Apple inc. (20250004545). Head-Mounted Device Input

Head-Mounted Device Input

Organization Name

apple inc.

Inventor(s)

Paul X. Wang of Cupertino CA (US)

Ashwin Kumar Asoka Kumar Shenoi of San Jose CA (US)

Shuxin Yu of San Francisco CA (US)

Benjamin R. Blachnitzky of San Francisco CA (US)

Jie Gu of Palo Alto CA (US)

Fletcher R. Rothkopf of Los Altos CA (US)

Head-Mounted Device Input

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250004545 titled 'Head-Mounted Device Input

Original Abstract Submitted

a head-mounted device may have a head-mounted support structure, a gaze tracker in the head-mounted support structure, and one or more displays in the head-mounted support structure. for example, two displays may display images to two eye boxes. the display may display a virtual keyboard and may display a text input in response to a gaze location that is determined by the gaze tracker. the gaze tracker may additionally determine a gaze swipe input, or a camera in the support structure may determine a hand swipe input, and the swipe input may be used with the gaze location to determine the text input. in particular, the swipe input may create a swipe input curve that is fit to the text input to determine the text input. a user's hand may be used as a secondary input to indicate the start or end of a text input.