US Patent Issued to JVCKENWOOD on Aug. 19 for "Open or closed eye determination apparatus, open or closed eye determination method, and recording medium for open or closed eye determination" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,053, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to JVCKENWOOD Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Open or closed eye determination apparatus, open or closed eye determination method, and recording medium for open or closed eye determination" was invented by Hisashi Koiso (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video acquisition unit in an open or closed eye determination apparatus acquires video data from a camera. A face orientation detection unit detects a face orientation based on a face image in the video data acquired by the video acquisition unit. An eye image extraction unit extracts an eye image including an eye region based on the face...