ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,261, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Customizable virtual reality scenes using eye tracking" was invented by Sepideh Karimi (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Eye tracking of the wearer of a virtual reality headset is used to customize/personalize VR video. Based on eye tracking, the VR scene may present different types of trees for different types of gaze directions. As another example, based on gaze direction, a VR scene can be augmented with additional objects based on gaze direction at a particular related object. A friend's gaze-dependent personalization may be impor...