Patents by Inventor Edouard Schmidtlin

Edouard Schmidtlin 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: 11762065
    Abstract: Embodiments discussed herein refer to generating multiple laser beams from a single beam source. Single source multi-beam splitters can produce multiple beams from a single source, precisely control the exit angle of each beam, and ensure that each beam has substantially the same intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Innovusion, Inc.
    Inventors: Edouard Schmidtlin, Rui Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230013992
    Abstract: Embodiments discussed herein refer to generating multiple laser beams from a single beam source. Single source multi-beam splitters can produce multiple beams from a single source, precisely control the exit angle of each beam, and ensure that each beam has substantially the same intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Innovusion, Inc.
    Inventors: Edouard Schmidtlin, Rui Zhang
  • Patent number: 11486970
    Abstract: Embodiments discussed herein refer to generating multiple laser beams from a single beam source. Single source multi-beam splitters can produce multiple beams from a single source, precisely control the exit angle of each beam, and ensure that each beam has substantially the same intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Innovusion, Inc.
    Inventors: Edouard Schmidtlin, Rui Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190271844
    Abstract: An eyepiece for a head wearable display includes a lightguide component for guiding display light and emitting the display light along at a viewing region. The light guide component includes an input surface oriented to receive the display light into the lightguide component at the peripheral location, a first folding surface disposed to reflect the display light received through the input surface, a second folding surface disposed to reflect the display light received from the first folding surface, an eye-ward facing surface disposed opposite to the second folding surface to reflect the display light received from the second folding surface, and a curved reflective surface having reflective optical power disposed at the viewing region to receive the display light reflected from the eye-ward facing surface and to reflect the display light for emission out through the eye-ward facing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Bernard C. Kress, Ehsan Saeedi, Adam E. Norton, Edouard Schmidtlin
  • Patent number: 10061062
    Abstract: A magnification device includes a two-dimensional array of lens assemblies. The two-dimensional array of lens assemblies includes a first group of multiple lens assemblies of a first magnification and a second group of multiple lens assemblies of a second magnification that is distinct from the first magnification. The first group of multiple lens assemblies of the first magnification includes a first lens assembly and a second lens assembly. The second group of multiple lens assemblies of the second magnification includes a third lens assembly and a fourth lens assembly. Each of the first lens assembly, the second lens assembly, the third lens assembly, and the fourth lens assembly includes two or more lenses. The device also includes a spatial light modulator configured to selectively reduce transmission of light for the two-dimensional array of lens assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: OCULUS VR, LLC
    Inventor: Edouard Schmidtlin
  • Patent number: 10042165
    Abstract: A display device includes a two-dimensional array of tiles. Each tile includes a two-dimensional array of pixels, and a lens assembly, of a two-dimensional array of lens assemblies, configured to direct at least a portion of the respective pattern of light from the two-dimensional array of pixels to a pupil of an eye of a user. Each pixel is configured to output light so that the two-dimensional array of pixels outputs a respective pattern of light. The lens assembly includes multiple distinct optical elements, such as one or more lenses and/or one or more diffraction gratings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: OCULUS VR, LLC
    Inventors: Mary Lou Jepsen, Edouard Schmidtlin
  • Patent number: 10022187
    Abstract: An optical light scanning probe is presented, the probe comprising a handle, shaped for grasping by a user; a cannula, protruding from a distal portion of the handle with an outer diameter smaller than 20 gauge; an optical fiber with a distal fiber-portion off a probe-axis, configured to receive a light from a light-source at a proximal fiber-portion, and to emit the received light at the distal fiber-portion; a fixed beam forming unit, disposed at a distal portion of the cannula, configured to receive the light from the distal fiber-portion, and to deflect the received light toward a target region; and a fiber actuator, housed at least partially in the handle, configured to move the distal fiber-portion to scan the deflected light along a scanning curve in the target region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Kambiz Parto, Barry Wheatley, Edouard Schmidtlin, Tammo Heeren, Mauricio Jochinsen, Lingfeng Yu
  • Patent number: 9915823
    Abstract: An eyepiece for a head wearable display includes a lightguide component for guiding display light and emitting the display light along at a viewing region. The light guide component includes an input surface oriented to receive the display light into the lightguide component at the peripheral location, a first folding surface disposed to reflect the display light received through the input surface, a second folding surface disposed to reflect the display light received from the first folding surface, an eye-ward facing surface disposed opposite to the second folding surface to reflect the display light received from the second folding surface, and a curved reflective surface having reflective optical power disposed at the viewing region to receive the display light reflected from the eye-ward facing surface and to reflect the display light for emission out through the eye-ward facing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Bernard C. Kress, Ehsan Saeedi, Adam E. Norton, Edouard Schmidtlin
  • Publication number: 20170115432
    Abstract: A magnification device includes a two-dimensional array of lens assemblies. The two-dimensional array of lens assemblies includes a first group of multiple lens assemblies of a first magnification and a second group of multiple lens assemblies of a second magnification that is distinct from the first magnification. The first group of multiple lens assemblies of the first magnification includes a first lens assembly and a second lens assembly. The second group of multiple lens assemblies of the second magnification includes a third lens assembly and a fourth lens assembly. Each of the first lens assembly, the second lens assembly, the third lens assembly, and the fourth lens assembly includes two or more lenses. The device also includes a spatial light modulator configured to selectively reduce transmission of light for the two-dimensional array of lens assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventor: Edouard Schmidtlin
  • Publication number: 20170039905
    Abstract: A display device includes a two-dimensional array of tiles. Each tile includes a two-dimensional array of pixels, and a lens assembly, of a two-dimensional array of lens assemblies, configured to direct at least a portion of the respective pattern of light from the two-dimensional array of pixels to a pupil of an eye of a user. Each pixel is configured to output light so that the two-dimensional array of pixels outputs a respective pattern of light. The lens assembly includes multiple distinct optical elements, such as one or more lenses and/or one or more diffraction gratings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Mary Lou Jepsen, Edouard Schmidtlin
  • Publication number: 20150173622
    Abstract: An optical light scanning probe is presented, the probe comprising a handle, shaped for grasping by a user; a cannula, protruding from a distal portion of the handle with an outer diameter smaller than 20 gauge; an optical fiber with a distal fiber-portion off a probe-axis, configured to receive a light from a light-source at a proximal fiber-portion, and to emit the received light at the distal fiber-portion; a fixed beam forming unit, disposed at a distal portion of the cannula, configured to receive the light from the distal fiber-portion, and to deflect the received light toward a target region; and a fiber actuator, housed at least partially in the handle, configured to move the distal fiber-portion to scan the deflected light along a scanning curve in the target region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Kambiz Parto, Barry Wheatley, Edouard Schmidtlin, Tammo Heeren, Mauricio Jochinsen, Lingfeng Yu