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Sony patents display that adjusts light based on where you look

Patent drawing from the official filing.

Sony has filed a patent for an image display system that uses an eye-tracking device to monitor a user's gaze. The system includes an image generator that actively changes the light sent to the user's eye based on this tracking data.

Why it mattersThis technology could make virtual or augmented reality displays more efficient by only sending light where the user is actually looking.

In the filing’s own words

The present technology provides a system comprising an eye tracking device that generates eyeball information of an eyeball of a user. The system comprises an image output device that outputs light to the eyeball of the user, and an image generator that generates and actively adjusts light traveling along an optical path to the image output device based on the eyeball information.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A system, comprising: an eye tracking device that generates eyeball information of an eyeball of a user of the system; an image output device that outputs light to the eyeball of the user; and an image generator that generates and actively adjusts light traveling along an optical path to the image output device based on the eyeball information.

Facts

Company: Sony (SONY GROUP CORPORATION)
Official title: IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND LIGHT GUIDE PLATE
Publication number: US20260329097A1
Application number: 19109765
Filed: Aug 18, 2023
Published: Oct 22, 2026
Inventors: 1
Claims: 20

Classified under

G02B 27/0179 Physics & computingG02B 27/0093 Physics & computingG02B 27/0172 Physics & computingG02B 2027/0187 Physics & computing

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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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