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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
May. 31, 2024
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Simon Fortin-Deschenes, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Axit H Patel, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ritesh Gangadhar Sholapur, San Carlos, CA (US);
Seyedkoosha Mirhosseini, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) eye tracking prediction method leverages head tracking functionality of a device to predict and compensate for latency caused by the VOR. Head motion may be accurately detected and predicted by a head tracking system of the device. The head motion prediction may be leveraged to predict where the eye with the assumed VOR motion will be looking when an image is displayed. In the method, head motion is detected, images of the eyes are captured, and the predicted head motion is used to predict VOR motion and thus pupil position and gaze direction so that an image is rendered with corrections and displayed with a more accurate pupil position and gaze direction than can be obtained with naïve gaze direction estimated based on images of the eyes captured by the eye-facing cameras that does not account for VOR, and thus introduces latency.