US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems America on Oct. 7 for "Dynamic IR emission control for fast recognition of eye tracking system" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,612, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems America LLC (Peachtree City, Ga.).

"Dynamic IR emission control for fast recognition of eye tracking system" was invented by Liang Yuan (Peachtree City, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A picture generation unit emits a light field. A mirror reflects the light field toward a windshield of a motor vehicle such that the light field is reflected off of the windshield and is visible to the driver as a virtual image. An infrared emitter transmits infrared energy through the mirror such that the infrared energy is substantially co-axial with the light field, and such that...