Apple Inc.

Sensomotoric Instruments Gesellschaft Fur Innovative Sensorik Mbh

Eberhard Schmidt

Tom Sengelaub

Walter Nistico

Jan Hoffmann

Christian Villwock

Denis Williams

Martin Haller

Tobias Langner

The invention relates to a system and method to control a workflow comprising at least one task to be performed by a person (P), wherein information is provided about at least one certain object () related to the at least one task of the workflow, eye data () are captured of at least one eye of the person (P), and in dependency of the eye data () and the information about the at least one certain object () it is checked whether at least one task condition consisting in whether the task had been performed and/or whether the task is allowed to be performed is fulfilled. The invention also relates to a system and method for providing a set of task-specific control parameters (CP).

Method and system to control a workflow and method and system for providing a set of task-specific control parameters

Method for subsequently displaying a stream of images in a display area of a display device, wherein a first area within the display area is determined around a point of regard. A first image of the stream of images is displayed in the display area such that a first part of the first image, which is displayed in the first area, is displayed according to a first parameter value of at least one parameter and a second part of the first image, which is displayed in at least one second area outside the first area, is displayed according to a second parameter value of the at least one parameter. Moreover, the determining of the point of regard is performed as predicting the point of regard for a certain future point of time, at which the first image is displayed.

System and method for displaying a stream of images

The invention relates to a communication system and a method for providing a virtual meeting of a first user (U, U, U, U) and a second user (U, U, U, U), comprising a first communication device () with a first display device () associated with the first user (U, U, U, U), and a second communication device () with a second display device () associated with the second user (U, U, U, U). Moreover a virtual meeting space () is displayed on the second display device (), user related data (B, B, B, D, D, D) related to the first user (U, U, U) are provided and a first displaying characteristic (B', B′, B′) of a first object (U′, U′, U′, U) is determined in dependency of the provided user related data (B, B, B, D, D, D) according to a set degree of variance (R, R, R) of the user related data (B, B, B, D, D, D). Further the first object (U′, U′, U′, U) is displayed with the determined first displaying characteristic (B′, B′, B′) according to the set degree of variance (R, R, R) within the virtual meeting space () displayed on the second display device () to the second user (U, U, U, U).

Communication system and method for providing a virtual meeting space

The invention relates to a communication system and a method for providing a virtual meeting of a first user (U, U, U, U) and a second user (U, U, U, U), comprising a first communication device () with a first display device () associated with the first user (U, U, U, U), and a second communication device () with a second display device () associated with the second user (U, U, U, U). Moreover a virtual meeting space () is displayed on the second display device (), user related data (B, B, B, D, D, D) related to the first user (U, U, U, U) are provided and a first displaying characteristic (B', B&#x2032;, B&#x2032;) of a first object (U&#x2032;, U&#x2032;, U&#x2032;, U) is determined in dependency of the provided user related data (B, B, B, D, D, D) according to a set degree of variance (R, R, R) of the user related data (B, B, B, D, D, D). Further the first object (U&#x2032;, U&#x2032;, U&#x2032;, U) is displayed with the determined first displaying characteristic (B&#x2032;, B&#x2032;, B&#x2032;) according to the set degree of variance (R, R, R) within the virtual meeting space () displayed on the second display device () to the second user (U, U, U, U).

The invention relates to a device and a method for performing an eye gaze mapping (M), in which at least one point of vision (B) and/or a viewing direction of at least one person () in relation to at least one scene recording (S) of a scene () viewed by the at least one person () is mapped onto a reference (R). At least a part of an algorithm (A, A, A) for performing the eye gaze mapping (M) is thereby selected from multiple predetermined algorithms (A, A, A) as a function of at least one parameter (P), and the eye gaze mapping (M) is performed on the basis of the at least one part of the algorithm (A, A, A).

Method and device for carrying out eye gaze mapping

Communication system and method for providing a bionic virtual meeting room

The invention relates to a method for operating a display apparatus (), comprising the following steps: capture of image data from at least one part of the head of a user () (step), ascertainment of at least one parameter, which the user () can alter by moving at least one part of the head, from the image data captured in step a) (step), control of a visual representation on a display apparatus () on the basis of the ascertained at least one parameter (step), wherein the capture in step a) is taken as a basis for ascertaining at least one quality parameter (step) and the at least one quality parameter is taken as a basis for varying at least one resolution of at least one part of the visual representation (step). Moreover, the invention relates to a corresponding computer program product and to a corresponding system for operating a display apparatus.

Method and system for operating a display apparatus

The present invention comprises a method for presenting at least one image of at least one application on a display device, comprising the following steps: a) () provision of at least one first image of the application to a processing device; b) capture of at least one second image of at least one body part of at least one user () using at least one capturing device (); c) coupling of the at least one second image to the processing device; d) presentation of the at least one first image provided in step a) () on the display device, wherein the presentation in step d) uses at least one presentation parameter, the at least one value of the at least one presentation parameter depending on at least one position value correlated with the position of the at least one body part in the at least one second image captured in step b) (). The invention further relates to a corresponding system for presenting at least one image of an application.

Method and system for presenting at least one image of at least one application on a display device

The invention relates to a head mounted system () comprising a binocular eye tracking system () comprising at least a first camera () arranged for acquiring a user's left eye () and at least a second camera () arranged for acquiring a user's right eye (), a head mounted display () comprising a first displaying means () for presenting an image to a user's left eye (), a second displaying means () for presenting an image to a user's right eye (), a processing unit () designed to process images from the eye tracking system () and calculate at least a 3D position of the left () and the right eye () and an orientation vector of the left () and the right eye () and to compute and render a stream of digital images to be projected onto the user's left and right eye () by means of the head mounted display, wherein the processing unit () is further designed to consider the 3D position of the left and the right eye () and the orientation of the left and the right eye () when computing and rendering the stream of digital images. The invention further relates to a method to compute and render a stream of digital images using a head mounted display.

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Kleinmachnow, Germany

Eberhard Schmidt