Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Eye or testing by visual stimulus
Patent
1999-05-03
2000-08-15
Manuel, George
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Eye or testing by visual stimulus
A61B 1300
Patent
active
061028703
ABSTRACT:
A computer-implemented method infers mental states of a person from eye movements of the person. The method includes identifying elementary features of eye tracker data, such as fixations and saccades, and recognizing from the elementary features a plurality of eye-movement patterns. Each eye-movement pattern is recognized by comparing the elementary features with a predetermined eye-movement pattern template. A given eye-movement pattern is recognized if the elementary features satisfy a set of criteria associated with the template for that eye-movement pattern. The method further includes the step of recognizing from the eye-movement patterns a plurality of eye-behavior patterns corresponding to the mental states of the person. Because high level mental states of the user are determined in real time, the method provides the basis for reliably determining when a user intends to select a target.
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Manuel George
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
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