Including Eye Movement Detection Patents (Class 351/209)
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Patent number: 10460022Abstract: To be able to further facilitate interaction between users using AR technologies. Provided is a display control device including: a picture image acquiring unit configured to acquire a moving image corresponding to a sight of a first user in real time; a display control unit configured to display the moving image toward a second user different from the first user, and an annotation detection unit configured to detect that an annotation input by the second user with respect to the moving image is displayed in the sight of the first user or is output to be displayed. The display control unit further displays the displayed or output annotation toward the second user.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2014Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Shunichi Kasahara, Junichi Rekimoto
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Patent number: 10441165Abstract: The present invention provides a system and a method for measuring ocular motility of a patient.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: NOVASIGHT LTD.Inventors: Dan Oz, Michael Belkin, Oren Yehezkel
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Patent number: 10444863Abstract: A virtual reality device, including a first sensor, a second sensor, a processor, and a display screen, is provided. The first sensor senses a first rotation-amplitude corresponding to the virtual reality device, and outputs a first sensing signal corresponding to the first rotation-amplitude. The second sensor senses a second rotation-amplitude corresponding to the user's eyes, and outputs a second sensing signal corresponding to the second rotation-amplitude. The processor generates a panoramic image, and obtains an initial display picture. The display screen displays the initial display picture. The processor further outputs a first display picture according to the first sensing signal and the second sensing signal, and the display screen displays the first display picture.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.Inventors: Jung-Wen Chang, Chien-Hung Lin
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Patent number: 10437051Abstract: An eye tracker comprises a light source; a detector; and first and second waveguides. The first waveguide comprises an input coupler for coupling source light into a waveguide path and a first grating for coupling light out of the waveguide path onto an eye. The second waveguide comprises a second grating for coupling light reflected from the eye into a waveguide path and an output coupler for coupling light out of the waveguide path onto the detector. The second grating is optically configured for imaging the eye onto the detector.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: DigiLens Inc.Inventors: Milan Momcilo Popovich, Jonathan David Waldern, Alastair John Grant
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Patent number: 10423224Abstract: A gaze tracking system, method, and computer product for tracking an eye gaze on a screen of a device including a camera, the system including a plane calculating circuit configured to calculate a current plane of a screen based on a first angle and a position of a camera with respect to the screen and an intersection calculating circuit configured to calculate an intersection of an eye gaze vector with the current plane equation.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2017Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Karan Ahuja, Kuntal Dey, Seema Nagar, Roman Vaculin
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Patent number: 10420464Abstract: A method, including illuminating an eye with light from a light source (62) so as to cause a first image (80) of the light source to be formed on a retina (78) of the eye. The method also includes capturing the light returning from the retina with a sensor (148) so as to receive at least a portion of a second image (130) of the first image on the sensor, and analyzing a signal from the sensor in order to determine a gaze direction of the eye.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Inventor: Saar Wilf
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Patent number: 10413177Abstract: There is provided an eyeball observation device, which can stably detect a line of sight, the eyeball observation device including: at least one infrared light source configured to radiate polarized infrared light onto an eyeball of a user; and at least one imaging device configured to capture an image of the eyeball irradiated with the polarized infrared light and to be capable of simultaneously capturing a polarization image with at least three directions.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Sayaka Watanabe, Yuhi Kondo
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Patent number: 10413360Abstract: The invention provides a non-invasive skin treatment device (100) comprising: a light source (10) constructed and configured for generating linearly polarized probe light (12) and linearly polarized treatment light (22), a polarization modulator (30) constructed and configured for controlling a polarization direction of the probe light and a polarization direction of the treatment light, a polarization sensitive sensor (40) constructed and configured for sensing a level of depolarization of the probe light by sensing an intensity of back-scattered probe light (42) from the target position (210) in a predefined polarization direction of the polarization sensitive sensor, and a controller (60) being configured for scanning the polarization direction of the probe light over a predefined range while receiving the measurement signal (Sm) and for selecting an optimum polarization (P1) direction for which the depolarization of the probe light is at a minimum.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Babu Varghese, Rieko Verhagen, Martin Jurna, Jonathan Alambra Palero
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Patent number: 10413176Abstract: An inattention measurement device, system, and method wherein an index value indicating an inattention level of a subject is calculated based on information relating to a history of a gazing point of a subject when presented with a task of searching for a prescribed target.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINEInventors: Norio Mori, Katsuaki Suzuki, Kenji Tsuchiya, Chie Shimmura
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Patent number: 10405786Abstract: The systems, environment, and methods, described herein support evaluation of an individual for ASD while in the home environment. Through data collected by a wearable data collection device donned by the individual, eye contact with the caregiver, verbal interaction, and repetitive verbalizations and motions of the head and body may be tracked and objectively quantified during evaluation. Further, the wearable data collection device may support monitoring of brain activity and other physiology which, in turn, may be analyzed by the systems and environment described herein during evaluation to recognize patterns that predict evaluation outcome and other clinical features. Various software modules and tools supported by the wearable data collection device provide training, ongoing progress tracking, and management solutions for individuals living with ASD.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2014Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Inventor: Nedim T. Sahin
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Patent number: 10402846Abstract: A method of responding to a criterion-based request for information collected from users meeting the criterion while complying with a user-requested privacy requirement. In one embodiment a request is received for data comprising facial or audio expressions for users who meet the criterion. A program monitors activities indicative of user attention or user reaction based on face tracking, face detection, face feature detection, eye gaze determination, eye tracking, audio expression determination, or determination of an emotional state. When a user requests a high level of privacy, the timestream data collected for the user is aggregated with timestream data collected for other users into a statistical dataset by processing the timestreams to ensure the high level of privacy in the statistical dataset which is provided to a content provider without providing data collected for the user who has requested the high level of privacy.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2014Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: FotoNation LimitedInventors: Petronel Bigioi, Peter Corcoran
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Patent number: 10395111Abstract: A gaze-tracking system for a head-mounted display apparatus includes a first set of illuminators for emitting light to illuminate a user's eye; at least one photo sensor for sensing reflections of the light from the user's eye; at least one actuator for moving at least one of: (i) the first set of illuminators, (ii) the at least one photo sensor; and a processor coupled with the first set of illuminators, the at least one photo sensor and the at least one actuator. The processor is configured to collect and process sensor data from the at least one photo sensor to detect a gaze direction of the user, and to control the at least one actuator to adjust, based upon the detected gaze direction, a position of the at least one of: (i) the first set of illuminators, (ii) the at least one photo sensor.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: VARJO TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Urho Konttori, Klaus Melakari, Thiyagarajan Manihatty Bojan, Ville Miettinen
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Patent number: 10394318Abstract: Technologies related to scene analysis for improved eye tracking are generally described. In some examples, detected gaze targets may be derived from gaze direction information from an eye-facing sensor. Detected gaze target positions and/or motion may be improved by capturing and analyzing digital scene information from a scene visible by the eye. Digital scene information captured by a digital camera may be analyzed to identify potential gaze targets, such as stationary gaze targets, moving gaze targets, and/or accelerating gaze targets. Detected gaze targets may be modified to positions of selected gaze targets.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLCInventor: Ezekiel Kruglick
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Patent number: 10389924Abstract: A portable eye tracker device is disclosed which includes a frame, at least one optics holding member, a movement sensor, and a control unit. The frame may be a frame adapted for wearing by a user. The at least one optics holding member may include at least one illuminator configured to selectively illuminate at least a portion of at least one eye of the user, and at least one image sensor configured to capture image data representing images of at least a portion of at least one eye of the user. The movement sensor may be configured to detect movement of the frame. The control unit may be configured to control the at least one illuminator for the selective illumination of at least a portion of at least one eye of the user, receive the image data from the image sensors, and receive information from the movement sensor.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2016Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Tobii ABInventors: Jonas Andersson, Anders Kingbäck, Simon Gustafsson
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Patent number: 10376183Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting onset, presence, and progression of particular states, including intoxication, include observing eye movements of a subject and correlating the observed movements to known baseline neurophysiological indicators of intoxication. A detection system may record eye movement data from a user, compare the eye movement data to a data model comprising threshold eye movement data samples, and from the comparison make a determination whether or not intoxication or impairment is present. The detection system may alert the user to take corrective action if onset or presence of a dangerous condition is detected. The eye movements detected include saccadic and intersaccadic parameters such as intersaccadic drift velocity. Measurements may be collected in situ with a field testing device. An interactive application may be provided on a user device to provoke the desired eye movements during recording.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2015Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignees: Dignity Health, Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State UniversityInventors: Stephen L. Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde, Richard E. Dale, Richard Besserman, Tropy McDaniel
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Patent number: 10375326Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to eye tracking systems and methods which track eyes by illuminating the eyes using a light source and detecting the eye illuminations using a sensor. Implementations of the present disclosure may utilize wide angle lighting via a plurality of individual light sources which are each oriented in different orientations. A wide area may be illuminated by the different light sources, and these light sources may be selectively turned on and off based on a current location of a user.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventor: Eric J. Larsen
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Patent number: 10368058Abstract: An apparatus for extending binocular camera positioning range includes: a rotatable base, a positioning module, a judging module, and a controlling module. The rotatable base is disposed on the binocular camera and drives a lens of the binocular camera to rotate. The positioning module calculates, in real time, spatial coordinates of the target to be positioned in the field of vision of the binocular camera according to an image of the target collected by the binocular camera. The judging module determines whether the target to be positioned will go out of the field of vision of the binocular camera soon according to the spatial coordinates. The controlling module may control the rotatable base to drive the lens of the binocular camera to rotate and adjust a direction of the lens of the binocular camera so that the field of vision of the binocular camera always covers the target.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Beijing Pico Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yulong Shu, Jinbo Ma, Yucai Han
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Patent number: 10342423Abstract: The present invention defines a method of correcting for eye movement during optical coherence tomography imaging. The method includes imaging (by scanning) a fundus of an eye to obtain a fundus image (for example, using an SLO); scanning the fundus to obtain a plurality of tomographic images (for example, using OCT); determining, at predetermined intervals, an alignment of the tomographic images with respect to the fundus image, and, if it is determined that there is a misalignment, determining the number of tomographic images that have been scanned in the predetermined interval since the previous alignment determination; determining the offset by which the tomographic images are misaligned; applying the offset to the next tomographic image to be scanned and rescanning the determined number of tomographic images that were scanned during the interval between misalignment being determined and offset being applied.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2017Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Slawomir Orlowski, Tomasz Dziubak, Jakub Szatkowski, Pawel Dalasinski, Maciej Pańkowiec
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Patent number: 10335027Abstract: In exemplary implementations of this invention, an aberrometer is used to measure the refractive condition of any eye. An artificial light source emits light that travels to a light sensor. Along the way, the light enters and then exits the eye, passes through or is reflected from one or more spatial light modulators (SLMs), and passes through an objective lens-system. The SLMs modify a bokeh effect of the imaging system (which is only visible when the system is out-of-focus), creating a blurred version of the SLM patterns. The light sensor then captures one or more out-of-focus images. If there are refractive aberrations in the eye, these aberrations cause the SLM patterns captured in the images to be distorted. By analyzing differences between the distorted captured patterns and the undistorted SLM patterns, refractive aberrations of the eye can be computed and an eyewear measurement generated.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2014Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: EYENETRA, INC.Inventors: Vitor Pamplona, Ramesh Raskar
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Patent number: 10339758Abstract: A computer device and method for dynamically displaying at least one message to a player of a game are provided. The computer device may be an electronic gaming machine, and comprises a camera which can be used to collect data on the movement of a player of an electronic game. The movements of the player may then be analyzed and used to select message presentation rules based on player movement data. The message presentation rules may govern the presentation of new messages, the removal of old messages, or change the way a given message is presented.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2015Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: IGT CANADA SOLUTIONS ULCInventors: David Froy, Edward Bowron, Reuben Dupuis, Vicky Leblanc, Karen Van Niekerk, Christopher Spurrell
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Patent number: 10324309Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to intraocular lens devices, systems, and methods that include determining relative tilt and/or vergence rotation of a subject's eyes and focusing one or more intraocular lenses based on the determined vergence rotation.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: ELWHA LLCInventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Clarence T. Tegreene
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Patent number: 10314485Abstract: A head mounted compact goggle based video oculography system comprises: a goggle base surrounding the subject's eyes; an angled hot mirror; at least one digital camera attached to the goggle base along the top side of the goggle base taking images of at least one of the subject's eyes via a hot mirror reflection; an integral display for selectively displaying visual stimulus to the subject through the hot mirror and attached to the goggle base along the rear side of the goggle base; a controller coupled to the display generating each visual stimulus for each neuro-otologic test to be displayed to the subject via the display and coupled to each digital camera and receiving and storing data signals there from, the controller configured to calculate eye related data from the digital camera images during each neuro-otologic test, and configured to display the eye related data to users.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2017Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: NEURO KINETICS, Inc.Inventors: Alexander D Kiderman, Ian Shirey, Daniel Sweeney, Yakov Eydelman, John Howison Schroeder
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Patent number: 10314483Abstract: The present invention provides for very fast detection of gaze direction using retro-reflected light from the ocular fundus that is cost-efficient, small, and portable. These eye trackers are useful in many areas of science and technology, including but not limited to remote control, space, defense, medical and psycho-physiological applications, to identify for example subtle neurologic deficits that occur with cerebellar or vestibular disorders, Parkinson's disease, strokes, traumatic brain injury, possible concussions during sports matches, some forms of reading disability, or simply fatigue or inebriation. In ophthalmology, with two such devices operating simultaneously, the variability of relative eye alignment over time can be measured, without requiring individual calibration, and without requiring fixation on a specified target, ideal for use with small children.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2017Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: The Johns Hopkins UniversityInventors: Boris I. Gramatikov, David L. Guyton
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Patent number: 10319471Abstract: Systems and methods are described relating to detecting an indication of at least one attribute of an individual; accepting sensor data about the individual; and presenting a set of health care options at least partially based on the detecting an indication of at least one attribute of the individual and the accepting sensor data about the individual.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2017Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Gearbox LLCInventors: Shawn P. Firminger, Jason Garms, Roderick A. Hyde, Edward K. Y. Jung, Chris Demetrios Karkanias, Eric C. Leuthardt, Royce A. Levien, Richard T. Lord, Robert W. Lord, Mark A. Malamud, John D. Rinaldo, Jr., Clarence T. Tegreene, Kristin M. Tolle, Lowell L. Wood, Jr.
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Patent number: 10307246Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to intraocular lens devices, systems, and methods that include determining relative tilt and/or vergence rotation of a subject's eyes and focusing one or more intraocular lenses based on the determined vergence rotation.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: ELWHA LLCInventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Jordin T. Kare, John Marshall, Clarence T. Tegreene, Roberto Zaldivar, Roger Zaldivar
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Patent number: 10307054Abstract: A method includes obtaining an image of an eye in a bright-pupil imaging mode in which a retinal retro-reflection complements the image of the eye in the bright-pupil mode, and obtaining an image of the eye in a dark-pupil imaging mode in which a cornea-scleral retro-reflection complements the image of the eye in the dark-pupil mode. One of the bright-pupil imaging mode and the dark-pupil imaging mode is selected based on quality of obtained images.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Tobii ABInventors: Peter Blixt, Gunnar Troili, Anders Kingbäck, John Mikael Elvesjö, Märten Skogö
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Patent number: 10311583Abstract: Provided is a method to easily detect eye motions in the eye moving direction, which has resistance to a fluctuation in background light and to a displacement of the position of a camera. The method includes the steps of: detecting a white area of the eye from the eye area; determining a blood vessel image to be used for a template blood vessel image in the white area of the eye; detecting a nth blood vessel image, which matches the template blood vessel image; calculating a nth moving amount of the eye based on a difference between the reference position and the detection position of the nth blood vessel image, which matches the template blood vessel image; and calculating a nth rotation angle of the eye to detect eye motions in the information processing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Inventor: Kiyoshi Hoshino
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Patent number: 10307053Abstract: Method for calibrating a head-mounted eye tracking device, the method comprising: all acquisition step (S3), during which eye data relating to the position of the eye of the wearer are acquired by the eye tracking device while having the wearer of the head-mounted eye tracking device look in a direction of reference with regard to the spectacle lens mount, an association step (S4) during which the eye data acquired during the acquisition step are associated with the gaze direction corresponding to the direction of reference, a recording step (S5), during which the associated eye data and the gaze direction are recorded—wherein the head-mounted mounted eye tracking device comprises a spectacle frame in which ophthalmic lenses are mounted and the gazing direction corresponding to the direction of reference is determined based on the dioptric function of the ophthalmic lenses.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2014Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventor: Romain Fayolle
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Patent number: 10303248Abstract: Examples are disclosed herein that are related to eye tracking using scanned beam imaging and multiple photodetectors. One example provides an eye tracking system, comprising an infrared light source, scanning optics configured to scan light from the infrared light source across a region comprising a user's cornea, and a plurality of photodetectors, each photodetector being configured to detect infrared light reflected from the user's cornea at a corresponding angle.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Gregory Theodore Gibson, Joshua Owen Miller
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Patent number: 10304022Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for capturing gaze data for a sports participant over the course of a sports match, identifying a key performance indicator (KPI) corresponding to a sports domain with which the sports match is associated, and generating KPI data corresponding to the KPI. Report data indicative of the KPI data may be generated and presented to the sports participant in-match or post-match. KPI data for a player may be aggregated across multiple sports domain KPIs and multiple sports matches and analyzed to determine player activity patterns. The player activity patterns may indicate statistical differences in KPIs for the player in relation to different in-match scenarios. Recommendations may be provided to the player for improving the player's performance with respect to various KPIs.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2016Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Karan Ahuja, Kuntal Dey, Seema Nagar, Roman Vaculin
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Head-mounting display, notification apparatus, notification system, notification method, and program
Patent number: 10297136Abstract: There is provided a head-mounted display, a notification apparatus, a notification system, a notification method, and a program that allow a person not wearing a head-mounted display to know that a user still continues to wear a head-mounted display after a notification that a wearing time of the head-mounted display of this user has exceeded a predetermined time. A wearing time determination block determines a wearing time of the head-mounted display of the user. A notification block executes a first notification to the user if the wearing time has exceeded a first time and, when the wearing time has exceeded a second time longer than the first time, and executes a second notification to a person not wearing the head-mounted display.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2016Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Masanori Hoshino -
Patent number: 10285586Abstract: A method of compensating for distortion, in a plurality of retinal image frames, arising from eye movement receives at least one reference image frame and plural other image frames of the eye. For each frame, the method determines a plurality of shifts relative to the reference image frame, and an initial eye movement trajectory based on at least an initial reference frame distortion, and the shifts within each of said other image frames. The method estimates a current reference frame distortion using the initial trajectory and the shifts within each of the other image frames, and a current eye movement trajectory based on the estimated current reference frame distortion, and the shifts within each of said other image frames to provide a smooth transition between the other image frames in the eye movement. With this the method compensates for distortion in said frames using the current eye movement trajectory.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Andrew Docherty
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Patent number: 10282608Abstract: At least one image registering unit records at least one series of images representing a subject. A control unit controls an operation sequence for the at least one image registering unit in such a manner that a subsequent data processing unit receives a repeating sequence of image frames there from, wherein each period contains at least one image frame of a first resolution and at least one image frame of a second resolution being different from the first resolution. Based on the registered image frames, the data processing unit produces eye/gaze tracking data with respect to the subject.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: TOBII ABInventors: Mattias Kuldkepp, Marten Skogo, Mattias Hanqvist, Martin Brogren, Dineshkumar Muthusamy
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Patent number: 10271722Abstract: To facilitate observation of object(s), an imaging process can include or an imaging device can perform detecting a position of a focusing point of an eye of a user, determining, according to the position of the focusing point, an object gazed by the user, and changing a size of target imaging of the gazed object on the fundus of the user according to a predetermined zooming rule. The size of the target imaging of the gazed object on the fundus of the user can be automatically changed by optical zooming processing, so that the user can observe the gazed object at a modest distance and with a moderate size of the imaging on the fundus, and therefore it may be convenient for the user to observe the gazed object.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2014Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: BEIJING ZHIGU RUI TUO TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Kuifei Yu, Lin Du, Wei Shi
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Patent number: 10264962Abstract: A pupillometer system includes a computer, a camera, and a testing compartment provided in the form of a substantially hemispheric bowl, where the substantially hemispheric bowl includes a plurality of chromatic beam emitters arranged about a visual field forming a plurality of visual field testing points. The plurality of chromatic beam emitters generate a first chromatic stimulus that stimulates a first anatomical structure of an eye and a second chromatic stimulus that stimulates a second anatomical structure of the eye where the first anatomical structure is different than the second anatomical structure. The camera records a pupil response of one or more eyes. The computer generates quantitative pupillary light reflex (PLR) measurements of the PLR in response to the stimuli, determines at least one PLR response ratio, and determines a state of health of the one or more eyes utilizing the at least one PLR response ratio.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Tel Hashomer Medical Research Infrastructure and Services, Ltd.Inventors: Ygal Rotenstreich, Mordecai Rosner
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Method for optical design of a pair of ophthalmic lenses and pair of ophthalmic lenses thus obtained
Patent number: 10247963Abstract: Disclosed is a method for optical design of a pair of ophthalmic lenses for correcting spherical and cylindrical refractive errors of the eyes of a wearer, including a step of defining the need for spherical and cylindrical correction of the wearer for various viewing distances, and a step of determining the spherical and cylindrical power of the ophthalmic lenses at viewing points with various proximities, in accordance with the correction needs of the wearer. The power of at least one of the two ophthalmic lenses is determined such as to limit the deviation obtained therebetween upon adding equivalent spherical power between the viewing points with various proximities and/or varying the cylindrical power vector between the viewing points with various proximities. Also disclosed is a pair of ophthalmic lenses designed according to such a method.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONALInventors: Martha Hernandez-Castaneda, Melanie Heslouis, Sarah Marie, Gildas Marin -
Patent number: 10248848Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for an improved facial recognition system are provided. Some embodiments may utilize a weighted block division of an image and capture a property measurement for pixels residing within a block. The measurements may be converted to vectors, compressed, and compared against compressed vectors of enrolled images to identify a characteristic or an image of a matching subject. Training processes may be utilized in order to optimize block divisions and weights.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2012Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Yanming Zou, Yong Ma, Kongqiao Wang
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Patent number: 10226172Abstract: Devices and methods are provided herein for aiding in the early diagnosis and remediation of conditions that range from unpleasant to disabling. Images are presented to viewers in an assembly that also eye-tracks their eyes during that process and executes software to identify visual signatures of conditions in the responses of the eyes. Also, responsive treatment for a thus-identified presentation of the condition can be effected in real time providing the patient with both a cause-and-effect perception of the presentation of the condition and means for correcting related ocular behaviors right when they occur.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2016Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Inventor: John C Simmons
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Patent number: 10194799Abstract: A robotic vision screening system includes a user interface that interacts with a customer, at least one diagnostic device that examines at least one of the customer's eyes, at least one measurement device that measures the customer's head anatomy, a processor in communication with the at least one diagnostic device and the at least one measurement device, and a 3D printer in communication with the processor that produces a customized vision correction device based on data received from the at least one diagnostic device and the at least one measurement device.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Sanovas Intellectual Property, LLCInventor: Lawrence J. Gerrans
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Patent number: 10198233Abstract: A system is described which comprises an input arranged to receive attention tracking data from attention tracking hardware. The attention tracking data, along with parameters associated with each display change request, is then used to select a display change request from a plurality of stored display change requests received from a plurality of different applications and a change defined by the selected display change request is then rendered in a GUI on a display device.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Tobias Alexander Grosse-Puppendahl, James Scott, Stephen Edward Hodges, John Franciscus Marie Helmes, Stuart Alastair Taylor, Nicholas Yen-Cherng Chen, Pascal Knierim, Gavin Wood, Josh Fromm, Albrecht Schmidt
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Patent number: 10192109Abstract: According to the invention a system for authenticating a user of a device is disclosed. The system may include a first image sensor, a determination unit, and an authentication unit. The first image sensor may be for capturing at least one image of at least part of a user. The determination unit may be for determining information relating to the user's eye based at least in part on at least one image captured by the first image sensor. The authentication unit may be for authenticating the user using the information relating to the user's eye.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Tobii ABInventors: Mårten Skogö, Richard Hainzl, Henrik Jönsson, Anders Vennström, Erland George-Svahn, John Elvesjö
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Patent number: 10192135Abstract: A 3D image analyzer for the determination of a gaze direction or a line of sight (having a gaze direction vector and a location vector, which e.g. indicates the pupil midpoint and where the gaze direction vector starts) in a 3D room is configured to receive one first set of image data and a further set of image information, wherein the first image contains a pattern, which displays a three-dimensional object from a first perspective into a first image plane, and wherein the further set contains an image having a pattern, which displays the same three-dimensional object from a further perspective into a further image plane, or wherein the further set has an image information and/or a relation between at least two points in the first image and/or at least a position information. The 3D image analyzer has a position calculator and an alignment calculator and calculates therewith a gaze direction in a 3D room.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Daniel Krenzer, Albrecht Hess, András Kátai
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Patent number: 10188287Abstract: An optical measurement system method for measuring a characteristic of a subject's eye use a probe beam having an infrared wavelength in the infrared spectrum to measure a refraction of the subject's eye at the infrared wavelength; capture at least two different Purkinje images at two different corresponding wavelengths from at least one surface of the lens of the subject's eye; determine from the at least two different Purkinje images a value for at least one parameter of the subject's eye; use the value of the at least one parameter to determine a customized chromatic adjustment factor for the subject's eye; and correct the measured refraction of the subject's eye at the infrared wavelength with the customized chromatic adjustment factor to determine a refraction of the subject's eye at a visible wavelength in the visible spectrum.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: AMO WaveFront Sciences, LLCInventors: Richard J. Copland, Daniel R. Neal, Thomas D. Raymond, Stephen W. Farrer
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Patent number: 10176374Abstract: An image processing method includes determining a vertical baseline and a horizontal baseline corresponding to a boundary of an eye of a user in an input image of the eye of the user, and aligning the input image based on the vertical baseline and the horizontal baseline.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2016Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kang Xue, Shuzheng Gao, Xiying Wang, Haitao Wang
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Patent number: 10165940Abstract: Devices and methods are provided herein for aiding in the diagnosis of and response to conditions ranging from unpleasant to disabling. Images are presented to viewers and eye-tracking of their eyes during that process along with software analysis non-subjectively identify and quantify complex visual signatures formerly hidden in the responses of the eyes. This allows caregivers, when presenting these images to people to be evaluated for a condition, to identify, again with eye-tracking and software analysis, those signatures indicative of a presence or an absence of the condition. An associated remediative response provides treatment applicable to a real-time environment.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2016Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Inventor: John C Simmons
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Patent number: 10121337Abstract: A method may include receiving a video stream from a camera and displaying the video stream on a display. The method may further include obtaining, via an eye tracking sensor, information identifying a gaze area for a user watching the display; generating a gradient from the gaze area to edges of the display; and instructing the camera to decrease a bit rate of the video stream outside the gaze area based on the generated gradient.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2016Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: AXIS ABInventor: Song Yuan
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Patent number: 10114456Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a sight tracking method and a device, the sight tracking method comprises: determining an observation region where an iris center of a to-be-tested iris image is located according to a target model; modifying a prediction region by using the observation region, to obtain a target region, the prediction region being a region where the iris center of the to-be-tested iris image is located determined by a kalman filtering method; and determining a position of fixation point of human eyes on a screen according to the target region.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2016Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Chenfei Qian, Kening Zhao
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Patent number: 10109228Abstract: In a method of attenuating image brightness in a high dynamic range (HDR) display device, the method includes: receiving, by a processor, an incoming data stream comprising image data; detecting, by the processor, a trigger for attenuating a brightness level of a first image corresponding to the image data; generating, by the processor, output image data for a second image based on the first image, wherein the second image has a different average brightness level than the first image; and displaying, by the processor, the second image on the HDR display device.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: David M. Hoffman, David Zamora
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Patent number: 10109067Abstract: A head mounted display (HMD) comprises an eye tracking system configured to enable eye-tracking using light. The eye tracking system comprises two or more illumination sources positioned relative to one another and an optical detector in order to capture. The optical detector is configured to capture images of the cornea based on one or more reflections. The eye tracking unit is configured to generate a model of the user's eye. The generated eye model is used to determine eye tracking information such as gaze direction as the user glances at different objects in the HMD.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Oculus VR, LLCInventors: Warren Andrew Hunt, Robert Dale Cavin
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Patent number: 10092178Abstract: Systems and methods for efficiently obtaining optical coherence tomography (OCT) measurement data with reduced effects of motion are presented. One embodiment involves determining the amount of motion present during the collection of an OCT data set based on images of the eye collected at the same time as the OCT data, and recollecting select portions of the OCT data set when the amount of eye motion is determined to exceed a predetermined threshold. Another embodiment includes enabling or disabling a tracking feature based on the quality of the images available for tracking. Another embodiment includes reducing the effect of motion in the axial direction based on a comparison to a model of the eye constructed from OCT data. The method can also be used to reduce the presence of mirror image artifacts in an OCT image.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC.Inventors: Harihar Narasimha-Iyer, Matthew J. Everett