Sony patents eye-tracking that swaps words for images to aid reading
Sony has been granted a patent for a system that uses eye-tracking data to monitor how a person reads text on a screen. The technology analyzes where the reader looks and adjusts the display by replacing specific words with corresponding images or non-text elements.
In the filing’s own words
To ensure that individuals gain as much as they can from a piece of text by adapting the text according to their specific reading needs and behaviors, metrics such as the position of a reader's gaze, pupil dilation, squinting behavior, fixation durations etc., are used to adapt the text according to reader's reading needs or habits and improve the reading experience. Machine learning may be used for this.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An apparatus comprising: one or more storage media storing instructions; and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to cause the apparatus to perform operations comprising: determining eye tracking data while text and a first non-text element are presented on a display; determining, based on the eye tracking data, a focus on non-text elements; and altering the display responsive to the eye tracking data, wherein altering the display comprises: presenting a textual language transformation on a portion of the text, wherein the textual language transformation comprises removing the portion of the text from the display; and presenting a second non-text element corresponding to the portion of the text that was removed.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.)
- Official title
- System and method for delivering personalized reading experience
- Patent number
- US12730506B2
- Application number
- 18672614
- Filed
- May 23, 2024
- Granted
- Sep 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 18
Classified under
G06F 3/013 Physics & computingG06F 3/165 Physics & computingMore from Sony in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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