ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,263, issued on April 15, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Gaze tracking for user interface" was invented by Hee Gyung Sun (San Francisco) and Benjamin Andrew Rottler (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gaze tracking to track gaze of a user within a user view screen including: combining the gaze tracking with head movement tracking, wherein head movements of the head movement tracking provide rough estimate of a direction of the gaze of the user, while eye movements of the gaze tracking provide fine tuning of the direction of the gaze of the user within the user view screen; dividing the user view...