US Patent Issued to Sony Group on June 23 for "Line-of-sight detection apparatus, display apparatus, line-of-sight detection system, and line-of-sight detection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,641, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Line-of-sight detection apparatus, display apparatus, line-of-sight detection system, and line-of-sight detection method" was invented by Ryo Ogawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuki Mamishin (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To obtain eye-related position information at an appropriate time. Provided is a line-of-sight detection apparatus line-of-sight detection apparatus including: an illumination unit that illuminates an eye with a plurality of illumination light rays; a determination unit that determines a time to cause the illumination unit to illuminate the...