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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
May. 28, 2024
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Christian W Gosch, Campbell, CA (US);
Riley C Borgard, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sheila M Santos, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ritesh Gangadhar Sholapur, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sabine Webel, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that mitigate eye tracking loss. For example, a process may capture sensor data of a 3D region. The process may further generate eye tracking data comprising a 3D position of an eye based on tracking the 3D position of the eye. The 3D position may be updated over time based on the captured sensor data. The process may further detect a condition interfering with updating the 3D position of the eye based on the captured sensor data. The process may further update the eye tracking data using a smoothed 3D position of the eye. The smoothed 3D position may be determined based on previously-tracked 3D positions of the portion of the eye and a current 3D position of the portion of the eye determined based on current sensor data.