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Apple patents screen that changes visuals based on your pupil size

Apple describes a method where a device uses a sensor to track how much your pupils dilate while looking at an object on the screen. The system then adjusts the visual appearance of that object to encourage a stronger pupil response. This creates a feedback loop between what you see and how your eyes react to it.

Why it mattersThis could lead to interfaces that adapt to your physiological state, potentially improving focus or accessibility for users with specific visual needs.

In the filing’s own words

One exemplary implementation displays a visual characteristic associated with an object on a display of a device and utilizes a sensor of the device to obtain physiological data associated with a pupillary response of a user to the visual characteristic. The device adjusts the visual characteristic based on the obtained physiological data to enhance pupillary responses of the user to the object and displays the adjusted visual characteristic to the user. For example, the adjusted visual characteristic may be selected based on previously identified pupillary responses of the user to particular visual characteristics.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method comprising: at a device comprising a processor, a display, and one or more sensors: displaying an element on the display; identifying, using the one or more sensors, a gaze direction of a user directed at the element; obtaining, based on the identified gaze direction, pupillary data associated with the user while the user is looking at the element; detecting, based on the obtained pupillary data, an intention of the user to interact with the element by identifying pupil diameter changes prior to an interaction with the element; in response to detecting the intention, adjusting a visual characteristic associated with the element; and displaying the element with the adjusted visual characteristic.

Facts

Company
Apple (Apple Inc.)
Official title
BIOFEEDBACK METHOD OF MODULATING DIGITAL CONTENT TO INVOKE GREATER PUPIL RADIUS RESPONSE
Publication number
US20260277322A1
Application number
19680180
Filed
May 18, 2026
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Inventors
3
Claims
20

Classified under

G06F 3/013 Physics & computingG06N 5/04 Physics & computingG06N 20/00 Physics & computingG06T 7/62 Physics & computingG06T 2207/20081 Physics & computingG06T 2207/30201 Physics & computing
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