Patents by Inventor Dominic Meiser

Dominic Meiser 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).

  • Patent number: 11947117
    Abstract: A waveguide display includes a waveguide transparent to visible light, a first volume Bragg grating (VBG) on the waveguide and characterized by a first refractive index modulation, and a second reflection VBG on the waveguide and including a plurality of regions characterized by different respective refractive index modulations. The first reflection VBG is configured to diffract display light in a first wavelength range and a first field of view (FOV) range such that the display light in the first wavelength range and the first FOV range propagates in the waveguide through total internal reflection to the plurality of regions of the second reflection VBG. The plurality of regions of the second reflection VBG are configured to diffract the display light in different respective wavelength ranges within the first wavelength range and the first FOV range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wanli Chi, Dominic Meiser, Yang Yang, Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Pasi Saarikko, Ningfeng Huang
  • Patent number: 11927758
    Abstract: A display system includes a wearable eyewear arrangement with a projector for propagating display light associated with an image and a waveguide for propagating the display light to an eye box. The waveguide includes volume Bragg gratings (VBGs), which may be in groups of three or more gratings with same horizontal period allowing each color to be coupled out from the waveguide by the same type of grating, thus, at the same angle, reducing or eliminating image blurriness and ghost images while allowing a smaller size waveguide. A 100% reflective mirror or mirror array is used for broad spectrum reflection into the waveguide for light input. Selection of two or more wavelengths for each color at the projector provides spectral response matching to the waveguide allowing wider field of view (FOV) coverage for the entire wavelength spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Wanli Chi, Dominic Meiser, Yang Yang, Ningfeng Huang
  • Publication number: 20240069346
    Abstract: A display system includes a wearable eyewear arrangement with a projector for propagating display light associated with an image and a waveguide for propagating the display light to an eye box. The waveguide includes volume Bragg gratings (VBGs), which may be in groups of three or more gratings with same horizontal period allowing each color to be coupled out from the waveguide by the same type of grating, thus, at the same angle, reducing or eliminating image blurriness and ghost images while allowing a smaller size waveguide. A 100% reflective mirror or mirror array is used for broad spectrum reflection into the waveguide for light input. Selection of two or more wavelengths for each color at the projector provides spectral response matching to the waveguide allowing wider field of view (FOV) coverage for the entire wavelength spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wai Sze Tiffany LAM, Wanli CHI, Dominic MEISER, Yang YANG, Ningfeng HUANG
  • Patent number: 11885967
    Abstract: A waveguide display includes a substrate transparent to visible light, a first grating on the substrate and configured to couple display light into or out of the substrate, and a phase structure on the substrate and configured to change a polarization state of the display light after or before the display light reaches the first grating. The first grating is characterized by a polarization-dependent diffraction efficiency. The first grating includes, for example, a surface-relief grating or a volume Bragg grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Yang Yang, Wanli Chi, Dominic Meiser
  • Publication number: 20230314716
    Abstract: According to examples, a system for particular emission of wavelength bands using one or more directed wavelength emission components is described. The system may include a wearable eyewear arrangement having a lens assembly. The lens assembly may include a projector to project display light associated with an image and a waveguide for propagating the display light to enable viewing of the image by a user. The projector may include an illumination source component to generate the display light and a directed wavelength emission component coupled to the illumination source component to filter the display light according to one or more filtering characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dominic MEISER, Yang YANG, Wanli CHI, Wai Sze Tiffany LAM
  • Patent number: 11774758
    Abstract: A waveguide display includes a waveguide, three input gratings configured to couple display light in different respective colors into the waveguide, one or more first middle gratings configured to receive and redirect the display light from the three input gratings, a second middle grating configured to diffract, at two or more regions of the second middle grating, the display light from the one or more first middle gratings, and an output grating configured to couple the display light from each of the two or more regions of the second middle grating out of the waveguide at two or more regions of the output grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yang Yang, Wanli Chi, Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Dominic Meiser
  • Patent number: 11733521
    Abstract: A waveguide display includes a plurality of grating layers, the plurality of grating layers characterized by two or more different base refractive indices and including a set of volume Bragg gratings (VBGs). Each VBG of the set of VBGs is configured to diffract display light in a different respective field-of-view (FOV) and wavelength range. The set of VBGs includes a plurality of groups of VBGs. VBGs in each respective group of the plurality of groups of VBGs are characterized by a same grating period and include at least one VBG in each grating layer of the plurality of grating layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Wanli Chi, Yang Yang, Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Dominic Meiser
  • Publication number: 20230258937
    Abstract: According to examples, a display system may include a wearable eyewear arrangement that may include a lens assembly having a projector to propagate display light associated with an image. The lens assembly may also include a waveguide for propagating the display light to an eyebox. The waveguide may include a combination of a volume Bragg grating (VBG) component and a partial reflective component that are oriented in a pre-determined configuration to reflect or propagate the display light to maximize a coverage in field of view (FOV) at the eyebox, while minimizing at least one of a ghost image or an intercepting optical lines pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wai Sze Tiffany LAM, Yang YANG, Dominic MEISER, Wanli CHI
  • Publication number: 20230258938
    Abstract: According to examples, a display system may include a wearable eyewear arrangement that may include a lens assembly having a projector to propagate display light associated with an image. The lens assembly may also include a waveguide configuration for propagating the display light to an eyebox. The waveguide configuration may include a volume Bragg grating (VBG) component for propagating the display light from a projector to an eyebox. The VBG component may include at least one tilt adjusted grating facilitated by adjustment in an original grating vector (k) direction of a grating by a pre-determined value. The tilt adjusted grating may facilitate to mitigate a rainbow effect observable in a gazing direction of the eyebox. The rainbow effect may be mitigated by modification of a rainbow ghost path away from the gazing direction without affecting propagation of the image pertaining to the display light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Yang Yang, Dominic Meiser, Wanli Chi
  • Publication number: 20230236415
    Abstract: According to examples, a system for image generation and delivery in a display device using two-dimensional (2D) field of view (FOV) expander is described. In addition, the system may include a first lens a first lens assembly having a first projector to propagate first display light associated with a first image and a first two-dimensional (2D) expander including a first waveguide for propagating the first display light to a first eye of a user and a second lens assembly having a second projector to propagate second display light associated with a second image and a second two-dimensional (2D) expander having a second waveguide for propagating the second display light to a first eye of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yang YANG, Wai Sze Tiffany LAM, Dominic MEISER, Wanli CHI
  • Patent number: 11709358
    Abstract: A waveguide display includes a waveguide and a staircase structure coupled to the waveguide. The waveguide includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a holographic material layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The holographic material layer includes a first grating and a second grating. The staircase structure is positioned on top of at least a portion of the first grating but not on top of the second grating. The staircase structure includes an input grating that is on top of the first grating and is configured to couple display light into the waveguide. The first grating is configured to redirect the display light coupled into the waveguide by the input grating towards the second grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Yang Yang, Wanli Chi, Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Dominic Meiser
  • Publication number: 20230213772
    Abstract: According to examples, a display system may include a disparity sensing detector, collection optics, and a first lens assembly. The first lens assembly may include a first projector to output a first display light associated with a first image and a first waveguide for propagating the first display light to the collection optics, in which the collection optics is to direct the first display light to the disparity sensing detector. The display system may also include a second lens assembly including a second projector to output a second display light associated with a second image and a second waveguide for propagating the second display light to the collection optics, in which the collection optics is to direct the second display light to the disparity sensing detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Yang Yang, Dominic Meiser, Wanli Chi
  • Publication number: 20230213761
    Abstract: According to examples, a display system may include a wearable eyewear arrangement that may include a lens assembly having a projector to propagate display light associated with an image. The lens assembly may also include a waveguide for propagating the display light to an eyebox, in which the waveguide may include a plurality of gratings through which the first display light is sequentially propagated and in which at least one of the plurality of gratings is oriented to propagate the display light to a next grating while reducing an appearance of a ghost image of the image on the eyebox.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wai Sze Tiffany LAM, Yang Yang, Dominic Meiser, Wanli Chi
  • Publication number: 20230209032
    Abstract: According to examples, a system for detection, analysis and correction of disparities in display systems utilizing one or more disparity sensing port is described. The system may include a processor and a memory storing instructions. In addition, the system may include a first lens including a first waveguide for displaying a first image and a second lens including a second waveguide for displaying a second image. Furthermore, the system may include a first projector associated with the first lens to propagate first display light associated with the first image, a second projector associated with the second lens to propagate second display light associated with the second image and a disparity sensing port to receive the first display light and the second display light to determine a disparity associated with the first image and the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yang YANG, Wai Sze Tiffany LAM, Dominic MEISER, Wanli CHI
  • Patent number: 11624926
    Abstract: According to examples, a display system may include a disparity sensing detector, collection optics, and a first lens assembly. The first lens assembly may include a first projector to output a first display light associated with a first image and a first waveguide for propagating the first display light to the collection optics, in which the collection optics is to direct the first display light to the disparity sensing detector. The display system may also include a second lens assembly including a second projector to output a second display light associated with a second image and a second waveguide for propagating the second display light to the collection optics, in which the collection optics is to direct the second display light to the disparity sensing detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Yang Yang, Dominic Meiser, Wanli Chi
  • Patent number: 11624917
    Abstract: A waveguide display includes a waveguide and a grating coupler configured to couple display light into or out of the waveguide. The grating coupler includes at least a first grating layer and a second grating layer arranged in a stack. The first grating layer is characterized by a first thickness and includes a first transmission VBG configured to diffract display light of a first wavelength from a first field of view. The second grating layer is characterized by a second thickness greater than the first thickness and includes a second transmission VBG configured to diffract display light of the first wavelength from a second field of view greater than the first field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Wanli Chi, Dominic Meiser, Yang Yang, Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Pasi Saarikko
  • Publication number: 20220291437
    Abstract: A waveguide display includes a first waveguide, a second waveguide, a spacer between the first waveguide and the second waveguide, and a light redirecting or absorbing structure on at least one surface of the first waveguide and/or at least one surface of the second waveguide. The first waveguide includes a first grating configured to couple a first portion of display light into the first waveguide and towards a second grating of the first waveguide. The second waveguide includes a third grating aligned with the first grating and configured to couple a second portion of the display light into the second waveguide and towards a fourth grating of the second waveguide. The light redirecting or absorbing structure is configured to absorb or redirect incident light from a first angular range towards an edge of the waveguide display, without altering incident light from other angular ranges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Wai Sze Tiffany LAM, Yang YANG, Wanli CHI, Dominic MEISER
  • Publication number: 20220269075
    Abstract: A waveguide display includes a waveguide and a staircase structure coupled to the waveguide. The waveguide includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a holographic material layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The holographic material layer includes a first grating and a second grating. The staircase structure is positioned on top of at least a portion of the first grating but not on top of the second grating. The staircase structure includes an input grating that is on top of the first grating and is configured to couple display light into the waveguide. The first grating is configured to redirect the display light coupled into the waveguide by the input grating towards the second grating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Yang YANG, Wanli CHI, Wai Sze Tiffany LAM, Dominic MEISER
  • Publication number: 20220269076
    Abstract: A waveguide display includes a waveguide, three input gratings configured to couple display light in different respective colors into the waveguide, one or more first middle gratings configured to receive and redirect the display light from the three input gratings, a second middle grating configured to diffract, at two or more regions of the second middle grating, the display light from the one or more first middle gratings, and an output grating configured to couple the display light from each of the two or more regions of the second middle grating out of the waveguide at two or more regions of the output grating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Yang YANG, Wanli CHI, Wai Sze Tiffany LAM, Dominic MEISER
  • Publication number: 20220260836
    Abstract: A waveguide display includes a plurality of grating layers, the plurality of grating layers characterized by two or more different base refractive indices and including a set of volume Bragg gratings (VBGs). Each VBG of the set of VBGs is configured to diffract display light in a different respective field-of-view (FOV) and wavelength range. The set of VBGs includes a plurality of groups of VBGs. VBGs in each respective group of the plurality of groups of VBGs are characterized by a same grating period and include at least one VBG in each grating layer of the plurality of grating layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Wanli CHI, Yang YANG, Wai Sze Tiffany LAM, Dominic MEISER