Patents Assigned to OSTERHOUT GROUP, INC.
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Patent number: 10222618Abstract: Disclosed here in is a method of adjusting a tunable illuminating light source with a reflective display for a head mounted display to reduce chromatic artifacts in an image provided to a user's eye. The method includes identifying a color associated with a chromatic-related artifact in a displayed image and adjusting the tunable illuminating light source to reduce the brightness of the color associated with the chromatic-related artifact.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventors: John N. Border, Joseph Bietry
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Patent number: 10197801Abstract: Head-worn computers may include a rigid optical chassis mechanically configured to provide a stable optical mounting reference plane with an image source reference plane, a first image source mounted on the image source reference plane and configured to project a first image light from the stable optical mounting reference plane to a combiner positioned in front of a user's eye when the head-worn computer is worn by the user, an outer frame configured to hold the optical chassis such that, when worn by the user, the first image light is aligned with the eye of the user, and an arm rotatably mounted on the outer frame and adapted to be positioned on a user's ear, wherein the arm comprises a battery compartment and a wire connected to at least the first image source.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventors: John N. Border, Kei Edgardo Yamamoto Kohatsu, Karim ElKatcha, John D. Haddick, Ralph F. Osterhout
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Patent number: 10191284Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for the see-through computer display systems with a wide field of view.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventors: John N. Border, John D. Haddick
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Patent number: 10191279Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for imaging, recognizing, and tracking of a user's eye that is wearing a HWC. Aspects further relate to the processing of images reflected from the user's eye and controlling displayed content in accordance therewith.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2014Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventors: Edward H. Nortrup, John N. Border, Ralph F. Osterhout, John D. Haddick, Robert Michael Lohse
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Patent number: 10152141Abstract: A head-worn computer includes a camera system positioned to capture a surrounding environment in front of a user, a processor that identifies a position of a plurality of light emitters mounted on a hand-held controller from images captured by the camera system and tracks the position of the plurality of light emitters as the hand-held controller moves in the surrounding environment and interprets the tracked position as positional changes of the hand-held controller. The processor uses the position of the plurality of light emitters as markers in three dimensional space, the markers used as an anchor for virtual content presented in a see-through display of the head-worn computer.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventors: Robert Michael Lohse, John D. Haddick
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Patent number: 10146772Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to language translation systems for head-worn computers.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventor: Ralph F. Osterhout
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Patent number: 10139632Abstract: Embodiments include a head-worn display including a display panel sized and positioned to produce a field of view to present digital content to an eye of a user, and a processor adapted to present the digital content to the display panel such that the digital content is only presented in a portion of the field of view, the portion being in the middle of the field of view such that horizontally opposing edges of the field of view are blank areas. The processor is adapted to shift the digital content into one of the blank areas to adjust the convergence distance of the digital content and thereby change the perceived distance from the user to the digital content.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventors: John N. Border, Joseph Bietry, John D. Haddick
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Patent number: 10140079Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to shadowing objects displayed in head worn computing. A method includes capturing an image of an environment in proximity to a person, analyzing the image to determine a position of each of a plurality of light sources collectively producing a naturally formed shadow in the environment, wherein the naturally formed shadow comprises multiple shadows cast from an individual object in the environment, each of the multiple shadows formed from light traveling from a position of one of the plurality of light sources to the individual object, and displaying a computer-generated object in association with a computer generated shadow, wherein the computer-generated shadow appears as though produced by light striking the computer generated object from the position of a dominant one of the plurality of light sources.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventors: Robert Michael Lohse, Edward H. Nortrup
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Patent number: 10139635Abstract: A method, includes receiving content to be delivered to a plurality of recipients, wherein each recipient of the plurality of recipients has a preference for the physical location at which the content is to be presented in the recipient's see-through head-worn display and a sender of the content has a preference for the physical location at which the content is to be presented to each recipient of the plurality of recipients, identifying a final physical location for the presentation of the content for each recipient of the plurality of recipients, wherein the final physical location is based on both the recipient's preference and the sender's preference and causing the content to be presented to each recipient of the plurality of recipients when each recipient is proximate the final physical location identified for the recipient.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2014Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventors: Ralph F. Osterhout, John D. Haddick, Robert Michael Lohse, John N. Border, Nima L. Shams
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Patent number: 10139966Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to user interface control of a head-worn computer.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2015Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Benjamin Pelis, Sean Tomas Mostajo O'Hara, Robert Michael Lohse, Andrew Carl Heisey
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Patent number: 10101588Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to speaker assemblies for head worn computers.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2017Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventors: John D. Haddick, Robert Michael Lohse, Nima L. Shams, Ralph F. Osterhout
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Patent number: 10078224Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to providing see-through computer display optics.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2016Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventors: John N. Border, Joseph Bietry, Gregory Hires
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Patent number: 10073266Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for a head-worn computer with a content display where the head-worn computer can be changed from an augmented reality system where there is relatively high see-through transmission through the display to a virtual reality system where the is no or relatively little see-through transmission through the display.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2017Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventor: Ralph F. Osterhout
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Patent number: 10062182Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to providing see-through computer display optics with improved content presentation.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2015Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventors: John D. Haddick, John N. Border, Nima L. Shams
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Patent number: 10036889Abstract: An imaging and display module for a head-worn computer provides displayed images to a user including a plurality of optical components and a plurality of electrical components that provide displayed images to a left eye and a right eye of the user, one or more cameras, and a rigid chassis comprising a box structure with high thermal conductivity sections, wherein the plurality of optical components are rigidly mounted to the chassis so that the displayed images are rigidly aligned relative to the cameras and to the left and right eyes of the user and the plurality of electrical components are mounted to the sections with high thermal conductivity to dissipate heat.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2017Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventors: John N. Border, Kei Edgardo Yamamoto Kohatsu, Karim ElKatcha, John D. Haddick, Ralph F. Osterhout
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Patent number: 10025119Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to mechanical hinge system for a head-worn computer.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2015Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventor: Michael Van Huynh
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Patent number: 10018837Abstract: Head-worn computers may include an optical chassis mechanically configured to provide a stable optical mounting reference plane and a plurality of image source reference planes, a first image source mounted on a first of the plurality of image source reference planes and configured to project first image light through a first hole in the stable optical mounting reference plane, a second image source mounted on a second of the plurality of image source reference planes and configured to project second image light through a second hole in the stable optical mounting reference plane, and an outer frame configured to hold the optical chassis such that, when worn by a user, the first and second image light is aligned with the eyes of the user.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2017Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventors: John N. Border, Kei Edgardo Yamamoto Kohatsu, Karim ElKatcha, John D. Haddick, Ralph F. Osterhout
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Patent number: 10012840Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for the see-through computer display systems with a wide field of view.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventors: John N. Border, Joseph Bietry
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Patent number: 10012838Abstract: An optical system for a head-worn computer may include a light source positioned within the head-worn computer and adapted to project non-polarized illuminating light towards a partially reflective partially transmissive surface such that the illuminating light reflects through a field lens and towards a reflective display and a polarizing film adjacent to a surface of the reflective display that polarizes the illuminating light after it passes through the field lens. The illuminating light reflects off a surface of the reflective display, forming image light which is then analyzed by the polarizing film prior to being transmitted through the field lens and then through the partially reflective partially transmissive surface to a non-polarizing lower display optical system adapted to present the image light to an eye of a user wearing the head-worn computer.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventor: John N. Border
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Patent number: D840395Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2016Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Osterhout Group, Inc.Inventor: Ralph F. Osterhout