US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Eye-tracking assisted passthrough rendering" (Swiss, British, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,916, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Eye-tracking assisted passthrough rendering" was invented by Sebastian Sztuk (Virum, Denmark), Alexander Sorkine Hornung (Zurich), Daniel Maskit (London) and Ngoc Minh Dang (Basel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving scene image data, comprising left and right images for each eye. Through an eye tracking module, the method includes determining the user's gaze direction or eye vergence. Using this information, the method includes identifying an object in the scene that the user is focusing on, and determi...