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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Eliot Francis Drake, Reno, NV (US);
Gholamreza Amayeh, Reno, NV (US);
Angelique Kano, Reno, NV (US);
Dave Le Blanc, Reno, NV (US);
Zhiming Liu, Reno, NV (US);
Lewis James Marggraff, Reno, NV (US);
Rory Pierce, Reno, NV (US);
Nelson G. Publicover, Reno, NV (US);
Christopher N. Spitler, Fernley, NV (US);
Michael Vacchina, Reno, NV (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Devices and methods are provided for eye-tracking, e.g., including a freeform optical assembly and/or a modular design. In an exemplary embodiment, a device and method are provided that includes a wearable device on a user's head, the wearable device including a scene camera oriented to capture images of the user's surroundings. The user may perform a predetermined action with the user's eye to activate a photo feature of the wearable device, gaze at a region within the user's surroundings, the wearable device determining a focal point and limited field-of-view for the camera imaging field based on the center point, and activate the camera to capture an image of the limited field-of-view centered around the focal point.