US Patent 8736692 Using involuntary orbital movements to stabilize a video

Methods and systems for using eye-tracking data to stabilize a video are provided. An example method may involve receiving a video captured using a body-mountable camera and receiving gaze-direction data from one or more head-mountable eye trackers. Additionally, the method may include analyzing the received gaze-direction data to detect at least one involuntary orbital eye-movement. According to the method, the received video may be stabilized based at least in part on the detected at least one involuntary orbital eye-movement, and the stabilized video may be sent In some instances, camera-movement data may also be received and utilized to detect involuntary orbital eye-movements or stabilize the received video.