APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRACKING GAZE, RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD

摘要

Disclosed are gaze tracking apparatus and method, and a recording medium for performing the same. The gaze tracking apparatus is configured to track the gaze of a person who is in an area where the gaze tracking apparatus is located. More specifically, the gaze tracking apparatus is configured to activate a wide angle mode of a photographing unit, to photograph an area within the wide angle region of the photographing unit, detect a person in a photographed image, and toggle, if a person is detected in the photographed image, the wide angle mode to a narrow angle mode to track the gaze of the person, wherein, if the person gets out of the narrow angle region while tracking the gaze of the human in the narrow angle mode of the photographing mode, the narrow angle mode is toggled to the wide angle mode to detect the person and track the gaze of the human.