US Patent Issued to CANON on May 27 for "Electronic apparatus and method for performing control based on detection of user's sight line" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,954, issued on May 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electronic apparatus and method for performing control based on detection of user's sight line" was invented by Kazuki Sugaya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus comprises an eye approach detection unit configured to detect an objective approaching to a finder, a sight line detection unit configured to detect a sight line position to a display unit that is arranged in the finder, and a control unit configured to perform control to drive the sight line detection unit and stop driving the approach detection unit when it is detected by the approach det...