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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2019
Applicant:
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Jeffrey R. Stafford, San Mateo, CA (US);
Yutaka Yokokawa, San Mateo, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01); H04N 13/194 (2018.01); H04N 13/161 (2018.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/3233 (2013.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); H04N 13/161 (2018.05); H04N 13/194 (2018.05);
Abstract
A mobile device such as a mobile phone is used to image a nearby user for eye tracking at a closer range than would be provided by cameras on a display device such as a TV and send the eye tracking data to a server streaming video being presented on the display. The eye tracking data is used by the server to identify a region of interest (ROI) in the video, which is more highly compressed than regions outside the ROI to facilitate efficient compression of the video game image while preserving the quality of the ROI in the image where the user is looking.