Patents Represented by Attorney Stephen J. Schribner
  • Patent number: 7809160
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for eye gaze tracking in human or animal subjects without calibration of cameras, specific measurements of eye geometries or the tracking of a cursor image on a screen by the subject through a known trajectory. One embodiment includes one uncalibrated camera for acquiring video images of the subject's eye(s) and optionally having an on-axis illuminator, and a surface, object, or visual scene with embedded off-axis illuminator markers. The off-axis markers are reflected on the corneal surface of the subject's eyes as glints. The glints indicate the distance between the point of gaze in the surface, object, or visual scene and the corresponding marker on the surface, object, or visual scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Queen's University at Kingston
    Inventors: Roel Vertegaal, Changuk Sohn, Daniel Cheng, Victor Macfarlane, Jeffrey S. Shell