US Patent Issued to CANON on Jan. 27 for "Visual line detecting apparatus, image display apparatus, and visual line processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,880, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Visual line detecting apparatus, image display apparatus, and visual line processing apparatus" was invented by Yoshihiko Konno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visual line detecting apparatus includes a plurality of right-eye illumination elements, a plurality of left-eye illumination elements, a right-eye camera configured to capture an image formed by light reflected by the right eye, out of the lights from the plurality of right-eye illumination elements, and a left-eye camera configured to capture an image formed by light reflected by the left eye, out of the li...