US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 2 for "Eye model enrollment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,669, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Eye model enrollment" was invented by Hao Qin (Mountain View, Calif.), Hua Gao (Cupertino, Calif.), Tom Sengelaub (San Francisco) and Chia-Yin Tsai (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for generating user-aware eye models. During an enrollment process, images of a user's eye are captured by one or more cameras when the eye is in two or more different orientations and at two or more different levels of display brightness. The captured images are processed to generate a 3-dimensional, user-aware eye model, for example a model of ...