Patents Assigned to Meta Platform Technologies, LLC
  • Publication number: 20240339580
    Abstract: According to examples, systems and methods for implementing a conductive trace via laser direct structuring (LDS) and a light-emitting diode (LED) via surface-mount technology (SMT) on a carrier structure of a display device are described. A method may include printing a conductive trace onto a carrier, mounted a light-emitting diode (LED) onto the carrier, and attaching a flexible printed circuit (FPC) to the carrier, wherein the light-emitting diode (LED) is communicatively coupled to the flexible printed circuit (FPC) via the conductive trace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Le CHANG, Jason HOWARD, Gregory Alan ROBERTS, Karthik KADIRVEL, Bradley SPARE, Ankur GUPTA, Yang WANG, Tianren XU, Peter Eli RENNER, Tao ZHOU, Umar AZAD, Eswarappa CHANNABASAPPA
  • Patent number: 12111689
    Abstract: An extended reality headset is configured to position and stabilize the headset on a face when worn. For example, the headset can include an external frame with first and second side pieces coupled to a display structure and configured to provide lateral stabilization. In some examples, the headset can include a front head-engaging structure front head-engaging structure that is rotationally coupled to the external frame via a pivot point. The headset can also include a rear head-engaging structure coupled the external frame. In some examples, the rear head-engaging structure can include a tensioning mechanism to adjust the headset to fit various head shapes. Additionally, the headset can include a flexible strap coupled to the front head-engaging structure and the tensioning mechanism. In some examples, applying tension to the flexible strap by the tensioning mechanism can cause the front head-engaging structure to rotate along the pivot point, providing a secure fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Blake Francis Andersen, Quintin Morris
  • Patent number: 12109753
    Abstract: A method of applying a cover to a housing may include bonding a plurality of reinforcement elements to respective inside corners of a textile having an initial shape and disposing the plurality of reinforcement elements within respective recesses at corners of the housing to secure the textile to the housing. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shane Michael Ellis, Kristen Renee Hayenga
  • Patent number: 12114267
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods related to using restricted target wake time in wireless communication. In one aspect, a first wireless communication device may configure a first field indicating (i) one or more traffic streams that are latency sensitive, and (ii) a direction of each of the one or more traffic streams between the first wireless communication device and a second wireless communication device. Each of the one or more traffic streams is to be communicated during a respective service period of a restricted target wake time (rTWT) schedule. The first wireless communication device may send a message including the first field to a second wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chunyu Hu, Muhammad Kumail Haider
  • Publication number: 20240331331
    Abstract: A virtual object system can coordinate interactions between multiple virtual objects in an artificial reality environment. Embodiments receive a first virtual object, the first virtual object including first properties, where the artificial reality environment is set in a real-world environment. Embodiments register the first properties of the first virtual object to receive notifications of events from the artificial reality environment. Embodiments receive one or more queries from a second virtual object and in response to the one or more queries, respond to the second virtual object with identified features of the real-world environment in which the artificial reality environment is set and identifications of one or more other virtual objects (e.g., the first virtual object). The second virtual object can use the identification of the first virtual object to register for events related to the first virtual object and/or communicate with the first virtual object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Miguel GONCALVES, Bret HOBBS, Lionel Laurent REYERO, Gabriel Barbosa NUNES, Benjamin Blonder LEIZMAN, Neil Anthony CLIFFORD
  • Publication number: 20240334326
    Abstract: A first device may include one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to generate, after establishing a target wake time (TWT) schedule having one or more TWT parameters with a second device, a first frame requesting the second device in a wireless local area network (WLAN) to update the one or more TWT parameters of the TWT schedule. The one or more processors may be configured to wirelessly transmit, via a transceiver, the generated first frame to the second device. The one or more processors may be configured to wirelessly receive, via the transceiver from the second device, a second frame indicating whether the one or more TWT parameters have been updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Guoqing Li, Sumeet Kumar Lnu, Rahul Srivastava, Neelakantan Nurani Krishnan
  • Publication number: 20240329736
    Abstract: An eye tracking system with in-optical-assembly plane illumination is described. Side-emitting light emitting diodes (LEDs) aligned with a plane of an optical assembly of a near-eye display device are used to illuminate the eye of a user and generate glints that can be detected by an eye tracking camera. A waveguide display of the near-eye display device projects computer-generated content to the eye. A mirror is positioned between the LEDs and the waveguide display to reflect light beams generated from the LEDs toward the waveguide display to mitigate any double glints that may cause ghost signals. A processor of the near-eye display device determines a position and gaze of the eye based on the captured image of the eye with the glints, and generates the computer-generated content for the waveguide display based on the position and gaze of the eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Qi ZHANG, Chad Lichtenhan, Morteza Karami, Kuan Pei Yap, Mehmet Mutlu
  • Patent number: 12105866
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes capturing, by a first VR display device, one or more frames of a shared real-world environment. The VR display device identifies one or more anchor points within the shared real-world environment from the one or more frames. The first VR display device receives localization information with respect to a second VR display device in the shared real-world environment and determines a pose of the first VR display device with respect to the second VR display device based on the localization information. A first output image is rendered for one or more displays of the first VR display device. The rendered image may comprise a proximity warning with respect to the second VR display device based on determining the pose of the first VR display device with respect to the second VR display device is within a threshold distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Frederick Geisert, Alessia Marra, Gioacchino Noris, Panya Inversin
  • Patent number: 12106416
    Abstract: The disclosure describes a distributed, pluggable architecture for an artificial reality (AR) system that enables concurrent execution and collaborative scene rendering for multiple artificial reality applications. For example, an AR system includes an image capture device configured to capture image data representative of a physical environment. The AR system also includes a head-mounted display (HMD) configured to output artificial reality content. The AR system further includes a plurality of concurrently executing artificial reality client applications. The AR system also includes a concurrent application engine configured to control rendering the artificial reality content as a common scene that include one or more objects from each of the plurality of artificial reality applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Denis Gladkov, Daniel Lehmann, Paul B. Menage, Clifford Merritt Boyd, Anton Vaneev, Luiz Afonso Coimbra Barbosa Silva, Mandeep S Baines, Aaron David Lieberman, Rodney Huff, Cyril Daniel Saint Girons
  • Patent number: 12108576
    Abstract: A wearable device includes a housing having a cavity and a thermal interposer disposed within the cavity of the housing and thermally coupled to the housing to draw thermal energy from one or more electrical components of the wearable device and to transfer the thermal energy to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Nikkhoo, Brian Toleno
  • Patent number: 12108141
    Abstract: In one example, an apparatus comprises a pixel cell array and a controller formed within a semiconductor package. The pixel cell array is configured to: generate, at a first time and based on first programming signals received from the controller, a first image frame; transmit the first image frame to a host processor; and transmit the first image frame or a second image frame to the controller, the second image frame being generated at the first time and having a different sparsity of pixels from the first image frame. The controller is configured to receive second programming signals from a host processor, the second programming signals being determined by the host processor based on the first image frame; update the first programming signals based on the second programming signals; and control the pixel cell array to generate a subsequent image frame based on the updated first programming signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Samuel Berkovich, Reid Pinkham, Tanner Schmidt
  • Patent number: 12105377
    Abstract: A lighting unit for a display panel includes a light distribution module, an array of out-couplers, and a beam spot array generation module. The light distribution module includes a plurality of output waveguides for configurably distributing illuminating light between the output waveguides. Each out-coupler is coupled to an output waveguide and configured to out-couple a portion of the illuminating light to propagate towards the display panel. The beam spot array generation module is configured to receive portions of the illuminating light out-coupled by out-couplers of the array of out-couplers and to convert each portion to illuminate a zone of the display panel with an illuminating light field comprising an array of light spots. Each light spot is configured for illuminating an individual pixel or sub-pixel of the zone of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Zhimin Shi, Jian Xu, Yijing Fu
  • Patent number: 12106440
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving sensor data of a scene captured using one or more sensors, generating (1) a number of virtual surfaces representing a number of detected planar surfaces in the scene and (2) a point cloud representing detected features of objects in the scene based on the sensor data, assigning each point in the point cloud to one or more of the number of virtual surfaces, generating occupancy volumes for each of the number of virtual surfaces based on the points assigned to the virtual surface, generating a datastore including the number of virtual surfaces, the occupancy volumes of each of the number of virtual surfaces, and a spatial relationship between the number of virtual surfaces, receiving a query, and sending a response to the query, the response including an identified subset of the plurality of virtual surfaces in the datastore that satisfy the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yuichi Taguchi, Fabian Langguth
  • Patent number: 12107204
    Abstract: A micro-LED device and a method of fabricating the micro-LED device are disclosed. The method includes processing from a first side (e.g., p-side) of epitaxial layers of a micro-LED wafer to form individual mesa structures and a first solid metal bonding layer on the mesa structures, bonding a second solid metal bonding layer on a backplane wafer to the first solid metal bonding layer of the micro-LED wafer, removing the substrate of the micro-LED wafer and processing from a second side (e.g., n-side) of the epitaxial layers to isolate the solid metal bonding layers and form individual electrodes (e.g., anodes) for individual micro-LEDs, forming a dielectric material layer on surfaces in regions between the mesa structures, and depositing one or more metal materials in the regions between the mesa structures to form mesa sidewall reflectors and a common electrode for the micro-LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Jun-Youn Kim, Mohsin Aziz, Abdul Shakoor, Gary Charles Day
  • Patent number: 12108025
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for an eye-tracking optical verification tester are described herein. In some aspects, a heating element such as a Peltier or Thermoelectric Cooler “TEC” includes a see-through void and may be used to control a temperature of an eye-tracking optical element. An environmental enclosure that is configured to assist in simulation of an environmental condition may hold the eye-tracking optical element. The eye-tracking optical element is to receive reflected light from an eye-tracking target and direct the reflected light to an eye-tracking camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alireza Moheghi, Peter Jasinski, Justin Grimes
  • Patent number: 12108241
    Abstract: An audio system determines latency for each client device of users participating in an artificial reality or augmented reality environment. The latency determined for a client device accounts for latency of a communication channel used by the client device to exchange data, as well as time for the client device to perform computational tasks. The audio system determines a distance in the artificial reality environment between a user's avatar and an audio source for audio data and adjusts one or more transfer functions for generating audio content for the user to account for effects of the latency determined for the user's client device on the audio content. In some embodiments, the audio system modifies a distance in the artificial reality environment between the user's avatar and the audio source to compensate for latency of the user's client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Andrew Lovitt
  • Publication number: 20240320906
    Abstract: Information relating to gaze direction is used, e.g., with other information, to perform tone mapping, brightness adaptation, and/or sparkle generation/management for virtual or augmented reality displays. For example, speed of light adaptation may be increased as a user's gaze moves from a darker scene to a brighter scene and decreased in opposite direction to match human perception dynamics in real world. Sparkles from smaller objects may be adjusted depending on an object size, a brightness of the object's background, and/or the object's location relative to the user's gaze—that is, whether the object in the user's focus or in a periphery. Specularity of the objects may be obtained from a specularity map (e.g., metadata associated with each object) or from image processing a scene. Local sparkles may be shimmered as the user's head rotates deterministically or randomly to provide a sense of real-life glistening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Zhang JIA, Ajit NINAN, Tsz Tai CHAN, Minchen WEI
  • Publication number: 20240323737
    Abstract: A first device may include one or more processors configured to define, specify, and/or signal new parameters relating to an earliest comeback time, a requested bandwidth, a minimum bandwidth, and/or an interval between sensing measurements The one or more processors may be configured to receive, through a transceiver from a second device in a wireless local area network (WLAN), a request frame indicating a request for a sensing measurement setup. Responsive to the request frame, the one or more processors may be configured to generate a response frame indicating that the request is rejected, the response frame including a first field indicating a minimum time for which the second device waits until sending a next request frame for a sensing measurement setup. The one or more processors may be configured to wirelessly transmit, through the transceiver to the second device in the WLAN, the response frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Claudio Rafael Cunha Monteiro da Silva, Chunyu Hu
  • Publication number: 20240323844
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are related to a wireless communication. In one aspect, a wireless communication device receives a frame including a first indication that indicates the wireless communication device to disable transmission during a quiet period. The quiet period may overlap with a restricted service period of a restricted target wake time (TWT) schedule of the wireless communication device. In one aspect, the wireless communication device may determine to ignore the first indication for the quiet period based on a defined rule or a separate indication indicating the wireless communication device to ignore the first indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Chunyu Hu
  • Patent number: 12099192
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a first emission region and one or more second emission regions disposed adjacent to the first emission region. The display device includes a plurality of light emitters, arranged in the first emission region, corresponding to a first color gamut and a plurality of light emitters, arranged in the one or more second emission regions, corresponding to a second color gamut that is distinct from the first color gamut. A method for making a display device with a plurality of light emitters corresponding to a first color gamut in a first emission region and a plurality of light emitters corresponding to a second color gamut in a second emission region is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew John Ouderkirk, James Hillis, Marina Zannoli, Jasmine Soria Sears, James Ronald Bonar, Gareth John Valentine, Barry David Silverstein, Warren Andrew Hunt