ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,673, issued on June 30, was assigned to SoftEye Inc. (San Diego).

"Apparatus and methods for augmenting vision with region-of-interest based processing" was invented by Edwin Chongwoo Park (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, and methods for augmenting vision with region-of-interest based processing. In one specific example, smart glasses may use an eye-tracking camera to monitor the user's gaze and determine the user's gaze point. When triggered, the camera assembly captures a high-resolution image. The high-resolution image may be cropped to a much smaller region-of-interest (ROI) image based on computer-vi...