Attention redirection of a user of a wearable device
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsRuofei Du, Maksym Dzitsiuk
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Abstract
A method including determining a gaze direction of a user of a wearable device, capturing an image using a forward-looking camera of the wearable device, detecting a surroundings of the user based on the image, determining whether or not the user is distracted based on the gaze direction and the surroundings, and in response to determining the user is distracted, causing an operation to be performed on the wearable device, the operation configured to cause the user to change the user's attention.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- capturing an image using a wearable device;
- detecting a surroundings of the wearable device based on the image;
- determining whether a user of the wearable device is distracted based on a gaze of the user and the surroundings;
- and
- in response to determining the user is distracted, causing the wearable device to change an attention of the user.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one processor, are configured to cause a computing system to:
- capture an image using a wearable device;
- detect a surroundings of the wearable device based on the image;
- determine whether a user of the wearable device is distracted based on a gaze of the user and the surroundings;
- and
- in response to determining the user is distracted, causing the wearable device to change an attention of the user.
A wearable device comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the wearable device to:
- capture an image using a wearable device;
- detect a surroundings of the wearable device based on the image;
- determine whether a user of the wearable device is distracted based on a gaze of the user and the surroundings;
- and
- in response to determining the user is distracted, causing the wearable device to change an attention of the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.