background signal."

The patent was filed on May 9, 2024, under...