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Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2025

Filed:

Oct. 18, 2023
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Gregory Theodore Gibson, Seattle, WA (US);

Joshua Owen Miller, Woodinville, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 3/113 (2006.01); A61F 9/008 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 3/113 (2013.01); A61F 9/008 (2013.01); A61F 2009/00846 (2013.01); A61F 2009/00872 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques are described herein that are capable of tracking an eye of a user using multiple lasers. Light from the lasers is scanned across respective partially overlapping portions of a region that includes an eye of a user during respective time periods. Portion(s) of the light that are reflected from the eye are detected by respective photodetector(s). In an example implementation, a signal corresponding to the detected portion(s) is provided in a pixel of a frame buffer based at least in part on a current angle of a mirror used to scan the light across the region. In a second implementation, digital state(s) are provided based at least in part on difference(s) between a reference signal and signal(s) corresponding to the detected portion(s), and a time value indicating a time at which a glint is detected by a photodetector is provided when a digital state triggers an interrupt handler.


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