ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,598, issued on April 22, was assigned to Facense Ltd. (Kiryat Tivon, Israel).
"Efficient image capturing based on eyelid position" 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 involving a camera that is operated according to eyelid position. In one embodiment, an inward-facing head-mounted camera captures images of an eye. A head-mounted device emits electromagnetic waves towards the eye and measures reflections of these waves from the eye. The average rate of reflection measurements is at least ten times the...