US Patent Issued to PHENIX REAL TIME SOLUTIONS on Aug. 5 for "Eye gaze as a proxy of attention for video streaming services" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,133, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to PHENIX REAL TIME SOLUTIONS INC. (Chicago).

"Eye gaze as a proxy of attention for video streaming services" was invented by Fabian E. Bustamante (Evanston, Ill.), Stefan Birrer (Chicago) and Roy Reichbach (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method uses the eye gaze of a user, as a proxy of their attention, and leverages it to provide a more natural experience in a multi-view, i.e. multi-party and multi-perspective, video streaming service. The method takes advantage of increasingly powerful inexpensive cameras and related software to provide commodity eye-tracking. The method also leverages ...