US Patent Issued to Tobii on Oct. 14 for "Method and system for glint-based eye detection in a remote eye tracking system" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,098, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Tobii AB (Danderyd, Sweden).

"Method and system for glint-based eye detection in a remote eye tracking system" was invented by Hung-Son Lee (Danderyd, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is related a method and a remote eye tracking system for determining a position of at least one eye of a subject. The method comprises the steps of: illuminating a face of a subject using at least one infrared (IR) illuminator off-axis from at least one image sensor; capturing at least one image of the face using the at least one image sensor at a time instant; and using a processing circuitry o...