US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 30 for "Line-of-sight detecting apparatus, image pickup apparatus, line-of-sight detecting method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,439, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Line-of-sight detecting apparatus, image pickup apparatus, line-of-sight detecting method, and storage medium" was invented by Tomohiro Tateishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A line-of-sight detecting apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire an estimated gaze point position of a user on a display element based on an eyeball image, perform calibration for the estimated gaze point position to reduce a difference between the estimated gaze point position and an actual gaze point position of the user, determine whether or not the calibration is to be perfo...