Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for eyes-free text entry. The system may include a wearable device having a display and processing circuitry configured to receive a haptic input provided to a keyboard mounted on a finger of a user, the haptic input being an indication of an alphabetical letter, generate a list of candidate words based on the received haptic input, each candidate t word of the list of candidate words being associated with a probability thereof, display the generated list of candidate words to the user via the display of the wearable device, receive a selection of a particular candidate word of the list of candidate words, and append the particular candidate to a present sentence structure, wherein the keyboard has a layout based on a spatial model reflecting spatial awareness, by the user, of key locations on the finger.

Abstract: Provided is a technique in which, in arranging a virtual object with respect to a real space, a user has less trouble, usability is good, and the object is suitably placeable. A head mounted display apparatus (HMD apparatus) according to one embodiment has a function of arranging and displaying the virtual object in a space based on an operation by a user. The HMD apparatus displays, on a display surface, a grid including a plurality of points for supporting an operation of the virtual object, and disposes and displays, according to an operation includes designation of a target virtual object and designation of a first point at an arrangement destination, the target virtual object at the position of the first point.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, and a current limiting circuit that limits current consumption in the plurality of pixels, the current limiting circuit includes a gain computation circuit that computes a screen power value in reference to a pixel value included in a video signal and that determines a gain in reference to the screen power value, and a gain multiplication circuit that multiplies the pixel value by the gain and that outputs a limit signal including the pixel value multiplied by the gain, the display panel includes a display unit, and a lighting control circuit that controls a lighting state of the plurality of pixels in reference to a predicted power value computed according to the limit signal, to reduce a power consumption value in the plurality of pixels to a value equal to or smaller than a control target power value, the gain is 1 when the screen power value is equal to or smaller than the control target power value, and the gain is a value equa

Abstract: A system including a display, an eye tracker, and a processor that executes the following: operate the display to present multiple objects to a user; operate the eye tracker to track an eye gaze of the user during the presentation of the multiple objects; calculate an estimated user preference of each of the multiple objects, by performing at least one of: (a) calculating a measure of central tendency of distances from a center of the respective object to points of the eye gaze on the respective object, wherein a higher measure of central tendency of the distances indicates a stronger user preference and vice versa, and (b) calculating a measure of central tendency of speeds of transition between temporally-consecutive ones of the points of the eye gaze, wherein a higher measure of central tendency of the speeds indicates a stronger user preference and vice versa.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen that includes a body portion housing of an electronic pen body portion has housed therein a refill body and a circuit board having a side switch formed by a push button switch mounted thereon, and has a pen-point opening portion through which a pen point of the refill body protrudes. A pressing member is provided in a side opening portion of the body portion housing such that the pressing member is disposed on the side switch in such a manner as to be prevented by an engagement portion from protruding outwardly from a side surface of the body portion housing. The side switch of the circuit board is operated through the pressing member of the electronic pen body portion when an operation unit of the outer housing having the electronic pen body portion installed therein is pressed.

Abstract: Various configurations of an electronic display, and devices incorporating the display, are provided. The display may have multiple portions connected along one or more axes, lines, points, or other connecting areas. The portions are movable about the connections. In various configurations, the display portions emulate different media and/or communication and computing devices. Two or more of the display devices may be coupled in an array.

Abstract: Optical systems for performing gaze tracking and imaging an external scene are disclosed. An example optical system may include light sources for emitting visible and non-visible light. The optical system may include a waveguide that is operatively coupled to the light sources. A volume holographic light coupling element may be disposed between the surfaces of the waveguide. The volume holographic light coupling element may include a grating medium and a first volume holographic grating structure within the grating medium. In some examples, the first volume holographic grating structure may be configured to reflect non-visible light of a first wavelength about a first reflective axis offset from a surface normal of the grating medium at a first incidence angle. The optical system may also include an optical filter. Another example optical system may include an imaging device that is configured to receive the light external to the optical system.

Abstract: A display control method includes: obtaining, by a terminal, orientations and display statuses of a first screen and a second screen; determining, by the terminal, whether a trigger event used for adjusting the display statuses of the first screen and the second screen occurs; and when the trigger event occurs, displaying, by the terminal, adjusted display content on the first screen and the second screen based on the orientations and the display statuses of the first screen and the second screen. By obtaining an orientation and a display status of a terminal screen, when the trigger event occurs, the terminal can adjust the display status of the screen in a timely manner, so that a user can perform an interaction operation and interaction display between different screens.

Abstract: A head-up display system for displaying graphics upon a windscreen of a vehicle to provide a driver with a gamified experience includes a driver monitoring system including one or more cameras that determine a location of a head of the driver of the vehicle and an eye location of the driver, a graphic projection module for generating images upon the windscreen of the vehicle, and one or more controllers in electronic communication with the driver monitoring system and the graphic projection module. The controller executes instructions to instruct the graphic projection module to generate a vertical alignment graphic upon the windscreen of the vehicle. The vertical alignment graphic indicates when the eye location of the driver is positioned at a nominal height of an eyebox of the head-up display.

Abstract: An eyewear device including an eye tracker to track a user's eye. The eyewear includes a see-through display for creating an image. The eyewear includes a light source generating a collimated light beam, and the display includes a powered optical element that receives and reflects the light beam. The powered optical element spreads the light beam to uniformly illuminate a user's eye. The powered optical element may include a holographic element.

Abstract: A display device includes a display area, and a dummy area disposed on one side of the display area, where each of the display area and the dummy area includes a first island pattern and a second island pattern disposed to be spaced apart from each other, and a connection pattern connecting the first island pattern and the second island pattern to each other, and the dummy area includes a dummy common electrode and a common connection electrode electrically connected to the dummy common electrode, which are disposed in each of the first island pattern and the second island pattern thereof.

Abstract: Angular sensors that may be used in eye-tracking systems are disclosed. An eye-tracking system may include a plurality of light sources to emit illumination light and a plurality of angular light sensors to receive returning light that is the illumination light reflecting from an eyebox region. The angular light sensors may output angular signals representing an angle of incidence of the returning light.

Abstract: A display system aligns the location of its exit pupil with the location of a viewer's pupil by changing the location of the portion of a light source that outputs light. The light source may include an array of pixels that output light, thereby allowing an image to be displayed on the light source. The display system includes a camera that captures images of the eye and negatives of the images are displayed by the light source. In the negative image, the dark pupil of the eye is a bright spot which, when displayed by the light source, defines the exit pupil of the display system. The location of the pupil of the eye may be tracked by capturing the images of the eye, and the location of the exit pupil of the display system may be adjusted by displaying negatives of the captured images using the light source.

Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including display elements each including a light emitting unit and a drive circuit for driving the light emitting unit, the display elements being arranged in a two-dimensional matrix on a substrate; and a luminance correction unit for correcting luminances of the display elements in display of an image by the display panel by correcting a gradation value of a video signal, in which a partition (60) for guiding stray light from a light emitting unit to an optical sensor (4) provided on the display panel is provided between adjacent light emitting units of the display panel, and the luminance correction unit corrects a gradation value of a video signal associated with each of the display elements on the basis of a gradation value of an uncorrected video signal and a detection result from the optical sensor.

Abstract: To view AR content fused with a real space more safely. There is provided an information processing apparatus including a control unit that controls display of AR content by a display device arranged in front of eyes of a user, in which the control unit controls a manner of displaying the AR content so that a degree of decrease in user's viewing level of a real space is reduced as compared with a case where original content is displayed. Furthermore, provided is an information processing method including controlling, by a processor, display of AR content by a display device arranged in front of eyes of a user, in which the controlling further includes controlling a manner of displaying the AR content so that a degree of decrease in user's viewing level of a real space is reduced as compared with a case where original content is displayed.

Abstract: A light field near-eye display device and a method of light field near-eye display are provided. The light field near-eye display device includes a processor, a display panel, and a lens module. The processor adjusts a preset eye box according to a vision data to obtain an adjusted eye box, and adjusts a preset image data according to the adjusted eye box to generate an adjusted image data. The display panel is coupled to the processor and emits an image beam according to the adjusted image data. The lens module includes a micro lens array and is disposed between the display panel and a pupil. The image beam is incident on the pupil via the lens module and displays a light field image.

Abstract: An interactive cord system can include sensing circuitry coupled to a system ground and an interactive cord. The interactive cord can include a plurality of non-conductive lines a plurality of conductive sensing lines at least partially woven with one or more of the plurality of non-conductive lines to form at least one touch-sensitive area along the interactive cord and one or more conductive grounding lines electrically connected with the system ground and extending at least partially along an outer portion of the interactive cord.

Abstract: An eye tracking system for detecting position and movements of a user's eyes in a head-mounted display (HMD). The eye tracking system includes at least one eye tracking camera, an illumination source that emits infrared light towards the user's eyes, and diffraction gratings located at the eyepieces. The diffraction gratings redirect or reflect at least a portion of infrared light reflected off the user's eyes, while allowing visible light to pass. The cameras capture images of the user's eyes from the infrared light that is redirected or reflected by the diffraction gratings.

Abstract: A display apparatus comprises a mirror oscillating about a first axis upon excitation by a first excitation signal and about a second axis upon excitation by a second excitation signal, a light source projecting a light beam onto the mirror for deflection towards an image plane, the light source being controller according to pixels read-out by an image processor from a buffer, a gaze tracker detecting a user's region of interest, ROI, within the image plane, and a controller modulating one of the excitation signals by a modulation signal which is dependent on the ROI such that the number of passes of the light beam per unit area is higher in the ROI than in a region outside thereof, wherein the number of pixels read-out per unit area by the image processor is higher in the ROI than in a region outside of the ROI.

Abstract: A shift register includes n shift register units which are cascaded. Each shift register unit includes a shift module and multiple enable modules. The shift module of an i-th-level shift register unit is configured to receive and latch a shift signal output by the shift module in an (i?1)-th-level shift register unit. The multiple enable modules of the i-th-level shift register unit are electrically connected to the shift module of the i-th-level shift register unit, and each of the multiple enable modules is configured to generate a gate driving signal according to the shift signal. n and i are positive integers, 1?i?n.