Patents Assigned to Oculus VR, LLC
  • Patent number: 9779686
    Abstract: An electronic display is driven to compensate for aging of pixels in the electronic display. An aging factor is determined based on initial display data for a display portion of the electronic display during one or more monitored frames. The aging factor is indicative of aging of pixels in the display portion of the electronic display due to use corresponding to the initial display data. An aging counter for the display portion is increased based on the determined aging factor. A compensation value is determined for the display portion based on the aging counter for the display portion. Input display data for the display portion is modified during a subsequent frame according the determined compensation value. The display portion is driven with the modified input display data during the subsequent frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Evan Mark Richards, Nirav Rajendra Patel, Andrew T. Forsyth
  • Patent number: 9778746
    Abstract: An actuator configured to provide haptic feedback to a user. The actuator is located on a plate and is configured to apply various excitations to the plate to generate a mechanical wave propagating in the controlled direction. The excitations can be a translational motion of the actuator (or a portion of the actuator) in two or three perpendicular axes. Alternatively, the excitations can be a non-translational motion (e.g., rotation about an axis) of the actuator (or a portion of the actuator). By generating the mechanical wave traveling in the controlled direction, loss of energy due to scattering of the mechanical wave can be obviated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Sean Jason Keller, Tristan Thomas Trutna, Ravish Mehra, Christoph Omid Hohnerlein, Elia Gatti, Riccardo DeSalvo, David R. Perek
  • Patent number: 9779478
    Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) divides an image into a high resolution (HR) inset portion at a first resolution, a peripheral portion, and a transitional portion. The peripheral portion is downsampled to a second resolution that is less than the first resolution. The transitional portion is blended such that there is a smooth change in resolution that corresponds to a change in resolution between a fovea region and a non-fovea region of a retina. An inset region is generated using the HR inset portion and the blended transitional portion, and a background region is generated using the downsampled peripheral portion. The inset region is provided to a HR inset display, and the background region is provided to a peripheral display. An optics block combines the displayed inset region with the displayed background region to generate composite content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Austin Wilson, Douglas Robert Lanman, Nicholas Daniel Trail, Scott Charles McEldowney, Stephen James McNally, Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai
  • Patent number: 9779540
    Abstract: A virtual reality (VR) console receives slow calibration data from an imaging device and fast calibration data from an inertial measurement unit on a virtual reality headset. Using a model of the VR headset, the VR console identifies model locators corresponding to locators on the VR headset and generates estimated positions for locators included in slow calibration data. The VR console adjusts calibration parameters so a relative distance between estimated positions of the locators and positions of their corresponding model locators is less than a threshold value. From the estimated positions, the VR console generates calibrated positions of a reference point on the VR headset associated with images from the slow calibration data. The VR console determines predicted positions of the reference point from the calibrated positions and adjusts calibration parameters so intermediate estimated positions of the reference point are within a threshold distance of the predicted positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Dov Katz, Maksym Katsev, Neil Konzen, Steven LaValle, Michael Antonov
  • Patent number: 9778414
    Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) including an electronic display. The electronic display is configured to output image light. The electronic display includes a display panel including a surface configured to emit image light, and a fiber optic taper. The fiber optic taper includes a mounting surface and a display surface. The mounting surface is formed to, and affixed to, the surface of the display panel to receive the image light from the display panel. The display surface has a shape configured to output the image light corrected for optical distortion in the image light received from the cylindrically curved display panel. The HMD includes an optics block configured to optically direct the corrected image light to an exit pupil of the HMD corresponding to a location of an eye of a user of the HMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventor: Evan M. Richards
  • Patent number: 9763342
    Abstract: Cable retention assemblies for use with head mounted displays are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, a head mounted display has a front display module containing a circuit board operatively coupled to the displays and having a first connector. A connection cable with a second connector is releasably connected to the first connector. A cable retention assembly attached to the front display module adjacent to the first connector has a cable receptacle releasably engaging the second connector and retaining the second connector in a substantially fix position relative to the first connector to substantially isolate the first connector from axial or torsional loads applied to the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Clare Regimbal Long, Ryan Hamilton Brown, Matthew James Devoe, Rong Xu
  • Patent number: 9763348
    Abstract: Handheld remote control assemblies with battery retention mechanisms are disclosed. An assembly can include a body and with a substantially cylindrical aperture formed in the body and defined by a sidewall. A substantially cylindrical battery is disposed within the aperture, and a latch arm is disposed on one side of the aperture, the latch arm urging the battery toward an opposite side of the aperture. A first tab extends from an upper portion of the latch arm towards the aperture such that the first tab extends partially over an upper surface of the battery. A second tab extends from an upper portion of the sidewall at a position diametrically opposed to the latch arm such that the second tab extends partially over the upper surface of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Glen Jason Tompkins, Peter Wesley Bristol, Quintin Morris
  • Patent number: 9741216
    Abstract: A sensor records information about skin stretch perceived by a user based on an interaction with a real object. The sensor includes a mechanical housing configured to be worn on a finger of a user, and a mechanism coupled to the mechanical housing. The mechanism includes a first bearing that rotates in a first direction in response to an interaction with a surface. The mechanism also includes a second bearing coupled to the first bearing, such that rotation of the first bearing causes the second bearing to rotate in a direction opposite to the first direction. The second bearing is in contact with a portion of the finger, and includes a feedback surface that simulates a force associated with the interaction with the surface. The sensor includes a controller configured to monitor rotation of the second bearing and record skin stretch information responsive to the interaction with the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Sean Jason Keller, David R. Perek, Tristan Thomas Trutna, Garett Andrew Ochs, Nicholas Roy Corson, Raymond King
  • Patent number: 9728692
    Abstract: Display devices with improved display contrast and methods of manufacturing the display devices. Some embodiments include a method of manufacturing a light emitting diode (LED) array. The method includes forming two mesa areas on a substrate, where a trench is defined between the two mesa areas. A pixel and a N-bus formation is formed on each of the two mesa areas to create a first LED and a second LED separated by the trench between the two mesa areas. At least a portion of the trench is filled with a non-transparent or substantially non-transparent polymeric material that absorbs light emitted from the first and second LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Zheng Gong, James Small, James Ronald Bonar
  • Patent number: 9722235
    Abstract: Handheld remote control assemblies with battery isolation tabs are disclosed. An assembly includes a body and a battery pocket formed in the body and defined by a sidewall and a lower surface. An electrical connection terminal is disposed on the lower surface, and a battery is disposed within the battery pocket. The body includes a channel formed therein and extending between the battery pocket and an edge of the body. A battery isolation tab includes a head portion disposed between the battery and the electrical connection terminal, a handle portion disposed external to the body, and a neck portion extending between the head portion and the handle portion, the neck portion at least partially received within the channel formed in the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Glen Jason Tompkins, Peter Wesley Bristol, Quinton Morris
  • Patent number: 9716932
    Abstract: A detachable audio system for a head-mounted display is disclosed. The detachable audio system includes a speaker, an arm coupled to the speaker, a strap connector including a first side coupled to the arm and a second side opposite to the first side, and a coupling subsystem coupled to the second side of the strap connector and to couple to a strap for the head-mounted display. The coupling subsystem includes a base, a plurality of posts, and a spring. The base includes a first side engaged with the second side of the strap connector and a second side opposite to the first side. The plurality of posts extends from the second side of the base to couple to the strap. The spring contacts the second side of the base and is to detach the detachable audio system from the strap when the plurality of posts decouple from the strap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Robin Michael Miller, Jared I. Drinkwater, Peter Wesley Bristol, Blake F. Andersen, Joseph Patrick Sullivan, Lesley Ribble Magrath
  • Patent number: 9706286
    Abstract: A head-mounted display assembly with a headphone retention mechanism. The head-mounted display assembly includes a display housing, a headphone assembly, a headphone storage region located on the body of the display housing, and a headphone retention mechanism at the headphone storage region. The headphone retention mechanism includes a magnetic element configured to produce a magnetic field that releasably retains the headphone assembly against the headphone storage region when a user positions the headphone assembly in the vicinity of the headphone storage region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Nirav Rajendra Patel, Julian James Hammerstein
  • Patent number: D791125
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Patrick Sullivan, Yi-yaun Chen, Peter Wesley Bristol, David Michael Pickett, Enric Vial Roig
  • Patent number: D791126
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Patrick Sullivan, Yi-yaun Chen, Peter Wesley Bristol, David Michael Pickett, Enric Vial Roig
  • Patent number: D791127
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Patrick Sullivan, Yi-yaun Chen, Peter Wesley Bristol, David Michael Pickett, Enric Vial Roig
  • Patent number: D792399
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventor: Matt Lee Thomas
  • Patent number: D795959
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Yi-yaun Chen, Peter Wesley Bristol, Robert Bruce Hubler, Quintin Morris
  • Patent number: D799482
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventor: Matt Lee Thomas
  • Patent number: D800116
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Phillip Yee, Julian James Hammerstein, Quintin Morris, Joseph Patrick Sullivan
  • Patent number: D800117
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Phillip Yee, Julian James Hammerstein, Quintin Morris, Joseph Patrick Sullivan