The disclosed ultrasound devices may include at least one ultrasound transmitter positioned and configured to transmit ultrasound signals toward a user's face to reflect off a facial feature of the user's face and at least one ultrasound receiver positioned and configured to receive and detect the ultrasound signals reflected off the facial feature. At least one processor may be configured to receive data from the at least one ultrasound receiver and to determine, based on the received data from the at least one ultrasound receiver, at least one of the following eye measurements: an interpupillary distance of the user; an eye relief; or a position of a head-mounted display relative to the facial feature of the user. Various other devices, systems, and methods are also disclosed.

A method for operating a laser unit as a function of a detected state of an object. The method includes: outputting a light beam having a light beam intensity, using the laser unit, during a first time period and a second time period; receiving at least one reflected partial beam having a partial beam intensity during the first and second time periods; making the light beam and the partial beam interfere with each other in the first and second time periods to obtain a first interference parameter for the first time period and a second interference parameter for the second time period; ascertaining the state of the object; changing an operating state of the laser unit as a function of the ascertained state of the object.

A method for recognizing a state of an eye for a laser device. The method includes reading in an eye parameter using the laser device, which represents a movement of the eye. The eye parameter is compared with a first and/or with a second reference parameter in order to obtain a comparison result. A type of movement of the eye is determined using the comparison result, which represents a saccadic eye movement when the eye parameter has a greater value than the first reference parameter. The type of movement represents a smooth eye movement when the eye parameter has a value which corresponds to the second reference parameter and at most to the first reference parameter. A viewing direction is ascertained as a function of the determined type of movement.

A method, performed by an augmented reality (AR) device including a vision correction lens, of detecting a gaze of a user is provided. The method includes obtaining lens characteristic information about the vision correction lens arranged to overlap a light guide plate in a gaze direction of the user, emitting light for gaze tracking toward a light reflector through a light emitter, wherein the emitted light is reflected by the light reflector and then directed to an eye of the user, receiving a light reflected by the eye of the user through a light receiver, obtaining an eye image of the user based on the light received, adjusting the eye image of the user based on the lens characteristic information about the vision correction lens, and obtaining gaze information based on the adjusted eye image.

An apparatus installed in a head-mounted display (HMD) has a coupling prism formed by packing diagonally-reflective (DR) prisms together. Each DR prism has an internal diagonal plane that is at least partially reflective. A captured image of eye or environmental scene received by a DR prism is reflected to an image-leaving end surface thereof. Image-leaving end surfaces of all DR prisms are oriented along a same direction to optically multiplex the captured images to create a multi-channel image. An imaging sensor on the coupling prism images the multi-channel image, avoiding inter-channel interference caused by spillover of captured-image signals while allowing one imaging sensor instead of multiple ones to image the captured images. A micro display displays a visible image to one DR prism, whose internal diagonal plane reflects the visible image along a direction towards an eye. Hence, the apparatus also enables image displaying to a HMD wearer.

There is provided an electronic apparatus that enables a line-of-sight detection function at an appropriate timing, thereby achieving power saving, for example. The line-of-sight detection function can be enabled with less power consumption. The electronic apparatus includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as a line-of-sight detection unit configured to detect a line-of-sight position based on a line-of-sight of a user, and a control unit configured to perform control so that, in a state where a first content is displayed on a display unit, the line-of-sight detection unit detects the line-of-sight position of the user in response to a second content being displayed on the display unit, wherein the second content is to be displayed together with the first content.

A method performed by an electronic device for requesting tiles relating to a viewport of an ongoing omnidirectional video stream is provided. The ongoing omnidirectional video stream is provided by a server to be displayed to a user of the electronic device. The electronic device predicts for an impending time period, a future head gaze of the user in relation to a current head gaze of the user, based on: A current head gaze relative to a position of shoulders of the user, a limitation of the head gaze of the user bounded by the shoulders position of the user, and a current eye gaze and eye movements of the user. The electronic device then sends a request to the server. The request requests tiles relating to the viewport for the impending time period, selected based on the predicted future head gaze of the user.

A mixed, virtual and augmented reality headset having a front casing (2) with a housing receiving a smartphone (19) facing the holographic display (5); a curved holographic display (5) in the front portion of the headset reflecting a projected image (11) via the display of a smartphone (19) and simultaneously allowing the user to see through same; a motorised mirror (14) positioned in a withdrawn position or in an extended position in front of the holographic display (5) reflecting the projected image (11) via the smartphone (19); two motorised lenses (15) positioned in a withdrawn position or in an extended position in front of the pupils (13) of the user; a mirror system (16) reflecting a real external image (10) with respect to the headset (1) towards a camera of the smartphone (19); and a control unit (50) controlling the position of the motorised lenses (15) and mirror (14).

In the case in which a loss of the viewpoint position of a driver occurs when a viewpoint position follow-up warping control is executed to update warping parameters according to the viewpoint position of the driver, and then the viewpoint position is re-detected, it is suppressed that the appearance of an image instantaneously changes in accordance with the update of the warping parameters and the driver is caused to feel uneasy. When the viewpoint loss in which at least one position of the right and left viewpoints becomes unclear is detected, a control unit, which executes the viewpoint position follow-up warping control, maintains, in a viewpoint loss period, the warping parameters set immediately before the viewpoint loss period, and, when the viewpoint position is re-detected after the viewpoint loss period, invalidates at least one warping process using the warping parameters corresponding to the re-detected viewpoint position.

There still has been room for improvement in terms of highly accurate detection of information of an eye.

The present technology provides an eye information detection device including two or more non-visible light sources, a diffractive optical element, and a light reception system. The two or more non-visible light sources have different light emission wavelengths. The diffractive optical element is disposed on an optical path of non-visible light emitted from each of the two or more non-visible light sources and reflected by an eye. The light reception system receives the non-visible light reflected by the eye and passing through the diffractive optical element. According to the present technology, it is possible to make improvement regarding the highly accurate detection of the information of the eye.