Abstract
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors: “Eye gaze detection may involve determining a direction in which a person is looking based on, for example, images of one or both of the pe rson’s eyes. The eye gaze may be based on a pose of the eye relative to the pers on’s head, as well as a pose of the head relative to a world reference frame. A pattern of the person’s eye gaze may depend on a subject being observed by the p erson, as well as a task being performed with respect to the subject. For exampl e, reading text may involve a different eye gaze pattern than observing a scene in an environment, while observing the scene for the purpose of driving a car ma y involve a different eye gaze pattern than observing the scene for the purpose of identifying therein a particular person.”