Abstract: Variable-focus lenses are arranged as a lens pair that work on opposite sides of a see-through optical combiner used in a mixed-reality head-mounted display (HMD) device. An eye-side variable-focus lens is configured as a negative lens over an eyebox of the see-through optical combiner to enable virtual-world objects to be set at a close distance. The negative lens is compensated by its conjugate using a real-world-side variable-focus lens configured as a positive lens to provide for an unperturbed see-through experience. For non-presbyopes, the powers of the lenses are perfectly offset. For presbyopes, the lens powers may be mismatched at times to provide simultaneous views of both virtual-world and real-world objects on the display in sharp focus. Responsively an eye tracker indicating that the user is engaged in close viewing, optical power is added to the real-world-side lens to push close real-world objects optically farther away and into sharp focus for the presbyopic user.

Abstract: A near-eye display device comprises right and left display projectors, expansion optics, and inertial measurement units (IMUs), in addition to a plurality of angle-sensitive pixel (ASP) elements and a computer. The right and left expansion optics are configured to receive respective display images from the right and left display projectors and to release expanded forms of the display images. The right IMU is fixedly coupled to the right display projector, and the left IMU is fixedly coupled to the left display projector. Each ASP element is responsive to an angle of light of one of the respective display images as received into the right or left expansion optic. The computer is configured to receive output from the right IMU, the left IMU and the plurality of ASP elements, and render display data for the right and left display projectors based in part on the output.

Abstract: In a see-through waveguide-based HMD device configured to display holographic virtual images within a field of view (FOV) of the device user, a single pixel or group of pixels are lit to supply illumination at known locations on the display that is reflected from the user's eyes and captured by one or more sensors in an eye tracker. The eye tracker may apply real-time image analysis to the captured reflected light, called “glints,” to extract features of the user's eyes to determine where the HMD device user is looking—the gaze point—and calculate eye movement, location, and orientation. A negative lens functionality utilized in the HMD device to provide a fixed focal depth for the virtual images enables the lit pixels to function as virtual glint sources for the eye tracker sensor that are located at the fixed focal depth and from multiple illumination positions within the user's FOV.

Abstract: A method for setting a display white point comprises displaying images with a display including at least a first light source and a second light source. The first light source is configured to emit light having a first color and having a first temperature-dependent luminance change. The second light source is configured to emit light having a second color and having a second temperature-dependent luminance change. An internal display temperature is measured. Based on the internal display temperature being a first temperature, a first target white point is set to prioritize color accuracy. Based on the internal display temperature being a second temperature, greater than the first temperature, a second target white point is set to prioritize luminance output.

Abstract: A method for setting a display white point comprises displaying images with a display including at least a first light source and a second light source. The first light source is configured to emit light having a first color and having a first temperature-dependent luminance change. The second light source is configured to emit light having a second color and having a second temperature-dependent luminance change. An internal display temperature is measured. Based on the internal display temperature being a first temperature, a first target white point is set to prioritize color accuracy. Based on the internal display temperature being a second temperature, greater than the first temperature, a second target white point is set to prioritize luminance output.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating electricity from solar energy has a large dish reflector with a fly's eye receiver positioned near the focus of the dish reflector, held by a dual axis tracking structure. The fly's eye receiver includes a field lens that concentrates sunlight into an image of the dish reflector, a two-dimensional fly's eye array of contiguous convex lenses extending across the dish image, and a photovoltaic cell behind each convex lens of the fly's eye array. Two imaging stages are provided. First, the dish reflector and the field lens concentrate the sunlight in the form of an image of the dish that is stabilized against pointing errors of the tracking mechanism. Second, the contiguous array of convex lenses divides the sunlight energy of the dish image into portions, one per convex lens, each portion being further concentrated by the respective convex lens onto a corresponding photovoltaic cell.

Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to a display device. One example provides a display device comprising a projector and a pre-expander optic configured to replicate an exit pupil of the projector in at least a first direction, the pre-expander optic comprising a plurality of spectrally-selective pupil-replicating elements to form at least two exit pupils at different spatial locations, each exit pupil being for a different spectral band. The display device further comprises a waveguide comprising at least two incoupling pupils, each incoupling pupil configured to receive light from a corresponding exit pupil of the pre-expander optic, and the waveguide configured to replicate each corresponding exit pupil in at least a second direction and output the light received toward an eyebox.

Abstract: Apparatuses and systems including curved optical waveguides, and methods for use include an output-grating of a curved waveguide that includes a spatially modulated grating period configured to cause, for each beam of light corresponding to an image coupled into a bulk-substrate of the curved waveguide by an input-grating, corresponding rays of light output from different locations of the output-grating to be substantially collimated. Adaptive optics of a display engine compensate for aberrations that vary over a field-of-view associated with light corresponding to the image out-coupled by the output-grating. Further, a curved portion of the curved waveguide is designed to keep internally reflected light below a critical angle to prevent inadvertent out-coupling thereof. Further, curved surfaces of the curved waveguide can include polynomial surfaces to compensate for lateral color errors and distortion.

Abstract: An eye-tracking system is provided. The system includes an at least partially transparent visible light waveguide having a visible light display region configured to emit visible light to impinge upon an eye of a user. A light source is configured to emit at least infrared (IR) light that travels along an IR light path to impinge on the eye. A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) scanning mirror positioned in the IR light path is configured to direct the IR light along the IR light path. A relay positioned in the IR light path downstream of the MEMS scanning mirror includes at least one mirror configured to reflect the IR light along the IR light path. At least one sensor is configured to receive the IR light after being reflected by the eye.

Abstract: MicroLED arrays offer a small form factor solution for the HMD image sources since they do not need a separate illumination optics. Features of the present disclosure implement a MicroLED display system that incorporate a plurality of monochrome projectors (e.g., three MicroLED projectors) to generate three monochrome images (e.g., red, blue, and green images) that are separately input into a single waveguide of the HMD and combined to form an image that is displayed to the user. By utilizing a single waveguide that includes a plurality of spatially separated input regions (e.g., a region for inputting blue light, a region for inputting red light, a region for inputting green light), the MicroLED display system of the present disclosure may reduce the form factor of the HMD device because of the reduced number of plates that may be required to combine the three monochrome images.

Abstract: MicroLED arrays offer a small form factor solution for the HMD image sources since they do not need a separate illumination optics. Features of the present disclosure implement a MicroLED display system that incorporate a plurality of monochrome projectors (e.g., three MicroLED projectors) to generate three monochrome images (e.g., red, blue, and green images) that are separately input into a single waveguide of the HMD and combined to form an image that is displayed to the user. By utilizing a single waveguide that includes a plurality of spatially separated input regions (e.g., a region for inputting blue light, a region for inputting red light, a region for inputting green light), the MicroLED display system of the present disclosure may reduce the form factor of the HMD device because of the reduced number of plates that may be required to combine the three monochrome images.

Abstract: An eye-tracking system includes an at least partially transparent visible light waveguide having a visible light display region configured to emit visible light to an eye of a user. A light source is configured to emit at least infrared (IR) light that travels along an IR light path to the eye of the user. A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) projector positioned in the IR light path directs the IR light. At least one diffractive input coupler on an input end of the IR light path downstream of the MEMS projector diffracts at least a portion of the IR light. At least one diffractive output coupler positioned in the IR light path downstream of the diffractive input coupler receives the IR light and directs the IR light toward the eye. At least one sensor is configured to receive the IR light after being reflected by the eye.

Abstract: MicroLED arrays offer a small form factor solution for the HMD image sources since they do not need a separate illumination optics. Features of the present disclosure implement a MicroLED display system that incorporate a plurality of monochrome projectors (e.g., three MicroLED projectors) to generate three monochrome images (e.g., red, blue, and green images) that are separately input into a single waveguide of the HMD and combined to form an image that is displayed to the user. By utilizing a single waveguide that includes a plurality of spatially separated input regions (e.g., a region for inputting blue light, a region for inputting red light, a region for inputting green light), the MicroLED display system of the present disclosure may reduce the form factor of the HMD device because of the reduced number of plates that may be required to combine the three monochrome images.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating electricity from solar energy has a large dish reflector with a fly's eye receiver positioned near the focus of the dish reflector, held by a dual axis tracking structure. The fly's eye receiver includes a field lens that concentrates sunlight into an image of the dish reflector, a two-dimensional fly's eye array of contiguous convex lenses extending across the dish image, and a photovoltaic cell behind each convex lens of the fly's eye array. Two imaging stages are provided. First, the dish reflector and the field lens concentrate the sunlight in the form of an image of the dish that is stabilized against pointing errors of the tracking mechanism. Second, the contiguous array of convex lenses divides the sunlight energy of the dish image into portions, one per convex lens, each portion being further concentrated by the respective convex lens onto a corresponding photovoltaic cell.

Abstract: A display device system includes a display engine and optical waveguide. The display engine includes an image former, that produces light corresponding to an image, and one or more lens groups that collimate the light corresponding to the image and outputs the light from the display engine. Each lens group includes one or more lenses that share a mechanical axis. The light corresponding to the image produced by the image former has an optical axis ray coincident with a principal ray of the light that originates at a center of the image produced by the image former. At least one lens group has its mechanical axis tilted relative to the optical axis ray of the light corresponding to the image produced by the image former, to prevent a ghost image from being formed by light corresponding to the image that is reflected-back from the waveguide toward the display engine.

Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods corresponding to addressing misalignment in display systems are provided. A method includes using a first microelectromechanical system (MEMS) mirror, directing a first signal from a first light source to an alignment tracking waveguide. The method further includes receiving by a first photosensor a first portion of the first signal via the alignment tracking waveguide and determining a first alignment indicator associated with the first portion of the first signal. The method further includes using a second MEMS mirror, directing a second signal from a second light source to the alignment tracking waveguide. The method further includes receiving by a second photosensor a second portion of the second signal via the alignment tracking waveguide and determining a second alignment indicator associated with the second portion of the second signal.

Abstract: An eye-tracking system is provided that includes a light source configured to emit at least infrared (IR) light and a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) scanning mirror configured to direct the IR light. The system further includes a relay including at least one prism, and the relay is configured to receive the IR light directed by the MEMS scanning mirror and redirect the IR light. The system further includes a waveguide through which the IR light redirected by the relay passes to reach an eye, and at least one sensor configured to receive the IR light after being reflected by the eye.

Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to a display device. One example provides a display device comprising a projector and a pre-expander optic configured to replicate an exit pupil of the projector in at least a first direction, the pre-expander optic comprising a plurality of spectrally-selective pupil-replicating elements to form at least two exit pupils at different spatial locations, each exit pupil being for a different spectral band. The display device further comprises a waveguide comprising at least two incoupling pupils, each incoupling pupil configured to receive light from a corresponding exit pupil of the pre-expander optic, and the waveguide configured to replicate each corresponding exit pupil in at least a second direction and output the light received toward an eyebox.

Abstract: An apparatus, for use in replicating an image associated with an input-pupil to an output-pupil, comprises an optical waveguide including a bulk-substrate, an input-coupler and an output-coupler. The bulk-substrate includes first and second major sides and peripheral sides. The input-coupler couples, into the waveguide, light corresponding to the image associated with the input-pupil. The output-coupler couples, out of the waveguide, light corresponding to the image that has traveled through the waveguide from the input-coupler to the output-coupler at least in part by way of TIR. At least one of the peripheral sides includes first and second surfaces that define first and second planes angled 45 degrees relative to one another. Such a peripheral side provides for effective recycling of light that would otherwise leak out of the waveguide through the peripheral side.

Abstract: An eye-tracking system is provided. An at least partially transparent visible light waveguide has a visible light display region configured to emit visible light to an eye of a user. A light source is configured to emit at least infrared (IR) light that travels along an IR light path to the eye of the user. A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) projector positioned in the IR light path directs the IR light. At least one diffractive input coupler on an input end of the IR light path downstream of the MEMS projector diffracts at least a portion of the IR light. At least one diffractive output coupler positioned in the IR light path downstream of the diffractive input coupler receives the IR light and directs the IR light toward the eye. At least one sensor is configured to receive the IR light after being reflected by the eye.