Patents by Inventor Frederic Montfort

Frederic Montfort 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).

  • Patent number: 11828946
    Abstract: A head mounted display system configured to project light to an eye of a user to display augmented reality images can include a frame configured to be supported on a head of the user, a camera disposed temporally on said frame, an eyepiece configured to direct light into said user's eye to display augmented reality image content to the user's vision field, a reflective element disposed on the frame, and at least one VCSEL disposed to illuminate said eye, wherein the camera is disposed with respect to the reflective element such that light from the VCSEL is reflected from the user's eye to the reflective element and is reflected from the reflective element to the camera to form images of the eye that are captured by the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Nizan Meitav, Barak Freedman, Ori Weinstein, Asaf Pellman, Chulwoo Oh, Frédéric Montfort
  • Publication number: 20230375787
    Abstract: A head-mounted display system can include a head-mountable frame, a light projection system configured to output light to provide image content to a user's eye, and a waveguide supported by the frame. The waveguide can be configured to guide at least a portion of the light from the light projection system coupled into the waveguide to present the image content to the user's eye. The system can include a grating that includes a first reflective diffractive optical element and a second reflective diffractive optical element. The combination of the first and second reflective diffractive optical elements can operate as a transmissive diffractive optical element. The first reflective diffractive optical element can be a volume phase holographic grating. The second reflective diffractive optical element can be a liquid crystal polarization grating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Frédéric MONTFORT, Carlos Alberto Macias ROMERO
  • Publication number: 20220413302
    Abstract: A head mounted display system configured to project light to an eye of a user to display augmented reality images can include a frame configured to be supported on a head of the user, a camera disposed temporally on said frame, an eyepiece configured to direct light into said user's eye to display augmented reality image content to the user's vision field, a reflective element disposed on the frame, and at least one VCSEL disposed to illuminate said eye, wherein the camera is disposed with respect to the reflective element such that light from the VCSEL is reflected from the user's eye to the reflective element and is reflected from the reflective element to the camera to form images of the eye that are captured by the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Nizan MEITAV, Barak FREEDMAN, Ori WEINSTEIN, Asaf PELLMAN, Chulwoo Oh, Frédéric MONTFORT
  • Patent number: 11474358
    Abstract: A head mounted display system configured to project light to an eye of a user to display augmented reality images can include a frame configured to be supported on a head of the user, a camera disposed temporally on said frame, an eyepiece configured to direct light into said user's eye to display augmented reality image content to the user's vision field, a reflective element disposed on the frame, and at least one VCSEL disposed to illuminate said eye, wherein the camera is disposed with respect to the reflective element such that light from the VCSEL is reflected from the user's eye to the reflective element and is reflected from the reflective element to the camera to form images of the eye that are captured by the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Nizan Meitav, Barak Freedman, Ori Weinstein, Asaf Pellman, Chulwoo Oh, Frédéric Montfort
  • Publication number: 20210294106
    Abstract: A head mounted display system configured to project light to an eye of a user to display augmented reality images can include a frame configured to be supported on a head of the user, a camera disposed temporally on said frame, an eyepiece configured to direct light into said user's eye to display augmented reality image content to the user's vision field, a reflective element disposed on the frame, and at least one VCSEL disposed to illuminate said eye, wherein the camera is disposed with respect to the reflective element such that light from the VCSEL is reflected from the user's eye to the reflective element and is reflected from the reflective element to the camera to form images of the eye that are captured by the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Nizan Meitav, Barak Freedman, Ori Weinstein, Asaf Pellman, Chulwoo Oh, Frédéric Montfort
  • Patent number: 10642043
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices and methods to provide a holographic optical element (HOE) having a modified shape and a structural attribute. At least one wavefront may be used to cause a first structure change in a material, used for the HOE, in a first shape. The material used for the HOE may be changed from the first shape to the modified shape to cause a second structure change in the material. The structural attribute in the material may be provided from a combination of the first structure change and the second structure change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Ziegler, Mickael Guillaumee, Eric Tremblay, Christophe Moser, Frederic Montfort
  • Patent number: 10401792
    Abstract: The techniques, apparatus, material and systems are described for a portable camera device which can be attached to the camera port of a conventional transmission or reflection microscope for complex wave front analysis. At least one holographic element (BS, grating) splits the beam (s) containing the sample information in two beams (r,o) and filters (r?, o?) them. The proposed invention has a relaxed alignment sensitivity to displacement of the beam coming from the microscope. Besides since it compensates the coherence plane tilt angle between reference and object arms, it allows for creating high-visibility interference over the entire field of view. The full-field off-axis holograms provide the whole sample information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Lyncée Tec SA
    Inventors: Christophe Moser, Zahra Monemhaghdoust, Frédéric Montfort, Christian Depeursinge, Yves Emery
  • Publication number: 20180003975
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices and methods to provide a holographic optical element (HOE) having a modified shape and a structural attribute. At least one wavefront may be used to cause a first structure change in a material, used for the HOE, in a first shape. The material used for the HOE may be changed from the first shape to the modified shape to cause a second structure change in the material. The structural attribute in the material may be provided from a combination of the first structure change and the second structure change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Ziegler, Mickael Guillaumee, Eric Tremblay, Christophe Moser, Frederic Montfort
  • Publication number: 20170003650
    Abstract: The techniques, apparatus, material and systems are described for a portable camera device which can be attached to the camera port of a conventional transmission or reflection microscope for complex wave front analysis. At least one holographic element (BS, grating) splits the beam (s) containing the sample information in two beams (r,o) and filters (r?, o?) them. The proposed invention has a relaxed alignment sensitivity to displacement of the beam coming from the microscope. Besides since it compensates the coherence plane tilt angle between reference and object arms, it allows for creating high-visibility interference over the entire field of view. The full-field off-axis holograms provide the whole sample information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Christophe Moser, Zahra Monemhaghdoust, Frédéric Montfort, Christian Depeursinge, Yves Emery
  • Patent number: 7649160
    Abstract: A new way of mixing instrumental and digital means is described for the general field of wave front sensing. The present invention describes the use, the definition and the utility of digital operators, called digital wave front operators (DWFO) or digital lenses (DL), specifically designed for the digital processing of wave fronts defined in amplitude and phase. DWFO are of particular interest for correcting undesired wave front deformations induced by instrumental defects or experimental errors. DWFO may be defined using a mathematical model, e.g. a polynomial function, which involves coefficients. The present invention describes automated and semi-automated procedures for calibrating or adjusting the values of these coefficients. These procedures are based on the fitting of mathematical models on reference data extracted from specific regions of a wave front called reference areas, which are characterized by the fact that specimen contributions are a priori known in reference areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Lyncee Tec S.A.
    Inventors: Tristan Colomb, Etienne Cuche, Nicolas Aspert, Jonas Kuehn, Pierre Marquet, Christian Depeursinge, Frédéric Montfort, Florian Charriere, Anca Marian, Sébastien Bourquin, Yves Emery, Silvain Herminjard