US Patent Issued to SNAP on July 7 for "Pausing device operation based on facial movement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,157, issued on July 7, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Pausing device operation based on facial movement" was invented by Dmitry Ryuma (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) and Farid Zare Seisan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods herein describe pausing operation of an augmented reality device based on user facial movement by monitoring user eye movement of a user of a head-wearable apparatus, determining that the user eye movement is directionally facing away from a display device coupled to the head-wearable apparatus, based on the determination, pausing operation of one or more sensors of the head-w...