Tectus Corporation

Dominic Philip Haine

Scott Herz

Ben Rafael Kimel Green

Ramin Mirjalili

Abhishek Deepak Bhat

Joseph Czompo

Renaldi Winoto

A system includes an electronic contact lens that can detect eye gestures for initiating various actions. The electronic contact lens includes integrated sensors for obtaining sensor measurements characterizing eye motion. The sensor measurements are processed to detect gestures mapped to specific actions such as changing a power state of the electronic contact lens, activating or deactivating a user interface or other feature, or selecting an item from a virtual menu. The eye gestures may involve the user sequentially performing a first saccade quickly followed by a second saccade in an opposite direction from the first saccade.

Control of an electronic contact lens using eye gestures

Described herein are eye-controlled user-machine interaction systems and methods that, based on input variables that comprise orientation and motion of an eye-mounted display (EMD), assist the wearer of a contact lens carrying the EMD to control and navigate a virtual scene that may be superimposed onto the real-world environment. Various embodiments of the invention provide for smooth, intuitive, and naturally flowing eye-controlled, interactive operations between the wearer and a virtual environment. In certain embodiments, this is accomplished by revealing layers of virtual objects and content based on eye-tracking and other motion information.

Glance and reveal within a virtual environment

An augmented reality device manages display of an interactive icon in a manner that enables selection by a simple and intuitive gesture. The interactive icon may initially be displayed at a predefined target position outside the fovea where it is visible in the near peripheral vision without being distracting to the user. The augmented reality device may control the icon to behave like a stationary object with respect to changes in orientation until selection or repositioning criteria are met. Upon detection repositioning criteria, the augmented reality device may reposition the icon to the target position. Selection of the icon may control functions such as alerting the user to an available notification, opening or closing a menu, or performing other actions associated with operation of the augmented reality device.

Managing display of an icon in an eye tracking augmented reality device

The present disclosure relates generally to eye-tracking systems and methods that provide a user the ability to efficiently activate the system and select and dismiss virtual objects within an augmented reality ('AR') and/or virtual reality ('VR') environment. A user may activate the user interface by glancing beyond an activation threshold positioned close enough to the edge of the field of view to reliably infer an intent to activate the virtual controls. Subsequently, the user interacts with virtual tools, first virtual &#x201c;peek&#x201d; windows and secondary virtual windows to obtain content or virtual control across a variety of granular levels. Subsequently, the user may glance away at virtual content or to other predefined areas within their eye's range of motion to dismiss the tool and/or deactivate the system.

Eye-tracking user interface for virtual tool control

A system includes an electronic contact lens that can detect eye gestures for initiating various actions. The electronic contact lens includes integrated sensors for obtaining sensor measurements characterizing eye motion. The sensor measurements are processed to detect gestures mapped to specific actions such as changing a power state of the electronic contact lens, activating or deactivating a user interface or other feature, or selecting an item from a virtual menu. The eye gestures may involve the user sequentially stabilizing at a starting pitch, executing a first motion that crosses a first pitch threshold, executing a second motion that crosses a second pitch threshold in an opposite direction from the starting pitch, and stabilizing at an ending pitch.

Control of an electronic contact lens using pitch-based eye gestures

Systems and methods for activating a button within a display are described. Embodiments of the invention provide a multi-step activation process using user eye movement within the display. The multi-step activation process comprises displaying an confirmation element in response to a first user gaze at a button. The button is subsequently activated in response to a second user gaze at the confirmation element.

Button activation within an eye-controlled user interface

Presented in the present disclosure are system and methods embodiments that allow a user to wear a contact lens that provide a virtual framework for the user to retrieve information from one or more remote cameras and implement remote camera control via eye movement tracked by one or more motion sensors embedded within the contact lens. The remote camera control may include, but not limited to, pan, tilt, and zoom control. A user may activate projection of content captured from a remote camera and control the remote camera via an established communication link. The communication link may be a direct link or indirect link via one or more intermediate devices, e.g., a server and/or an accessory device. This unique way of projection activation and camera control by tracking eye movement provides a convenient and secure way for remote camera control without involvement of hands or voices.

Systems and methods for eye-based external camera selection and control

Presented are eye-controlled user-machine interaction systems and methods that, based on input variables that comprise orientation and motion of an electronic contact lens, assist the wearer of the contact lens carrying a femtoprojector to control and navigate a virtual scene that may be superimposed onto the real-world environment. Various embodiments provide for smooth, intuitive, and naturally flowing eye-controlled, interactive operations between the wearer and a virtual environment. In certain embodiments, eye motion information is used to wake a smart electronic contact lens, activate tools in a virtual scene, or any combination thereof without the need for blinking, winking, hand gestures, and use of buttons.

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Saratoga, CA, United States of America

Dominic Philip Haine