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Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 15, 2020
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventor:

Tom Sengelaub, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06T 7/20 (2017.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G02B 27/0093 (2013.01); G02B 27/017 (2013.01); G06T 7/20 (2013.01); H04N 5/23245 (2013.01); H04N 5/232411 (2018.08); G02B 2027/0138 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0178 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10048 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30196 (2013.01);
Abstract

Low-power eye tracking for detecting position and movements of a user's eyes in a head-mounted device (HMD). An eye tracking system for an HMD may include eye tracking cameras. The eye tracking cameras may be used to capture low-resolution frames between capturing high-resolution frames, for example by binning pixels on the camera sensor or by capturing horizontal and vertical stripes or lines of pixels on the camera sensor rather than entire frames. This low-resolution information may be used to track relative movement of the user's eyes with respect to the device in intervals between the processing of full, high-resolution frames captured by the eye tracking cameras.


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