US Patent Issued to Facense on April 15 for "Image cropping based on eye position for a video-based eye tracker" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,268, issued on April 15, was assigned to Facense Ltd. (Kiryat Tivon, Israel).

"Image cropping based on eye position for a video-based eye tracker" was invented by Gil Thieberger (Kiryat Tivon, Israel) and Ari M Frank (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer programs for eye tracking. In one embodiment, an eye tracking system includes a head-mounted device that takes measurements indicative of a position of the eye of a user. A head-mounted camera captures an image of the eye. A computer calculates the position of the eye based on the measurements, utilizes the position of the eye to crop the image a...