US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 19 for "Electronic device identifying direction of gaze and method for operating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,165, issued on May 19, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device identifying direction of gaze and method for operating the same" was invented by Sunghwan Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Bonkon Koo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Doyoun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a camera and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to obtain an eye image of a user through the camera, obtain pupil data and a retina image from the obtained eye image, obtain an eye model including the retina image, based on the obtained pu...