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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:
May. 25, 2021

Filed:

Jan. 09, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Brian Kennedy, Seattle, WA (US);

Sam Sarmast, Redmond, WA (US);

Fletcher Nelson, Kent, WA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0112 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0178 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0187 (2013.01);
Abstract

To address privacy issues with 'always on' cameras of an AR headset, the cameras can be muted and content displayed by the headset adjusted to provide a user with a visual indication that the cameras are deactivated. The headset includes a display element configured to display content to a user and an eye tracking system that includes a camera configured to track eye motion of the user. In response to the headset receiving a camera muting event from the user or the external environment, the headset deactivates the camera and adjusts the content displayed on the display element to provide the user with a visual indication that the camera is deactivated. In one embodiment, the visual indication is an adjustment of the display from a default RGB color mode to 'monochrome' or other predefined color map.


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