ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,775, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Eyewear with inter-pupillary distance estimation" was invented by Clemens Birklbauer (Vienna), Matthias Kalkgruber (Vienna), Tiago Miguel Pereira Torres (Vienna), Yubin Xi (San Jose, Calif.) and Kai Zhou (Wr Neudorf, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eyewear device including a sensor used to measure deformation of an eyewear frame to estimate an inter-pupillary distance (IPD) of an eyewear user. The sensor is used to determine head breadth (HB) of the user and to estimate the IPD of the user. A processor displays an image on a display of the eyewear as...