Apple Won 31 Patents Today covering Eye Tracking, a Glasses Device, Multiplayer Gaming and more
In one of the slowest granted patent days in years, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 31 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In this particular report we briefly cover 3 patents that relate to an eye tracking system, multiplayer gaming and a glasses device. And, as always, we wrap up this week's granted patent report with our traditional listing of the remaining granted patents that were issued to Apple today.
Apple's granted patent relates to an eye tracking system and a method for operating an eye tracking system for determining if one of a left and a right eye of a user is dominant, wherein at least one image of the left and the right eye of the user is captured based on the at least one image and according to a predefined accuracy function a left accuracy score for the left eye and a right accuracy score for the right eye is determined and it is determined if one of the left and the right eye of the user is dominant in dependency of at least the left and the right accuracy score. Thereby user-specific properties relating to his eyes can be provided and considered when performing eye tracking so that the robustness and accuracy of eye tracking can be enhanced.