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US 9,541,998 B2Granted
Electronic system with gaze alignment mechanism and method of operation thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsMichael A. Klug, Henry Holtzman, Jaewoo Chung, Anette Freiin von Kapri, Michael Lapinski
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Abstract
An electronic system includes a reflective film including a diffraction grating configured to reflect an image within a reflective grating spectra at a reflection angle; and an image capture unit positioned at a device orientation to capture the image reflected from the reflective film.
Claims20
An electronic system comprising:
- a reflective film including a diffraction grating configured to reflect an incident light traveling toward a first display and comprising an image of a first user for directing a reflected light within a reflective grating spectra at a reflection angle formed between the first display and the reflected light in reflecting the image using the reflective film located between a first display and the first user, wherein the reflection angle is less than 90 degrees;
- an image capture unit coupled to the reflective film and positioned at a device orientation to capture the image reflected from the reflective film;
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- a communication unit, coupled to the image capture unit, configured to communicate the image reflected at the reflection angle from the first display for displaying the image of the first user on a second display in providing gaze alignment between the first user and a second user through the first display and the second display.
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A method of operation of an electronic system comprising:
- reflecting, with a reflective film including a diffraction grating, an incident light traveling toward a first display and comprising an image of a first user for directing a reflected light within a reflective grating spectra at a reflection angle formed between the first display and the reflected light in reflecting the image using the reflective film located between a first display and the first user, wherein the reflection angle is less than 90 degrees;
- capturing, with an image capture unit positioned at a device orientation, the image reflected from the reflective film;
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- communicating the image reflected at the reflection angle from the first display for displaying the image of the first user on a second display in providing gaze alignment between the first user and a second user through the first display and the second display.
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A method of operation of an electronic system comprising:
- receiving an image of a first user within a reflective grating spectra for representing the image corresponding to incident light traveling toward a first display and reflected at a first display;
- applying, with a control unit, an image processing mechanism to the image for processing the image corresponding to reflected light reflected at a reflection angle from a reflective film located between the first display and the first user and captured by an image capture unit at a device orientation aligned with the reflection angle, wherein the reflection angle between the reflected light and the first display is less than 90 degrees;
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- communicating the image for displaying the image of the first user on a second display with the image reflected at the reflection angle from the first display in providing gaze alignment between the first user and a second user through the first display and the second display.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.