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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2015
Applicant:
Mirametrix Inc., Westmount, CA;
Inventor:
Nicholas J. Sullivan, Montreal, CA;
Assignee:
Mirametrix Inc., Montreal, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 3/113 (2006.01); H04N 13/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G02B 27/0093 (2013.01); G06K 9/00604 (2013.01); A61B 3/113 (2013.01); H04N 13/0484 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method are provided for performing eye gaze tracking. The system is configured for and the method comprises optimizing illumination of a scene for a single on-axis imaging apparatus, capturing an image using the single on-axis imaging apparatus under the optimized illumination, and processing the captured image to perform a gaze estimation. Dynamic illumination control, eye candidate detection and filtering, and gaze estimation techniques are also provided.