Patents Assigned to Oculus VR, LLC
  • Patent number: 9502595
    Abstract: A ?LED device comprising: a substrate and an epitaxial layer grown on the substrate and comprising a semiconductor material, wherein at least a portion of the substrate and the epitaxial layer define a mesa; an active layer within the mesa and configured, on application of an electrical current, to generate light for emission through a light emitting surface of the substrate opposite the mesa, wherein the crystal lattice structure of the substrate and the epitaxial layer is arranged such that a c-plane of the crystal lattice structure is misaligned with respect to the light emitting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Percival
  • Patent number: 9472025
    Abstract: A virtual reality (VR) headset includes an electronic display element, an optics block, and an adjustment mechanism. The electronic display element outputs image light. The optics block includes a cone and an additional cone coupled to a lens and an additional lens, respectively. Image light is directed to the lens and to the additional lens via the cone and additional cone, respectively. Each of the cones comprises an opaque material that is deformable to adjust a distance from a base portion of a cone to a top portion of a cone may be adjusted, via, compression, elongation, or both. An adjustment mechanism may receive input from a user and configured to adjust the distance one or more of the cone and the additional cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventor: Matt Lee Thomas
  • Patent number: 9472594
    Abstract: An LED chip for use in an LED chip array forming a continuous array of LEDs. The LED chip comprises an array of LEDs on a substrate. LEDs in a row of the array are longitudinally offset from corresponding LEDs in another row. Adjacent LEDs in each row of the array are separated by a longitudinal pitch. At least part of an end face of the substrate is angled with respect to a transverse axis of the LED chip such that the LED chip is positionable adjacent another LED chip to maintain the longitudinal pitch between adjacent LEDs on different chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventor: Bill Henry
  • Publication number: 20160286202
    Abstract: Apparatus for generating a dynamic structured light pattern for optical tracking in three-dimensional space, comprises an array of lasers, such as a VCSEL laser array, to project light in a pattern into a three-dimensional space; and an optical element or elements arranged in cells. The cells are aligned with subsets of the laser array, and each cell individually applies a modulation, in particular an intensity modulation, to light from the laser or lasers of the subset, to provide a distinguishable and separately controllable part of the dynamic structured light pattern. A method of generating a structured light pattern is disclosed, in which light is provided from an array of lasers, and light is individually projected from subsets of the array of lasers to provide differentiated parts of the structured light pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Nitay Romano, Nadav Grossinger, Yair Alpern, Emil Alon
  • Patent number: 9348410
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of and apparatus for predictive tracking for a head mounted display. The method comprises obtaining one or more three-dimensional angular velocity measurements from a sensor monitoring the head mounted display and setting a prediction interval based upon the one or more three-dimensional angular velocity measurements such that the prediction interval is substantially zero when the head mounted display is substantially stationary and the prediction interval increases up to a predetermined latency interval when the head mounted display is moving at an angular velocity of or above a predetermined threshold. The method further includes predicting a three-dimensional orientation for the head mounted display to create a predicted orientation at a time corresponding to the prediction interval, and generating a rendered image corresponding to the predicted orientation for presentation on the head mounted display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Steve LaValle, Peter Giokaris
  • Patent number: 9063330
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of and apparatus for predictive tracking for a head mounted display. The method comprises obtaining one or more three-dimensional angular velocity measurements from a sensor monitoring the head mounted display and setting a prediction interval based upon the one or more three-dimensional angular velocity measurements such that the prediction interval is substantially zero when the head mounted display is substantially stationary and the prediction interval increases up to a predetermined latency interval when the head mounted display is moving at an angular velocity of or above a predetermined threshold. The method further includes predicting a three-dimensional orientation for the head mounted display to create a predicted orientation at a time corresponding to the prediction interval, and generating a rendered image corresponding to the predicted orientation for presentation on the head mounted display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Steve LaValle, Peter Giokaris
  • Patent number: D738374
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Palmer Luckey, Brendan Iribe Trexler, Graham England, Jack McCauley
  • Patent number: D749583
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Palmer Luckey, Brendan Iribe Trexler, Graham England, Jack McCauley
  • Patent number: D771625
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Patrick Sullivan, Yi-yaun Chen, Peter Wesley Bristol, David Michael Pickett, Enric Vial Roig
  • Patent number: D772986
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Oculus VR, LLC
    Inventors: Yi-yaun Chen, Peter Wesley Bristol, Robert Hubler, Quintin Morris