Plural Image Superposition Patents (Class 345/9)
  • Patent number: 10649494
    Abstract: The present document discloses a screen content switching method and a double-screen mobile terminal. The method includes: detecting a handheld state of a double-screen mobile terminal when a target application interface is displayed on a target screen, herein the target screen is one screen of the double-screen mobile terminal; judging whether the handheld state corresponds to the target screen; and if the handheld state does not correspond to the target screen, switching the target application interface to be displayed on the other screen of the double-screen mobile terminal. When the screen on which the application interface is displayed does not correspond to the handheld state, the double-screen mobile terminal can automatically switch the application interface to be displayed on the screen corresponding to the handheld state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Zhao Li
  • Patent number: 10649208
    Abstract: A head-up display device, a head-up display method and a vehicle are provided. The head-up display device includes: a light source configured to generate a to-be-modulated light beam; a phase spatial light modulator configured to modulate a phase of the to-be-modulated light beam and emit at least two phase-modulated light beams; a reproduction component configured to perform image reproduction on the at least two phase-modulated light beams, so as to generate at least two reproduced images; at least two diffusers configured to receive and diffuse the at least two reproduced images generated by the reproduction component respectively; and a reflector assembly configured to guide the at least two light beams diffused by the at least two diffusers to a projection region, so as to form at least two projection images at different spatial positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dianmeng Li
  • Patent number: 10635901
    Abstract: Provided is a head-mounted display in which it is easy to photograph eyes of a user that wears the head-mounted display. The HMD that is worn by the user includes a display unit disposed in front of the eyes of the user, an optical system disposed between the display unit and eyes of the user, and an imaging unit disposed between the display unit and the optical system, the imaging unit imaging the display unit in which an image of the eyes of the user is reflected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Manabu Ishioka, Shotaro Tada, Toshihiro Kusunoki
  • Patent number: 10625688
    Abstract: An assembly capable of deploying an electronic device having a display screen from a stowed position towards a viewing position and simultaneously supporting the device and supplying electrical signals to the device in the viewing position within a passenger compartment of a vehicle is provided. A device holder is capable of movably holding the device and is supported for rotation about a rotational axis at a distal end of an elongated support. A bi-directional, electrically powered, linear actuator subassembly is mounted on a base and includes a motor-driven screw-drive and a threaded member mounted on the screw-drive to linearly move along a longitudinal axis of the screw-drive upon rotation of the screw-drive. The threaded member is connected to a proximal end of the elongated support to lift the elongated support to deploy the device along a predetermined, non-linear path upon rotation of the screw-drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Global IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Richard D. Adamson, Sr., Scott Munro
  • Patent number: 10625677
    Abstract: A display device applied to an instrument panel unit includes: a projection surface provided on a surface on a vehicle interior side of an interior member provided on the vehicle interior side of a vehicle and on a front side in a vehicle front-back direction, the interior member extending along a vehicle width direction; a projector including a projection unit configured to project an image; and a holding unit configured to hold the projector by the interior member in a positional relationship where at least a part of the projection unit is located on the projection surface side of the interior member, and the image from the projection unit is projected onto the projection surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideki Miyasaka
  • Patent number: 10606541
    Abstract: A display device or an electronic device with high portability and browsability is provided. A display device which includes two display panels that overlap with each other and in which the area of a portion where the two display panels overlap with each other is variable is provided. The larger the area where the two display panels overlap with each other is, the smaller the display device becomes. The first display panel includes a first region that performs display. The second display panel includes a second region that performs display, and a third region that is adjacent to the second region and transmits visible light. When the third region overlaps with the side of a surface which performs display of the first region, display can be performed using a seamless large display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Yanagisawa, Nozomu Sugisawa, Natsuko Takase
  • Patent number: 10534173
    Abstract: A display device includes a two-dimensional array of tiles. Each tile includes a two-dimensional array of pixels and a two-dimensional array of tunable masks. Each pixel is configured to output light so that the two-dimensional array of pixels outputs a respective pattern of light. The two-dimensional array of tunable masks is configured to conditionally block transmission of light for displaying an augmented reality image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Mary Lou Jepsen
  • Patent number: 10488655
    Abstract: A display device displays a virtual image of a first picture and a virtual image of a second picture by using a display medium. This display device includes a light source that emits light, a fixed screen, a movable screen, a driver, and a scanner. The fixed screen is fixedly disposed on an optical path between the light source and the display medium. The movable screen is also disposed on this optical path. The driver moves the movable screen along the optical path. The scanner scans the fixed screen and the movable screen with the light emitted from the light source, thereby forming the first picture on the fixed screen and the second picture on the movable screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken'ichi Kasazumi, Toshiya Mori, Hiroaki Okayama, Satoshi Kuzuhara, Hiroyuki Furuya, Akira Kurozuka, Shinsuke Nakazono
  • Patent number: 10490099
    Abstract: A system, process and software that incorporate the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a condition that causes an impaired perception of an original media content item during a presentation. A media content modification is determined, wherein application of the media content modification to the original media content item results in a modified media content item. The modified media content item, when presented to the media presentation device, ameliorates the impaired perception of the media content item. The media content modification is applied to the original media content item resulting in the modified media content item. The modified media content item is presented at the media presentation device contemporaneously with the original media content item, allowing different viewers to observe the modified media content item simultaneously with the original. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, Amy Ruth Reibman, David Crawford Gibbon, Bernard S. Renger, Zhu Liu, Behzad Shahraray
  • Patent number: 10475370
    Abstract: A display system includes a display panel having an input to receive pixel data, the pixel data comprising a plurality of pixel values, an array of pixels partitioned into a foveal region and at least one peripheral region, and an array controller to group pixels in the at least one peripheral region into subsets of at least two pixels and to control each subset using a corresponding single pixel value from the plurality of pixel values. The display system further may include a rendering system to foveally render a display image based on the locations of the foveal region and the at least one peripheral regions, wherein for each row of the display image having pixels within at least one of the peripheral region, a number of pixel values represented in the pixel data for the row is less than a number of pixels in the row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Mark Spitzer, Carlin Vieri
  • Patent number: 10474327
    Abstract: Providing a thumbnail view of a document or other dataset is disclosed. A user input data associated with a user interaction with a thumbnail as displayed in a viewer component is received via a user interface associated with a viewer component. A tracking data reflecting the interaction is stored in a local data structure. The tracking data stored in the local data structure is used to ensure that a thumbnail affected by the user input is displayed by the viewer component in a manner that reflects the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ramkumar Ganesan, Priya Lakshmi Muthuswamy
  • Patent number: 10453258
    Abstract: One embodiment is directed to a user display device comprising a housing frame mountable on the head of the user, a lens mountable on the housing frame and a projection sub system coupled to the housing frame to determine a location of appearance of a display object in a field of view of the user based at least in part on at least one of a detection of a head movement of the user and a prediction of a head movement of the user, and to project the display object to the user based on the determined location of appearance of the display object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventors: Brian T. Schowengerdt, Samuel A. Miller
  • Patent number: 10427038
    Abstract: A game console having a beam splitter disposed in a housing and a projector that projects images onto the beam splitter that are reflected so that a player can see the images. Real world objects and/or additional projectors are positioned behind the beam splitter relative to the player and transmit images through the beam splitter so that the player can see them. In this fashion, during game play the player simultaneously sees images that are reflected from the beam splitter and images that are transmitted through the beam splitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Toccata Gaming International, LLC
    Inventor: Todd R. Stimac
  • Patent number: 10372270
    Abstract: An ultrasonic haptic control system for a motor vehicle is provided. The system includes a steering wheel assembly comprising a ring-shaped member configured to be held by an occupant of the vehicle, and rotated about a central axis in order to steer the vehicle; and a plurality of ultrasound emitters associated with the steering wheel. The ultrasound emitters are configured to focus ultrasound waves within a central region about which the ring-shaped member circumferentially extends and/or radially outside of and adjacent to the ring-shaped member. The focused ultrasound waves are configured to form one or more haptic control surfaces. A method of operating a haptic control system is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Marcus Hoggarth, Jasper Dekker, Edward Rose
  • Patent number: 10365491
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a diffractive combiner having a front side, a back side, and a combiner optical axis running substantially through the diffractive combiner and normal to the back side. A display unit having a display optical axis that directs the display light along the display optical axis toward the diffractive combiner. An eye-tracking sensor having a sensor optical axis that is positioned to receive eye-tracking radiation reflected by the diffractive combiner along the sensor optical axis. The combiner optical axis, the display optical axis, and the sensor optical axis intersect each other at the diffractive combiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Bernard C. Kress, Hayes S. Raffle
  • Patent number: 10353202
    Abstract: An apparatus having optical waveguides for providing a large FOV is disclosed. A first light engine projects light into an input diffractive coupler of a first waveguide at a first central angle. An output coupler of the first waveguide projects the light out of the first optical waveguide. A second light engine projects light into an input diffractive coupler of a second waveguide at a second central angle that is greater than the first central angle. An output coupler of the second waveguide projects the light out of the second optical waveguide to intersect with the light projected out of the first optical waveguide. The first waveguide may be used to project a first part of an image into a central portion of a user's vision. The second waveguide may be used to project a second part of the image into a peripheral portion of the user's vision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jani Tervo, Tuomas Vallius
  • Patent number: 10353203
    Abstract: A system for near-eye display applications. A lens is provided with a beam-splitting interface horizontally along the width of the lens. Two display devices per lens are provided and disposed on the perimeter surface of the lens opposing an overlapped, prismatic facet optics assembly which balances aberration introduced by the slight symmetry break in the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Ostendo Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jingbo Cai, Hussein S. El-Ghoroury, Marty Maiers, Chih-Li Chuang
  • Patent number: 10349026
    Abstract: A projector, a method for controlling the same, and a projection system which can improve the resolution more efficiently by pixel shifting are disclosed. The projector controls the degree of modulation in a plurality of optical modulation devices and generates a plurality of optical images. To the plurality of optical images, the projector applies first pixel shifting according to the period and second pixel shifting regardless of the period, and projects a resulting image. The first pixel shifting and the second pixel shifting are different from each other, either in the amount of pixel shifting or the direction of pixel shifting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Azusa Oka
  • Patent number: 10300389
    Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) gaming system of the present description includes 3D eyewear for each player that allows the player wearing the 3D eyewear to view the surrounding physical space. The 3D eyewear in conjunction with operation of a 3D display assembly of the AR gaming system allows the player to see other players while they also perceive 3D augmentation content that is rendered based on that particular player's tracked location. For example, the 3D augmentation content may include a game object that moves about the virtual gaming environment/space during the game as two (or more) players play the game such as by interacting with the game object via movement of their hand(s) with the movement/location being tracked. The AR gaming system generates the 3D augmentation content to correctly represent the present location of the game object relative to their location and view point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Ackley, Lanny S. Smoot
  • Patent number: 10255844
    Abstract: A head mounted display device includes a display panel including a first display region and a second display region which is arranged at a first angle with respect to the first display region; a reflective panel arranged at a second angle with respect to the second display region, to output a first transmitted light by transmitting a first light which is output from the first display region, and to output a second reflected light by reflecting a second light output from the second display region; and a lens to collect the first transmitted light and the second reflected light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-Tak Lee, Si-Beak Pyo, Kyu-Seok Kim, Young-Nam Yun, Hyun-Koo Lee, Young-Sik Lim
  • Patent number: 10109258
    Abstract: There are provided an attention-time measuring unit that specifies an attention area from a user's visual line and measures an attention time T that is a time period during which the attention area is overlapping with a display area indicated by presentation information acquired by a presentation-information acquiring unit; a minimum recognition-necessary-time specifying unit that specifies, from a type of a presentation object indicated in the presentation information, a minimum recognition-necessary time Tmin that is a minimum necessary time for recognizing the content of the presentation object; and a user's recognition-degree determination unit that makes a comparison between the time T and the time Tmin, and determines from that comparison result, a recognition degree of the user for the presentation object; wherein a presentation-mode selecting unit presents the presentation object in a presentation mode corresponding to the recognition degree determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nishimura, Yoshitomo Nakamura, Atsushi Shimada
  • Patent number: 10078917
    Abstract: A method may include rendering a first view of a three-dimensional (3-D) virtual scene comprising a view of first content being displayed on a virtual display device from a location in the 3-D virtual scene. The method may also include rendering a second view comprising one or more content objects. The second view may be rendered from the location in the 3-D virtual scene, and the second scene may include a view of the display device as would be seen through a pair of augmented-reality glasses that display the one or more content objects. The method may additionally include generating a composite view by combing the first view and the second view. The method may further include causing the composite view to be displayed on a virtual-reality headset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: LUCASFILM ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: John Gaeta, Michael Koperwas, Nicholas Rasmussen
  • Patent number: 10042188
    Abstract: A method for generating a real-time realistic-looking image of a pair of virtual glasses positioned on a real user face image issued from a single image, a bundle of pictures, a video clip or a real-time camera streams. A face analysis element estimates the 3D rotation matrix, the 3D translation vector, morphology parameters of the user's face. A glasses positioning element associated with a try-on mode for look or real-size simulation estimates the 3D rotation matrix, the 3D translation vector, global and local deformation parameters of the virtual glasses, and arms articulation, adapted to the morphology parameters computed by the face analysis element. A realistic rendering element mixes the real user face image with the virtual glasses positioned by the glasses positioning element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: FITTINGBOX
    Inventors: Ariel Choukroun, Jerome Guenard, Sylvain Le Gallou, Christophe Dehais
  • Patent number: 10037620
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes a method for rendering a geometry object in a computer-generated scene. A screen space associated with a display screen is divided into a set of regions. For each region; a first sampling factor in a horizontal dimension is computed that represents a horizontal sampling factor for pixels located in the region, a second sampling factor in a vertical dimension is computed that represents a vertical sampling factor for the pixels located in the region, a first offset in the horizontal dimension is computed that represents a horizontal position associated with the region, and a second offset in the vertical dimension is computed that represent a vertical position associated with the region. When the geometry object is determined to intersect more than one region, an instance of the geometry object is generated each region that the geometry object intersects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eric B. Lum, Justin Cobb
  • Patent number: 10031343
    Abstract: An image display device including a laser light source; an optical element; and a transmitting-reflecting member, the image display device which displays an image by forming the image by light which is emitted from the laser light source and making image light after forming the image to be incident on the transmitting-reflecting member, wherein the laser light source is arranged such that there are more S polarization components of the image light which is incident on the transmitting-reflecting member with respect to the transmitting-reflecting member than P polarization components, and a mobile object including the image display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiroh Saisho, Makoto Inamoto
  • Patent number: 9990008
    Abstract: A modular virtual reality headset that may be operated in multiple modes. Embodiments enable a mount with modular receivers having electronic and mechanical interfaces that accept swappable modules. Swappable modules may include swappable display modules, swappable audio modules, and swappable sensor modules. Embodiments enable multiple modes of operation, including for example a virtual mode to display virtual reality environments, a real mode to display images of the real environment surrounding the user, and an augmented reality mode that overlays real scenes with other information. Embodiments may also provide multiple modes of operation for audio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Ariadne's Thread (USA), Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Gregory Passmore, Adam Li
  • Patent number: 9972278
    Abstract: A light irradiation device to display an image by light irradiation prevents easy perception of distortion occurring in the displayed image due to vibration of the device or movement of viewpoint. A random number is generated, and the refresh rate of the displayed image is distributed at random in correspondence with the random number. The light emission intensity is changed in correspondence with the refresh rate. When the number of lines is changed, the input video signal is subjected to scaling and a display is produced. The refresh rate is changed in correspondence with the frequency of the vibration detected with the vibration monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI-LG DATA STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshiho Seo, Satoshi Ouchi, Hiromi Kusaka
  • Patent number: 9959793
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a display system which is related to the field of display technology. The display system enables a display device to be switched between a normal display mode and an anti-peeping display mode. This display system comprises a display device which comprises a display panel for displaying content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanshun Chen, Youmei Dong, Wenbo Li, Qingjiang Wang
  • Patent number: 9927610
    Abstract: This display device is provided with a display unit, a beam splitter, and a first mirror. The display unit emits a first image and a second image. The beam splitter has, incident thereon, the first image and the second image which are emitted from the display unit. The beam splitter transmits the incident first image and reflects the incident second image to project the first image and the second image on a display medium. The first mirror has, incident thereon, the first image which has been transmitted through the beam splitter. The first mirror reflects the incident first image to project the first image on the display medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Kasazumi, Toshiya Mori
  • Patent number: 9910282
    Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) (e.g., VR headset or AR headset) displays a 3D virtual scene and includes a mirror to increase a field of view (FOV). The HMD includes an electronic display that further includes a primary display and an extended display, where the content displayed on the primary display is presented to the user's eye at an exit pupil through a lens and content displayed on the extended display is presented at the exit pupil through reflections of the mirror. The mirror is positioned between the exit pupil and the electronic display such that the mirror reflects light originating from the extended display and provides the reflected light to the exit pupil to increase the FOV. The combination of the content viewed through the lens and that of the reflected light of the extended display results in an FOV larger than when the content is viewed only through the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventor: Yury Anatolievich Petrov
  • Patent number: 9895616
    Abstract: A system that may be utilized for sending and locking text messages is provided. The system may allow a user to send an electronic message that is encrypted, locked, hidden, or otherwise made unviewable by the system to form a locked message. The locked message may be formed by associating a game with the message and requiring that a recipient play the game and satisfy an objective of the game before the message is “unlocked” or made viewable and displayed for the recipient. The locked messages may be sent to multiple recipients or to groups and may provide opportunities for competitive or cooperative play between recipients. Promotions, coupons, incentives, coupons, and marketing materials may be sent as locked messages and require or incentivize engagement by recipients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Texta, Inc.
    Inventors: Oren Schindler, Kirsten Nelson, Kris Fernando, Dana Deskiewicz
  • Patent number: 9883797
    Abstract: A system and method for automated determination of position and movement of a contact lens with respect to a subject wearer's eye based upon a complimentary pair of images, acquired in rapid succession, in which one image of the pair is acquired using light that allows viewing of the pupil and/or limbus through the lens and the other image is acquired using light that is absorbed by the lens to generate an opaque image with a defined edge relative to the surrounding sclera. The images of the pair are acquired in close enough temporal proximity to ensure that eye movement in the interval therebetween is insignificant and both images are in the same approximate reference frame. Thus, the location of the pupil and limbus in one image can be accurately compared with the location of the contact lens edge in the other image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: COGNEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gang Liu, Lei Wang, Lowell D. Jacobson
  • Patent number: 9823555
    Abstract: An optical path changing device includes: a reflective member that reflects a light beam incident thereto, in a predetermined reflection direction; and a housing holding the reflective member. The housing has a first surface and a second surface with the reflective member interposed therebetween in a direction orthogonal to the reflection direction. The first surface and the second surface have openings, respectively, and a cooling gas is circulated from the opening in the first surface to the opening in the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Takahiro Takizawa
  • Patent number: 9760777
    Abstract: A server for campaign optimization is described. The server generates analytics data from users interactions with a first virtual object displayed on a plurality of devices and user interactions with a first set of user interactive features of the first virtual object from a first content dataset. The server generates and provides a second content dataset to a device based on the analytics data. The second content dataset. The device recognizes an identifier from the second content dataset and displays, in the device, the second virtual object and the second set of user interactive features of the second virtual object in response to identifying the identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: DAQRI, LLC
    Inventor: Brian Mullins
  • Patent number: 9746914
    Abstract: A transmission-type head mounted display includes a detection unit that detects a first target from outside scenery, an image display unit which is capable of transmitting the outside scenery and is capable of displaying an image, and a display image setting unit that causes the image display unit to display a first moving image which is a moving image associated with the detected first target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Aonuma, Masahide Takano
  • Patent number: 9709814
    Abstract: A multilayer display apparatus included in an in-vehicle system includes a stereoscopic vision display device formed by a 3D display unit and a 3D display control unit that display a three-dimensional image utilizing the principle of binocular disparity, a two-dimensional display device formed by a 2D display unit and a 2D display control unit that display a two-dimensional image on a two-dimensional display face, and a half-silvered mirror. The position of the two-dimensional display face is set within a predetermine range of the position of the screen of the stereoscopic vision display device by using the half-silvered mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: ALPINE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Osamu Nagahara
  • Patent number: 9696544
    Abstract: A heads up display system is provided for an automotive vehicle. The automotive vehicle includes an instrument panel and a windshield. The heads up display providing a first reflective mirror, a second reflective mirror, a first Fresnel lens, a second Fresnel lens, and an image display generator. The first Fresnel lens has a concave shape. The first Fresnel lens is positioned downstream of the first reflection mirror and the second reflection mirror. The second Fresnel lens has a convex shape. The second Fresnel lens is positioned downstream of the first Fresnel lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Samuel T. Haberl
  • Patent number: 9694760
    Abstract: A system for projecting an image onto a window of a vehicle is supplied. The system includes a support, a camera, a projector, and a projective film. The support is mounted in the vehicle for holding an electronic device. The camera is mounted to relative to the location for capturing an image of the display when the electronic device is mounted on the support. The projector is in signal communication with the camera. The projector projects an image from the camera onto the window. The projective film mounted on the vehicle window configured to act as a projection screen for the projector. When the electronic device is mounted on the support displays an electronic image, the camera captures the image and sends the image to the projector, and the projector projects the image onto the projective film on the window. The discourse also provides a method using the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chia-Yen Lee
  • Patent number: 9596456
    Abstract: A head mounted display system comprises a lens set, an image capturing unit and a processing circuit. The lens set comprises a first liquid crystal panel and a second liquid crystal panel. The first liquid crystal panel comprises first liquid crystal blocks, and the second liquid crystal panel comprises second liquid crystal blocks. The image capturing unit captures front image data having a first dynamic range. The processing circuit performs tone mapping according to the front image data to generate mapping image data having a second dynamic range smaller than the first dynamic range. The processing circuit calculates regulated values according to the mapping image data. A driving circuit drives the first liquid crystal blocks and the second liquid crystal blocks according to the regulated values, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Wen-Chu Yang, Chung-Te Li
  • Patent number: 9572614
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating user-controlled management of webpage elements for dynamic customization of relevant information. In one embodiment and by way of example, a method includes receiving, in real-time, a request for performing one or more tasks relating to dynamic customization of webpage elements relating to a webpage package. The request may be received at a first computing device over a network. The method may further include performing, in real-time, the one or more tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Philip Norman Calvin, Sonali Agrawal, Beril Guvendik Maples, Eric Dorgelo, Shelby Hubick
  • Patent number: 9557566
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device with which a user can visually recognize a virtual image and an outside scene simultaneously includes an image pickup unit configured to pick up an image of the outside scene and acquire an outside scene image, an augmented-reality processing unit configured to analyze the acquired outside scene image and generate additional image data for augmented reality according to a result of the analysis, a display element configured to generate image light using the generated additional image data, and a light guide unit configured to form a virtual image before the eyes of the user using the generated image light. The augmented-reality processing unit acquires an overlapping region where a display region for the virtual image and an image pickup region of the image pickup unit overlap in the outside scene image and generates the additional image data using the overlapping region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Yutaka Fujimaki
  • Patent number: 9507416
    Abstract: A mobile platform displays a corrected view of an image and/or augmented reality (AR) data based on the position of the user with respect to the mobile platform. The corrected view is produced by determining a position of the user with respect to the mobile platform using an image of the user from a backward facing camera. The display information is provided in the form of an image or video frame of the environment captured with a forward facing camera or AR data. The position of the user with respect to the mobile platform is used to determine the portion of the display information to be displayed that is aligned with the line of sight between the user and the mobile platform so that the displayed information is aligned with the real world environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Inventor: Robert Howard Kimball
  • Patent number: 9507149
    Abstract: An image combiner for a viewing device, such as a night vision device, is disclosed for combining a first image, such as generated symbology, with a second image, such as a view of an outside scene in reduced lighting conditions. A waveguide is provided for capturing the first image from a first viewing direction, and for directing the first image in a second viewing direction, the second viewing direction being substantially coincident with a viewing direction of the second image, such that the first image can combine with the second image. At least a portion of the waveguide is arranged to substantially transmit the second image, such that the second image can pass substantially through the waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS plc
    Inventors: Michael David Simmonds, Alexander Angus Cameron, Colin Richard Mills
  • Patent number: 9426453
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for signaling timing of refreshes of stereographic displays are provided. In some embodiments, light emitting elements are used to signal the start of a display refresh and to signal when the light emitting elements of the display have attained a stable optical state following the display refresh. In some embodiments, light emitting elements used to signal timing of display refreshes include light emitting elements defining a display area of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Kozak, Neil W. Messmer
  • Patent number: 9315196
    Abstract: A method for controlling a functional unit of a vehicle involves detecting a gesture of a vehicle passenger and controlling the functional unit depending on the detected gesture, if a first predetermined condition is fulfilled. The first predetermined condition is that a movement sequence of a detected gesture coincides with a predetermined movement pattern that is similar to a movement of a functional unit to be controlled or is analogous to a manipulation of the functional unit to be controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventor: Paul Heisterkamp
  • Patent number: 9285883
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for displaying content is disclosed. A particular method includes determining a viewing orientation of a user relative to a display and providing a portion of content to the display based on the viewing orientation. The portion includes at least a first viewable element of the content and does not include at least one second viewable element of the content. The method also includes determining an updated viewing orientation of the user and updating the portion of the content based on the updated viewing orientation. The updated portion includes at least the second viewable element. A display difference between the portion and the updated portion is non-linearly related to an orientation difference between the viewing orientation and the updated viewing orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ning Bi, Milivoje Aleksic
  • Patent number: 9264702
    Abstract: An apparatus for calibrating an augmented reality (AR) device having an optical see-through head mounted display (HMD) obtains eye coordinates in an eye coordinate system corresponding to a location of an eye of a user of the AR device, and obtains object coordinates in a world coordinate system corresponding to a location of a real-world object in the field of view of the AR device, as captured by a scene camera having a scene camera coordinate system. The apparatus calculates screen coordinates in a screen coordinate system corresponding to a display point on the HMD, where the calculating is based on the obtained eye coordinates and the obtained object coordinates. The apparatus calculates calibration data based on the screen coordinates, the object coordinates and a transformation from the target coordinate system to the scene camera coordinate system. The apparatus then derives subsequent screen coordinates for the display of AR in relation to other real-world object points based on the calibration data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kexi Liu, Md Sazzadur Rahman, Martin H. Renschler
  • Patent number: 9264697
    Abstract: A stereo display apparatus is provided, including a display panel and an adjustable liquid crystal lens array. The adjustable liquid crystal lens array includes a liquid crystal layer and first and second substrates disposed at opposite sides of the liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes first and second electrodes. The first and second electrodes respectively have a plurality of first and second branch portions arranged alternately. There are first and second pitches respectively between two of the first branch portions adjacent and two of the second branch portions adjacent. The second substrate includes a third electrode. When there is an electric potential difference between the third electrode and the first or the second electrode, an equivalent refractive index of the liquid crystal layer progressively increases from the two first or second branch portions adjacent to central of the two first or second branch portions adjacent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Chunghwa Picture Tubes, LTD.
    Inventors: Shih-Fong Huang, Hsu-Ping Chiu
  • Patent number: 9149255
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are described that include ultrasound imaging devices, which may operate in a transmissive ultrasound imaging modality, and which may be used to detect properties of interest of a subject such as index of refraction, density and/or speed of sound. Devices suitable for performing high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), as well as HIFU and ultrasound imaging, are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Butterfly Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Nevada J. Sanchez, Gregory L. Charvat, Tyler S. Ralston
  • Patent number: 9111384
    Abstract: Computationally implemented methods and systems include receiving augmentation data associated with one or more first augmentations, the one or more first augmentations having been included in a first augmented view of a first actual scene that was remotely displayed at a remote augmented reality (AR) device, displaying one or more second augmentations in a second augmented view of a second actual scene, the displaying of the one or more second augmentations being in response, at least in part, to the augmentation data, and transmitting to the remote AR device usage data that indicates usage information related at least to usage or non-usage of the received augmentation data. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Elwha LLC
    Inventors: Gene Fein, Royce A. Levien, Richard T. Lord, Robert W. Lord, Mark A. Malamud, John D. Rinaldo, Jr., Clarence T. Tegreene