Industrial Consultancy & Sponsored Research (IC&SR) , IIT Madras

Device and Method for Multi-user Eye-tracking

Technology Category/Market

  • Sensors
  • Imaging

Applications – FMCG, Healthcare, Automotive, Consumer electronics, Govt., Defense & Security.

Market – The Global Eye Tracking Market Size was valued at USD 638.8 M in 2021 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 33.4% from 2022 to 2030.

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Problem Statement

  • Generally, eye trackers are devices used for determining various parameters related to eyes of users which include point of gaze, pupil size, iris size, eye location, etc.
  • The eye trackers are majorly available in three broad forms which include head-mounted eye trackers, screen-mounted eye trackers and remote eye trackers. Further, these eye trackers lack the capability of tracking multiple users simultaneously.
  • Thus, the desired problem has been addressed by the present invention by providing human performance monitoring in user interaction with products for market and scientific research.

Technology

  • The technology provides a device and method for simultaneous multi-user eye-tracking in an environment having multiple regions of interest based on gazing direction of multiple users, in real-time.

The eye tracker system consists of

  1. Multiple cameras with lenses and IR bandpass    filters, Illumination sources and associated driver circuits.
  2. Optics controller for the light sources and cameras.
  3. Compute unit to analyze the images from the cameras and to provide inputs to the optics controller.
  4. Power source to supply power to the illuminators.
  5. The device provides user specific calibrations to have high accuracy in gaze estimation over multi-screen environments.

Key Features/Value Proposition

  • The multi-user eye tracking apparatus is used for the purpose of capturing the eye gaze and pupil size of one or more users simultaneously, wherein the eye tracker is operated remotely and can be set up in any environment.
  • The system involves identifying a user profile corresponding to the identified user based on the determined identity and determining gaze parameters of the identified user.
  • Further, it determines gaze directions of the identified user based on the gaze parameters and determine the area of interest to the identified user based on the gaze directions by the eye-tracking unit.
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Contact for Licensing

Research Lab

Prof. Rajagopalan Srinivasan

Department of Chemical Engineering

Prof. Babji Srinivasan

Department of Applied Mechanics

Intellectual Property

  • IITM IDF Ref. 2258
  • IN 421055 – Patent Granted

Technology Readiness Level

TRL 3

Proof of concept stage 

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