ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,814, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Gesture-initiated eye enrollment" was invented by Hao Qin (Saratoga, Calif.), Hua Gao (San Jose, Calif.) and Tom Sengelaub (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods to trigger eye enrollment without requiring good gaze interaction are described that allow a guest user of a device to initiate partial or full eye enrollment even though their eye model is not known and thus conventional gaze-based interactions do not work well. A gaze tracking system collects gaze data in the background. At any time (or within an interval after a user puts on the devi...