Patents Assigned to Zinn Labs, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11662574
    Abstract: A device includes a camera assembly and a controller. The camera assembly is configured to capture images of both eyes of a user. Using the captured images, the controller determines a location for each pupil of each eye of the user. The determined pupil locations and captured images are used to determine eye tracking parameters which are used to compute values of eye tracking functions. With the computed values and a model that maps the eye tracking functions to gaze depths, a gaze depth of the user is determined. An action is performed based on the determined gaze depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Zinn Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Boyle, Robert Konrad, Nitish Padmanaban, Gordon Wetzstein
  • Patent number: 11625095
    Abstract: Embodiments are related to a plurality of gaze sensors embedded into a frame of a headset for detection of a gaze vector of a user wearing the headset and user's control at the headset. The gaze vector for an eye of the user can be within a threshold distance from one of the gaze sensors. By monitoring signals detected by the gaze sensors, it can be determined that the gaze vector is within the threshold distance from the gaze sensor. Based on this determination, at least one action associated with the headset is initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Zinn Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Konrad, Kevin Boyle, Nitish Padmanaban, Gordon Wetzstein
  • Patent number: 11543883
    Abstract: An event camera system for pupil detection may include a camera assembly and a controller, and may also include one or more off-axis light sources. The camera assembly may include one or more infrared (IR) light sources and an event camera. The one or more IR light sources are configured to emit pulses of IR light along an optical path toward an eyebox. The IR light is reflected from an eye in the eyebox, and the reflected light propagates back along the optical path toward the event camera for detection. The controller is configured to determine an orientation of the eye using data output from the event camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Zinn Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Boyle, Robert Konrad, Nitish Padmanaban