ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,685, issued on March 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Eye gaze tracking using neural networks" was invented by Dmitry Lagun (San Jose, Calif.), Junfeng He (Fremont, Calif.) and Pingmei Xu (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for characterizing a gaze position of a user in a query image. One of the methods includes obtaining a query image of a user captured by a camera of a mobile device; obtaining device characteristics data specifying (ii) characteristics of the mobile device, (ii) characteristics...