Holographic Eye Imaging Device
    111.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220179207A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-09

    申请号:US17677575

    申请日:2022-02-22

    申请人: Tobii AB

    IPC分类号: G02B27/00 G06F3/01 G02B5/32

    摘要: The disclosure relates to an eye tracking device for tracking movements of an eye comprising, a viewing plane for displaying a projection of an image to the eye of a user, an image module placed on a same side of the viewing plane as the eye, at least one illuminator for illuminating the eye, a control unit adapted to receive an image captured by the image module, and calculate a viewing angle of the eye, a holographic optical element (HOE), wherein a HOE is placed between the eye and the viewing plane, wherein the image module is adapted to capture an image of the HOE, and wherein the HOE is adapted to direct at last a first portion of incident light reflected from the eye, in a first angle towards the image module, the first angle being different from an angle of the incidence of the incident light

    Controlling illuminators for optimal glints

    公开(公告)号:US11353952B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-07

    申请号:US16200248

    申请日:2018-11-26

    申请人: Tobii AB

    IPC分类号: G06F3/01 G06F3/038

    摘要: Techniques for controlling light sources used in eye tracking are described. In an example, an eye tracking system generates a first image and a second image showing at least a portion of the user eye illuminated by a predetermined set of illuminators of the eye tracking system. The eye tracking system determines a first position of a glint in the first image and a second position of the glint in the second image. Each of the first position and the second position is relative to a pupil edge. The eye tracking system predicts a third position of the glint relative to the pupil edge based on the first position and the second position. Further, the eye tracking system determines, from the predetermined set, an illuminator that corresponds to the glint and determines, based on the third position, whether to power off the illuminator to generate a third image of at least the portion of the user eye.

    LENS FOR EYE-TRACKING APPLICATIONS AND HEAD-WORN DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20220171203A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-02

    申请号:US17673167

    申请日:2022-02-16

    申请人: Tobii AB

    IPC分类号: G02B27/01 G02B1/14 G02B5/20

    摘要: The present invention relates to a lens for eye-tracking applications. The lens comprises a first protective layer, arranged to face towards the eye to be tracked when the lens is used for eye- tracking. It also comprises at least one light source, at least partly arranged in the first protective layer, arranged to emit a first light from the first protective layer in a direction towards the eye. Moreover, it comprises at least one image capturing device, at least partly arranged in the first protective layer, arranged to receive the first light within the first protective layer. The lens further comprises an absorptive layer, arranged on the far side of the first protective layer seen from the eye to be tracked when the lens is used for eye-tracking, adapted to be absorptive for wavelengths of the majority of the first light.

    Eye tracking applications in virtual reality and augmented reality

    公开(公告)号:US11275437B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-15

    申请号:US17073836

    申请日:2020-10-19

    申请人: Tobii AB

    IPC分类号: G02B27/00 G02B27/01 G06F3/01

    摘要: A method and a corresponding apparatus for mitigating motion sickness in a virtual reality VR/augmented reality (AR) system using a head mounted display (HMD) are disclosed. The method comprises receiving data from a sensor indicating a current orientation of the HMD in real space, and superimposing a visual indication on a display of the HMD. The visual indication provides visual information to a user of the current orientation of the HMD in real space.
    Furthermore, methods and corresponding apparatuses are disclosed of calculating gaze convergence distance in an eye tracking system, and of gaze based virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR) menu expansion.

    Iterative point indexing
    115.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11232594B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-25

    申请号:US17078834

    申请日:2020-10-23

    申请人: Tobii AB

    摘要: The invention is related to a method for calibrating an eye tracking device within a head-mounted display (HMD) comprising the steps of acquiring with the HMD via an image sensor, at least one optical target image from an optical target, wherein the optical target contains image points in a pattern, indexing image points within the optical target image wherein the image points are indexed by, selecting a rigid region of the optical target image, assigning indices to image points within the rigid region, fitting a polynomial approximation function to at least one column and one row of the image points of the region, predicting the location of at least one image point using the fitted polynomial approximation function, assigning the predicted image point an index, inputting indexed image points into an optimization algorithm that calculates a hardware calibration of the HMD, and writing hardware calibration values calculated from the optimization algorithm to the HMD unit.

    CALIBRATION OF AN EYE TRACKING SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20210350565A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-11

    申请号:US17242908

    申请日:2021-04-28

    申请人: Tobii AB

    IPC分类号: G06T7/70 G06K9/00

    摘要: There is provided mechanisms for calibration of an eye tracking system. An eye tracking system comprises a pupil centre corneal reflection (PCCR) based eye tracker and a non-PCCR based eye tracker. A method comprises obtaining at least one first eye position of a subject by applying the PCCR based eye tracker on an image set depicting the subject. The method comprises calibrating a head model of the non-PCCR based eye tracker, as applied on the image set, for the subject using the obtained at least one first eye position from the PCCR based eye tracker as ground truth. The head model comprises facial features that include at least one second eye position. The calibrating involves positioning the head model in order for its at least one second eye position to be consistent with the at least one first eye position given by the PCCR based eye tracker.

    CONTROLLING SETTINGS OF AN IMAGE SENSOR DEVICE IN AN EYE TRACKING SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20210258464A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-19

    申请号:US17128896

    申请日:2020-12-21

    申请人: Tobii AB

    IPC分类号: H04N5/235 G06F3/01

    摘要: There is provided a method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for controlling the exposure settings of an rolling shutter image sensor device with global reset. This is achieved by obtaining a first image captured by the image sensor device at a current exposure setting that comprises a partial readout parameter representing a number image parts for partial readout by the image sensor device; determining an intensity value of the first image, comparing the intensity value of the first image to a desired intensity value. If the intensity values differ more than an allowed deviation, an updated number of image parts for partial readout is determined based on the current number of image parts and the intensity value of the first image. Thereafter, the current exposure setting is updated by setting the value of the partial readout parameter to the updated number of image parts.

    Method, Computer Program Product and Binocular Headset Controller

    公开(公告)号:US20210255462A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-19

    申请号:US17128424

    申请日:2020-12-21

    申请人: Tobii AB

    IPC分类号: G02B27/01 G06F3/01

    摘要: Computer-generated image data is presented on first and second displays of a binocular headset presuming that a user's left and right eyes are located at first and second positions relative to the first and second displays respectively. At least one updated version of the image data is presented, which is rendered presuming that at least one of the user's left and right eyes is located at a position different from the first and second positions respectively in at least one spatial dimension. In response thereto, a user-generated feedback signal is received expressing either: a quality measure of the updated version of the computer-generated image data relative to computer-generated image data presented previously; or a confirmation command. The steps of presenting the updated version of the computer-generated image data and receiving the user-generated feedback signal are repeated until the confirmation command is received. The first and second positions are defined based on the user-generated feedback signal.

    Method and system for controlling an eye tracking system

    公开(公告)号:US11003936B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-11

    申请号:US16901809

    申请日:2020-06-15

    申请人: Tobii AB

    摘要: There is provided a method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for controlling an eye tracking system to optimize eye tracking performance under different lighting conditions, by obtaining a first image captured using a camera associated with the eye tracking system, the first image comprising at least part of an iris and at least part of a pupil of an eye illuminated by an illuminator associated with the eye tracking system at a current power of illumination selected from a set of predetermined power levels; determining a contrast value between an the iris and the pupil in the image; and, if the contrast value deviates less than a preset deviation threshold value from a preset minimum contrast value, setting the current power of illumination of the illuminator to the other predetermined power level in the set of predetermined power levels.