US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Jan. 28 for "Dynamic vision sensor based eye and/or facial tracking" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,674, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Dynamic vision sensor based eye and/or facial tracking" was invented by Xiaoyong Ye (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Yuichiro Nakamura (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tracking system uses one or more light sources to direct light toward one or more of a user's eyes. A dynamic vision sensor (DVS) operably coupled to a processor is configured to view the user's eyes. The DVS has an array of light-sensitive elements in a known configuration. The DVS outputs signals corresponding to events at corresponding light-sensitive element...