US Patent Issued to Apple on March 11 for "Eye tracking using efficient image capture and vergence and inter-pupillary distance history" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,474, issued on March 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Eye tracking using efficient image capture and vergence and inter-pupillary distance history" was invented by Mehmet N. Agaoglu (Dublin, Calif.) and Andrew B. Watson (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tracking an eye characteristic (e.g., gaze direction or pupil position) of a user's eyes by staggering image capture and using a predicted relationship between the user's eyes between eye captures to predict that eye's eye characteristic between those eye captures. Images of a user's eyes are captured in a staggered manner in the sense that the ima...