Patents Assigned to Meta Platform Technologies, LLC
  • Patent number: 12096112
    Abstract: A wearable device for use in immersive reality applications is provided. The wearable device has a frame including an eyepiece to provide a forward-image to a user, a first forward-looking camera mounted on the frame, the first forward-looking camera having a field of view within the forward-image, a sensor configured to receive a command from the user, the command indicative of a region of interest within the field of view, and an interface device to indicate to the user that a field of view of the first forward-looking camera is aligned with the region of interest. Methods of use of the device, a memory storing instructions and a processor to execute the instructions to cause the device to perform the methods of use, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Sapna Shroff, Sebastian Sztuk, Johana Gabriela Coyoc Escudero, Jun Hu
  • Patent number: 12093464
    Abstract: A method of interpreting a digit-to-digit gesture based on roll values for a wrist-wearable device is disclosed. The method includes, receiving an indication at a first point in time that a user donning the wrist-wearable device is providing a digit-to-digit gesture in which one of the user's digits touches another of the user's digits without contacting the display of the wearable device. The method further includes, in accordance with a determination that the digit-to-digit gesture is provided while data indicates that the wrist-wearable device has a first roll value, causing a target device in communication with the wearable device to perform a first input command and receiving another indication at a second point in time that is after the first point in time that the user is providing the digit-to-digit gesture again, causing the target device to perform a second input command that is distinct from the first input command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Yinglin Li, Qian Chen, Chengyuan Yan
  • Patent number: 12095975
    Abstract: A device for providing a reverse pass-through view of a user of a headset display to an onlooker includes an eyepiece comprising an optical surface configured to provide an image to a user on a first side of the optical surface. The device also includes a first camera configured to collect an image of a portion of a face of the user reflected from the optical surface in a first field of view, a display adjacent to the optical surface and configured to project forward an image of the face of the user, and a screen configured to receive light from the display and provide the image of the face of the user to an onlooker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nathan Matsuda, Brian Wheelwright, Joel Hegland, Stephen Anthony Lombardi, Jason Saragih, Tomas Simon Kreuz, Shunsuke Saito, Michael Zollhoefer, Amit Raj, James Henry Hays
  • Patent number: 12093101
    Abstract: Systems and methods for peak power control include control circuitry which identifies a condition for a device. The control circuitry can apply the condition for the device to one or more models maintained for a plurality of device processing units of the device to determine one or more performance characteristics for the plurality of processing units. The control circuitry can distribute power credits to the plurality of device processing units of the device according to the determined performance characteristics for the plurality of device processing units, to manage a respective peak power for each respective device processing unit according to a number of the power credits distributed to the respective device processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Vlad Fruchter, Nishant Sitapara, Javid Jaffari, Shrirang Madhav Yardi, Bardia Zandian
  • Publication number: 20240302886
    Abstract: A system may include one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to obtain, from a device configured to perform communication in a wireless local area network (WLAN), a transmission (Tx) time for which the device is transmitting one or more signals during a period of time, a receive (Rx) time for which the device is receiving one or more signals during the period of time, and/or a listen time for which the device is in a listen state during the period of time. The one or more processors may be configured to estimate, based at least on the Tx time, the Rx time and the listen time, an average power consumption value of the device during the period of time. The one or more processors may be configured to control the device based at least on the average power consumption value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ding Li, Rahul Srivastava, Sumeet Kumar Lnu, Siddharth Ray, Neelakantan Nurani Krishnan
  • Publication number: 20240303874
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing interactive content may include one or more processors which receive first content of a content stream from a content provider, where the first content is for rendering via a media player of one or more user devices. The processor(s) may determine a context of the first content, and generate, via one or more machine learning models, second content which corresponds to the first content. The processor(s) may transmit the second content to an application of the one or more user devices, for rendering the second content via the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Chun-Wei Chan
  • Publication number: 20240305330
    Abstract: A wearable device such as an augmented reality (AR)/virtual reality (VR) near-eye display device employs wireless communication technology to facilitate “walkie-talkie” style line-of-sight (LoS) communication between two users or one user and a group of users (unidirectional or bidirectional broadcast mode). The wireless communication may be facilitated by an ultra-wide band (UWB) or comparable wireless communication sub-system. The system may detect another user(s) within range of communication and within a predefined angle-of-arrival (AoA). The communication may be initiated by the user through an input allowing the user to communicate with the other user(s) discretely through audio and/or video modes. In a “walkie talkie selfie” mode, two or more users may capture images of each other, and the images may be superimposed generating a “selfie” of the entire group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Andrew MATSIMANIS, Nabeel AHMED, Bruno CENDON MARTIN
  • Publication number: 20240302697
    Abstract: An achromatic wave plate using multiple twisted nematic liquid crystal polymer films or negative dispersion A-plate films is described. Each layer of twisted nematic liquid crystal polymer film aligns a next layer during forming achieving a monolithic structure. The achromatic wave plate with multiple layers of negative dispersion A-plate material has a non-continuous, easy to fabricate structure. Both types of films may be flexible and allow application to curved surfaces. The films of both examples also allow for high achromaticity in forward and backward propagation, thus, permitting the wave plate to operate as an optical isolator. A quarter wave of retardance across the entire visible spectrum and up to a 30-degree angle of incidence may be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Sawyer MILLER, Hsien-Hui CHENG, Brian DAUGHERTY, Hannah NOBLE, Michael ESCUTI, Lu LU
  • Patent number: 12087222
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a display device with subpixels that share switch transistors that selectively connect sources of driving transistors to a high voltage source. Further, part of reset transistors or part of a select transistor may be shared across multiple subpixels. The reset transistor selectively connects an anode of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) to a low voltage source. The select transistor selectively passes through pixel data from a data line when a gate signal is received via a gate line. Driver transistors and capacitors of the subpixels are independent and not shared. In this way, the dimensions of the subpixels may be reduced and enable increase in the density of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Gang Chen, Qianqian Wang, Min Hyuk Choi
  • Patent number: 12085744
    Abstract: Various systems and methods relating to a feature fill sol-gel material are provided herein. The feature fill sol-gel material may form a superconformal sol-gel coating. The feature fill sol-gel material may include a first titanium precursor composed of Titanium(IV) and an inorganic ligand. The feature fill sol-gel material may be formed by dissolving or suspending the first titanium precursor in a solvent. The feature fill sol-gel material may be annealed to form the superconformal sol-gel coating. The superconformal sol-gel coating may be an optically transparent coating having an absorbance at a wavelength of 450 nm of less than 0.2% per 150 nm and a refractive index ranging from 1.65 to 2.20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alejo Lifschitz Arribio, Keren Zhang, Jonathan Onorato, Anthony Phan, Vincent Overney
  • Patent number: 12086932
    Abstract: A virtual object system can orchestrate virtual objects defined as a collection of components and with inheritance in an object hierarchy. Virtual object components can include a container, data, a template, and a controller. A container can define the volume the virtual object is authorized to write into. A virtual object's data can specify features such as visual elements, parameters, links to external data, meta-data, etc. The template can define view states of the virtual object and contextual breakpoints for transitioning between them. Each view state can control when and how the virtual object presents data elements. The controller can define logic for the virtual object to respond to input, context, etc. The definition of each object can specify which other object in an object hierarchy that object extends, where extending an object includes inheriting that object's components, which can be modified or overwritten as part of the extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yeliz Karadayi, Wai Leong Chak, Michal Hlavac, Pol Pla I Conesa
  • Patent number: 12085719
    Abstract: Terahertz sensing in this disclosure involves the use of at least one terahertz signal that is transmitted towards an object. At least one return terahertz signal is reflected from the object. The return terahertz signal(s) may be analyzed to determine one or more parameters, such as phase, frequency, amplitude, spectral profile, time of flight (TOF) etc. associated with the return terahertz signal(s). Based on the parameter(s), a portion of the object impinged upon by the transmit terahertz signal(s) and which reflected the return terahertz signal(s), and the state of the object/portion, can be identified. The identification of the portion and its state can be used in eye tracking implementations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Gaetano Aiello
  • Patent number: 12085717
    Abstract: According to examples, a display system may include a wearable eyewear arrangement that may include a lens assembly having a projector to propagate display light associated with an image. The lens assembly may also include a waveguide for propagating the display light to an eyebox. The waveguide may include a combination of a volume Bragg grating (VBG) component and a partial reflective component that are oriented in a pre-determined configuration to reflect or propagate the display light to maximize a coverage in field of view (FOV) at the eyebox, while minimizing at least one of a ghost image or an intercepting optical lines pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Yang Yang, Dominic Meiser, Wanli Chi
  • Patent number: 12087329
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is a system and computer-implemented method for assembling and editing a video program from spoken words or soundbites. The disclosed technology imports source audio/video clips and any of multiple formats. Spoken audio is transcribed into searchable text. The text transcript is synchronized to the video track by timecode markers. Each spoken word corresponds to a timecode marker, which in turn corresponds to a video frame or frames. Using word processing operations and text editing functions, a user selects video segments by selecting corresponding transcribed text segments. By selecting text and arranging that text, a corresponding video program is assembled. The selected video segments are assembled on a timeline display in any chosen order by the user. The sequence of video segments may be reordered and edited, as desired, to produce a finished video program for export.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shamir Allibhai, Roderick Neil Hodgson
  • Patent number: 12085605
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes generating, through a first transistor of an impedance trimming circuit, a precision current based on a reference voltage and an automatic test equipment (ATE) in a first phase of the impedance trimming circuit, wherein the ATE is coupled to the impedance trimming circuit to receive the precision current; mirroring the precision current into a second transistor and a first on-die resistor; sending a first internal voltage feedback at an internal node VFBINT to the ATE, wherein the internal node VFBINT is coupled to the second transistor and the first on-die resistor; and receiving a first trimming code to trim the first on-die resistor, wherein the first trimming code is based on a comparison of the first on-die resistor and a target on-die resistor by the ATE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Sri Harsha Manjunath
  • Publication number: 20240295690
    Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus for implementing a hermetically-covered photonic integrated circuit on a substrate having an integrated laser diode is described. The apparatus may include a cover wafer, a housing layer including a waveguide, the waveguide including a photonic integrated circuit, a laser die including a laser cavity, and a base substrate. The base substrate may include an emission window to provide a reflective design and to eliminate a need for a polarized beam splitter, a through-wafer via element to electrical coupling to the laser die and one or more pillars to set a height of the laser die relative to the photonic integrated circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dusan COSO, Steven Alexander-Boyd Hickman, Giuseppe Calafiore, Petr Markov, Shermin Arab, John Michael Goward, Rahul Agarwal, Zhujun Shi
  • Publication number: 20240295751
    Abstract: According to examples, a wearable device may include a frame and a prescription lens mounted to the frame, in which the corrective lens may include a diffractive surface having features structured to have a certain correction level. The wearable device may also include at least one optical component mounted to the frame, the at least one optical component being positioned immediately adjacent to the corrective lens, in which the diffractive surface of the corrective lens causes the corrective lens to have a sufficiently thin edge to prevent the edge of the corrective lens from occluding the at least one optical component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hao ZHANG, Sho NAKAHARA, Carl CHANCY, Garret ODOM
  • Publication number: 20240298366
    Abstract: A device within an access point multi-link device (AP MLD) having a plurality of wireless links may include one or more processors configured to generate a first frame including a first subfield. The first subfield may include a plurality of bits corresponding to the plurality of wireless links. Each bit may indicate whether a plurality of traffic identifiers (TIDs) are mapped to a corresponding wireless link. The device may wirelessly transmit, through a transmitter in a wireless local area network (WLAN), the first frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Muhammad Kumail Haider, Binita Gupta, Chunyu Hu
  • Patent number: 12078810
    Abstract: A display assembly monitors movements in a waveguide assembly and corrects for aberrations in image light caused by the monitored movements. For example, an artificial reality headset may include a display assembly that monitors for changes in shape or displacement of waveguide assemblies that generate three dimensional images for display with a real world environment. The display assembly includes movement sensors (e.g., piezoelectric movement sensors) coupled to the waveguide assembly. The movement sensors monitor the movement of the waveguide assembly and provide the monitored movement to a display controller that generates instructions for correcting aberrations in the image light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Yuri Toride
  • Patent number: 12078803
    Abstract: A near-eye display (NED) includes a source assembly, a waveguide outside a field-of-view of a user, and a main optic within the field-of-view. The waveguide expands light emitted from the source assembly in at least one dimension and out-couple the expanded light. The main optic is partially transparent and is positioned such that the user of the NED looks through the main optic to view a local area surrounding the NED. The main optic receives light from the local area, combines the received light with the expanded light to generate combined light, and directs the combined light to the user's eye-box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Nicholas Daniel Trail