US Patent Issued to Sesame AI on April 29 for "Camera system for pupil detection and eye tracking" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,915, issued on April 29, was assigned to Sesame AI Inc. (San Francisco).

"Camera system for pupil detection and eye tracking" was invented by Kevin Boyle (San Francisco), Robert Konrad (San Francisco) and Nitish Padmanaban (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An event camera system for pupil detection may include a camera assembly and a controller, and may also include one or more off-axis light sources. The camera assembly may include one or more infrared (IR) light sources and an event camera. The one or more IR light sources are configured to emit pulses of IR light along an optical path toward an eyebox. The IR light...