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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
May. 04, 2016
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to an eye tracking device () comprising a processing unit () and an optical system (), which comprises a capturing unit. The optical system () provides a first optical path (P; P) with a first imaging property and a second optical path (P; P) with a second imaging property and the capturing unit (C; C, C) captures a first image () by capturing light that has passed along the first optical path (P; P) and a second image () by capturing light that has passed along the second optical path (P; P), so that due to the difference of the first and second imaging property the first () and the second image () comprise a difference related to a characteristic of at least part of the first and the second image (), wherein the eye tracking device () is configured to determine a property of the eye () on the basis of at least one of the first image () and the second image ().