Patents by Inventor Brian K. Guenter
Brian K. Guenter has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11467320Abstract: This document relates to head mounted display devices. One example can include a layer of individually controllable pixels that can be energized to emit light and a layer of lenses that are physically aligned over the pixels. The example can also include a layer of shutters interposed between the pixels and the lenses and configured to be independently transitioned between a transmissive state and an opaque state to limit paths of the emitted light that reach the layer of lenses.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Joel Steven Kollin, Andreas Georgiou, Brian K. Guenter, Charles Thomas Hewitt, Mario Possiwan, Ishan Chatterjee
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Patent number: 11435503Abstract: This document relates to head mounted display devices. In one example the head mounted display device includes a light engine including an array of individually controllable pixels that can be energized to emit light. The example also includes an optical assembly physically aligned with the light engine and including a set of focusing elements facing toward the light engine and a different set of focusing elements facing away from the light engine.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Andreas Georgiou, Alfonsus D. Lunardhi, Joel Steven Kollin, Bernard C. Kress, Ishan Chatterjee, Mario Possiwan, Charles Thomas Hewitt, Brian K. Guenter, Maria Pace, Jacob Hadnett-Hunter
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Publication number: 20220206191Abstract: This document relates to head mounted display devices. One example can include a layer of individually controllable pixels that can be energized to emit light and a layer of lenses that are physically aligned over the pixels. The example can also include a layer of shutters interposed between the pixels and the lenses and configured to be independently transitioned between a transmissive state and an opaque state to limit paths of the emitted light that reach the layer of lenses.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Joel Steven KOLLIN, Andreas GEORGIOU, Brian K. GUENTER, Charles Thomas HEWITT, Mario POSSIWAN, Ishan CHATTERJEE
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Patent number: 11187909Abstract: Improved text rendering by microshifting the display in a head mounted display is provided. Systems, methods and computer-readable devices provide a head mounted display. The head mounted display includes a display unit; a rotational actuator coupled to the display unit; and a rotation processor having a rotation sensor coupled to the display unit wherein as the head mounted display is rotated, the rotation processor is operable to signal the rotational actuator to rotate the display unit to counter the rotation of the head mounted display.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Brian K. Guenter
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Publication number: 20210239883Abstract: This document relates to head mounted display devices. In one example the head mounted display device includes a light engine including an array of individually controllable pixels that can be energized to emit light. The example also includes an optical assembly physically aligned with the light engine and including a set of focusing elements facing toward the light engine and a different set of focusing elements facing away from the light engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2020Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Andreas GEORGIOU, Alfonsus D. LUNARDHI, Joel Steven KOLLIN, Bernard C. KRESS, Ishan CHATTERJEE, Mario POSSIWAN, Charles Thomas HEWITT, Brian K. GUENTER, Maria PACE, Jacob HADNETT-HUNTER
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Patent number: 10762350Abstract: Video noise reduction for a video augmented reality system is provided. A head mounted display includes a display unit; a camera for generating frames of display data. A frame store is provided for storing previous frames of displayed information that was sent to the display unit; and a motion processor is provided in communication with the camera, display unit, and the frame store. The motion processor is operable to: identify an area of interest in a current frame of display data; match the area of interest to similar areas in previous frames stored in the frame store; rotate and translate the matched areas of interest from the one or more previous frames stored in the frame store to match the area of interest in the current frame; and average the prior matched areas of interest with the current area of interest to generate a displayed area of interest.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Brian K. Guenter, Ran Gal
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Patent number: 10504397Abstract: A curved narrowband illuminant display is provided. A head mounted display is provided that includes a first lens having a first curvature. The first lens is focused on the curved display, and the display has a curvature such that the field curvature of the lens is corrected by the curvature of the display. In addition, a coherent fiber optic bundle sheet may be mounted on the display, wherein the coherent fiber optic bundle sheet has a curvature such that the field curvature of the lens is corrected by the curvature of the coherent fiber optic bundle sheet. According to another aspect, when a planar image is received, distortion for red, green, and blue images that comprise the planar image may be generated, undistorted red, green, and blue images may be generated, and the undistorted red, green, and blue images may be displayed.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Brian K. Guenter
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Publication number: 20190286909Abstract: Video noise reduction for a video augmented reality system is provided. A head mounted display includes a display unit; a camera for generating frames of display data. A frame store is provided for storing previous frames of displayed information that was sent to the display unit; and a motion processor is provided in communication with the camera, display unit, and the frame store. The motion processor is operable to: identify an area of interest in a current frame of display data; match the area of interest to similar areas in previous frames stored in the frame store; rotate and translate the matched areas of interest from the one or more previous frames stored in the frame store to match the area of interest in the current frame; and average the prior matched areas of interest with the current area of interest to generate a displayed area of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Brian K. Guenter, Ran Gal
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Patent number: 10373995Abstract: Techniques for fabricating an image sensor chip having a curved surface include placing a bending substrate on a first surface of an imaging sensor chip. The first surface of the imaging sensor chip includes light sensors to generate electrical signals in response to receiving light. Fabricating also includes bending the bending substrate so as to impart forces on the image sensor chip to produce a curved imaging sensor chip. A second surface of the curved imaging sensor chip may be adhered to a backside substrate. The second surface is opposite the first surface. The bending substrate may be removed from the first surface of the imaging sensor chip.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventor: Brian K. Guenter
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Patent number: 10354140Abstract: Video noise reduction for a video augmented reality system is provided. A head mounted display includes a display unit; a camera for generating frames of display data. A frame store is provided for storing previous frames of displayed information that was sent to the display unit; and a motion processor is provided in communication with the camera, display unit, and the frame store. The motion processor is operable to: identify an area of interest in a current frame of display data; match the area of interest to similar areas in previous frames stored in the frame store; rotate and translate the matched areas of interest from the one or more previous frames stored in the frame store to match the area of interest in the current frame; and average the prior matched areas of interest with the current area of interest to generate a displayed area of interest.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Brian K. Guenter, Ran Gal
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Patent number: 10338677Abstract: In some examples, techniques and architectures for operating a device that may be wearable, such as a head-mounted device, may be used for virtual reality applications. A processor of the device may operate by dynamically tracking the cornea, and thus the gaze direction, of a user's eyes. By tracking the gaze direction, retinal velocity of a display image projected onto the retina, measured in the retina coordinate frame may be computed. Display times of image frames viewable by the user may be modified based on the retinal velocity.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Brian K. Guenter
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Patent number: 10334181Abstract: The subject disclosure is directed towards an image sensor that is controllable curved to adapt for differences in lens focal lengths. Variable data such as focal length data, measured curvature data and/or image quality data is received at a curve controller that curves the sensor based upon the variable data. In one aspect, a camera is provided with a lens having a variable focal length and a sensor capable of being dynamically curved. A curve controller receives image quality data and iteratively uses the image quality data to adjust the curvature to attempt to increase the image quality of a subsequent image to be captured.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2012Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Brian K. Guenter, Neel S. Joshi
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Patent number: 10298840Abstract: Using a foveated camera for video augmented reality via a head mounted display is provided. A camera may be placed in a binning mode; a full frame binned image may be captured using the camera and the binning mode of the camera may be turned off. A region of interest may be selected within the full frame; the region of interest may be captured at a higher resolution than the resolution of the camera when in binning mode; the region of interest may be composited with the full frame binned image; and the composited image may be displayed.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventor: Brian K. Guenter
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Patent number: 10257415Abstract: Using a foveated camera for video augmented reality via a head mounted display is provided. A camera may be placed in a binning mode; a full frame binned image may be captured using the camera and the binning mode of the camera may be turned off. A region of interest may be selected within the full frame; the region of interest may be captured at a higher resolution than the resolution of the camera when in binning mode; the region of interest may be composited with the full frame binned image; and the composited image may be displayed.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventor: Brian K. Guenter
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Patent number: 10216002Abstract: The subject disclosure is directed towards a curved image sensor that is rotated in one or more rotational directions to compensate for camera movement, e.g., camera shake. In one aspect, sensors such as gyroscopes output camera movement data, which a controller uses to rotate the curved (e.g., hemispherical) image sensor about its center of curvature, e.g., via signals to electrical and/or magnetic movement mechanisms. Image processing may be used by the controller to rotate the image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2017Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Brian K. Guenter, Neel S. Joshi
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Publication number: 20180249119Abstract: Displaying a left side image and a right side image on a single display is provided for increasing effective update rate for device displays used in head mount devices. A left side of display image is composited, and the left side of display image is displayed. At a first delayed time interval from the time of compositing the left side of display image, the right side of display image is composited, and at a second delayed time interval from the time of compositing the left side of display image, the right side of display image is displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2017Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Brian K. Guenter
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Patent number: 10062727Abstract: Techniques for fabricating a semiconductor die having a curved surface can include placing a substantially flat semiconductor die in a recess surface of a concave mold such that corners or edges of the semiconductor die are unconstrained or are the only portions of the semiconductor die in physical contact with the concave mold. The semiconductor die can include through-die cut lines that can lead to substantially less tension in the semiconductor die as compared to the case where the semiconductor die does not include through-die cut lines. Accordingly, such through-die cut lines can allow for achieving relatively large curvatures.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Geoffrey P. McKnight, Brian K. Guenter, Andrew Keefe, Neel S. Joshi
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Publication number: 20180220068Abstract: Using a foveated camera for video augmented reality via a head mounted display is provided. A camera may be placed in a binning mode; a full frame binned image may be captured using the camera and the binning mode of the camera may be turned off. A region of interest may be selected within the full frame; the region of interest may be captured at a higher resolution than the resolution of the camera when in binning mode; the region of interest may be composited with the full frame binned image; and the composited image may be displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2017Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Brian K. Guenter
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Publication number: 20180217383Abstract: Improved text rendering by microshifting the display in a head mounted display is provided. Systems, methods and computer-readable devices provide a head mounted display. The head mounted display includes a display unit; a rotational actuator coupled to the display unit; and a rotation processor having a rotation sensor coupled to the display unit wherein as the head mounted display is rotated, the rotation processor is operable to signal the rotational actuator to rotate the display unit to counter the rotation of the head mounted display.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2017Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Brian K. Guenter
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Publication number: 20180218217Abstract: Video noise reduction for a video augmented reality system is provided. A head mounted display includes a display unit; a camera for generating frames of display data. A frame store is provided for storing previous frames of displayed information that was sent to the display unit; and a motion processor is provided in communication with the camera, display unit, and the frame store. The motion processor is operable to: identify an area of interest in a current frame of display data; match the area of interest to similar areas in previous frames stored in the frame store; rotate and translate the matched areas of interest from the one or more previous frames stored in the frame store to match the area of interest in the current frame; and average the prior matched areas of interest with the current area of interest to generate a displayed area of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2017Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Brian K. Guenter, Ran Gal