Samsung patents screen that predicts where your eyes will look next
This patent describes a method where a device uses a camera to track a viewer's eye movements. It calculates the speed and acceleration of those movements to predict where the eyes will be in the near future. The device then adjusts the image it displays based on this prediction to keep the view aligned with the user's gaze.
In the filing’s own words
A method performed by an electronic device is provided. The method includes obtaining position information of a target part corresponding to past and reference time points, from an image that includes a facial region of a viewer and is input through a camera, obtaining position change information of the target part corresponding to the reference time point, based on the position information, predicting a future velocity of the target part based on the position change information, obtaining velocity change information of the target part corresponding to the reference time point, based on the position change information, predicting a future acceleration of the target part based on the velocity change information, predicting future positions of both eyes corresponding to a target time point based on the future velocity and the future acceleration, and outputting an image based on the future positions of the eyes corresponding to the target time point.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method performed by an electronic device, the method comprising: obtaining, by the electronic device, position information of a target part corresponding to a past time point, and position information of the target part corresponding to a reference time point, from an image that includes a facial region of a viewer and is input through a camera; obtaining, by the electronic device, position change information of the target part corresponding to the reference time point, based on the position information of the target part corresponding to the past time point, and the position information of the target part corresponding to the reference time point; predicting, by the electronic device, a future velocity of the target part based on the position change information of the target part corresponding to the reference time point, and position change information of the target part corresponding to the past time point; obtaining, by the electronic device, velocity change information of the target part corresponding to the reference time point, based on the position change information of the target part corresponding to the reference time point, and the position change information of the target part corresponding to the past time point; predicting, by the electronic device, a future acceleration of the target part based on the velocity change information of the target part corresponding to the reference time point, velocity change information of the target part corresponding to the past time point, and a movement state of the viewer, the movement state of the viewer being one among the viewer being stationary and the viewer moving; predicting, by the electronic device, future positions of eyes corresponding to a target time point based on the future velocity and the future acceleration; and outputting, by the electronic device, an image based on the future positions of the eyes corresponding to the target time point.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- Electronic device for outputting image based on result of predicting future eye position and method performed by the same
- Patent number
- US12748490B2
- Application number
- 19016442
- Filed
- Jan 10, 2025
- Granted
- Sep 29, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 3/013 Physics & computingG06T 7/20 Physics & computingG06T 7/70 Physics & computingG06T 2207/10004 Physics & computingG06T 2207/20024 Physics & computingG06T 2207/30201 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in AR, VR & displays
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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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