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

Claim 15:
16. An eye-gaze information acquiring apparatus comprising at least one memory and at least one processor which function as:
a processing unit configured to select a subject, based on eye-gaze information of an observer observing display unit displaying an image and a determination operation by the observer, and for performing display to that effect; and
a pointer display unit configured to display a pointer indicating an eye-gaze position of the observer on the display unit when a display setting is set to on, wherein
an amount of positional displacement between the eye-gaze position of the observer and the subject, which is allowed for a subject to be selected, is larger when the display setting is off than when the display setting is on.