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Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2025

Filed:

Jan. 25, 2023
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Mehmet N. Agaoglu, Dublin, CA (US);

Andrew B. Watson, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 23/951 (2023.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); H04N 23/611 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 23/951 (2023.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); H04N 23/611 (2023.01);
Abstract

Tracking an eye characteristic (e.g., gaze direction or pupil position) of a user's eyes by staggering image capture and using a predicted relationship between the user's eyes between eye captures to predict that eye's eye characteristic between those eye captures. Images of a user's eyes are captured in a staggered manner in the sense that the images of second eye are captured between the capture times of the images of the first eye and vice versa. An eye characteristic of the first eye at the capture times is determined based on the images of the first eye at those times. In addition, the eye characteristic of that first eye is predicted at additional times between captures based on a predicted relationship between the eyes.


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