Apple granted patent for ‘gaze direction-based adaptive pre-filtering of video data’ — Apple World Today

Apple has been granted a patent (number 10,861,142) involving “gaze detection” for the rumored “Apple Glasses,” an augmented reality/virtual reality/mixed head-mounted display (HMD).

In the patent data, the tech giant notes that the technology for capturing video has improved and become less expensive, more and more applications with video components are becoming become popular. For example, mixed reality applications (applications in which real-world physical objects or views may be augmented with virtual objects or relevant supplementary information) and/or virtual reality applications (applications in which users may traverse virtual environments), in both of which video data may be captured and manipulated, are an increasing focus of development and commercialization.