Eye Patents (Class 348/78)
  • Patent number: 12047717
    Abstract: A method for enhancing digital images during a microsurgery, e.g., an eye surgery, includes collecting digital images of target anatomy using a digital camera as the target anatomy is illuminated by warm white light. The method includes identifying, via a processor in communication with the digital camera, a predetermined stage of the microsurgery. Within the images, the processor digitally isolates a first pixel region, e.g., a pupil pixel region, from a second pixel region, e.g., an iris pixel region, and adjusts a characteristic of constituent pixels thereof. The method, possibly recorded as instructions in a computer-readable medium, may be used to enhance a red reflex at predetermined stages of an eye surgery. A system includes a lighting source for emitting warm white light having a color temperature of less than about 4000° K, the camera, and the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Gillian Myers, Alan Fridman, Maximiliano Ramirez Luna
  • Patent number: 12039644
    Abstract: The invention is related to a method of presenting a digital information related to a real object, comprising determining a real object, providing a plurality of presentation modes, wherein the plurality of presentation modes comprises an augmented reality mode, and at least one of a virtual reality mode and an audio mode, providing at least one representation of a digital information related to the real object, determining a spatial relationship between a camera and a reference coordinate system under consideration of an image captured by the camera, selecting a presentation mode from the plurality of presentation modes according to the spatial relationship, and presenting the at least one representation of the digital information using the selected presentation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Kurz, Anton Fedosov
  • Patent number: 12032156
    Abstract: The present disclosure envisages an apparatus for communication to enable differently abled users to communicate their requirements to others. The apparatus comprises an eye wearable device adapted to emit infrared light signal from a certain area of at least one eye of the user. The apparatus further includes a monitoring device configured to receive the transmitted infrared light signal from the at least one eye of the user and further configured to identify the requirement of the user corresponding to the transmitted infrared light signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Inventor: Mirza Faizan
  • Patent number: 12026307
    Abstract: A method (200) of activating a display screen of a device, includes establishing (201) a connection with each of one or more candidate display screens (119). A direction of gaze (121) of an eye of a user (117) is tracked (203), and a display screen (119) is selected (207) from the one or more candidate display screens when (205) the display screen (119) is in the direction of gaze (121) of the eye of the user (117). A confirmation code (305) is caused (209) to be displayed on the selected display screen and an image of the selected display screen is obtained. The selected display screen is activated (215) in response to detecting (213) the confirmation code (305) in the updated image of the selected display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Fredrik Dahlgren, Alexander Hunt
  • Patent number: 12019797
    Abstract: A retinal projection display system includes at least one visible light source for projecting a visible light image, an infrared light source for projecting infrared light, a scanning mirror having a field of view larger than the visible light image, a reflective surface on which the visible light image is projected and on which the infrared light is reflected at least partially towards an eye of a user, wherein the reflective surface is larger than the visible light image, at least one infrared photodetector for receiving reflected infrared light that reflects off of the eye of the user, and a hardware computation module comprising a processor and a memory, the hardware computation module configured to determine a gaze direction of the user based at least in part on the reflected infrared light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ardalan Heshmati, Hideaki Fukuzawa
  • Patent number: 12022182
    Abstract: Techniques for visual feature based video effects are described and are implementable to determine one or more visual features associated with an individual and generate a modified video feed based on the visual features. The described implementations enable automatic focus of a video feed to a particular focal region based on facial features of the individual. For instance, a visual feature such as pupillary distance or pupil size is determined from a video feed. A focal distance is calculated based on the visual feature, e.g., indicating a region that the individual is focused on. A modified video stream is then generated based on the focal distance, for instance to focus the video stream to a specific focal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Rahul Bharat Desai, Amit Kumar Agrawal
  • Patent number: 12019240
    Abstract: An apparatus installed in a head-mounted display (HMD) has a coupling prism formed by packing diagonally-reflective (DR) prisms together. Each DR prism has an internal diagonal plane that is at least partially reflective. A captured image of eye or environmental scene received by a DR prism is reflected to an image-leaving end surface thereof. Image-leaving end surfaces of all DR prisms are oriented along a same direction to optically multiplex the captured images to create a multi-channel image. An imaging sensor on the coupling prism images the multi-channel image, avoiding inter-channel interference caused by spillover of captured-image signals while allowing one imaging sensor instead of multiple ones to image the captured images. A micro display displays a visible image to one DR prism, whose internal diagonal plane reflects the visible image along a direction towards an eye. Hence, the apparatus also enables image displaying to a HMD wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Kin Lung Chan, Ying Wang, Zhuanyun Zhang
  • Patent number: 12013979
    Abstract: A wearable display system for cross reality (XR) systems may have a dynamic vision sensor (DVS) camera and a color camera. At least one of the cameras may be a plenoptic camera. The wearable display system may dynamically restrict processing of image data from either or both cameras based on detected conditions and XR functions being performed. For object tracking, image information may be processed for patches of a field of view of either or both cameras corresponding to the object. Objects may be tracked based on asynchronously acquired events indicating changes within patches. Stereoscopic or other types of image information may be used when event-based object tacking yields an inadequate quality metric. Tracked objects may include a user's hand or a stationary object in the physical world, enabling calculation of the pose of the wearable display system and the wearer's head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Georg Zahnert, Alexander Ilic
  • Patent number: 12014494
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing method and apparatus, a screening system, and a computer-readable storage medium. An image processing method includes: acquiring an image to be processed; extracting a first feature of the image to be processed by using a first feature extractor; performing first classification on the image to be processed according to the first feature by using a first classifier; under the condition that a classification result is a first result, extracting a second feature of the image to be processed by using a second feature extractor; performing second classification on the image to be processed according to the second feature by using a second classifier; and outputting the classification result of the second classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Health Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiao Huang, Cuifang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11997377
    Abstract: An imaging system is provided with: a first imaging apparatus (2) that captures an image of an imaging target (T, TP) that is located at a first point (P1); a second imaging apparatus (3) a focus position of which is set at a second point (P2) that is located at a forward side along a moving direction of the imaging target than the first point; and a control apparatus (6) that controls the second imaging apparatus to capture an image of the imaging target that is located at the second point on the basis of the image (200) captured by the first imaging apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuka Ogino, Keiichi Chono
  • Patent number: 11995233
    Abstract: A method is provided, including: rendering a view of a virtual environment through a virtual reality (VR) headset; detecting a gaze direction of a user that wears the VR headset; detecting a gaze focus depth of the user that wears the VR headset; detecting an electroencephalography (EEG) signal of the user that wears the VR headset; using the gaze direction and gaze focus depth of the user to identify a virtual object in the virtual environment as being actively viewed by the user; using the EEG signal to determine a concentration of the user upon the identified virtual object; responsive to determining the concentration of the user upon the identified virtual object, then rendering a graphical indicator applied to the virtual object in the view of the virtual environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventor: Yiwei Yang
  • Patent number: 11995753
    Abstract: A camera of a virtual reality (VR) headset captures a plurality of images of a reflection of a user in a mirror. The plurality of images include at least a first image of a reflection of the user in a first position with respect to the mirror and a second image of a reflection of the user in a second position with respect to the mirror. A three-dimensional avatar is generated based on the plurality of images captured by the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Charter Communications Operating, LLC
    Inventors: Komal Sharma, Muhammad Khan, Hany Heikal, Mohamed Daoud, Hossam Hmimy
  • Patent number: 11986244
    Abstract: A wide field fundus camera is disclosed to implement multiple illumination beam projectors and to capture multiple retinal images at various viewing angles to facilitate wide field retinal examination. The wide field fundus camera contemplates an ultra-wide field lens that can provide edge to edge imaging of the entire retina at a single alignment. The wide field fundus camera contemplates configuration of said multiple illumination beam projectors to provide visualization of retina and Purkinje reflections simultaneously to facilitate determination of proper camera alignment with the eye. The wide field fundus camera further contemplates control of multiple illumination beam projectors in a programmable manner to further assess alignment of each illumination beam projector with the eye and to capture said multiple retinal images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: RETIVUE LLC
    Inventors: Paul Andrew Yates, Ming Lai, Ta-Wei Yi, Alex Martinez
  • Patent number: 11983311
    Abstract: Techniques for content protection for a glasses device are described and may be implemented to enable sensitive content on a glasses device to be protected from exposure to persons other than a user of the glasses device. Generally, the described implementations utilizing sensor data such as visual data from a camera to detect human gaze to determine whether a person other than a user of a glasses device is positioned to view sensitive content displayed by the glasses device. If a secondary person other than a user of a glasses device is detected as being positioned to view sensitive content, a protection process is implemented to mitigate exposure of the sensitive content to the secondary person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Alexandre Neves Creto, Amit Kumar Agrawal
  • Patent number: 11983961
    Abstract: Iris image pick-up devices perform image pick-up of an iris of a moving subject. A guiding device guides the subject. A controller predicts a period in which the subject will blink next. Further, the controller predicts a period in which the subject will pass through the focusing point of the iris image pick-up devices. The controller controls the guiding device such that the subject does not blink at the focusing point in the case where the period in which the subject will blink next overlaps with the period in which the subject will pass through the focusing point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichi Chono, Yuka Ogino, Masato Tsukada
  • Patent number: 11969209
    Abstract: End user interactions at a display are monitored for predetermined conditions to provide augmentation of display presentation by a red light that illuminates in the 650 to 800 nm range, such as at substantially 670 nm. Instructions stored in non-transient memory and executed on a processor present visual images of varied color contrast and evaluate end user inputs to determine an end user visual acuity. Over time and use of the display and red light, end user visual acuity is periodically tested to evaluate the effectiveness of red light illumination to restore visual acuity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Stefan Peana, Todd E. Swierk, Timoteo T. Lee Kang
  • Patent number: 11948348
    Abstract: An operator behavior monitoring system, which includes: an operator behavior recognition system comprising hardware including a processor, a data storage facility and input/output interfaces, the system being configured to implement a set of convolutional neural networks including: an object detection group for detecting an object in the image and to delineate the object from the image; a feature extraction group which extracts features of the object detected by the object detection group; a classifier group which assess the features and classifying the features into a events and which is operable to report the events to a remote server; a server operable to communicate with the operator behavior recognition system for receiving predefined events detected by the operator behavior recognition system; a database in communication with the server, operable to store and retrieve detected operator incidents; and a web frontend, in communication with the server for interfacing with the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: 5DT, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaco Cronje, Johann Ephraim Hough, Willie Moller, Riaan Van Rensburg, Paul Olckers
  • Patent number: 11944887
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including: a control unit that performs position detection of an object, on which a light emitting unit or a reflective material is provided, on the basis of a captured image acquired by imaging of emitted light or reflected light of the object in a direction facing a side, on which the light emitting unit or the reflective material is provided, of the object, wherein the control unit adjusts algorithm for the position detection of the object according to an illuminance detection result of external light including at least a wavelength of the emitted light or the reflected light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumihiko Iida, Kentaro Ida, Takuya Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11935324
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for capturing an image and determining whether a switch is in a filtering position or a non-filtering position. When the switch is in the filtering position, the camera apparatus detects a switch position and determines whether the switch is in the filtering position or the non-filtering position. The camera captures the image, including audio/visual signals, while the switch is detected to be in the filtering position and modifies the image to inhibit biometric data collection from the image in response to the switch being in the filtering position when the image is captured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (United States) Inc.
    Inventors: John W. Nicholson, Daryl C. Cromer, Howard Locker, Mengnan Wang
  • Patent number: 11922706
    Abstract: A driver monitoring system of a vehicle includes: a camera configured to capture an image of a driver on a driver's seat within a passenger cabin of the vehicle; a gaze module configured to determine a gaze vector based on a direction of pupils of the driver in the image; an area module configured to determine an area on a vertical plane in front of the driver based on a road in front of the vehicle; a location module configured to determine a location on the vertical plane where the gaze vector intersects the vertical plane; and a monitor module that determines whether the location on the vertical plane where the gaze vector intersects the vertical plane is within the area on the vertical plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: VEONEER US, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas James Herbert, Tom Toma, Hans Herbertsson
  • Patent number: 11922727
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, apparatus, and systems for iris recognition. A method includes acquiring at least two angularly differentiated iris images from a subject needing access, processing each of the at least two angularly differentiated iris images to generate at least one boundary delineated image from one of the at least two angularly differentiated iris images, applying image comparative analysis to the at least two angularly differentiated iris images to generate a boundary delineated image when the processing fails to produce the at least one boundary delineated image, segmenting and encoding one of the at least one boundary delineated image or the boundary delineated image to generate at least one iris template, matching the at least one iris template against an enrolled iris, and accepting the subject for access processing when the at least one iris template matches the enrolled iris.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Princeton Identity
    Inventors: John Timothy Green, David Alan Ackerman, Jean-Michel Florent
  • Patent number: 11899805
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for automatically limiting video surveillance collection to authorized uses and authorized users. To achieve this control, the authorization system can be configured to manage and secure a plurality of crypto keys associated with encrypting a plurality of corresponding video footages and release a crypto key for a video footage at approved times to limit user access to the video footage. In particular, the surveillance system can generate a video collection including a copy of portions of a received video footage that include one or more approved events from a watchlist of a user. Thereafter, the video footage can be encrypted by a first key managed by the authorization system and prevents the user from accessing video content of the video footage once encrypted. Accordingly, the user may be limited to accessing the video collection and not all the portions in the encrypted video footage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: IDEMIA National Security Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Marc Rene San Pedro, Brian Scott Swann, James Arville Loudermilk, II
  • Patent number: 11892877
    Abstract: An information handling system camera is secured against unauthorized image captures by a shutter that mechanically closes across the camera lens to block visible light from entering the camera. The shutter integrates an infrared bypass filter that passes through infrared light while blocking visible light so that the camera can support facial recognition when the mechanical shutter secures the camera to prevent unauthorized capture of visual images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Shu Yu Jiang, Howard Yh Huang
  • Patent number: 11885687
    Abstract: A non-contact body temperature detection system of a vehicle includes: a thermography camera configured to generate an image of a user within a passenger cabin of the vehicle; a head detection module configured to determine a first area of the image including a head of the user; an eye detection module configured to determine a second area of the first area of the image including an eye of the user; a tear duct detection module configured to determine a third area of the second area of the image including a tear duct of the user; a temperature module configured to determine a body temperature of the user based on pixels of the third area of the image; and an indicator module configured to indicate whether the user has an elevated body temperature when the body temperature of the user is greater than a temperature threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: VEONEER US, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Seoane, Thomas Herbert, Frank Judge
  • Patent number: 11882354
    Abstract: An iris image acquisition system for expanding an iris recognition range is proposed. The iris image acquisition system for expanding the iris recognition range enables that a direction, zoom, and focusing of an iris photographing camera for photographing an iris image of a distant subject are controlled quickly and easily without high-level information processing and arithmetic processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: KT&C CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ki Seok Ko, Jeong Geun Kim, Jong Bae Park, Hyuk Sub Kwon
  • Patent number: 11871990
    Abstract: A dynamic illuminator includes a central aperture, a ring of inner light sources, a plurality of primary illumination arrays, and a plurality of secondary illumination arrays. The ring of inner light sources is arranged around the central aperture. The plurality of primary illumination arrays extends along radial axes from the central aperture outside of the ring of inner light sources, wherein the primary illumination arrays each includes a plurality of primary light sources. The plurality of secondary illumination arrays is disposed along secondary axes extending from the central aperture outside of the ring of inner light sources. The secondary illumination arrays each includes a plurality of secondary light sources. The secondary axes of the secondary illumination arrays are disposed angularly between adjacent ones of the primary illumination arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Eliezer Glik, Sam Kavusi
  • Patent number: 11874474
    Abstract: A system includes a diffractive optical element including at least one substrate and a grating structure. The grating structure is configured to diffract a first light having an incidence angle within a predetermined range, and the at least one substrate is configured to reflect a second light. The system also includes a polarization selective mechanism configured to generate images based on the first light and the second light, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Yun-Han Lee, Mengfei Wang, Junren Wang, Lu Lu, Robin Sharma, Gregory Olegovic Andreev, Garam Young, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Babak Amirsolaimani, Fenglin Peng, Barry David Silverstein
  • Patent number: 11871991
    Abstract: Data is computed in order to visualize the velocity of blood fluid flowing through a blood vessel at a fundus. An image processing method includes a step of performing registration of each frame in a moving image configured by plural frames of an imaged fundus, and a step of computing visualization data enabling visualization of a state of blood fluid flowing through a blood vessel at the fundus based on a pixel value in each of the registered frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mariko Hirokawa, Yasushi Tanabe
  • Patent number: 11875501
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems that include obtaining at least one image of a dendritic structure, analyzing the at least one image to identify one or more features associated with the dendritic structure, and determining a numerical value associated with the dendritic structure based on the one or more features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventor: Michael N. Kozicki
  • Patent number: 11868527
    Abstract: An eye tracking system can include a first camera configured to capture a first plurality of visual data of a right eye at a first sampling rate. The system can include a second camera configured to capture a second plurality of visual data of a left eye at a second sampling rate. The second plurality of visual data can be captured during different sampling times than the first plurality of visual data. The system can estimate, based on at least some visual data of the first and second plurality of visual data, visual data of at least one of the right or left eye at a sampling time during which visual data of an eye for which the visual data is being estimated are not being captured. Eye movements of the eye based on at least some of the estimated visual data and at least some visual data of the first or second plurality of visual data can be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Ian Russell
  • Patent number: 11867915
    Abstract: A device includes a frame configured to be supported in front of a user eye. The frame has a first side facing the user eye and a second side opposite the first side and facing an environment. A light emitting diode is supported by the frame to emit light. The light emitting diode is obscured by an opaque material from an observer in front of the user in the environment. A light deflector is supported by the frame to direct the emitted light from the light emitting diode towards the user eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jessie Cindy Maikim, Christopher Charles Aholt, James Peele Terrell, Jr., Jordan Christopher Jur, Joel Steven Kollin
  • Patent number: 11858546
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for adjusting a steering wheel, which include: a camera unit installed inside a vehicle to photograph a driver's face; and a control unit which processes an image photographed by the camera unit to detect a face shape, checks whether higher and lower portions of detected face are photographed in an optimal face shape without being cut off, and outputs designated steering wheel adjustment information when the face shape is not the optimal face shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seo Young Kim
  • Patent number: 11854213
    Abstract: An eye tracking system comprises at least one illuminator and at least one image sensor configured to produce an image of an eye of a user, the image including illuminator light reflected from the eye of a user. A Fresnel lens is positioned between the image sensor and the eye of the user, through which the image sensor views the eye. Processing circuitry receives an image from the image sensor, identifies glints in the image, assigns an angular position to each glint based on an angular relationship between each glint and a centre of the Fresnel lens and determines how many glints have the same angular position. Glints are classified as false glints if more than a predetermined number of glints have the same angular position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Tobii AB
    Inventors: Joakim Zachrisson, Simon Johansson, Mikael Rosell
  • Patent number: 11837024
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for using an apparatus to perform pupil identification. An example method includes toggling circuitry configured to determine, based on a measured ambient infrared light level, whether to perform pupil identification using one of either the dark pupil identification process or the bright pupil identification process; and pupil identification circuitry configured to perform pupil identification on a user using the bright identification process upon the determination that the measured ambient infrared light level falls within a first range and to perform dark pupil identification process upon the determination that the measured ambient infrared light level falls within a second range. Corresponding apparatuses and non-transitory computer readable storage media are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventor: Masoud Vakili
  • Patent number: 11837022
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a control unit that performs control to acquire first orientation information indicating a first orientation of the body and first line-of-sight information about the user's line-of-sight, of a case where a first eye tracking calibration display is displayed on the screen, acquire second orientation information indicating a second orientation of the body different from the first orientation and second line-of-sight information about the user's line-of-sight, of a case where a second eye tracking calibration display is displayed on the screen, and cause, in a case where the second orientation information is different from the first orientation information, the screen to display a predetermined display that prompts the user to change the orientation of the body to the first orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naomi Mori
  • Patent number: 11819275
    Abstract: The optical coherence tomography apparatus is an optical coherence tomography apparatus that obtains a tomographic image of an eye to be examined by using combined light obtained by combining (a) return light from the eye to be examined irradiated with measurement light and (b) reference light, the optical coherence tomography apparatus including an optical path length difference changing unit arranged to change an optical path length difference between the measurement light and the reference light, a driving unit arranged to drive the optical path length difference changing unit, a determining unit configured to determine, using a learned model, a driving amount of the driving unit from the obtained tomographic image, and a controlling unit configured to control the driving unit using the determined driving amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazumasa Tanaka, Hiroki Uchida, Yoshihiko Iwase, Osamu Sagano, Ritsuya Tomita
  • Patent number: 11823304
    Abstract: In some examples, a picture display apparatus for displaying content includes an audio input unit to obtain a voice uttered by an operator; a display capable of displaying the content and displaying a content list of content capable being acquired via a network; a storage to store content list settings information and operator information related to the operator, and to store voiceprint related information related to a voiceprint of the operator; and a controller. For instance, when the controller recognizes that an uttered voice obtained by the audio input unit is a voice uttered by the operator, operator information related to whom is stored in the storage, the controller may control the display to display a content list based on the content list settings information associated with the operator information of the recognized operator. The controller may further control the display to display an indication indicating the recognized operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 11823413
    Abstract: An eye tracking system configured to: receive a plurality of right eye images of a right eye of a user; receive a plurality of left eye images of a left eye of a user, each left eye image corresponding to a right eye image in the plurality of right eye images; detect a pupil and determine an associated pupil signal, for each of the plurality of right eye images and each of the plurality of left eye images; calculate a right eye pupil variation of the pupil signals for the plurality of right eye images and a left eye pupil variation of the pupil signals for the plurality of left eye images; and determine a right eye weighting and a left eye weighting based on the right eye pupil variation and the left eye pupil variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Tobii AB
    Inventors: Mikael Rosell, Simon Johansson, Pravin Kumar Rana, Yimu Wang, Gilfredo Remon Salazar
  • Patent number: 11823603
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide an always-on-display method and an electronic device. The method includes: displaying, by an electronic device, an always-on-display screen, where the always-on-display screen includes a first image of a first display object; in response to detecting by the electronic device that an external object satisfies a first preset condition, displaying, by the electronic device, a second image of a second display object, where the second image is different from the first image. In the embodiments of this application, the always-on-display screen displayed by the electronic device can change according to the external object. When the external object satisfies a preset condition, a corresponding image or motion video is displayed, so that the always-on-display screen can be flexibly displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenjie Chen, Liwei Huang, Kai Qian, Yan Wang
  • Patent number: 11825205
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a computer implemented method and system for obtaining an image sensor exposure setting for use in capturing an image using a main flash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: PROFOTO AKTIEBOLAG
    Inventors: Marcus Hultmark, Emanuel Schütt, Anton Falk
  • Patent number: 11816927
    Abstract: An information providing device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory storing a set of instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the set of instructions to: receive a face image; determine whether a person in the face image is unsuitable for iris data acquisition based on the face image; and output information based on determining that the person is unsuitable for the iris data acquisition when the person is determined to be unsuitable for the iris data acquisition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichi Chono, Masato Tsukada, Chisato Funayama, Ryuichi Akashi, Yuka Ogino, Takashi Shibata, Shoji Yachida, Hiroshi Imai, Emi Kitagawa, Yasuhiko Yoshida, Yusuke Mori
  • Patent number: 11792376
    Abstract: A method for enhancing digital images during a microsurgery, e.g., an eye surgery, includes collecting digital images of target anatomy using a digital camera as the target anatomy is illuminated by warm white light. The method includes identifying, via a processor in communication with the digital camera, a predetermined stage of the microsurgery. Within the images, the processor digitally isolates a first pixel region, e.g., a pupil pixel region, from a second pixel region, e.g., an iris pixel region, and adjusts a characteristic of constituent pixels thereof. The method, possibly recorded as instructions in a computer-readable medium, may be used to enhance a red reflex at predetermined stages of an eye surgery. A system includes a lighting source for emitting warm white light having a color temperature of less than about 4000° K, the camera, and the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: ALCON INC.
    Inventors: Gillian Myers, Alan Fridman, Maximiliano Ramirez Luna
  • Patent number: 11755105
    Abstract: The information processing apparatus includes a space information acquisition unit that acquires space information based on the space sensing information, an object information acquisition unit that acquires object information, a user information acquisition unit that acquires user information based on the user sensing information, an attention level map creation unit that creates an attention level map showing an attention level of the user for each local area of the space, a goodness-of-fit map creation unit that creates a goodness-of-fit map showing a goodness-of-fit of the object for each local area, and a proposing unit that proposes a disposition of the object in the space on the basis of the attention level map and the goodness-of-fit map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takatoshi Karino, Kazuyuki Itagaki, Makoto Ozeki, Shinji Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11756247
    Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a focus identifier to identify a focus area, and a color compressor to selectively compress color data based on the identified focus area. Another embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a motion detector to detect motion of a real object, a motion predictor to predict a motion of the real object, and an object placer to place a virtual object relative to the real object based on the predicted motion of the real object. Another embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a frame divider to divide a frame into viewports, a viewport prioritizer to prioritize the viewports, a renderer to render a viewport of the frame in order in accordance with the viewport priorities, and a viewport transmitter to transmit a completed rendered viewport. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Deepak S. Vembar, Atsuo Kuwahara, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Radhakrishnan Venkataraman, Brent E. Insko, Anupreet S. Kalra, Hugues Labbe, Abhishek R. Appu, Ankur N. Shah, Joydeep Ray, ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, James M. Holland
  • Patent number: 11756686
    Abstract: A biometric computing system obtains, via an inertial sensor, time-based inertial measurement data with respect to a human subject located on-board an aircraft for each of a plurality of on-board sessions with one or more aircraft. The time-based inertial measurement data may be transformed for each on-board session to a common reference frame that is shared by the plurality of on-board sessions. The transformed data of the plurality of on-board sessions are combined to obtain a time-based inertial measurement profile for the human subject. The biometric computing system further obtains, via a range of motion sensor, force-based range of motion measurement data with respect to the human subject interacting with a physiological measurement device across a range of motion. The force-based range of motion measurement data is combined with the time-based inertial measurement profile for the human subject to obtain a combined measurement profile for the human subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: DURO HEALTH, LLC
    Inventors: Randy Ziobro, Collin C. Beeson
  • Patent number: 11737666
    Abstract: Head-worn computers with eye-imaging systems include a camera system positioned in a head-worn computer, wherein the camera system is further positioned to capture eye-image light that originates as reflections from a user's eye, wherein the camera system is further positioned to capture eye-image light as a reflection from a partially reflective surface that is positioned in front of an image display in the head-worn computer, wherein image light, from the image display, is transmitted through the partially reflective surface. A processor is adapted to cause the camera system to capture the eye-image light. The processor is further adapted to cause a comparison of the captured eye-image light with a pre-stored eye image of a known user of the head-worn computer. In the event the comparison confirms the identity of the known user, the user is granted permission to view content to be presented in a display of the head-worn computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventors: John N. Border, John Haddick, Joseph Bietry
  • Patent number: 11740692
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for optical sensing and tracking of eye movement. In one aspect, a method for tracking the movement of an eye includes emitting a first modulated light and a second modulated light toward an eye of a user, wherein the first modulated light and the second modulated light have substantially the same modulation frequency, but the modulation phases of the two modulated lights are substantially opposite to each other; receiving at a photodetector module a returned light including at least a partial retroreflected light from the eye of the user based on the first and second modulated lights; and processing the output signal from the photodetector module to determine positional and dimensional parameters of the eye of the user based at least on the partial retroreflected light corresponding to the first and second modulated lights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi He, Bo Pi
  • Patent number: 11734841
    Abstract: A method for tracking eye gaze, a system, a processing device and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring original images acquired by multiple image acquisition devices, splicing the multiple original images into a spliced image, and determining a responsible region of each image acquisition device in the spliced image; performing preliminary face locating on the spliced image, and determining one or more original images corresponding to a preliminarily located face position according to the preliminarily located face position and the responsible region; and performing secondary face locating on the one or more determined original images to obtain face pose information and a positional relation of pupils with respect to human eyes, and calculating coordinates of gaze points of the human eyes according to the obtained face pose information and the positional relation of the pupils with respect to the human eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yachong Xue, Hao Zhang, Lili Chen, Jiankang Sun, Guixin Yan, Xiaolei Liu, Yaoyu Lv, Menglei Zhang, Xinkai Li
  • Patent number: 11711606
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding a line of sight of a user toward a display unit visually checked by the user through a viewfinder and a control unit configured to display on the display unit an image indicating, in a screen of the display unit, an effective display region in which a display element for calibration of the information is displayed. The control unit performs control so that the effective display region is displayed on the display unit based on any of a plurality of display settings including a first display setting for displaying the effective display region in a first size and a second display setting for displaying the effective display region in a second size smaller than the first size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naomi Mori
  • Patent number: 11704937
    Abstract: The disclosure is inputting a first image obtained by capturing an object of authentication moving in a specific direction; inputting a second image at least for one eye obtained by capturing a right eye or a left eye of the object; determining whether the second image is of the left eye or the right eye of the object, based on information including the first image, and outputting a determination result associated with the second image as left/right information; comparing characteristic information relevant to the left/right information, the characteristic information being acquired from a memory that stores the characteristic information of a right eye and a left eye pertaining to object to be authenticated, with characteristic information associated with the left/right information, and calculating a verification score; and authenticating the object captured in the first image and the second image, based on the verification score, and outputting an authentication result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Shibata, Shoji Yachida, Chisato Funayama, Masato Tsukada, Yuka Ogino, Keiichi Chono, Emi Kitagawa, Yasuhiko Yoshida, Yusuke Mori