US Patent Issued to SWALLOW INCUBATE, PANASONIC HOLDINGS on June 17 for "Method for detecting opening and closing of eye, device for detecting opening and closing of eye, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording program for detecting opening and closing of eye" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,860, issued on June 17, was assigned to SWALLOW INCUBATE Co. LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan) and PANASONIC HOLDINGS Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for detecting opening and closing of eye, device for detecting opening and closing of eye, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording program for detecting opening and closing of eye" was invented by Toshikazu Ohno (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for detecting opening and closing of an eye acquires a first image taken by an image taking device, including a face of a person; generates a second image including an eye region of the person from the first image...