Samsung patents VR method that adjusts image detail based on where you look
Samsung describes a system for virtual reality displays that uses eye-tracking data to create a variable-resolution grid, or mesh. This mesh has high-density areas where the user is looking and low-density areas elsewhere, which the system uses to adjust how the image is processed and displayed.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device includes a memory and at least one processing device operatively connected to the memory. The at least one processing device is configured to receive contents to be displayed on a display. The at least one processing device is also configured to receive eye-tracking data from an eye-tracking sensor and lens field of view (FOV) data from the memory. The at least one processing device is also configured to generate a mesh using the eye-tracking data and the lens FOV data, wherein the mesh includes a high density area and a low density area, defined based at least partly on the lens FOV data. The at least one processing device is also configured to perform warping of the contents using the mesh. The at least one processing device is also configured to render the contents based on the warping of the contents.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device comprising: a memory; and at least one processing device operatively connected to the memory, wherein the at least one processing device is configured to: receive contents to be displayed on a display; receive eye-tracking data from an eye-tracking sensor and lens field of view (FOV) data from the memory; generate a mesh using the eye-tracking data and the lens FOV data, wherein the mesh includes a high density area and a low density area, defined based at least partly on the lens FOV data; perform warping of the contents using the mesh; and render the contents based on the warping of the contents.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- DYNAMIC NON-UNIFORM MESH GENERATION FOR EFFICIENT VIRTUAL REALITY FRAME GENERATION
- Publication number
- US20260278941A1
- Application number
- 19555662
- Filed
- Mar 3, 2026
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 17/205 Physics & computingG06F 3/013 Physics & computingG06T 3/18 Physics & computingG06T 2210/44 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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