ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,194, issued on March 3, was assigned to Varjo Technologies Oy (Helsinki).
"Gaze and depth based camera focusing" was invented by Ville Timonen (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is computer-implemented method including marching first ray and second ray, along first gaze direction and second gaze direction that are estimated using gaze-tracking means, from given viewpoint into depth map, to determine first optical depth and second optical depth corresponding to first eye and second eye, respectively; calculating gaze convergence distance, based on first gaze direction and second gaze direction; detecting whether first ...