Apparatus for monitoring movement of a person's eye, e.g., to monitor
drowsiness. The system includes a frame that is worn on a person's head,
an array of emitters on the frame for directing light towards the
person's eye, and an array of sensors on the frame for detecting light
from the array of emitters. The sensors detect light that is reflected
off of respective portions of the eye or its eyelid, thereby producing
output signals indicating when the respective portions of the eye is
covered by the eyelid. The emitters project a reference frame towards the
eye, and a camera on the frame monitors movement of the eye relative to
the reference frame. This movement may be correlated with the signals
from the array of sensors and/or with signals from other sensors on the
frame to monitor the person's level of drowsiness.