US 11,729,463 B2
System and method for displaying a stream of images
Eberhard Schmidt, Kleinmachnow (DE); Tom Sengelaub, Berlin (DE); and Christian Villwock, Großbeeren (DE)
Assigned to APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/497,435.
Application 17/497,435 is a continuation of application No. 15/750,046, abandoned, previously published as PCT/EP2016/068821, filed on Aug. 5, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 15180286 (EP), filed on Aug. 7, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0035451 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/4223 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/44 (2011.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); H04N 21/4728 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/44218 (2013.01) [G02B 27/0093 (2013.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); H04N 21/4223 (2013.01); H04N 21/4318 (2013.01); H04N 21/44008 (2013.01); H04N 21/4728 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
determining gaze data of an eye of a user at a plurality of times;
classifying the gaze data at the plurality of times as one of a plurality of eye movement types including a static fixation, a moving fixation, and a saccade;
selecting, based on the classification, a particular prediction algorithm of a plurality of prediction algorithms for predicting a point of regard of the user at a future time respectively associated with the plurality of eye movement types;
predicting the point of regard of the user at the future time using the particular prediction algorithm; and
displaying an image at the future time such that a first part of the image in a first area around the point of regard is displayed according to a first parameter value of an image quality parameter and a second part of the image in at least one second area outside the first area is displayed according to a second parameter value of the image quality parameter.