ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,246, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Depth-based visual search area" was invented by Paulo R. Jansen dos Reis (San Jose, Calif.) and Christopher D. Fu (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a method of extracting information from a physical environment is performed at a device including an image sensor, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes determining a gaze location and a distance to an object in a physical environment at the gaze location. The method includes selecting a field-of-view of the physical environment based on the gaze l...