US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on April 22 for "Reproducing fast eye movement using imaging of robot with limited actuator speed" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,508, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Reproducing fast eye movement using imaging of robot with limited actuator speed" was invented by Frank Zhao (San Mateo, Calif.), Koichi Obana (San Mateo, Calif.) and Yuichiro Nakamura (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for simulating fast eye movement of a robot to mimic human eye saccade are divulged in cases of the robot eyes being moved by actuators that cannot move the eyes fast enough in real time to mimic saccade. Image capture timing is adjusted (i.e., slowed down) to track the speed of the actuators. Then, the resu...