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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2016
Applicant:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Hayes S. Raffle, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xinda Hu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/33 (2006.01); G02B 5/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G02B 27/0093 (2013.01); G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); H04N 5/33 (2013.01); G02B 5/282 (2013.01);
Abstract
Eye tracking methods and systems for virtual reality (VR) environments are disclosed herein. An example method includes receiving light through a lens positioned in an opening defined through a surface of a head-mounted display (HMD), reflecting an infrared light portion of the light off a display device of the HMD, the display device oriented generally parallel to the lens, and performing eye tracking based on the reflected infrared portion of the light.