Patents by Inventor Simon Byrns

Simon Byrns 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).

  • System and method for capturing spatially and temporally coherent eye gaze and hand data during performance of a manual task
    Patent number: 10433725
    Abstract: An eye gaze and hand data capturing system for use with a human performing a manual task (such as a surgical procedure) with a hand-held instrument (such as a surgical instrument), includes subsystems for tracking pupil position head position and orientation, hand position, and force applied by the hand to an instrument, all operatively connected to a computer that repeatedly determines an eye gaze vector, the hand position and orientation, and the force applied to the instrument and records such information as a record of spatially and temporally coherent data in a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
    Inventors: Simon Byrns, Michael Feist, Bin Zheng, Pierre Boulanger
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING SPATIALLY AND TEMPORALLY COHERENT EYE GAZE AND HAND DATA DURING PERFORMANCE OF A MANUAL TASK
    Publication number: 20180070816
    Abstract: An eye gaze and hand data capturing system for use with a human performing a manual task (such as a surgical procedure) with a hand-held instrument (such as a surgical instrument), includes subsystems for tracking pupil position head position and orientation, hand position, and force applied by the hand to an instrument, all operatively connected to a computer that repeatedly determines an eye gaze vector, the hand position and orientation, and the force applied to the instrument and records such information as a record of spatially and temporally coherent data in a database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Simon Byrns, Michael Feist, Bin Zheng, Pierre Boulanger