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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 05, 2019
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Yashas Rai Kurlethimar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Andrew B. Watson, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Nicolas P. Bonnier, Campbell, CA (US);

Mehmet N. Agaoglu, Cupertino, CA (US);

Alexander G. Berardino, Cupertino, CA (US);

Elijah H. Kleeman, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G02B 27/0101 (2013.01); G06F 3/012 (2013.01);
Abstract

An electronic device may have a foveated display, an eye-tracking system and a head movement detection system. The eye-tracking system may gather information on a user's point of regard on the display while the head movement detection system may capture information regarding the rotation of the observer's head. Based on the point-of-regard information, head rotation information, image data, the type of eye/head movement that is underway, and/or tiredness information, control circuitry in the electronic device may produce image data for a display, with areas of different resolutions and(or) visual quality. A full-resolution and(or) quality portion of the image may overlap the point of regard. One or more lower resolution portions of the image may surround the full-resolution portion. The control circuitry may include a gaze prediction system for predicting the movement of the user's gaze during a saccade.


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