US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on May 27 for "Neural network based determination of gaze direction using spatial models" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,854, issued on May 27, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Neural network based determination of gaze direction using spatial models" was invented by Nuri Arar Murat (Zurich), Hairong Jiang (Campbell, Calif.), Nishant Puri (San Francisco), Rajath Shetty (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Niranjan Avadhanam (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining the gaze direction of a subject and projecting this gaze direction onto specific regions of an arbitrary three-dimensional geometry. In an exemplary embodiment, gaze direction may be determined by a regression-based machine learning model. ...