Patents Assigned to Facebook
  • Patent number: 11287656
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques for aligning a collimator assembly with an array of LEDs. According to certain embodiments, a method includes using lithography to form a first plurality of contact pads and a second plurality of contact pads on a backplane; bonding a plurality of dies to the first plurality of contact pads, wherein each of the plurality of dies comprises a plurality of light emitting diodes; forming a first plurality of features on the second plurality of contact pads; and aligning a plurality of lenses on an assembly with the plurality of dies by coupling a second plurality of features on the assembly with the first plurality of features on the second plurality of contact pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Rajendra D. Pendse
  • Patent number: 11287885
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining the position of artificial reality wearables may include a wearable dimensioned to be donned by a user of an artificial reality system. The apparatus may also include a sensor incorporated into the wearable. The sensor may detect physical interactions between the wearable and at least one specific body part of the user. The apparatus may further include a processing device communicatively coupled to the sensor. The processing device may determine, based at least in part on one or more physical interactions between the wearable and the specific body part of the user, a change in a position of the wearable relative to the specific body part of the user. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wolf Kienzle, Hrvoje Benko, Joseph Davis Greer, Tristan Thomas Trutna, Raymond King, Yanjun Ma
  • Patent number: 11287648
    Abstract: A near-eye optic includes a substrate having a clear aperture for propagating light. An inconspicuous electrical circuit is supported by the substrate in the clear aperture of the substrate. The inconspicuous electrical circuit includes a plurality of inconspicuous conductive traces disposed in an inconspicuous pattern and electrically coupled to a plurality of inconspicuous electrical components. The inconspicuous pattern may include e.g. an asymmetric pattern, an aperiodic pattern, a pseudo-random pattern, a meandering pattern, a periodic pattern modulated with pseudo-random perturbations, or a non-rectangular pattern modulated with pseudo-random perturbations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Karol Constantine Hatzilias, Robin Sharma, Christopher Yuan Ting Liao, Andrew Ouderkirk
  • Patent number: 11288543
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system may capture one or more images of an object using one or more cameras. The system may detect features of the object depicted in the one or more images. The system may compute, based on the detected features in the one or more images, depth measurements for the object. The system may generate confidence scores associated with the depth measurements. The system may refine the computed depth measurements of the object by processing the depth measurements, the associated confidence scores, and at least one of the one or more images using a machine-learning model trained to refine depth measurements. The trained machine-learning model is configured to process one or more input images to refine the processed depth measurements in the input images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC.
    Inventor: Andrey Tovchigrechko
  • Patent number: 11290837
    Abstract: A system that uses persistent sound source selection to augment audio content. The system comprises one or more microphones coupled to a frame of a headset. The one or more microphones capture sound emitted by sound sources in a local area. The system further comprises an audio controller integrated into the headset. The audio controller receives sound signals corresponding to sounds emitted by sound sources in the local area. The audio controller further updates a ranking of the sound sources based on eye tracking information of the user. The audio controller further selectively applies one or more filters to the one or more of the sound signals according to the ranking to generate augmented audio data. The audio controller further provides the augmented audio data to a speaker assembly for presentation to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: William Owen Brimijoin, II, Nils Thomas Fritiof Lunner, Nava K. Balsam
  • Patent number: 11288788
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may determine, for a pixel, a sampling location within a texture that comprises a plurality of texels, and based on the sampling location, select a set of texels in the plurality of texels. Each texel in the set of texels may encode a distance field. An interpolated distance field associated with the sampling location may be computed based on the distance fields associated with the set of texels. The interpolated distance field may represent a relative distance between the sampling location and a texture edge. According to a blending proportion based on the interpolated distance field, the computing system may determine a blended color for the sampling location by blending, a first and second color associated with a first side of the edge and a second side of the edge, and output a color for the pixel based on the blended color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC.
    Inventor: Larry Seiler
  • Patent number: 11288503
    Abstract: Systems and methods for adjusting an image based on pupil size are disclosed. Particularly, a system for adjusting an image being presented on a display includes a processor. The processor is configured to identify a size of a pupil of a user viewing an image presented on the display, determine an intensity map based at least on the size of the pupil, and adjust the intensity values of at least a portion of the image using the intensity map. The intensity map indicates an amount of adjustment to intensity values of at least a portion of the image being displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Barry David Silverstein, Bo Zhang, Yijing Fu
  • Patent number: 11281293
    Abstract: The disclosed systems and methods are generally directed to providing a musculoskeletal representation of a hand. The system comprises one or more neuromuscular sensors configured to record a plurality of neuromuscular signals from a user and at least one computer processor. The computer processor is programmed to provide the plurality of neuromuscular signals as input to one or more trained inference models. The one or more trained inference models may include a smoothing function such as a loss function, such as a total variation loss function, a finite difference loss function, or another suitable loss function, to generate a temporally smooth output based on the processed neuromuscular signals. The computer processor is further programmed to determine the musculoskeletal representation of the hand based on the temporally smooth output. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Carlos Xavier Hernández, Daniel Wetmore
  • Patent number: 11281008
    Abstract: An electronic display assembly includes a display element and a corrective element coupled to the display element. The display element has a first plurality of sub-pixels of a first type and a second plurality of sub-pixels of a second type. Two adjacent sub-pixels of the first plurality of sub-pixel are separated by a sub-pixel distance. The corrective element has a plurality of features configured to diffuse light emitted by the first plurality of sub-pixels such that an apparent distance between the two adjacent sub-pixels of the first type, viewed at a viewing distance away from the electronic display assembly, is less than the sub-pixel distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ying Geng, Jacques Gollier, Alexander Sohn, Matthew E. Colburn
  • Patent number: 11281031
    Abstract: An optical dimming device includes at least one polarization rotator configured to switch a polarization of a linearly polarized component of an incoming light between two orthogonal polarizations. The optical dimming device also includes at least one polarizer coupled with the at least one polarization rotator, and configured to output a light having a light intensity reduced to a predetermined percentage of an initial light intensity of the incoming light. The predetermined percentage is substantially the same for different incoming lights having different initial polarizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Jasmine Soria Sears, Afsoon Jamali, Gareth Valentine, Nathan Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11283593
    Abstract: In general, this disclosure describes encryption engines that adaptively synchronize signals and suppress glitch propagation in a data decryption pipeline. An apparatus includes a decryption data path having a plurality of computational stages arranged in a pipeline configured to decrypt an encrypted block of data to form a decrypted block of data. One of the computational stages included in the pipeline of the decryption data path includes multiple asymmetric logical paths. A first signal traverses a first logical path and a second signal traverses a second logical path having a greater number of logical units than the first logical path. A glitch suppression register of the apparatus is configured to synchronize the first signal with respect to the second signal such that the first signal and the second signal arrive at a downstream logic element of the computational stage of the decryption data path at substantially a same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Sudhir Satpathy
  • Patent number: 11280997
    Abstract: A beam scanner of a near-eye display includes a pair of tiltable reflectors and a beam-folding pupil relay coupling the tiltable reflectors optically together. The beam-folding pupil relay includes a beamsplitter for receiving the light beam reflected by the first tiltable reflector, and a first curved reflector for receiving the light beam from the beamsplitter, and for reflecting the light beam back towards the beamsplitter. The beam-folded pupil relay is configured to couple the light beam reflected by the first curved reflector to the second tiltable reflector. A second curved reflector may be provided for coupling the light beam scanned by the tiltable reflectors to a pupil-replicating waveguide. A controller may be provided for scanning the light beam in coordination with operating the light source at varying levels of brightness or color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Weichuan Gao
  • Patent number: 11284532
    Abstract: Some embodiments include a high voltage direct current (HVDC) power generator system for information technology (IT) racks. The HVDC power generator system can include a three-phase alternating current (AC) transformer having a primary winding and a plurality of secondary windings. A plurality of three-phase bridge rectifier circuits can be electrically coupled respectively to the plurality of secondary windings. The HVDC power generator system can include output terminals for powering its load. A first string of bridge rectifier circuits can be in series with each other and a first inductor. A second string of bridge rectifier circuits can be in series with each other and a second inductor. The first and second strings can be electrically coupled in parallel to the output terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Pierluigi Sarti
  • Patent number: 11281160
    Abstract: A system for making a holographic medium for use in generating light patterns for eye tracking includes a light source configured to provide light and a beam splitter configured to separate the light into a first portion of the light and a second portion of the light that is spatially separated from the first portion of the light. The system also includes a first set of optical elements configured to transmit the first portion of the light for providing a first wide-field beam onto an optically recordable medium and a plurality of optical fibers configured to receive the second portion of the light and project a plurality of separate light patterns onto the optically recordable medium for forming the holographic medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Ganghun Kim, Andrew Maimone, Alexander Jobe Fix, Robert Dale Cavin, Hee Yoon Lee, Matthieu Charles Raoul Leibovici, Brian Wheelwright, Douglas Robert Lanman
  • Patent number: 11280956
    Abstract: A waveguide includes an input area, a multi-layered substrate, and an output area. The multi-layered substrate includes a plurality of layers of at least a substrate and at least one partially reflective layers. The input area in-couples light in a first band into the waveguide. The one or more partially reflective layers are partially reflective to light in the first band. Each of the one or more partially reflective layers are located between respective layers of the plurality of layers of the substrate. The output area out-couples light from the waveguide. The pupil replication density of the out-coupled light is based in part on a number of the one or more partially reflective layers and respective locations of the one or more partially reflective layers in the waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Maxwell Parsons, Giuseppe Calafiore, Wanli Chi
  • Patent number: 11282509
    Abstract: Techniques are described that classify content, and control whether and how the content is shared based on the classification(s). In some examples, video content may be classified based on sequential image frames of the video, and time between the sequential image frames. Audio content may be classified based on combining classifications of multiple sound events in the audio signal. The classifications may be used to control how the content is shared, such as by preventing offensive content from being shared and/or outputting recommendations or search results based on the classifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Shangwen Li, Jiantao Wu
  • Patent number: 11284191
    Abstract: An audio system for customizing sound fields for increased user privacy. A microphone array of a headset detects sounds from one or more sound sources in a local area of the headset. The audio system estimates array transfer functions (ATFs) associated with the sounds, and determines determining sound field reproduction filters for a loudspeaker array of the headset using the ATFs. The audio system presents audio content, via the loudspeaker array, based in part on the sound field reproduction filters. The presented audio content has a sound field that has a reduced amplitude in a first damped region of the local area that includes a first sound source of the one or more sound sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Antonio John Miller, Jacob Ryan Donley, Scott Porter
  • Patent number: 11275443
    Abstract: The disclosed system may include a substructure configured to support various components, an actuator configured to provide substantially linear motion along a specified axis in response to an electrical input, an input component hingedly coupled to the substructure, where the input component is configured to receive input from a user, and a mechanical linkage coupled to the input component and to at least a portion of the actuator. The mechanical linkage may be configured to translate the substantially linear motion provided by the actuator to a rotary force applied to the input component via the mechanical linkage. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Elizabeth Tu, Lorenz Henric Jentz, Khaled Boulos, Derrick Readinger, Robert Carey Leonard
  • Patent number: 11275202
    Abstract: A GaN layer of micro-LEDs is exposed to ion implantation to amorphize one or more regions of the GaN layer. As a result, the GaN layer through which light rays propagate have non-uniform refractive indexes that modify propagation paths of some light rays. Ions are implanted in a region overlapping an active region that emits light to function as a converging GRIN (gradient-index) lens. The ion implanted regions collimate light rays that propagate along predetermined directions. As such, the light extraction from and the focus of the micro-LEDs is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: James Ronald Bonar, James Small, Gareth John Valentine
  • Patent number: 11277856
    Abstract: Disclosed herein a system, a method and a device for dynamic scheduling between a head wearable display and a console is provided. The head wearable display can initiate, at a first time instance, a first downlink transmission to the console. The head wearable display can dynamically indicate, to the console, an end of the first downlink transmission, at a second time instance when transfer of data of the first downlink transmission is complete. The head wearable display can dynamically cause, relative to the second time instance, the console to begin an uplink transmission. The head wearable display can receive an indication to dynamically start a second downlink transmission, at a third time instance when transfer of data of the uplink transmission is complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Gang Lu, Dong Zheng, Qi Qu, Yuting Fan