US 11,749,132 B2
Enhanced speed reading with eye tracking and blink detection
Aldis Sipolins, New York, NY (US); Marco Cavallo, New York, NY (US); Ravi Tejwani, Cambridge, MA (US); Jenna Reinen, Greenwich, CT (US); and Hui Wu, White Plains, NY (US)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by Interntional Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Nov. 21, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/197,874.
Prior Publication US 2020/0160744 A1, May 21, 2020
Int. Cl. G09B 17/04 (2006.01); G09B 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01)
CPC G09B 17/04 (2013.01) [G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G09B 17/003 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
detecting an eye movement of a reader during a reading of presented text;
determining, based on whether an eye movement is detected and sustained over a specified period of time, whether the reader is looking at the presented text;
pausing a presentation of the presented text at a word of the presented text if it is determined that the reader is not looking at the presented text; and
resuming, if the presentation of the text is paused, the presentation of the presented text from the word of the presented text at which the presented text was paused;
wherein the determining of whether the reader is looking at the presented text, the pausing of the presentation of the presented text, and the resuming of the presented text, if the presentation of the presented text is paused, occurs in real-time based on the eye movement and without a measurable time lapse in the text presentation.