Patent ID: 11877051
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 5:
6. The eye-gaze information acquiring apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a second determining unit configured to determine whether or not a jump of the first eye-gaze information has occurred, wherein
the second acquiring unit acquires the second eye-gaze information by using the first eye-gaze information subsequent to a latest frame of an occurrence of a jump,
the second determining unit determines that the jump has occurred only when there are a prescribed rate or more of frames, within a prescribed period, having a difference between the first eye-gaze information in a reference frame and the first eye-gaze information in a present frame, the difference being larger than a prescribed value, and
the prescribed rate is smaller when the display setting is off than when the display setting is on.