Patent ID: 11950022
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A head-mounted device, comprising:
a head-mounted support structure having opposing left and right side portions coupled to a front portion with a lens that overlaps left and right eye boxes, wherein real-world objects are viewable through the lens from the left and right eye boxes;
light sources configured to illuminate the left and right eye boxes with infrared light;
a left forward-facing camera supported by the left side portion, wherein the left forward-facing camera has a first field of view that includes a first portion in front of the lens and a second portion to the right of the first portion;
a right forward-facing camera supported by the right side portion, wherein the right forward-facing camera has a second field of view that includes a third portion that overlaps the first portion and has a fourth portion to the left of the third portion, wherein the left and right forward-facing cameras are configured to capture images of the real-world objects through the lens, and wherein the left and right forward-facing cameras are configured to receive a first light contribution associated with infrared eye images from the left and right eye boxes and are configured to receive a second light contribution from ambient infrared light; and
control circuitry that separates the first light contribution from the second light contribution.