Patents Assigned to Zight Corporation
  • Patent number: 6373497
    Abstract: A method and apparatus employing lookup tables in a time sequential manner. A substrate has a display, a digital to analog converter, and a lookup table (LUT) formed thereon. The LUT is loaded with a LUT data set corresponding to an image subframe to be driven to the display. Successive LUT data sets corresponding to the next subframe are loaded after each subframe is driven to the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Zight Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas J. McKnight, Douglas J. Gorny, Lowell F. Bohn, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20020030691
    Abstract: A method and apparatus employing lookup tables in a time sequential manner. A substrate has a display, a digital to analog converter, and a lookup table (LUT) formed thereon. The LUT is loaded with a LUT data set corresponding to an image subframe to be driven to the display. Successive LUT data sets corresponding to the next subframe are loaded after each subframe is driven to the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2001
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Applicant: Zight Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas J. McKnight, Douglas J. Gorny, Lowell F. Bohn
  • Patent number: 6329971
    Abstract: Methods and systems for operating a display system. An example of the display system includes a first substrate having a plurality of pixel electrodes, an electro-optic layer operatively coupled to the pixel electrodes and an electrode operatively coupled to said electro-optic layer. In one example of a method of the invention, a first plurality of pixel data values is applied to the plurality of pixel electrodes. A first control voltage is applied to the electrode to alter a state of the electro-optic layer such that the first pixel data represented by the first plurality of pixel data values is substantially not displayed. A second plurality of pixel data values, representing a second pixel data, is applied to the plurality of pixel electrodes, and a second control voltage is applied to the electrode to alter the state of the electro-optic layer such that the second pixel data is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Zight Corporation
    Inventor: Douglas McKnight
  • Patent number: 6326958
    Abstract: A system and method to reduce power consumption in a miniature display system. The system is formed on three distinct substrates with different feature sizes and operating in different power zones. The display controller and other high speed logic are formed on one substrate. The display, DACs and LUTs are formed on a second substrate, and high voltage circuitry for driving the LEDs and the cover glass voltage is formed on a third substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Zight Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas J. Gorny, Douglas J. McKnight, Lowell F. Bohn, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6304239
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for display systems which modulate a control electrode to cause an electro-optic layer to be reset to a state in which display data is not viewable. In one embodiment of the invention, a display system includes a first substrate having a first plurality of pixel electrodes for receiving a first plurality of pixel data values representing a first image to be displayed. The display system further includes an electro-optic layer which is operatively coupled to the pixel electrodes and an electrode operatively coupled to the electro-optic layer. The display system displays the first image and then applies a first control voltage to the electrode to alter a state of the electro-optic layer such that the first image substantially not displayed and then the display system displays a second image represented by a second plurality of pixel data values after the electrode receives a second control voltage. Various other apparatuses and methods are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Zight Corporation
    Inventor: Douglas McKnight
  • Patent number: 6280054
    Abstract: The invention provides an illumination system for a head-mounted display. The illumination system includes a plurality of illuminators which irradiate light over an area. The area has a central region where the light has a selective intensity, and outer regions on opposing sides of the central regions where the light has higher intensities than the selective intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Zight Corporation
    Inventors: William Cassarly, Miller H. Schuck, III