Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electronic device, head-mounted display, gaze point detector, and pixel data readout method
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Application No.: US16969510Application Date: 2018-03-08
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Publication No.: US11190714B2Publication Date: 2021-11-30
- Inventor: Masashi Nakata
- Applicant: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
- Current Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
- International Application: PCT/JP2018/008908 WO 20180308
- International Announcement: WO2019/171522 WO 20190912
- Main IPC: G06T7/70
- IPC: G06T7/70 ; H04N5/345 ; G06F3/01 ; G06T7/20 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N7/18

Abstract:
In a plane of a captured image 202, a gaze-corresponding point 204 corresponding to a user's gaze point with respect to a displayed image is identified. Then, an area of interest 206 is determined based on the identified gaze-corresponding point 204. A space imaging section determines rows or pixel blocks in an imaging plane 208 that include the area of interest 206 and reads out and outputs data in pixel columns included in the rows or pixel blocks prior to other areas.
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