Patents Assigned to Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
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Patent number: 11977238Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to modular expansion systems for use in head-worn computing systems. In an head-worn computer, an electrical connector is adapted to electrically connect with a modular expansion module, wherein the modular expansion module adds a capability to the head-worn computer and is removeably mounted to the head-worn computer, and a mount is adapted to physically secure the modular expansion module to the head-worn computer.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: Ralph F Osterhout, Robert Michael Lohse
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Patent number: 11971554Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for the see through computer display systems. In embodiments, the systems and methods use curved display panels to generate image light.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventor: John D Haddick
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Patent number: 11960095Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for the see-through computer display systems with integrated IR eye imaging technologies.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventor: John D. Haddick
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Patent number: 11960089Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for providing a high transmission see-through view of the environment while trapping escaping light from the display system. In embodiments, a camera system is also provided that is aligned with the display system to provide images of the environment in a viewing direction of the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventor: John N. Border
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Patent number: 11947120Abstract: A head-worn see-through display includes a display panel adapted to generate image content light, a combiner adapted to reflect the image content light towards an eye of a user, wherein the combiner transmits scene light from a surrounding environment to the eye of the user, and an image expansion optic intermediate the display panel and the combiner. The image expansion optic includes a flat partially reflective and partially reflective surface (the “flat surface”), a curved partially reflective and partially reflective surface (the “curved surface”), and the flat surface adapted to reflect the image content light towards the curved surface and the curved surface adapted to reflect the image light back towards the flat surface, wherein the image light transmits through the flat surface towards the combiner.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: John D. Haddick, Jean-Claude David Ramey De Sugny
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Patent number: 11947126Abstract: An apparatus includes an eye cover adapted to be removably mounted on a head-worn computer with a see-through computer display and a flexible audio headset mounted to the eye cover. The flexible audio headset is mounted to the eye cover with a magnetic connection.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: Ralph F. Osterhout, Robert Michael Lohse
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Patent number: 11947735Abstract: A head-worn computer includes a camera system positioned to capture a surrounding environment in front of a user, a processor that identifies a position of a plurality of light emitters mounted on a hand-held controller from images captured by the camera system and tracks the position of the plurality of light emitters as the hand-held controller moves in the surrounding environment and interprets the tracked position as positional changes of the hand-held controller. The processor uses the position of the plurality of light emitters as markers in three dimensional space, the markers used as an anchor for virtual content presented in a see-through display of the head-worn computer.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: Robert Michael Lohse, John D. Haddick
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Patent number: 11940629Abstract: An optical system for a head-worn computer includes an upper optical module adapted to convert illumination into image light by illuminating a reflective display through a field lens, wherein the image light is transmitted back through the field lens, then through a partially reflective partially transmissive surface and into a lower optic module adapted to present the image light to an eye of a user wearing the head-worn computer and the upper optical module being positioned within a housing for the head-worn computer and having a height of less than 24 mm, as measured from the reflective display to the bottom edge of the rotationally curved partial mirror.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: John N. Border, Joseph Bietry, John D. Haddick
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Patent number: 11900554Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for the see-through computer display systems with an extended field of view.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: John D. Haddick, Ralph F. Osterhout
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Patent number: 11892644Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to providing see-through computer display optics.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: Ralph F. Osterhout, John N. Border, Robert Michael Lohse, John D. Haddick, Nima L. Shams
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Patent number: 11886638Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to user interface control of a head-worn computer.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: Nicholas Benjamin Pelis, Preston Douglas Brown, Sean Thomas Mostajo O'Hara, Robert Michael Lohse, Andrew Carl Heisey
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Patent number: 11887265Abstract: Methods and systems for presenting digital content on a see-through display are disclosed. In some embodiments, the digital content is presented based on a display attribute associated with personal information related to a user of a wearable head device comprising the see-through display. In some embodiments, the digital content is associated with a geo-spatial location of a physical structure, and presenting the digital content on the see-through display comprises indicating a spatial relationship between the digital content and the physical structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: Ralph F. Osterhout, John D. Haddick, Robert Michael Lohse, John N. Border, Nima L. Shams
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Patent number: 11880041Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to speaker assemblies for head worn computers, including speaker assemblies in a temple portion of a head-worn computer.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: John D. Haddick, Robert Michael Lohse, Nima L. Shams, Ralph F. Osterhout
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Patent number: 11851177Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to unmanned aerial vehicle launch technologies and methods for receiving at a head-worn computer (HWC) a plurality of images captured by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) launched from a grenade launcher, and displaying the plurality of captured images in a see-through display of the HWC.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventor: Ralph F. Osterhout
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Patent number: 11822090Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to haptic feedback systems and methods for use in head-worn computing systems. A head worn computer includes a frame adapted to hold a computer display in front of a user's eye, a processor adapted to present digital content in the computer display and to produce a haptic signal in coordination with the digital content display, and a haptic system including a plurality of haptic segments, wherein each of the haptic segments is individually controlled in coordination with the haptic signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventor: Ralph F. Osterhout
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Patent number: 11825257Abstract: Head-worn computers include a front frame mechanically adapted to secure a see-through computer display and an arm, secured to the front frame, mechanically adapted to secure the front frame to a head of a user. The arm includes an internal speaker system, enclosed by the arm, wherein the internal speaker system comprises a speaker having a first side and an opposing second side and a first cavity positioned along the first side of the speaker, the arm further comprising a vent positioned to vent the first cavity and a second cavity positioned along the second side of the speaker.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: Ralph F. Osterhout, Robert Michael Lohse
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Patent number: 11816296Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to user interfere control of a head-worn computer.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: Nicholas Benjamin Pelis, Sean Tomas Mostajo O'Hara, Robert Michael Lohse, Andrew Carl Heisey
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Patent number: 11809628Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to providing see-through computer display optics.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: Ralph F. Osterhout, Robert Michael Lohse, Nima Shams, John D. Haddick, John N. Border
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Patent number: 11809022Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to a head-worn computer having a see-through computer display, a frame mechanically adapted to hold the see-through computer, a first side arm pivotally attached to the frame and adapted to hold the head-worn computer in place on a head of the user, wherein the first side arm comprises a temple section and an ear horn section and the temple section further comprising a compartment adapted to contain a battery, wherein the battery powers the see-through computer display.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: Ralph F. Osterhout, Greg Hires, Nima L. Shams, John D. Haddick, Joseph Rejhon Duggan, Patrick John William Casey, Nicholas Polinko
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Patent number: 11796799Abstract: A see-through head mounted display with controllable light blocking includes an optics module comprising a light source and image source positioned on a same side of an angled partially-reflective surface, wherein the light source projects light off the surface to the image source which reflects the light as image light to the surface which transmits the image light along a first axis. The display also includes a flat combiner positioned to reflect the image light off of a first side and simultaneously transmit incident light through the first and a second side, along an optical axis perpendicular to the first axis to provide a view of a displayed image overlaid onto a see-through view of the environment, and a controllable light blocking element arranged generally parallel to the flat combiner and in front of the second side to block light incident on the same optical axis as the image light.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventor: John N. Border