Samsung patents VR system that adjusts object size based on user gaze distance
Samsung describes an electronic device that uses a sensor to track where a user is looking in a virtual reality environment. The system calculates the distance to the point of focus and adjusts the size of displayed objects accordingly, allowing users to interact with specific items within the virtual scene.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device includes a sensor, a display, and at least one processor configured to control the display to display a virtual reality content corresponding to a virtual reality environment, identify a gaze direction of a user based on data acquired through the sensor, identify a point on the virtual reality environment based on the gaze direction, identify a distance between the user and the identified point in the virtual reality environment, control the display to display a first object at a position corresponding to the identified point in the virtual reality content, identify, based on a user command received while the first object is displayed, whether a virtual object is present within a second object positioned at the identified point in the virtual reality environment, and control the virtual object according to the user command if the virtual object being identified as present.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device, comprising: a sensor; a display; and at least one processor configured to: control the display to display a virtual reality content corresponding to a virtual reality environment; identify a gaze direction of a user based on data obtained through the sensor; identify a point on the virtual reality environment at which the user is gazing based on the gaze direction; identify a distance between the identified point and the user on the virtual reality environment; control the display to display a first object at a position corresponding to the identified point on the virtual reality content; identify, based on a user command received while the first object is displayed, whether a virtual object is present within a second object positioned at the identified point in the virtual reality environment; and control, based on the virtual object being identified as present, the virtual object according to the user command wherein at least one of a size of the first object or a size of the second object is determined based on the identified distance.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- Electronic device and electronic device control method
- Patent number
- US12761780B2
- Application number
- 18763232
- Filed
- Jul 3, 2024
- Granted
- Oct 13, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 3/04845 Physics & computingG06F 3/013 Physics & computingG06T 7/62 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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