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Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd on Wednesday announced development of eye tracking technology that takes advantage of compact, inexpensive cameras and light-emitting diodes (LED) embedded in PCs.
Up until now, tracking eye movements required a specialized camera and LED, the prohibitive cost and size of which made it difficult to use in PCs and other general-purpose products. Moreover, less expensive equipment was of insufficient quality, and blurred images meant poor detection accuracy.
Now, however, using a near-infrared LED and the type of compact, inexpensive camera that comes as a standard feature in many PCs, Fujitsu Laboratories has developed image processing technology that can overcome blurred images to accurately detect the pupil of the eye. As a result, an eye tracking device can be embedded into the frame of a PC screen without detracting from the PC's design, enabling a new and natural non-contact PC interface in which, for example, screen zooming and scrolling based on where one is looking are possible.
© Japan Today
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Frungy
Old tech. This has been around for ages, and other companies have beaten Fujitsu to the punch in utilising modern hi-res webcams.
TSRnow
Frungy, so, where is the technology now? Can we see it? I think the point here is the part about "inexpensive cameras" being used. I don't know if anything useful will come out of this, but at least they are trying.
gogogo
This is just wrong, eye tracking doesn't require a special camera, any camera can do it with software attached to it. Also take a look at the Xbox kinect and the sony eye toy been doing this for years now.
basroil
Another pointlessly outdated "japanese invention". In fact, other Japanese companies have had this for a while, and ALL infrared trackers are near infrared, and there have been SLRs with eye tracking for focus point selection since the early 1990s, using even lower resolution camera sensors.
And lets not forget that the Kinect already put all that together and more, allowing for full body tracking, not just eyes.
blackrock
You can't tell just from this short article. Same objective, but different approaches. We don't know how good this is. Sometimes I feel people really like jumping over to bash someone for no apparent reasons.
titaniumdioxide
For your eyes ONLY!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdzruOpLk-0