ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,009, issued on June 24, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).
"Information input device" was invented by Kazuyoshi Ono (Tokyo) and Shin Toyota (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first determination unit determines that a movement of a face of a wearer has occurred, when a distortion detection unit detects distortion of the spectacle frame. The second determination unit determines whether a movement of a jaw of the wearer has occurred, based on an electric signal measured by a first temple tip electrode and a second temple tip electrode with a common electrode as a ground potential. An output unit outputs ...