Invention Application
- Patent Title: EYE TRACKING APPARATUS, METHOD AND SYSTEM
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Application No.: US15255934Application Date: 2016-09-02
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Publication No.: US20160370583A1Publication Date: 2016-12-22
- Inventor: Pasi Saarikko , Xinye Lou , Scott McEldowney , Steven Robbins
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Main IPC: G02B27/00
- IPC: G02B27/00 ; G06F3/01 ; G02B6/42 ; G02B27/01 ; G02B6/34

Abstract:
A transparent waveguide for use in eye tracking includes an input-coupler and an output-coupler. The input-coupler comprises a plurality of curved grating lines having a radially varying pitch. When positioned in front of an eye illuminated with infrared light, infrared light beams reflected from the eye and incident on the input-coupler enter the waveguide at the input-coupler, propagate through the waveguide by way of total internal reflections, and exit the waveguide proximate the output-coupler. The radially varying pitch of the curved grating lines of the input-coupler provides angular encoding of infrared light incident on the input-coupler, and more specifically, causes different beams of infrared light incident on respective different horizontal and vertical positions of the input-coupler to propagate through the waveguide at respective different angles of reflection and exit the waveguide at respective different angles of incidence relative to a surface of the waveguide through which infrared light beams exit.
Public/Granted literature
- US09759913B2 Eye tracking apparatus, method and system Public/Granted day:2017-09-12
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