ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,924, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Varjo Technologies Oy (Helsinki).
"Gaze depth-assisted encoding of region of interest in images" was invented by Mikko Strandborg (Helsinki), Timo Toivanen (Helsinki) and Mikko Ollila (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes at least one server configured to receive, from a client device, information indicative of gaze directions of a user's eyes; determine a gaze point and a gaze depth of the user's eyes, using said information; identify, in an image, a gaze-contingent region that includes and surrounds the gaze point; identify a region of interest in the gaze-contingent re...