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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2013
Thad Eugene Starner, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael Patrick Johnson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
BO Wu, Alhambra, CA (US);
Thad Eugene Starner, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael Patrick Johnson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Bo Wu, Alhambra, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Examples methods and systems for distinguishing winks from other eye motions are described. In some examples, a method for distinguishing winks from other eye motions may account for changes in orientation of a computing device relative to a user, calibrate eye gesture recognition, or increase efficiency of the computing device. A computing device may be configured to receive sensor data corresponding to an eye and determine a distribution of magnitude changes in the sensor data over an interval of time. The computing device may identify clusters that correspond to ranges of magnitude changes within the distribution and use the clusters as reference data to identify ranges of sensor data for different types of eye motions, including differentiating winks from clusters indicative of ranges of normal eye activity and blinks.