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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:
Aug. 27, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 10, 2021
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Eran Tal, Petach Tivka, IL;

Ariel Lipson, Tel Aviv, IL;

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G02B 27/01 (2013.01); G02B 27/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/012 (2013.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30041 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide retinal imaging-based gaze tracking In some implementations, a user's gaze is tracked based on a retinal imaging technique that selectively uses a subset of multiple light sources () that illuminate different portions of the user's retina (). In some implementations, a method () includes selecting () a subset of light sources, where the subset of the light sources includes less than all of the light sources. In some implementations, one or more portions of a retina () are illuminated () by producing light using the subset of the light sources. In some implementations, sensor data is received () at a sensor (), the sensor data corresponding to the light detected during retinal imaging, and an eye characteristic is determined () based on the sensor data.


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