公开(公告)号：US12260560B1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-25

申请号：US17692936

申请日：2022-03-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Siddharth S. Hazra ,  Aleksandar M. Movshovich ,  Nicholas C. Soldner ,  Tushar Gupta

IPC: G06T7/20 ,  G02B27/00 ,  G06V10/80

Abstract: Various implementations track an eye using both camera images and light sensor data, e.g., from a photosensitive surface or set of photodetectors. The camera need not capture images at a high capture rate since the light sensor data captured from the light sensor provides information about the eye during the time periods between camera frames. An eye tracking device may thus provide eye tracking with high temporal resolution using less power and resources and prior devices. The eye tracking device includes a lens (e.g., a diffractive optical element (DOE)) that splits received light onto the camera and light sensor. The camera and light sensor may be aligned, e.g., co-centered. Using such a lens to provide light to an aligned camera and light sensor facilitates tracking the eye characteristics by reducing the need for matching the data and/or accounting for multiple environmental light sources.