Patents Assigned to Panamorph, Inc.
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Publication number: 20240085713Abstract: Light of a virtual image of image content is projected by an optical subsystem to an eye location. The optical subsystem collects the light from or through a first aperture onto an exit pupil on a surface proximate to an outer surface of an eye, and forms an image of the first aperture at the exit pupil. The virtual image is of an object located within a second aperture, wherein the first and second apertures are not collocated. In an associated method, a flat-panel image-display modulator within the second aperture imparts image content of the virtual image onto light generated by a source of light within the first aperture.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: PANAMORPH, INC.Inventor: Shawn L. KELLY
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Patent number: 11736648Abstract: A high-definition image is preprocessed to generate a substantially losslessly-reconstructable set of image components that include a relatively low-resolution base image and a plurality of extra-data images that provide for progressively substantially losslessly reconstructing the high-definition image from the base image, wherein a single primary-color component of the extra-data images provides for relatively quickly reconstructing full-resolution intermediate images during the substantially lossless-reconstruction process.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: PANAMORPH, INC.Inventor: Shawn L. Kelly
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Patent number: 11733532Abstract: An optical subsystem of a near-eye display system provides for projecting light of a virtual image of image content to an eye location, and provides for collecting light of the virtual image onto an exit pupil on a surface proximate to an outer surface of an eye when at the eye location. A subpupil modulator within an aperture in cooperation with the optical subsystem provides for forming a plurality of subpupils within the exit pupil, at least two of which overlap by at least 20 percent, and provides for less than all of the light of the virtual image associated with one or more less than all of the plurality of subpupils to be projected to the eye location.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: PANAMORPH, INC.Inventor: Shawn L. Kelly
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Patent number: 11681150Abstract: An optical subsystem of a near-eye display system provides for projecting light of a virtual image of image content to an eye location, and provides for collecting light of the virtual image onto an exit pupil on a surface proximate to an outer surface of an eye when at the eye location. A subpupil modulator within an aperture in cooperation with the optical subsystem provides for forming a plurality of subpupils within the exit pupil, and provides for less than all of the light of the virtual image associated with one or more less than all of the plurality of subpupils to be projected to the eye location. In various independent aspects: at least two subpupils overlap by at least 20 percent; and the intensities of the subpupils are individually and independently controlled.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: PANAMORPH, INC.Inventor: Shawn L. Kelly
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Patent number: 11663942Abstract: An optical subsystem of a near-eye display system provides for projecting light of a virtual image of image content to an eye location, and provides for collecting light of the virtual image onto an exit pupil on a surface proximate to an outer surface of an eye when at the eye location. A subpupil modulator within an aperture in cooperation with the optical subsystem provides for forming a plurality of subpupils on a curved surface within the exit pupil, and provides for less than all of the light of the virtual image associated with one or more less than all of the plurality of subpupils to be projected to the eye location.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: PANAMORPH, INC.Inventor: Shawn L. Kelly
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Publication number: 20230141961Abstract: An optical subsystem of a near-eye display system provides for projecting light of a virtual image of image content to an eye location, and provides for collecting light of the virtual image onto an exit pupil on a surface proximate to an outer surface of an eye when at the eye location. A subpupil modulator within an aperture in cooperation with the optical subsystem provides for forming a plurality of subpupils within the exit pupil, provides for less than all of the light of the virtual image associated with one or more less than all of the plurality of subpupils to be projected to the eye location, and provides for individually and independently controlling an intensity of the light through each activated subpupil to a level less than a maximum level of intensity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: PANAMORPH, INC.Inventor: Shawn L. KELLY
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Publication number: 20230146628Abstract: An optical subsystem of a near-eye display system provides for projecting light of a virtual image of image content to an eye location, and provides for collecting light of the virtual image onto an exit pupil on a surface proximate to an outer surface of an eye when at the eye location. A subpupil modulator within an aperture in cooperation with the optical subsystem provides for forming a plurality of subpupils within the exit pupil, at least two of which overlap by at least 20 percent, and provides for less than all of the light of the virtual image associated with one or more less than all of the plurality of subpupils to be projected to the eye location.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: PANAMORPH, INC.Inventor: Shawn L. KELLY
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Publication number: 20230148046Abstract: An optical subsystem of a near-eye display system provides for projecting light of a virtual image of image content to an eye location, and provides for collecting light of the virtual image onto an exit pupil on a surface proximate to an outer surface of an eye when at the eye location. A subpupil modulator within an aperture in cooperation with the optical subsystem provides for forming a plurality of subpupils on a curved surface within the exit pupil, and provides for less than all of the light of the virtual image associated with one or more less than all of the plurality of subpupils to be projected to the eye location.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: PANAMORPH, INC.Inventor: Shawn L. KELLY
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Patent number: 11635676Abstract: An accessory may be attached to image projector via an associated accessory-interface structure, the latter of which is operatively coupled to at least one projector-attachment structure that extends through an opening in a front panel of the projector so as to provide for clamping the accessory-interface structure to the front panel of the image projector.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: PANAMORPH, INC.Inventor: Shawn L. Kelly
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Patent number: 11620775Abstract: A composite image displayed on an image display incorporates a first portion of image content, and incorporates one or more second portions of image content within corresponding one or more picture regions of the composite image. One or more images properties selected from a resolution, a level of magnification, a measure of pan, a size, and a scale of each of the first and second image portions can be modified, and the modification of an image property of the one or more second portions of image content entails receiving either supplemental or replacement image data that provides for displaying a corresponding modified version of the corresponding one or more second portions of image content, the modification of which can be independent of the first portion of image content and is responsive to an action by the user that indicates at least an interest in or focus on the one or more second portions of image content.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: PANAMORPH, INC.Inventor: Shawn L. Kelly
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Publication number: 20230073530Abstract: An optical subsystem of a near-eye display system provides for projecting light of a virtual image of image content to an eye location, and provides for collecting light of the virtual image onto an exit pupil on a surface proximate to an outer surface of an eye when at the eye location. A subpupil modulator within an aperture in cooperation with the optical subsystem provides for forming a plurality of subpupils within the exit pupil, and provides for less than all of the light of the virtual image associated with one or more less than all of the plurality of subpupils to be projected to the eye location. In various independent aspects: at least two subpupils overlap by at least 20 percent; and the intensities of the subpupils are individually and independently controlled.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: PANAMORPH, INC.Inventor: Shawn L. KELLY
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Patent number: 11493773Abstract: An optical subsystem of a near-eye display system provides for projecting light of a virtual image of image content to an eye location, and provides for collecting light of the virtual image onto an exit pupil on a surface proximate to an outer surface of an eye when at the eye location. A subpupil modulator within an aperture in cooperation with the optical subsystem provides for forming a plurality of subpupils within the exit pupil, and provides for less than all of the light of the virtual image associated with one or more less than all of the plurality of subpupils to be projected to the eye location. In various independent aspects: at least two subpupils overlap by at least 20 percent; and the intensities of the subpupils are individually and independently controlled.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: PANAMORPH, INC.Inventor: Shawn L. Kelly
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Patent number: 11475602Abstract: Initial low-quality images of a progressively-displayed high-definition image are masked with corresponding progressively-revealing mask filters or masking algorithms to realistically obscure such low quality and therefore to provide a realistically appearing progressive presentation of the high-definition image.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: PANAMORPH, INC.Inventor: Shawn L. Kelly
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Publication number: 20220317464Abstract: An optical subsystem of a near-eye display system provides for projecting light of a virtual image of image content to an eye location, and provides for collecting light of the virtual image onto an exit pupil on a surface proximate to an outer surface of an eye when at the eye location. A subpupil modulator within the aperture in cooperation with the optical subsystem provides for forming a plurality of subpupils within the exit pupil, and provides for less than all of the light of the virtual image associated with one or more less than all of the plurality of subpupils to be projected to the eye location. In various independent aspects: at least two subpupils overlap by at least 20 percent; and the intensities of the subpupils are individually and independently controlled.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: PANAMORPH, INC.Inventor: Shawn L. KELLY
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Patent number: 11350015Abstract: For at least one component of a digitized image, if a magnitude of a difference between a pixel component value and a representative image-cell-value is less than a threshold for each pixel of a subset of pixels of an image cell of a digitized image, the corresponding pixel component values of corresponding pixels of a corresponding processed image cell are set to the representative image-cell-value. Otherwise, at least the most significant portion of the corresponding pixel component values of the corresponding pixels of the corresponding processed image cell are set to the value of pixel component values of the digitized image.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: PANAMORPH, INC.Inventor: Shawn L. Kelly
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Patent number: 11297203Abstract: A high-definition image is preprocessed to generate a substantially losslessly-reconstructable set of image components that include a relatively low-resolution base image and a plurality of extra-data images that provide for progressively substantially losslessly reconstructing the high-definition image from the base image, wherein a single primary-color component of the extra-data images provides for relatively quickly reconstructing full-resolution intermediate images during the substantially lossless-reconstruction process.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: PANAMORPH, INC.Inventor: Shawn L. Kelly
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Publication number: 20180077319Abstract: A plurality of source image pixels of a subset of image pixels of a source image cell of a selected color component of a digitized image are processed to generate a corresponding color component for each corresponding processed image pixel of a corresponding processed image cell, wherein the processed image pixels of the processed image cell are in one-to-one correspondence with the source image pixels of the source image cell, a bit length of the color component of each processed image pixel of the processed image cell exceeds a bit length of color component of each source image pixel the source image cell, the processed image cell contains substantial color information in excess of what could be contained within a bit length equal to the bit length of each the source image pixel of the color component of the source image cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Applicant: PANAMORPH, INC.Inventor: Shawn L. KELLY
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Patent number: 9774761Abstract: A selected color component (R, G, B) for each of a plurality of image pixels (32, P) of an image cell (42, C) is encoded to form a corresponding color component (ER, EG, EB) of a corresponding plurality of encoded pixels (40, PE) in one-to-one correspondence with the image pixels (32, P). A bit length of each color component (ER, EG, EB) of an encoded pixel (40, PE) is less than that of a corresponding image pixel (32, P).Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2017Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: PANAMORPH, INC.Inventor: Shawn L. Kelly
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Publication number: 20170163849Abstract: A selected color component (R, G, B) for each of a plurality of image pixels (32, P) of an image cell (42, C) is encoded to form a corresponding color component (ER, EG, EB) of a corresponding plurality of encoded pixels (40, PE) in one-to-one correspondence with the image pixels (32, P). A bit length of each color component (ER, EG, EB) of an encoded pixel (40, PE) is less than that of a corresponding image pixel (32, P).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2017Publication date: June 8, 2017Applicant: PANAMORPH, INC.Inventor: Shawn L. KELLY
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Patent number: 9584701Abstract: A selected color component (R, G, B) for each of a plurality of image pixels (32, P) of an image cell (42, C) is encoded to form a corresponding color component (ER, EG, EB) of a corresponding plurality of encoded pixels (40, PE) in one-to-one correspondence with the image pixels (32, P). A bit length of each color component (ER, EG, EB) of an encoded pixel (40, PE) is less than that of a corresponding image pixel (32, P).Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2015Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: PANAMORPH, INC.Inventor: Shawn L. Kelly