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US 2026/0212840 A1Published application
Privacy Preserving Gaze for Foveated Rendering
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsCourtland M Idstrom, Caitlin M Crawford, Jacob Wilson
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AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsCourtland M Idstrom, Caitlin M Crawford, Jacob Wilson
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Systems and methods that enable applications to perform local or remote foveated rendering are disclosed. The systems and methods provide applications with eye gaze-based information in a way that preserves user privacy. For example, this may involve providing information that down-samples information about where a user is gazing, e.g., only identifying a point on a fixed-point grid of points corresponding to relatively large display regions within which the user is gazing and/or using or providing approximate depth (e.g., distance from viewpoint information) regarding the portion of the environment at which the user is gazing. The techniques may avoid sharing information about precisely where the user is looking and/or information about user eye conditions (e.g., eye divergence, lazy eye, etc.).
A method comprising:
A system comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program instructions executable via one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.