Patents by Inventor Brendan Elwood Bevensee

Brendan Elwood Bevensee has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230185237
    Abstract: A holographic energy system is operable to generate an output wavefront according to a complex amplitude function. The holographic energy system includes a continuous three-dimensional energy medium, an array of energy devices configured to output energy to interact with the continuous three-dimensional energy medium to define a hologram therein, and an electromagnetic (EM) energy source positioned to output coherent EM energy that is incident on the hologram in the continuous three-dimensional energy medium to generate an output wavefront.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Chih-Hsiang Yang, Jonathan Sean Karafin, Brendan Elwood Bevensee
  • Publication number: 20230176395
    Abstract: Devices utilizing holographic 4D plenoptic capture and display technologies to generate a light field function to provide glasses-less vision correction for observers with imperfect vision, and to project an image according to the generated light field function, and methods for calibrating a four-dimensional light field for a user with an uncorrected visual acuity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Jonathan Sean Karafin, Brendan Elwood Bevensee
  • Patent number: 11668869
    Abstract: Disclosed are transparent energy relay waveguide systems for the superimposition of holographic opacity modulation states for holographic, light field, virtual, augmented and mixed reality applications. The light field system may comprise one or more energy waveguide relay systems with one or more energy modulation elements, each energy modulation element configured to modulate energy passing therethrough, whereby the energy passing therethrough may be directed according to 4D plenoptic functions or inverses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Light Field Lab, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Sean Karafin, Brendan Elwood Bevensee
  • Publication number: 20230070130
    Abstract: A light filed (LF) display system for displaying holographic performance content (e.g., a live performance) to viewers in a venue. The LF display system in the venue includes LF display modules tiled together to form an array of LF modules. The array of LF modules create a performance volume (e.g., a stage) for displaying the performance content in the venue. The array of LF modules displays the performance content to viewers in viewing volumes. The LF display system can be included in a LF presentation network. The LF presentation network allows holographic performance content to be recorded at one location and displayed (concurrently or non-concurrently) at another location. The LF presentation network includes a network system to manage the digital rights of the holographic performance content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Jonathan Sean Karafin, Brendan Elwood Bevensee, John Dohm
  • Patent number: 11579465
    Abstract: Four dimensional (4D) energy-field package assembly for projecting energy fields according to a 4D coordinate function. The 4D energy-field package assembly includes an energy-source system having energy sources capable of providing energy to energy locations, and energy waveguides for directing energy from the energy locations from one side of the energy waveguide to another side of the energy waveguide along energy propagation paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Light Field Lab, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Sean Karafin, Brendan Elwood Bevensee
  • Publication number: 20230040123
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for manufacturing energy directing systems for directing energy of multiple energy domains. Energy relays and energy waveguides are disclosed for directing energy of multiple energy domains, including electromagnetic energy, acoustic energy, and haptic energy. Systems are disclosed for projecting and sensing 4D energy-fields comprising multiple energy domains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Jonathan Sean Karafin, Brendan Elwood Bevensee
  • Patent number: 11556015
    Abstract: Devices utilizing holographic 4D plenoptic capture and display technologies to generate a light field function to provide glasses-less vision correction for observers with imperfect vision, and to project an image according to the generated light field function, and methods for calibrating a four-dimensional light field for a user with an uncorrected visual acuity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Light Field Lab, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Sean Karafin, Brendan Elwood Bevensee
  • Publication number: 20220409995
    Abstract: A light field (LF) display system implements a holographic video game. The LF display system includes an LF display assembly that displays holographic game content. The LF display system can also include a sensory feedback assembly that provides tactile feedback to users by projecting an ultrasonic wave, a tracking system that can track one or more body parts of a user, and a controller that executes a game application and generates display instructions for the LF display assembly. The LF display system can implement an interactive video game that tracks a body part of a player and provides both visual and haptic feedback to the player to depict an in-game interaction, such as an explosion or impact. The video game may be implemented as part of an LF gaming network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Brendan Elwood Bevensee, Trevor Berninger, Jonathan Sean Karafin
  • Publication number: 20220397862
    Abstract: Relay systems may be incorporated into optical systems to direct light from at least one image source to a viewing volume. Light from a plurality of image sources may be directed by relay systems to a viewing volume. Some light from the plurality of image sources may be occluded by an occlusion system to reduce undesirable artifacts in when the relayed light from the plurality of image sources are observed in the viewing volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Jonathan Sean Karafin, Brendan Elwood Bevensee
  • Publication number: 20220368854
    Abstract: A video communication system uses a light field display to present a holographic image of a remote scene (e.g., a hologram of a remote participant). The system may include a local light field display assembly and a controller. The controller generates display instructions based on visual data corresponding to a remote scene received from a remote image capture system (e.g., a remote light field display system). The display instructions cause the local light field display assembly to generate a holographic image of the remote scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Jonathan Sean Karafin, Brendan Elwood Bevensee
  • Patent number: 11474370
    Abstract: Relay systems and methods are operable to redirect light corresponding to a light field or holographic object such that imagery generated by a light field or other display is perceived by a viewer without having to address the display itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Light Field Lab, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Sean Karafin, Brendan Elwood Bevensee
  • Publication number: 20220329917
    Abstract: A light field (LF) display system for displaying holographic content within an adult entertainment context is disclosed. The LF display system includes a plurality of LF displays that, in one embodiment, are tiled to form an array of LF displays within an environment and the LF display system may customize a viewer's experience using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models that track and respond to each viewers movements and/or requests in the environment, their behaviors (e.g., body language, facial expressions, tone of voice, etc.) through various sensors (e.g., cameras, microphones, LF display sensors, etc.). Accordingly, the result is an adult entertainment environment customize for each viewer including AI holographic performers that engage viewers within the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Jonathan Sean Karafin, Brendan Elwood Bevensee, John Dohm
  • Publication number: 20220326760
    Abstract: A light field display system is implemented in a mobile device to present the user with holographic content which includes at least one holographic object, providing the user with an immersive operational experience. The system generates and presents holographic content for the user. In one embodiment, the system receives a command from the user. In some embodiments, the presented holographic content may comprise a holographic user interface that is used by the system to receive the commands from the user of the mobile device. Subsequently, the system recognizes the received commands, determines one or more computational commands for execution by the system, and executes the determined computational command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Jonathan Sean Karafin, Brendan Elwood Bevensee
  • Publication number: 20220308359
    Abstract: A light field (LF) display system for displaying holographic content within a gaming environment, such as a casino. The LF display system includes a plurality of LF displays that, in one embodiment, are tiled to form an array of LF displays within the gaming environment and the LF display system may customize a viewer's experience using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models that track and record each viewers movement through the gaming environment, their gaming progress (e.g., wins, losses, points, monetary winnings, etc.), and their behaviors (e.g., body language, facial expressions, tone of voice, etc.) through various sensors (e.g., cameras, microphones, etc.). Accordingly, the result is a gaming environment customize for each viewer including AI holographic characters that engages viewers based on their observed behavior within the gaming environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Jonathan Sean Karafin, Brendan Elwood Bevensee
  • Patent number: 11452945
    Abstract: A light filed (LF) display system for displaying holographic content to viewers in an amusement park (e.g., as part of an amusement park ride). The LF display system in an amusement park includes LF display modules tiled together to form an array of LF modules. In some embodiments, the LF display system includes a tracking system and/or a viewer profiling module. The tracking system and viewer profiling module can monitor and store characteristics of viewers on the amusement park ride, a viewer profile describing a viewer, and/or responses of viewers to the holographic content during the amusement park ride. The holographic content created for display on an amusement park ride can be based on any of the monitored or stored information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Light Field Lab, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Sean Karafin, Brendan Elwood Bevensee, John Dohm
  • Publication number: 20220300143
    Abstract: A light field display system is implemented in a consumer device to present the user of the consumer device with holographic content, providing the user with an immersive operational experience. The system generates and presents holographic content for the user. The system receives a command from the user. In some embodiments, the presented holographic content may comprise a holographic user interface that is used by the system to receive the commands from the user. Subsequently, the system recognizes the received commands, determines one or more computational commands for execution by the system, and executes the determined computational command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Jonathan Sean Karafin, Brendan Elwood Bevensee
  • Publication number: 20220277684
    Abstract: In modular video display systems, such as video wall systems, it is common to tile many separate display modules together to form a single display surface which has faint or unnoticeable seams. In such systems, the full resolution video signal is usually split into portions that correspond to the display tiles, and each portion of the video is shown on a different display tile. A uniform scan refresh method may be used for every tile, leading to the neighboring scan lines across some tile boundaries to be updated at different times. This effect, which may cause a temporal artifact for viewers of the video, can be greatly reduced by refreshing scan lines in alternate rows or columns of the display tiles in opposite directions, leading to scan lines across boundaries between tiles being updated at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Jonathan Sean Karafin, Trevor Berninger, Brendan Elwood Bevensee
  • Patent number: 11428933
    Abstract: A light filed (LF) display system for displaying holographic performance content (e.g., a live performance) to viewers in a venue. The LF display system in the venue includes LF display modules tiled together to form an array of LF modules. The array of LF modules create a performance volume (e.g., a stage) for displaying the performance content in the venue. The array of LF modules displays the performance content to viewers in viewing volumes. The LF display system can be included in a LF presentation network. The LF presentation network allows holographic performance content to be recorded at one location and displayed (concurrently or non-concurrently) at another location. The LF presentation network includes a network system to manage the digital rights of the holographic performance content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Light Field Lab, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Sean Karafin, Brendan Elwood Bevensee, John Dohm
  • Patent number: 11381775
    Abstract: A video communication system uses a light field display to present a holographic image of a remote scene (e.g., a hologram of a remote participant). The system may include a local light field display assembly and a controller. The controller generates display instructions based on visual data corresponding to a remote scene received from a remote image capture system (e.g., a remote light field display system). The display instructions cause the local light field display assembly to generate a holographic image of the remote scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Light Field Lab, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Sean Karafin, Brendan Elwood Bevensee
  • Publication number: 20220210395
    Abstract: A light filed (LF) display system for displaying holographic content (e.g., a holographic film or holographic content to augment a film) to viewers in a cinema. The LF display system in the cinema includes LF display modules tiled together to form an array of LF modules. The array of LF modules create a holographic object volume for displaying the holographic content in the cinema. The array of LF modules displays the holographic content to viewers in viewing volumes. The LF display system can be included in a LF film network. The LF film network allows holographic content to be created at one location and presented at another location. The LF film network includes a network system to manage the digital rights of the holographic performance content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Jonathan Sean Karafin, Brendan Elwood Bevensee, John Dohm