Eye tracking system with holographic film decoder
AssigneeSony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
InventorJeffrey R. Stafford
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Abstract
A volume holographic film (such as a photopolymer) that is pre-recorded with patterns subsequently is used to encode LED or low-power laser light reflections from an eye into a binary pattern that can be read at very high speeds by a relatively simple complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) sensor that may be similar to a high framerate, low resolution mouse sensor. The low-resolution mono images from the film are translated into eye poses using, for instance, a look up table that correlates binary patterns to X, Y positions or using a pre-trained convolutional neural network to robustly interpret many variations of the binary patterns for conversion to X, Y positions.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one holographic film with coded regions established by reflections from a human eye of light;
- the coded regions being correlated to respective poses of the human eye;
- at least one sensor to sense light from areas of the film illuminated by reflection of light from a person's eye and representing at least one of the coded regions;
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- at least one decoder to decode signals from the sensor to return a respective pose of the eye.
An apparatus, comprising:
- at least one holographically recorded film having plural coded regions, each coded region representing a respective code;
- at least one sensor to sense light from at least one coded region of the film illuminated by a reflection from an eye;
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- at least one decoder configured for decoding signals from the sensor representing the at least one coded region to return a respective pose of the eye.
An apparatus, comprising:
- at least one holographically recorded film having plural coded regions, each coded region representing a respective code;
- and
- at least one means for correlating the coded regions to respective poses of an eye.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.