Identification of dynamic icons based on eye movement
AssigneePooW Innovation Ltd.
InventorDaphna Palti-Wasserman
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Abstract
There is provided herein a system for identifying a selected icon, the system comprising at least one controller configured to obtain from a sensor a signal indicative of an eye-response of a user, said eye-response is responsive to at least one dynamic property of a dynamic icon selected by the user by watching said selected dynamic icon, analyze said eye-response of said user, identify said selected dynamic icon based on said analysis, and produce a signal indicative of said selected dynamic icon.
Claims19
A system for identifying a selected icon, the system comprising:
- a display unit configured to display a dynamic icon having a dynamic property, said dynamic property changing in a unique and continuous time pattern configured to induce horizontal and/or vertical eye movement of a user when looking at said dynamic icon;
- a sensor configured to acquire the horizontal and/or vertical eye movement of the user;
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- a controller configured to:
- extract from the acquired eye-movement a temporal signal indicative of the user's horizontal and/or vertical eye movement;
- analyze said temporal signal for an indication that the user's horizontal and/or vertical eye movement is changing correspondingly to the changes in the unique and continuous time pattern of said dynamic icon, without calculating the location coordinates of the user's eye's gaze;
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- identify said dynamic icon as selected by the user, if the analysis recognizes that the user's eye horizontal and/or vertical movement is changing correspondingly to the changes in the unique and continuous time pattern of said dynamic icon.
A method for identifying a dynamic icon as selected by a user, the method comprising:
- displaying a dynamic icon having a dynamic property, the dynamic property changing in a unique and continuous time pattern configured to induce horizontal and/or vertical movement of the eyes of the user when looking at said dynamic icon;
- acquiring the eye movement of the subject using a sensor;
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- extracting from the acquired eye-movement, using a controller, a temporal signal indicative of the user's horizontal and/or vertical eye movement;
- analyzing the temporal signal for an indication that the user's horizontal and/or vertical eye movement is changing correspondingly to the changes in the unique and continuous time pattern of said dynamic icon, without calculating the location coordinates of the user's eye's gaze;
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- identifying the dynamic icon as selected by the user, if the analysis recognizes that the user's horizontal and/or vertical eye movement is changing correspondingly to the changes in the unique and continuous time pattern of said dynamic icon.
A system for identifying a selected icon, the system comprising:
- a display unit configured to display a first icon that is moving at a first known frequency;
- a sensor configured to acquire a signal indicative of eye movement of the user;
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- a controller configured to:
- perform a frequency analysis on the acquired signal;
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- identify said first icon as selected by the user, if the frequency analysis detects a frequency component that matches the first known frequency,
- wherein the controller implements the identifying without calculating the location coordinates of the user's eye's gaze.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.