US Patent Issued to Apple on March 25 for "Eye tracking based on fusing lens-aligned camera and light sensor data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,560, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Eye tracking based on fusing lens-aligned camera and light sensor data" was invented by Siddharth S. Hazra (Hayward, Calif.), Aleksandar M. Movshovich (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nicholas C. Soldner (Mountain View, Calif.) and Tushar Gupta (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations track an eye using both camera images and light sensor data, e.g., from a photosensitive surface or set of photodetectors. The camera need not capture images at a high capture rate since the light sensor data captured from the light sensor provides informat...