US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Gaze-driven autofocus camera for mixed-reality passthrough" (American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,244, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Gaze-driven autofocus camera for mixed-reality passthrough" was invented by Te Hu (San Jose, Calif.), Ian Erkelens (Kirkland, Wash.), Lidu Huang (Danville, Calif.), Yizhi Xiong (Foster City, Calif.), Ilya Brailovskiy (Fremont, Calif.), Lawrence Chang-Yung Wang (Mountain View, Calif.), Devraj Gupta (San Diego), Honghong Peng (Los Altos, Calif.) and Sebastian Sztuk (Virum, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Particular embodiments are directed to passthrough image generation for a mixed-reality experience. A device may determine, using an ...