VIRTUAL REALITY DEVICE USING EYE PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS FOR USER IDENTITY AUTHENTICATION

• US 20180150690A1
• Filed: 11/21/2017
• Published: 05/31/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Inventors: Yin, Huanmi
• Application Number:
  US15/819,034
• Publication Number:
  US 20180150690A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/0008 provided with illuminating means A61B3/117 takes precedence; goniolenses used for laser treatment A61F9/009; illuminating means for optical instruments G02B27/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/14 Arrangements specially adapted for eye photography apparatus or arrangements for taking photographs per se G03B
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/147 Details of sensors, e.g. sensor lenses fingerprint or palmprint sensors G06V40/13; vascular sensors G06V40/145; eye sensors G06V40/19
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/19 Sensors therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/197 Matching; Classification
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/344 with head-mounted left-right displays
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/12 with one sensor only
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/56 provided with illuminating means
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/33 Transforming infrared radiation cameras or camera modules for generating image signals from infrared radiation H04N23/20; circuitry of SSIS for transforming infrared radiation into image signals H04N25/20

Abstract

In an implementation, a virtual reality (VR) device includes a housing that has two openings. Each of the two openings hosts a camera lens and a nose groove. The VR device also includes one or more cameras distributed around each of the camera lenses for capturing one or more eye physiological characteristics of a VR device user.

Claims

1. A virtual reality (VR) device, comprising:

a housing that includes two openings each hosting a camera lens and a nose groove; and

one or more cameras distributed around each of the camera lenses for capturing one or more eye physiological characteristics of a VR device user.

2. The VR device of claim 1, wherein the one or more eye physiological characteristics include iris characteristics or eyeprint characteristics.

3. The VR device of claim 1, further comprising one or more light emitting diode (LED) light sources for providing light compensation to the one or more cameras.

4. The VR device of claim 3, wherein the one or more LED light sources and the one or more cameras have a one-to-one correspondence.

5. The VR device of claim 3, wherein the one or more cameras are infrared cameras and the one or more LED light sources are infrared LED light sources.

6. The VR device of claim 3, wherein the one or more cameras are RGB cameras and the one or more LED light sources are RGB LED light sources.

7. The VR device of claim 1, wherein the one or more cameras are uniformly distributed around each of the camera lenses.

8. The VR device of claim 1, wherein the camera lens is a macro lens.

9. The VR device of claim 1, further comprising a data interface including at least a universal serial bus (USB) port or a wireless chip.

10. The VR device of claim 1, further comprising a light sensor for sensing the brightness of the light incident on the camera lens.

11. A virtual reality (VR) system, comprising:

a housing of a VR device, wherein the housing includes two openings each hosting a camera lens and a nose groove; and

one or more cameras distributed around each of the camera lenses for capturing one or more eye physiological characteristics of a VR device user.

12. The VR system of claim 11, wherein the one or more eye physiological characteristics include iris characteristics or eyeprint characteristics.

13. The VR system of claim 11, further comprising one or more light emitting diode (LED) light sources for providing light compensation to the one or more cameras.

14. The VR system of claim 13, wherein the one or more LED light sources and the one or more cameras have a one-to-one correspondence.

15. The VR system of claim 13, wherein the one or more cameras are infrared cameras and the one or more LED light sources are infrared LED light sources.

16. The VR system of claim 13, wherein the one or more cameras are RGB cameras and the one or more LED light sources are RGB LED light sources.

17. The VR system of claim 11, wherein the one or more cameras are uniformly distributed around each of the camera lenses.

18. The VR system of claim 11, wherein the camera lens is a macro lens.

19. The VR system of claim 11, further comprising a data interface including at least a universal serial bus (USB) port or a wireless chip.

20. The VR system of claim 11, further comprising a light sensor for sensing the brightness of the light incident on the camera lens.