US 12,141,342 B2
Biofeedback method of modulating digital content to invoke greater pupil radius response
Sterling R. Crispin, Santa Cruz, CA (US); Izzet B. Yildiz, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Grant H. Mulliken, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/381,228.
Application 17/381,228 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2020/014706, filed on Jan. 23, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/799,914, filed on Feb. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0349536 A1, Nov. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. G06N 5/04 (2023.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06T 7/62 (2017.01)
CPC G06F 3/013 (2013.01) [G06N 5/04 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06T 7/62 (2017.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30201 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
at a device comprising a processor, a computer-readable storage medium, a display, and a sensor:
displaying, on the display to a user, a visual characteristic associated with an object;
obtaining, using the sensor, first physiological data associated with a first pupillary response of the user to the visual characteristic;
determining an interest of the user to interact with the object, wherein determining the interest of the user to interact with the object comprises detecting, based on the obtained first physiological data, a pupil dilation pattern by accounting for exogenous signals corresponding to pupil diameter changes;
determining that adjusting the visual characteristic associated with the object will produce pupillary responses greater than the first pupillary response;
in accordance with determining that adjusting the visual characteristic will produce pupillary responses greater than the first pupillary response, adjusting, based on the obtained first physiological data and the determined interest of the user, the visual characteristic to enhance pupillary responses of the user with respect to the adjusted visual characteristic associated with the object; and
displaying the object with the adjusted visual characteristic.