ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,313, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Electronic device, information processing apparatus, and method for detecting gaze lines" was invented by Takayuki Shinozaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device 10 includes an imaging unit 11, a gaze-line detector 12, and a controller 14. The imaging unit 11 is configured to create at least one image corresponding to a view by image capturing. The gaze-line detector is configured to detect a gaze line of a subject, the gaze line being directed to the view. The controller 14 is configured to serve as a first inference unit 15 and a second inf...