US 12,013,977 B2
System and method for socially relevant user engagement indicator in augmented reality devices
Mark Shovman, Ariel (IL); Doron Terre, Tel Aviv (IL); Ilya Rabinovich, Tel Aviv (IL); and Boris Greenberg, Tel Aviv (IL)
Assigned to VOXELSENSORS SRL, Brussels (BE)
Appl. No. 17/607,655
Filed by EyeWay Vision Ltd., Or Yehuda (IL)
PCT Filed Apr. 26, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IL2020/050469
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 29, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/222228, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 5, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 266333 (IL), filed on Apr. 29, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0197379 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/011 (2013.01) [G02B 27/017 (2013.01); G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G06F 3/016 (2013.01); G06T 19/006 (2013.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01); G02B 2027/014 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0178 (2013.01); G06T 2219/024 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An indicator device of user activity in Augmented Reality (AR), the indicator device comprising:
an indicator module being configured and operable to be responsive to activation data to generate at least one signal being indicative of at least one social relevant parameter related to the user activity, to be observed by at least one user's onlooker, informing the at least one user's onlooker that the user is in a certain condition being engaged in an activity affecting user's movements;
a monitoring module connectable to said indicator module, said monitoring module being configured and operable to communicate with an AR device of the user during the user's interaction with the AR content, and to receive and process data related to user's activity including data being indicative of virtual content presented to the user and data indicative of a gaze direction of the user over time, processing of said data comprising analyzing temporal patterns of a gaze direction of the user over time and upon identifying a matching pattern in relation to one or more reference patterns indicative of various respective user activities, determining that the user is in the certain condition of a space activity and, based on the determination of the space activity, anticipating extent of user's movement; and
upon identification of the certain condition of the space activity of the user, generate the activation data to the indicator module.