ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,974, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HID Global Corp. (Austin, Texas).
"Eye-gaze based intelligent door opening system" was invented by Jing Ming (Abington, Pa.) and Robert Kjell Rowe (Poulsbo, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques may be used for allowing a person access to a secure area, opening a door, or the like. A technique may include detecting a person within a particular distance of a secure area, capturing, using a camera, a set of images of at least a facial feature of the person, preprocessing the set of images to identify the facial feature in at least one image of the set of images, and identi...