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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2025
Filed:
May. 31, 2024
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Chase B Lortie, San Francisco, CA (US);
David J Meyer, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Paul A Lacey, Davie, FL (US);
Julian K Shutzberg, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ali Ercan, San Jose, CA (US);
Wei-Kang Hsu, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Various implementations assess user interactions to trigger user interface responses. Some implementations associate user gaze with user interface elements using one or more criteria that enable interpreting the user's gaze in ways that are consistent with user intentions and/or expectations. In some implementations, a user's gaze is associated with a user interface element when the user gazes at the user interface element. When the gaze leaves the user interface element (e.g., intentionally or unintentionally), the association may be maintained or discontinued using one or more criteria to be consistent with user intentions and/or expectations. In some implementations, this involves determining whether to continue associating a user's gaze with a user interface element so that the gaze-to-element association is maintained in certain circumstances (e.g., blinks and saccades) but discontinued in other circumstances (e.g., when the user is fixating outside of a zone around the element for more than a threshold time/number of frames).