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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:
Jul. 07, 2026

Filed:

Jan. 27, 2025
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

William E Blumhardt, San Francisco, CA (US);

Tyler R Calderone, Boulder, CO (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/00 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); H04N 13/344 (2018.01); H04N 13/383 (2018.01); H04N 13/398 (2018.01); G06V 20/50 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/0093 (2013.01); G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); H04N 13/344 (2018.05); H04N 13/383 (2018.05); H04N 13/398 (2018.05); G02B 2027/0138 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0178 (2013.01); G06V 20/50 (2022.01);
Abstract

Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that monitors for user presence to determine if a head mounted device (HMD) display should be active or inactive. For example, a process may obtain first sensor data from a first sensor on the HMD. The sensor may be configured to capture sensor data corresponding to an eye box region in front of at least one display of the HMD. Based on the sensor data, the process may detect a gaze of a user of the HMD and based on detecting the gaze, an initial user presence corresponding to a user wearing the HMD is determined. Based on determining the initial user presence, the process may activate the at least one display of the HMD by changing a state of the at least one display from an inactive state to an active state.


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