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Visual line detecting device

US5416317A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 31, 1994
Grant dateMay 16, 1995
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Expiry dateJan 31, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03B2213/025
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A visual line detecting device having an eyeball lighting unit that irradiates the eyeball of a viewer with a luminous flux, and a visual line detecting unit that detects the visual line of a viewer from the reflected image on the cornea surface of the eyeball, wherein the eyeball lighting unit is designed so that the reflected image on the cornea surface attains a specified shape.

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