Patents Assigned to Oculus VR, LLC
  • Patent number: 9659411
    Abstract: A virtual reality (VR) headset includes a plurality of marker groups each corresponding to a different location on the VR headset. Each marker group includes one or more passive locators having positions relative to each other. Passive locators included in a marker group are configured to reflect one or more bands of light emitted by a source device. A VR system determines positions of passive locators relative to each other in a marker group and bands of light reflected by the passive locators included in the marker group to determine a location on the VR headset. Based on the location on the VR headset, the VR system determines a position of the VR headset and identifies content to provide to the VR headset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventor: Matt Lee Thomas
  • Patent number: 9648438
    Abstract: A system calibrates one or more head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) for a user. An indicator is presented on a head-mounted display, where the indicator prompts the user to turn the user's head to view the indicator and effectively change the user's head orientation. The head orientation corresponds to positions of both ears, thus a position of the indicator prompting to change the user's head orientation is associated with corresponding positions of both ears. Responsive to the indicator being viewed by the user, a sound source at a fixed position transmits a test sound and the test sound is received at microphones coupled to the user's ears. By analyzing the test sound received at the microphones, a unique HRTF associated with a relative position between the sound source and each ear can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventor: Yury Anatolievich Petrov
  • Patent number: 9640120
    Abstract: A virtual reality (VR) headset includes an electronic display element, a corrective element, and an optics block. The electronic display element outputs image light via a plurality of sub-pixels that are separated from each other by a dark space. The corrective element is configured to generate blur spots in the image light that mask the dark space between adjacent sub-pixels, with each blur spot corresponding to a blurred image of a sub-pixel in the image light. The optics block is configured to magnify the image light received from the corrective element and to optically correct the magnified image light. Optically corrected light is directed form the optics block to an exit pupil of the VR headset for presentation to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventor: Yury Anatolievich Petrov
  • Patent number: 9599822
    Abstract: A virtual reality (VR) headset includes an electronic display element and a corrective optics block. The electronic display element outputs image light via a plurality of sub-pixels of different colors that are separated from each other by a dark space. The corrective optics block includes an optical element including a diffractive surface. The corrective optics block is configured to magnify the image light and generate optically corrected image light by using the diffractive surface to generate blur spots of each sub-pixel masking dark space between adjacent sub-pixels. Optically corrected light is directed form the corrective optics block to an exit pupil of the VR headset for presentation to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventor: Youngshik Yoon
  • Patent number: 9600925
    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 VR headset including a front and a rear rigid body. The slow calibration data includes an image where only the locators on the rear rigid body are visible. An observed position is determined from the slow calibration data and a predicted position is determined from the fast calibration data. If a difference between the observed position and the predicted position is greater than a threshold value, the predicted position is adjusted by a temporary offset until the difference is less than the threshold value. The temporary offset is removed by re-calibrating the rear rigid body to the front rigid body once locators on both the front and rear rigid body are visible in an image in the slow calibration data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Dov Katz, Jonathan Shine, Robin Michael Miller
  • Patent number: 9589348
    Abstract: An optical calibration system is configured to determine camera calibration information of a virtual reality camera. The optical calibration system comprises a light source, a first and a second planar grid, and an optical calibration controller. The light source is configured to backlight the first and the second planar grids. Each planar grid includes a plurality of fiducial markers that are backlit by the light source. The optical calibration controller determines camera calibration information of a virtual reality camera selecting and analyzing a plurality of captured images that include a portion of the first or the second planar grid with fiducial markers backlit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Oskar Linde, Samuel Redmond D'Amico, Simon Hallam, Kieran Tobias Levin
  • Patent number: 9564563
    Abstract: There is herein described electronic components with improved display contrast and a method of manufacturing such electronic components. More particularly, there is described electronic components having improved display contrast by using a non-transparent or substantially non-transparent material (520) to block light from an emitter source (512, 514, 516) to surrounding components such as emitters, sensors or components of this nature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Zheng Gong, James Small, James Ronald Bonar
  • Patent number: 9559250
    Abstract: There is herein described light generating electronic components with improved light extraction and a method of manufacturing said electronic components. More particularly, there is described LEDs having improved light extraction and a method of manufacturing said LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: James Ronald Bonar, Zheng Gong, James Small, Gareth John Valentine, Richard I. Laming
  • Patent number: 9535254
    Abstract: A headset for virtual reality applications includes an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) emitting light captured by a camera included in a virtual reality system, allowing the virtual reality system to detect the position and orientation of the headset in three-dimensional space. To manufacture the headset, a flexible strip including a circuit having the LEDs is molded into an outer shell of the headset using a casting material that is transmissible to wavelengths of light transmitted by the LEDs. An interior surface of the outer shell of the headset is within a specified distance of the LEDs. The outer shell may also include fabric that is also molded into the outer shell in the same or in a similar process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventor: Matt Lee Thomas
  • Patent number: 9524580
    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: January 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Dov Katz, Maksym Katsev, Neil Konzen, Steve LaValle, Michael Antonov
  • Patent number: 9519084
    Abstract: A headset for virtual reality applications includes an optical element configured to modify light from an electronic display in the headset and to direct the modified light to a user. The optical element may include a Fresnel lens secured to a lens by securing the Fresnel lens to a mold and inserting a casting material into the mold so the casting material forms the lens and a portion of the casting material exists on and past an edge of the Fresnel lens. This encases the edge of the Fresnel lens in the casting material, securing the Fresnel lens to the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventor: Matt Lee Thomas
  • Patent number: 9515238
    Abstract: An integrated LED device is provided. The LED device includes a substrate. The LED device includes a semiconductor material including a light generating layer and positioned on the substrate. The semiconductor material and/or the substrate are configured to control light internally to output quasi-collimated light from a light emitting surface of the LED device. The LED device includes an optical component positioned at the light emitting surface and configured to receive quasi-collimated light exiting the light emitting surface and to alter one or more optical properties of at least some beams of the quasi-collimated light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Pleun Maaskant, Brian Corbett, Bill Henry
  • Patent number: D772821
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventor: Peter Wesley Bristol
  • Patent number: D781822
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Quintin Morris, James Stocker Webb, Mark Shintaro Ando, Peter Wesley Bristol, David Tao
  • Patent number: D783576
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Wesley Bristol, Quintin Morris, James Stocker Webb, Mark Shintaro Ando, David Tao, Dan Faulkner
  • Patent number: D783578
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Wesley Bristol, Quintin Morris, James Stocker Webb, Mark Shintaro Ando, David Tao
  • Patent number: D787480
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Quintin Morris, James Stocker Webb, Mark Shintaro Ando, Peter Wesley Bristol, David Tao
  • Patent number: D790484
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventor: Peter Wesley Bristol
  • Patent number: D791128
    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: D791129
    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