Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for measuring and managing the brightness of digital content in a field of view of a head-worn computer.
Abstract: Embodiments include a head-worn display including a display panel sized and positioned to produce a field of view to present digital content to an eye of a user, and a processor adapted to present the digital content to the display panel such that the digital content is only presented in a portion of the field of view, the portion being in the middle of the field of view such that horizontally opposing edges of the field of view are blank areas. The processor is adapted to shift the digital content into one of the blank areas to adjust the convergence distance of the digital content and thereby change the perceived distance from the user to the digital content.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 11, 2020
Date of Patent:
April 4, 2023
Assignee:
Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
Inventors:
John N. Border, Joseph Bietry, John D. Haddick
Abstract: 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:
Grant
Filed:
May 12, 2020
Date of Patent:
April 4, 2023
Assignee:
Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
Inventors:
Ralph F. Osterhout, Robert Michael Lohse
Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate a head-worn computer with a see-through display wherein computer content is presented to a user wearing the head-worn computer and through which the user sees a surrounding environment, wherein the see-through display generates image light comprised of narrow bandwidths of red, green and blue light and wherein the see-through display further includes a tristimulus notch mirror positioned to reflect the image light towards the user's eye, and wherein the tristimulus notch mirror reflects less than a full width half max of the red image light.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 28, 2022
Date of Patent:
March 14, 2023
Assignee:
Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
Inventors:
Edward H. Nortrup, John N. Border, John D. Haddick
Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate presentation of digital content, in a see-through display, representing a known location in an environment proximate to a head worn computer. Embodiments may involve a first wearable head device configured to be worn by a first person. The first wearable head device may comprise a see-through display. One or more processors may be configured for determining a first geo-spatial location of the first wearable head device and receiving a second geo-spatial location of a second wearable head device configured to be worn by a second person. The see-through display may be configured for presenting a virtual content on the see-through display at a location associated with the second geo-spatial location. The virtual content may be aligned with a vector from the first geo-spatial location to the second geo-spatial location.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 13, 2020
Date of Patent:
March 7, 2023
Assignee:
Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
Inventors:
Ralph F. Osterhout, Robert Michael Lohse
Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to optical systems with ergonomic presentation of content for use in head-worn computing systems. A method for controlling a head-worn computer when viewing virtual images, including image content, that encourages an ergonomic head position to reduce neck pain, includes determining an angle of the head-worn computer relative to horizontal, determining an angle of a line of sight to the center of the virtual image as presented to a user's eye, determining a deviation between the determined angle of the line of sight and a predetermined ergonomic angle, and shifting the image content of the virtual image vertically as displayed to the user's eye so that a portion of the image content is not viewable, wherein the amount of shifting is in reverse correspondence to the magnitude of the determined deviation.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 24, 2021
Date of Patent:
February 28, 2023
Assignee:
Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
Inventors:
Nima L. Shams, John N. Border, John D. Haddick
Abstract: 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:
Grant
Filed:
August 24, 2022
Date of Patent:
February 21, 2023
Assignee:
Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
Inventors:
Ralph F. Osterhout, Robert Michael Lohse
Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for the see-through computer display systems with adjustable-zoom cameras positioned such that their respective capture fields-of-view at least partially overlap at a target distance.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 18, 2021
Date of Patent:
January 31, 2023
Assignee:
Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
Inventors:
Ralph F. Osterhout, Robert Michael Lohse
Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for the see-through computer display systems with integrated IR eye imaging technologies.
Abstract: 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:
Grant
Filed:
July 29, 2020
Date of Patent:
November 22, 2022
Assignee:
Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
Inventors:
Ralph F. Osterhout, Greg Hires, Nima L. Shams, John D. Haddick, Joseph Rejhon Duggan, Patrick John William Casey, Nicholas Polinko
Abstract: 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:
Grant
Filed:
December 1, 2020
Date of Patent:
November 15, 2022
Assignee:
Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
Inventors:
John D. Haddick, Jean-Claude David Ramey De Sugny
Abstract: 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.
Abstract: 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:
Grant
Filed:
April 7, 2020
Date of Patent:
October 18, 2022
Assignee:
Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
Inventors:
John D. Haddick, Robert Michael Lohse, Nima L. Shams, Ralph F. Osterhout
Abstract: 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.
Abstract: 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:
Grant
Filed:
April 28, 2021
Date of Patent:
October 4, 2022
Assignee:
Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
Inventors:
Ralph F. Osterhout, Robert Michael Lohse
Abstract: 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.