US Patent Issued to 3649954 Canada on June 17 for "Method and system for filtering a panoramic video signal using visual fixation" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,439, issued on June 17, was assigned to 3649954 Canada Inc. (Chambly, Canada).

"Method and system for filtering a panoramic video signal using visual fixation" was invented by Jean Mayrand (Chambly, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for filtering panoramic video signals using visual fixation are disclosed. A panoramic video signal organized into indexed frames is displayed and durations of visual fixations of a viewer of the display are measured by means of detecting the viewer's gaze positions and identifying clusters of adjacent gaze positions. For each visual fixation attaining a prescribed duration thres...