Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Passive world-referenced eye tracking for smartglasses
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Application No.: US18297372Application Date: 2023-04-07
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Publication No.: US11892649B2Publication Date: 2024-02-06
- Inventor: Daniel Adema , Timothy Paul Bodiya
- Applicant: Google LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP
- Main IPC: G02B27/01
- IPC: G02B27/01 ; F21V8/00 ; G09G3/00 ; G06F3/01

Abstract:
Improved systems ensuring an accuracy of eye gaze measurements in an augmented reality head-mounted wearable device include a radiation direction rerouter (e.g., a partial retroreflector) configured to adjust an angle of incidence of the radiation in the waveguide at a first surface of a waveguide to produce radiation directed at an adjusted angle of incidence at an outcoupler such that the output direction is essentially parallel to the gaze angle of the user's eye. For example, a partial retroreflector may be disposed on a surface of the waveguide opposite the outcoupler provides an additional reflection so that the gaze angle of the user's eye is matched to an angle of an image of the eye pupil onto a world-facing radiation detector (e.g., a camera).
Public/Granted literature
- US20230324703A1 PASSIVE WORLD-REFERENCED EYE TRACKING FOR SMARTGLASSES Public/Granted day:2023-10-12
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