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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:
Feb. 02, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 10, 2017
Applicant:

Facebook Technologies, Llc, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Brian Michael Scally, Seattle, WA (US);

David R. Perek, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:

Facebook Technologies, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 15/42 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G01S 7/539 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); H04N 13/383 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 15/42 (2013.01); G01S 7/539 (2013.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0187 (2013.01); H04N 13/383 (2018.05);
Abstract

An eye tracking unit that includes one or more transmitters that transmit a signal (e.g., a radar signal or an ultrasonic sound) at an eye, one or more receivers that receive a reflection of the signal generated by interaction of the signal with the eye, and an eye orientation estimation module that estimates an orientation of the eye based on the reflected signal received by the one or more ultrasonic receivers and based on a model of the eye. The eye tracking unit may be part of a head-mounted display (HMD) that includes a display element configured to display content to a user wearing the HMD. The model of the eye may be trained by displaying a visual indicator on the electronic element and detecting a reflected signal corresponding to the eye looking at the visual indicator.


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