Patents Examined by Cory A Almeida
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Patent number: 11599154Abstract: A device includes an enclosure and logic. The enclosure includes a plurality of capacitive touch sensor arrays disposed at least on two of a top side, a bottom side, a left side, a right side, a front side, and a back side of the device. The enclosure also includes a first display on the front side of the device. The logic receives touch interaction information from the plurality of capacitive touch sensor arrays and initiates an action based at least in part on the touch interaction information.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Min Liu, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, David L. Graumann, Jameson H. Williams, Miriam K. Selvaraj, Bryan R. Peebler, Wendy A. March, Brian K. Vogel, Wenbo Shen, Sihua Tian, Lijuan Xiao, Tao Wang, Xiaoyan Dang, Nithyananda S. Jeganathan, Sunil A. Kulkarni, Sherman Chan Wai Lee, Kaining Yuan
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Patent number: 11598957Abstract: Systems and methods for synthesizing an image of the face by a head-mounted display (HMD), such as an augmented reality device, are disclosed. The HMD may be able to observe only a portion of the face with an inward-facing imaging system, e.g., the periocular region. The systems and methods described herein can generate a mapping of a conformation of the portion of the face that is not imaged based at least partly on a conformation of the portion of the face that is imaged. The HMD can receive an image of a portion of the face and use the mapping to determine a conformation of the portion of the face that is not observed. The HMD can combine the observed and unobserved portions to synthesize a full face image.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.Inventors: Alexander Ilic, Martin Georg Zahnert
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Patent number: 11579466Abstract: A method of simulating volumetric 3D display, includes: acquiring a display variable of a virtual display screen in a volumetric 3D display simulation space, the virtual display screen comprising a plurality of stereo pixels, the display variable comprising a voxel parameter of the plurality of stereo pixels, and the voxel parameter comprising a size in a first direction of the plurality of stereo pixels, a size in a second direction of the plurality of stereo pixels, and a size in a third direction of the plurality of stereo pixels; determining a display state parameter of a first stereo pixel of the plurality of stereo pixels for an object to be displayed according to the display variable; and simulating display of the object to be displayed according to the display state parameter. A computer-readable storage medium and a volumetric 3D display simulation apparatus are further provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yaoyu Lv, Hongzhen Xue, Guixin Yan, Fuqiang Ma, Lili Chen, Hao Zhang, Zhanshan Ma, Shuo Zhang
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Patent number: 11579691Abstract: A wearable computing device generates a volumetric visualization at a first position that is located in a three-dimensional space. The wearable computing device includes a volumetric source configured to create the volumetric visualization. The wearable computing device includes one or more sensors configured to determine movement of the wearable computing device. A movement of the wearable computing device is identified by the wearable computing device. Based on the movement the wearable computing device adjusts the volumetric source.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: KYNDRYL, INC.Inventors: Mauro Marzorati, Gary Francis Diamanti, Jeremy R. Fox, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
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Patent number: 11561404Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments regarding a head-mounted device.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kiwook Han, Taehyoung Kim, Minhyuk Nam
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Patent number: 11556011Abstract: An image display system may include an image display device, and first and second attachments. The image display device may include a frame wearable on a user's face, a display unit, display controlling unit causing the display unit to display an image, and a joint portion provided on the frame, capable of having the first attachment mounted thereon, capable of having the second attachment mounted thereon, and capable of selectively having one of the first and second attachments mounted thereon when the image display device is used. The first attachment may include an engaging portion capable of engaging with a use's head and a first attaching portion that attaches the engaging portion to the joint portion. The second attachment may include a fixing portion fixable to headwear covering the user's head and a second attaching portion that attaches the fixing portion to the joint portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2017Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: SUNCORPORATIONInventor: Yasuhiro Nakamura
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Patent number: 11536968Abstract: The image display apparatus includes an optical system configured to introduce light from a display surface of a display element to an observer. The optical system includes in order from the display element toward the observer, a first phase plate, a semi-transmissive reflective surface, a lens, a second phase plate, and a polarization beam splitter. The display element is configured to make, at a central portion of the display surface, luminance in a normal direction in which a normal to the display surface extends higher than that in a specific direction tilted outward with respect to the normal direction, and to make, at a most edge portion of the display surface, the luminance in the normal direction lower than that in the specific direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masakazu Tohara
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Patent number: 11531202Abstract: An optical combiner, configured for use in a mixed-reality display system that combines holographic and real-world images, includes an assembly of see-through waveguides that are arranged in a stack to provide full color holographic images from constituent RGB (red, green, and blue) color components received from a holographic image source. Each waveguide—one per RGB color component—includes an in-coupling DOE (diffractive optical element), an intermediate DOE, and an out-coupling DOE that are disposed on internal surfaces of the stacked waveguides in the optical combiner. Each of the out-coupling DOEs incorporates a diffractive lens functionality to render the out-coupled holographic images at a set depth on the mixed-reality display. In an illustrative non-limiting example, the out-coupling DOE may provide a half diopter of negative lens power to set the optical focus of the holographic images at 1.33 m.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David Bohn, Tuomas Vallius, Jani Kari Tapio Tervo
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Patent number: 11528455Abstract: An information processing device which controls one projector and another projector includes: a display unit which displays a first operation screen for managing the one projector and a second operation screen for managing the another projector; an input unit which accepts an operation on the first operation screen and the second operation screen; and a control unit which controls the one projector and the another projector, based on the operation accepted by the input unit. When the information processing device is switched from a first state where the first operation screen is operable to a second state where the second operation screen is operable, the control unit causes the second operation screen where an item corresponding to a predetermined item selected on the first operation screen in the first state is selected, to be displayed in the second state.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Toshiyuki Sakai
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Patent number: 11526006Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a half-mirror film for displaying a projection image having high adhesiveness, a laminated glass in which wrinkle generation of the half-mirror film is suppressed or furthermore has high adhesiveness, and an image display system using the laminated glass. The problem is solved by providing a half-mirror film for displaying a projection image including a transparent support; and a selective reflection layer reflecting light in a wavelength selective manner, in which the transparent support has an absolute value of 10 nm or less of an in-plane phase difference at a wavelength of 550 nm and a heat seal layer disposed on an opposite surface of a surface having the selective reflection layer, the heat seal layer contains a thermoplastic resin, and a mixed layer in which components of the transparent support and the heat seal layer are mixed is formed between the transparent support and the heat seal layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Rikio Inoue, Shusuke Arita, Wataru Majima, Takao Taguchi, Yujiro Yanai, Taketo Otani
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Patent number: 11526024Abstract: A novel detachable holographic apparatus incorporates a dedicated upper shelf section that orients a portable electronic device's display screen to face downward after being inserted into the dedicated upper shelf section of the apparatus. The upper shelf section is created with a smartphone holder made of a rectangular center opening surrounded by a surrounding frame. The rectangular center opening allows the portable electronic device's display screen to project an image downward from the dedicated upper shelf section. The novel detachable holographic apparatus also incorporates a transparent display sheet or a one-way mirror sheet underneath the dedicated upper shelf section at a 45-degree angle relative to the surface of the portable electronic device's display screen, which in turn engender partial optical refractions and/or reflections of the image originating from the portable electronic device's display screen to form a hologram near the transparent display sheet or the one-way mirror sheet.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: DoubleMe, Inc.Inventor: Heekwan Kim
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Patent number: 11525953Abstract: A light guide plate according to one or more embodiments may include a plurality of optical path deflectors arranged in a matrix. Each of the plurality of optical path deflectors may include a plurality of optical path deflector sets. The plurality of optical path deflectors may include a first cell and a second cell located periodically. The first cell may include a first deflector that deflects light within a first angle range. The first cell may be free of a second deflector that deflects light within a second angle range adjacent to the first angle range. The second cell may be free of the first deflector and may include the second deflector.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventor: Yasuhiro Tanoue
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Patent number: 11520146Abstract: An image in a predetermined hue is displayed at a display surface, and is emitted as image light. The image light is guided to a display position by an optical system, and is deflected by a diffraction optical element. The emitted image light includes light emitted from a first position of the display surface and light emitted from a second position of the display surface. A deflection angle at which the light emitted from the first position is diffracted by the diffraction optical element is larger than a deflection angle at which the light emitted from the second position is diffracted by the diffraction optical element. Of the image light in a wavelength range expressing the hue, a wavelength peak of the light emitted from the first position is present on a long wavelength side with respect to a wavelength peak of the light emitted from the second position.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Toshiyuki Noguchi
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Patent number: 11520158Abstract: In an optical system, a first optical section having positive power, a second optical section provided with a first diffractive element and having positive power, a third optical section having positive power, and a fourth optical section provided with a second diffractive element and having positive power are disposed along a light path of image light emitted from an image light generation device. A first intermediate image of the image light is formed between the first optical section and the third optical section, a pupil is formed in the vicinity of the third optical section, a second intermediate image of the image light is formed between the third optical section and the fourth optical section, and the fourth optical section collimates the image light to form an exit pupil. The first diffractive element and the second diffractive element are in a conjugate relation or a roughly conjugate relation.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsutaka Ide, Masatoshi Yonekubo
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Patent number: 11500204Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) comprising a first side for facing a user of the HMD, a second side opposite to the first side, and a reflective layer for at least partially reflecting incident light incident on the second side. At least one processor of the HMD is configured to obtain luminance data indicative of a luminance of the incident light and control a display device, based on the luminance data, to control a luminance of a portion of emitted light directed towards the user of the HMD during the display of the image. Further examples relate to an HMD with a display device configured to emit light of at least one predetermined wavelength range during display of an image by the display device, and a layer arranged to at least partially prevent transmission of the light of the at least one predetermined wavelength range outward from the HMD.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Arm LimitedInventors: Daren Croxford, Roberto Lopez Mendez, Erik Persson, Sean Tristram Leguay Ellis
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Patent number: 11500216Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for adjusting a pupil distance of a virtual reality display device. The method adjusts a second pupil distance on a virtual reality display device by means of a first pupil distance of a user wearing the virtual reality display device, the first pupil distance referring to a pupil distance of the user wearing the virtual reality display device, and the second pupil distance being used as a distance between focal points of two lenses of the virtual reality display device; the method comprises: detecting whether the first pupil distance and the second pupil distance match; if the first pupil distance and the second pupil distance do not match, then executing a preset matching operation on the virtual reality display device. The present application solves the technical problem of a virtual reality display device being bulky and heavy.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: PIMAX TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) CO., LTDInventor: Zhibin Weng
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Patent number: 11495154Abstract: Apparatus and methods for displaying an image by a rotating structure are provided. The rotating structure can comprise blades of a fan. The fan can be a cooling fan for an electronics device such as an augmented reality display. In some embodiments, the rotating structure comprises light sources that emit light to generate the image. The light sources can comprises light-field emitters. In other embodiments, the rotating structure is illuminated by an external (e.g., non-rotating) light source.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Guillermo Padin Rohena, Ralph Remsburg, Adrian Kaehler, Evan Francis Rynk
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Patent number: 11493991Abstract: A system and method for detecting a condition of an augmented reality system and/or controlling an aspect of the augmented reality system.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Mira Labs, Inc.Inventor: Mike Kozlowski
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Patent number: 11487134Abstract: To provide a display processing device that displays the structure of a displayed item configured by stacking a plurality of displayed items in an understandable manner and enables easy confirmation of each of the layers being stacked and displayed. The display processing device includes a graduation-image display unit (a graduation-display processing unit) 24 causing a display device 15 to display a graduation image having values the number of which corresponds to the number of a plurality of image layers, a specification unit (a pointer-display processing unit) 25 causing a value on the graduation image to be specified, and a displayed-number determination unit (a number-of-displayed-layers determination processing unit) 26 determining the number of image layers that are to be stacked and displayed by the display device 15, among the plurality of image layers in accordance with the value on the graduation image specified by the specification unit 25.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Axell CorporationInventor: Hideyo Kawaguchi
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Patent number: 11487123Abstract: A virtual or augmented reality headset is provided having a frame, a pair of virtual or augmented reality eyepieces, and an interpupillary distance adjustment mechanism. The frame includes opposing arm members and a bridge positioned intermediate the opposing arm members. The adjustment mechanism is coupled to the virtual or augmented reality eyepieces and operable to simultaneously move the eyepieces to adjust the interpupillary distance of the eyepieces.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.Inventors: Masamune Kaji, Michael John Slipy, Shigeru Natsume