ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,071, issued on July 29, was assigned to Tobii AB (Danderyd, Sweden).
"Eye tracking system" was invented by Viktor Wase (Danderyd, Sweden), Erik Ljungzell (Danderyd, Sweden), Mark Ryan (Danderyd, Sweden), Chiara Giordano (Danderyd, Sweden), Rickard Lundahl (Danderyd, Sweden) and Pravin Kumar Rana (Danderyd, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eye tracking system is provided that detects the presence of problematic blobs in an image captured by the system and removes these problematic blobs by switching off illuminators. Problematic blobs may be those obscuring the pupil of the eye of the user. Each blob is detected in a first ima...