ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,372, issued on June 10, was assigned to Swallow Incubate Co. Ltd. (Ibaraki, Japan) and Panasonic Holdings Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Eye gaze detection method, eye gaze detection device, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium" was invented by Toshikazu Ohno (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eye gaze detection method includes: acquiring image data of a face of a person; detecting, from the image data, a left eye region including a left eye of the person and a right eye region including a right eye of the person; detecting, from the image data of the face, at least one of an ear region including an ear of the p...