Patents Assigned to Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
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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
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Patent number: 11796805Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for imaging, recognizing, and tracking of a user's eye that is wearing a HWC. Aspects further relate to the processing of images reflected from the user's eye and controlling displayed content in accordance therewith.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventor: John N. Border
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Patent number: 11790617Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and devices for receiving and presenting content. In an example method, content is received, the content to be delivered to a plurality of recipients. Each recipient of the plurality of recipients has a preference for a respective first physical location at which the content is to be presented on a display of a wearable head device associated with the recipient. A sender of the content has a preference for a second physical location at which the content is to be presented to the respective recipient of the plurality of recipients. A respective final physical location for the presentation of the content for the respective recipient of the plurality of recipients is identified. The respective final physical location is based on the respective recipient's preference and the sender's preference. It is determined whether the respective recipient is proximate to a zone associated with the respective final physical location.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: 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: 11789267Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to external user interfaces used in connection with head-worn computers (HWC).Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: Ralph F. Osterhout, Robert Michael Lohse, Manuel Antonio Sanchez
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Patent number: 11786105Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to providing assistance to medical professionals during the performance of medical procedures through the use of technologies facilitated through a head-worn computer.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventor: John N. Border
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Patent number: 11789269Abstract: 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: November 18, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventor: John D. Haddick
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Patent number: 11782274Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a computer display stray-light suppression system for a head-worn computer comprising an eye cover including a flexible material with a perimeter, wherein the perimeter is formed to substantially encapsulate an eye of a person, and the eye cover including an attachment system adapted to removably and replaceably attach to a perimeter of the head-worn computer to suppress light emitted from a computer display in the head-worn computer.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: Ralph F. Osterhout, John N. Border, Edward H. Nortrup
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Patent number: 11782529Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to external user interfaces used in connection with head worn computers (HWC).Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventor: Ralph F. Osterhout
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Patent number: 11771915Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a head-worn apparatus, comprising: a frame adapted to be mounted to a head of a user; a light emitting system positioned within the frame to provide light to an eye of the user; a sound system adapted to provide audio to the user; a haptic system positioned within the frame to provide haptic feedback to the user; and a processor adapted to control the lighting system, audio system and haptic system in a coordinated pattern of light, sound and haptics that causes a mental-health therapeutic stimulus provided to the user, whereby the user experiences an improvement in mental performance based on the coordinated pattern.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: Ralph F. Osterhout, Ed Riehle, Robert Michael Lohse
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Patent number: 11768417Abstract: A removable lens for glasses includes an electrochromic layer adapted to transition between at least two states of a transparency level dependent on an electrical condition applied to the electrochromatic layer and an electrical connection element physically adapted to make an electrical connection with the electrochromic layer, wherein the electrical connection element is positioned to align with a variable-power electrode mounted on the glasses such that, when the removable lens is mounted on the glasses, the variable-power electrode and the electrical connection element make the electrical connection between the variable-power electrode and an electrically conductive layer of the electrochromic layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventor: Ralph F. Osterhout
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Patent number: 11754845Abstract: 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: January 12, 2023Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: Ralph F. Osterhout, Robert Michael Lohse
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Patent number: 11737666Abstract: Head-worn computers with eye-imaging systems include a camera system positioned in a head-worn computer, wherein the camera system is further positioned to capture eye-image light that originates as reflections from a user's eye, wherein the camera system is further positioned to capture eye-image light as a reflection from a partially reflective surface that is positioned in front of an image display in the head-worn computer, wherein image light, from the image display, is transmitted through the partially reflective surface. A processor is adapted to cause the camera system to capture the eye-image light. The processor is further adapted to cause a comparison of the captured eye-image light with a pre-stored eye image of a known user of the head-worn computer. In the event the comparison confirms the identity of the known user, the user is granted permission to view content to be presented in a display of the head-worn computer.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventors: John N. Border, John Haddick, Joseph Bietry
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Patent number: 11727223Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to language translation systems for head-worn computers.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventor: Ralph F. Osterhout
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Patent number: 11721303Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to providing see-through computer display optics with improved content presentation. The see-through computer display includes an ambient light sensor adapted to measure environmental scene light in an area that forms the background for digital content presented in the see-through computer display, and a processor adapted to invert a color channel parameter of the digital content based on data from the ambient light sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventor: John D. Haddick
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Patent number: 11719934Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to suppression of stray light in head worn computing.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventor: John N. Border
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Patent number: 11669163Abstract: Disclosure herein concerns a method that includes illuminating a user's eye with an illumination source in a head-worn display, capturing an image of the user's eye with an eye camera in the head-worn display, wherein the image includes an eye glint produced by light from the illumination source that is reflected from a surface of the user's eye, determining a size of an eye glint in the captured image, and identifying a change in focus distance for the user's eye in correspondence with a change in the size of the eye glint.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventor: John N. Border
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Patent number: 11668939Abstract: 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: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventor: John D. Haddick
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Patent number: 11663794Abstract: 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: April 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: 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: 11654074Abstract: Systems and methods relating to displaying images are disclosed. In one embodiment, sensor data is received via one or more sensors of a wearable head device comprising a display, the sensor data indicative of a surrounding environment of a user of the wearable head device. An image can be determined based on the sensor data, the image corresponding to the surrounding environment. A visibility of a first portion of the image corresponding to a first portion of the surrounding environment can be enhanced. Enhancing a visibility of a second portion of the image corresponding to a second portion of the surrounding environment can be forgone. The enhanced first portion of the image and a view of the second portion of the surrounding environment can be presented concurrently via the display of the wearable head device.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventor: John N. Border
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Patent number: 11650416Abstract: 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: April 9, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLCInventor: John N. Border