Patents by Inventor Lochlainn Wilson
Lochlainn Wilson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20200379555Abstract: An information processing system includes: a display processing unit configured to display an image on a display unit; a detection unit configured to detect a gaze of a user viewing the image displayed on the display unit; an extraction unit configured to extract an operation signal correlated with a movement of the gaze of the user detected by the detection unit with reference to correlation data in which predetermined movements of a gaze are correlated with operation signals preset to correspond to the predetermined movements of a gaze; and an execution unit configured to execute an operation corresponding to the operation signal extracted by the extraction unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Yamato KANEKO, Lochlainn WILSON, Yuka KOJIMA
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Patent number: 10817721Abstract: [Problem] To reduce the size of a head-mounted display or other typical display device comprising a gaze detection device. [Solution] A gaze detection device comprising a semi-reflective mirror 13 that partly transmits and partly reflects incident light, and one or more gaze analysis cameras that capture images of the user's eye 10 reflected in the semi-reflective mirror 13, wherein the semi-reflective mirror 13 is positioned to face the eyes 10 of the user and images of the user's eye 10 reflected in the semi-reflective mirror 13 are captured by one or more abovementioned cameras.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: FOVE, INC.Inventor: Lochlainn Wilson
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Publication number: 20200319709Abstract: An information processing system includes: a display processing unit configured to display an image on a display unit; a detection unit configured to detect a gaze of a user viewing the image displayed on the display unit; an extraction unit configured to extract an operation signal correlated with a movement of the gaze of the user detected by the detection unit with reference to correlation data in which predetermined movements of a gaze are correlated with operation signals preset to correspond to the predetermined movements of a gaze; and an execution unit configured to execute an operation corresponding to the operation signal extracted by the extraction unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Yamato KANEKO, Lochlainn WILSON, Yuka KOJIMA
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Publication number: 20190392210Abstract: [Problem] To reduce the size of a head-mounted display or other typical display device comprising a gaze detection device. [Solution] A gaze detection device comprising a semi-reflective mirror 13 that partly transmits and partly reflects incident light, and one or more gaze analysis cameras that capture images of the user's eye 10 reflected in the semi-reflective mirror 13, wherein the semi-reflective mirror 13 is positioned to face the eyes 10 of the user and images of the user's eye 10 reflected in the semi-reflective mirror 13 are captured by one or more abovementioned cameras.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventor: Lochlainn Wilson
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Patent number: 10460165Abstract: A head mounted display includes a lens disposed at a position facing a user's cornea; a plurality of infrared light sources disposed in a periphery of the lens that emit infrared light toward the user's cornea; a hot mirror that reflects the infrared light; a camera that captures an image projected into the hot mirror; an output unit that outputs an image captured by the camera to an eyesight direction detection unit that detects an eyesight direction of the user; and a housing, wherein when the periphery of the lens is divided into four regions: a first corresponding to the outer corner side of the eye, a second corresponding to the inner corner side, a third corresponding to the top side of the head, and a fourth corresponding to the jaw side, the plurality of infrared light sources are disposed in any of the first region and the second region.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2015Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: FOVE, Inc.Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Keiichi Seko
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Patent number: 10445573Abstract: [Problem] To reduce the size of a head-mounted display or other typical display device comprising a gaze detection device. [Solution] A gaze detection device comprising a semi-reflective mirror 13 that partly transmits and partly reflects incident light, and one or more gaze analysis cameras that capture images of the user's eye 10 reflected in the semi-reflective mirror 13, wherein the semi-reflective mirror 13 is positioned to face the eyes 10 of the user and images of the user's eye 10 reflected in the semi-reflective mirror 13 are captured by one or more abovementioned cameras.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: FOVE, INC.Inventor: Lochlainn Wilson
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Patent number: 10409368Abstract: An eye-gaze detection system containing a mounting tool mounted on a user for use, includes: plural illumination units illuminating an eye of the user with invisible light; a camera capturing the eye on the basis of the invisible light; a pupil specifying unit specifying a pupil center of the user from a captured image having been captured; an obtaining unit obtaining information on a position of a center of a corneal curvature of the user on the basis of disposed positions of the illumination units and the camera, and illuminated positions by illumination light emitted from the illumination units to the eye; a vector specifying unit specifying a vector connecting the center of the corneal curvature and the pupil center on the captured image; and a displacement detection unit detecting displacement of a mounting state of the mounting tool mounted on the user on the basis of the vector.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: FOVE, INC.Inventors: Juahn Cho, Lochlainn Wilson
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Patent number: 10191285Abstract: A head mounted display that is mounted on the head of a user and used includes an irradiation unit that irradiates the eyes of the user with invisible light, a monitor that displays an image for the user to view wearing a glass for display that transmits visible light and reflects invisible light, an imaging device capable of capturing an image formed by the invisible light, and an output unit that outputs an image captured by the imaging device as an image for gaze detection, and the imaging device images the eyes of the user using the invisible light radiated from the irradiation unit, reflected by the eyes of the user, and reflected by the glass for display.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: FOVE, INC.Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Keiichi Seko
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Publication number: 20190012528Abstract: A facial expression recognition system including a head mounted display including a first camera that images eyes of a user, a second camera that images a mouth of the user, and an output unit that outputs a first image captured by the first camera and a second image captured by the second camera; and a facial expression recognition device including a reception unit that receives the first image and the second image output by the output unit, and an expression recognition unit that recognizes a facial expression of the user on the basis of the first image and the second image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2016Publication date: January 10, 2019Applicant: FOVE, INC.Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Keiichi Seko, Yuka Kojima, Yamato Kaneko
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Publication number: 20180247458Abstract: Appropriate reduction of transferred data volume is used to deliver interruption-free video to a user, minimizing viewing discomfort. A head-mounted display secured to the head of a user and a video generating device that generates a video for presentation to the user by the head-mounted display are combined in a video system. In the head-mounted display, a presentation unit presents the video to the user, an imaging unit captures an image of the user's eye, the first communication unit sends the captured image to the video generating device, and receives the video from the video generating device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Keiichi Seko, Yuka Kojima, Yamato Kaneko, Genki Sano
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Patent number: 9978183Abstract: Appropriate reduction of transferred data volume is used to deliver interruption-free video to a user, minimizing viewing discomfort. A head-mounted display secured to the head of a user and a video generating device that generates a video for presentation to the user by the head-mounted display are combined in a video system. In the head-mounted display, a presentation unit presents the video to the user, an imaging unit captures an image of the user's eye, the first communication unit sends the captured image to the video generating device, and receives the video from the video generating device.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: FOVE, INC.Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Keiichi Seko, Yuka Kojima, Yamato Kaneko, Genki Sano
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Publication number: 20180133593Abstract: To accurately input a point-of-gaze of a user in a game engine expressing a three-dimensional space. A point-of-gaze calculation algorithm is configured such that data of lines of view of both eyes of a user is calculated using data from a camera (10) capturing an image of the eyes of the user, and a three-dimensional coordinate position within a three-dimensional space at which the user gazes is calculated on the basis of the gaze data of the user and three-dimensional data included in a system managed by the game engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2014Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventor: Lochlainn Wilson
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Publication number: 20180106999Abstract: A gaze detection system includes a head mounted display including a gaze detection device detecting a gaze of a user; and a tracking unit that determines a gaze point of the user in the three-dimensional image on the basis of the gaze directions of the right and left eyes, in which the first detection unit calculates a right eye gaze vector indicating the gaze direction of the right eye, and the second detection unit calculates a left eye gaze vector indicating the gaze direction of the left eye, wherein a display unit displays a three-dimensional image consisting of a plurality of layers in a depth direction, and a tracking unit identifies the layer that the user is gazing at by selecting the layer having a shortest distance between intersection points of the right eye gaze vector and the left eye gaze vector with each layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2017Publication date: April 19, 2018Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Keiichi Seko, Yuka Kojima, Yamato Kaneko
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Publication number: 20180067306Abstract: A head mounted display is used in a state of being mounted on a user's head and includes a convex lens disposed at a position facing the user's cornea when the head mounted display is mounted. An infrared light source emits infrared light toward the convex lens. A camera captures an image including the user's cornea in a subject. A housing houses the convex lens, the infrared light source, and the camera. The convex lens is provided with a plurality of reflection regions that reflects infrared light in an inside of the convex lens. The infrared light source causes a pattern of infrared light to appear on the user's cornea by emitting infrared light to each of the plurality of reflection regions provided in the convex lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2016Publication date: March 8, 2018Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Bakui Chou, Keiichi Seko
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Publication number: 20180032134Abstract: An information processing system includes: a display processing unit configured to display an image on a display unit; a detection unit configured to detect a gaze of a user viewing the image displayed on the display unit; an extraction unit configured to extract an operation signal correlated with a movement of the gaze of the user detected by the detection unit with reference to correlation data in which predetermined movements of a gaze are correlated with operation signals preset to correspond to the predetermined movements of a gaze; and an execution unit configured to execute an operation corresponding to the operation signal extracted by the extraction unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Yamato Kaneko, Lochlainn Wilson, Yuka Kojima
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Publication number: 20180032133Abstract: An eye-gaze detection system containing a mounting tool mounted on a user for use, includes: plural illumination units illuminating an eye of the user with invisible light; a camera capturing the eye on the basis of the invisible light; a pupil specifying unit specifying a pupil center of the user from a captured image having been captured; an obtaining unit obtaining information on a position of a center of a corneal curvature of the user on the basis of disposed positions of the illumination units and the camera, and illuminated positions by illumination light emitted from the illumination units to the eye; a vector specifying unit specifying a vector connecting the center of the corneal curvature and the pupil center on the captured image; and a displacement detection unit detecting displacement of a mounting state of the mounting tool mounted on the user on the basis of the vector.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Juahn Cho, Lochlainn Wilson
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Patent number: 9880384Abstract: A gaze detection system includes a head mounted display and a gaze detection device detecting the gaze of the user. The head mounted display illuminate users eyes with infrared light, displays three-dimensional image comprising a plurality of layers in the depth direction and captures an image of user's eye illuminated by the infrared light. The gaze detection device detects the user's right eye's gaze direction (vector) and left eye's gaze direction (vector) with use of the captured images. The gaze detection device identifies the layer that the user is gazing at by selecting the layer having the shortest distance between the intersection points of the right eye gaze vector and the left eye gaze vector with each layer as a gaze point in the depth direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2015Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: FOVE, Inc.Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Keiichi Seko, Yuka Kojima, Yamato Kaneko
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Publication number: 20180004289Abstract: A video display system that improves convenience of a user by displaying video in a state in which the video can be easily viewed by a user is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Genki Sano, Yamato Kaneko
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Publication number: 20180003980Abstract: A head mounted display that is mounted on the head of a user and used includes an irradiation unit that irradiates the eyes of the user with invisible light, a monitor that displays an image for the user to view wearing a glass for display that transmits visible light and reflects invisible light, an imaging device capable of capturing an image formed by the invisible light, and an output unit that outputs an image captured by the imaging device as an image for gaze detection, and the imaging device images the eyes of the user using the invisible light radiated from the irradiation unit, reflected by the eyes of the user, and reflected by the glass for display.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson, Keiichi Seko
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Publication number: 20170371408Abstract: A video display system capable of detecting heartbeat of a user by being mounted on the head of a user when used is provided. The video display system comprises a video display device that is mounted on the head of a user when used and a heartbeat detection device that detects the heartbeat of the user is provided, wherein video display device includes an acceleration sensor that sequentially outputs measured acceleration information and a first transmission unit that sequentially transmits the acceleration information to the heartbeat detection device, and the heartbeat detection device includes a first reception unit that receives the acceleration information transmitted from the video display device and a heartbeat detection unit that detects the heartbeat of the user from a waveform indicating a change in acceleration based on the received acceleration information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2017Publication date: December 28, 2017Inventor: Lochlainn Wilson