Patents Represented by Law Firm Robin, Biecker & Daley
  • Apparatus having line-of-sight detecting device
    Patent number: 5907723
    Abstract: In a camera having a line-of-sight detecting device for continuously detecting line-of-sight information which is information on a line of sight of a user of the camera, a predetermined action is performed when the user is determined on the basis of the detected line-of-sight information to be looking at a specific visual mark, wherein, until the line-of-sight information varies after the predetermined action is performed for the first time, the predetermined action for the second time is inhibited from being performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Koji Inoue