Patents by Inventor Fu-Chung Huang
Fu-Chung Huang 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: 12293740Abstract: An electronic device may include a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. A plurality of lenticular lenses may extend across the length of the display. The lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display such that a viewer perceives three-dimensional images. Crosstalk between viewing zones and disparity between images received from different viewing zones may result in disparity-caused shifts in images perceived by viewer of the lenticular display. To mitigate these disparity-caused shifts, compensation circuitry may be included in the display pipeline circuitry. The compensation circuitry may include stored disparity-caused shift calibration information that is used for the compensation. The stored disparity-caused shift calibration information may be a polynomial function that outputs a magnitude of disparity-caused shift for a given pixel location.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ping-Yen Chou, ByoungSuk Kim, Fu-Chung Huang, Hao Chen, Juan He, Jun Qi, Mingming Wang, Sheng Zhang, Yang Li, Yi Huang, Yi-Pai Huang, Yunhui Hou
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Publication number: 20250020941Abstract: An electronic device may include a stereoscopic display that is configured to display three-dimensional content for a viewer. The stereoscopic display may include a lenticular lens film with lenticular lenses that extend across the length of the display and may be referred to as a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have convex curvature. The lenticular display may include a color filter layer with color filters and an opaque masking layer. The color filter layer may be interposed between the lenticular lens film and an array of display pixels for the display. The color filter layer may mitigate ghost image artifacts and reflections of ambient light. Microlenses may be included between the lenticular lens film and the array of display pixels to improve the efficiency of the display. The display may include a Fresnel lens layer. The lenticular lens film may include lenticular lenses having different shapes.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Inventors: Hao Chen, ByoungSuk Kim, Fu-Chung Huang, Juan He, Jun Qi, Ping-Yen Chou, Yi Huang, Yi-Pai Huang
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Publication number: 20240428502Abstract: An electronic device may include a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. The lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display such that a viewer perceives three-dimensional images. The display may render different content layers that present different classes of content. The different classes of content may have different characteristics. As an example, a first class of content may be static content whereas a second class of content may be dynamic content. The different characteristics of each class of content may be leveraged to use a hybrid approach for content processing. The hybrid content processing may take advantage of different layers needing to be updated at different frequencies and may take advantage of sparse content in some of the layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Inventors: Fu-Chung Huang, ByoungSuk Kim, Felipe Bacim De Araujo E Silva, Hao Chen, Igor Kozintsev, Pavel V Dudrenov, Ping-Yen Chou, Seung Wook Kim, Sheng Zhang, Victor H Yin, Wei H Yao, Wei Xiong, Yang Li, Yi Huang, Yi-Pai Huang, Justin A Meiners
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Publication number: 20240348767Abstract: A display may include an array of pixels covered by lenticular lenses. The lenticular lenses may cause expansion of light primarily in a horizontal direction. To improve the perceived resolution of the display, the horizontal resolution of the pixels on the display may be increased. In one possible layout, each pixel includes one red sub-pixel, one blue sub-pixel, and one green sub-pixel. The sub-pixels may be non-square rectangular. The sub-pixels may be the same size or may have the same widths and different heights. Each pixel may be asymmetric about a horizontal axis. In a given row, the pixels may alternate between first and second layouts. The second layout may be a vertically flipped version of the first layout.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2024Publication date: October 17, 2024Inventors: Ping-Yen Chou, ByoungSuk Kim, Cheng-Ho Yu, Fu-Chung Huang, Hao Chen, Juan He, Jun Qi, Manjap Singh, Xiaofeng Wang, Yang Li, Yi Huang, Yi-Pai Huang
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Publication number: 20240303768Abstract: An electronic device uses a multidimensional (e.g., 3D) scaler to process multiple-viewing-angle (e.g., 3D-aware) images by resampling each view image and processing image data of each view image according to a view map to change resolution or improve perceived image quality. After being processed, each view image of the multiple-viewing-angle image is used to rebuild a final processed multiple-viewing-angle (e.g., 3D-aware image) with all views for displaying on the electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Yang Li, ByoungSuk Kim, Fu-Chung Huang, Jun Qi, Sheng Zhang, Victor H. Yin, Wei H. Yao, Yi Huang, Yi-Pai Huang, Ping-Yen Chou
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Patent number: 11955038Abstract: An electronic device may include a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. The display may have a number of independently controllable viewing zones. Each viewing zone displays a respective two-dimensional image. Each eye of the viewer may receive a different one of the two-dimensional images, resulting in a perceived three-dimensional image. The electronic device may include display pipeline circuitry that generates and processes content to be displayed on the lenticular display. Content generating circuitry may generate content that includes a plurality of two-dimensional images, each two-dimensional image corresponding to a respective viewing zone. Pixel mapping circuitry may be used to map the two-dimensional images to the array of pixels in the lenticular display. The array of pixels may have a diagonal layout. An offset map may be used by the pixel mapping circuitry to account for the diagonal layout.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Chaohao Wang, Yi-Pai Huang, Yue Ma, Ping-Yen Chou, Fu-Chung Huang
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Publication number: 20240112628Abstract: An electronic device may include a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. A plurality of lenticular lenses may extend across the length of the display. The lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display such that a viewer perceives three-dimensional images. The display may have a number of independently controllable viewing zones. The viewer may be particularly susceptible to artifacts caused by crosstalk at the edge viewing zones within the primary field of view of the display. Certain types of content may also be more vulnerable to crosstalk than other types of content. Therefore, to mitigate crosstalk artifacts, the pixel value for each pixel may be adjusted based on the viewing zone of the respective pixel and content information (such as texture information or brightness information) associated with the respective pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Yunhui Hou, Yi-Pai Huang, Fu-Chung Huang, Sheng Zhang, Chaohao Wang, Ping-Yen Chou, Yi Huang, Juan He, Alfred B. Huergo Wagner, Seung Wook Kim
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Publication number: 20240031554Abstract: An electronic device may include a stereoscopic display with a plurality of lenticular lenses that extend across the length of the display. The lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display such that a viewer perceives three-dimensional images. The display may have different viewing zones that account for horizontal parallax as a viewer moves horizontally relative to the display. The display may be dimmed globally based on the detected vertical position of the viewer. The magnitude of dimming applied to the display may increase with increasing deviation of the viewer from a baseline viewing angle. The display may render content that compensates for the real-time vertical position of the viewer. Another option for the stereoscopic display is to include a lens film that has an array of lenses. Each lens in the array of lenses spreads light in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Yi-Pai Huang, Yang Li, Yi Huang, Pretesh A Mascarenhas, Menelik Baye Yimam, Guru Moorthy Ravi, Yunhui Hou, Fu-Chung Huang, Sheng Zhang
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Patent number: 11838495Abstract: An electronic device may provide visual content at a virtual image distance that is farther from a user than the physical distance of the device from the user. A display in the device may have a transmissive spatial light modulator and beam steering device that are illuminated by a plane wave illumination system to provide computer-generated hologram images, may have a waveguide-based system that ensures that image content is presented at a desired virtual image distance, or may be a light-field display. The display may be used to display a left image in a left eye box and a right image in a right eye box. When viewed from the eye boxes, the left and right images fuse and are visible at a virtual image distance that is farther from the user than the distance physically separating the eye boxes from the display.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bennett S. Wilburn, Eric J. Hansotte, Fu-Chung Huang, Jonathan C. Moisant-Thompson
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Patent number: 11747766Abstract: A method for rendering a light field comprises projecting rays from a viewpoint positioned at a first side of a spatial light modulator (SLM) to a clipping plane positioned at an opposing side of the SLM to form an elemental view frustum within a three-dimensional scene and rendering objects within the elemental view frustum to generate components of a first elemental image for the first elemental region. The SLM may include a tiled array of non-overlapping elemental regions and a top edge and a bottom edge of a first elemental region of the non-overlapping elemental regions are intersected by the rays to form the elemental view frustum. Furthermore, the light field may include the first elemental image and additional elemental images corresponding to the array of elemental regions and each one of the additional elemental images is rendered using an additional elemental view frustum.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: NVIDIA CorporationInventors: Fu-Chung Huang, Ward Lopes, Liang Shi
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Publication number: 20210181674Abstract: A method for rendering a light field comprises projecting rays from a viewpoint positioned at a first side of a spatial light modulator (SLM) to a clipping plane positioned at an opposing side of the SLM to form an elemental view frustum within a three-dimensional scene and rendering objects within the elemental view frustum to generate components of a first elemental image for the first elemental region. The SLM may include a tiled array of non-overlapping elemental regions and a top edge and a bottom edge of a first elemental region of the non-overlapping elemental regions are intersected by the rays to form the elemental view frustum. Furthermore, the light field may include the first elemental image and additional elemental images corresponding to the array of elemental regions and each one of the additional elemental images is rendered using an additional elemental view frustum.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2021Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Fu-Chung Huang, Ward Lopes, Liang Shi
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Patent number: 10969740Abstract: A method for rendering a light field comprises projecting rays from a viewpoint positioned at a first side of a spatial light modulator (SLM) to a clipping plane positioned at an opposing side of the SLM to form an elemental view frustum within a three-dimensional scene and rendering objects within the elemental view frustum to generate components of a first elemental image for the first elemental region. The SLM may include a tiled array of non-overlapping elemental regions and a top edge and a bottom edge of a first elemental region of the non-overlapping elemental regions are intersected by the rays to form the elemental view frustum. Furthermore, the light field may include the first elemental image and additional elemental images corresponding to the array of elemental regions and each one of the additional elemental images is rendered using an additional elemental view frustum.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2018Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: NVIDIA CorporationInventors: Liang Shi, Fu-Chung Huang, Ward Lopes
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Patent number: 10636336Abstract: A method, computer readable medium, and system are disclosed for generating mixed-primary data for display. The method includes the steps of receiving a source image that includes a plurality of pixels, dividing the source image into a plurality of blocks, analyzing the source image based on an image decomposition algorithm, encoding chroma information and modulation information to generate a video signal, and transmitting the video signal to a mixed-primary display. The chroma information and modulation information correspond with two or more mixed-primary color components and are generated by the image decomposition algorithm to minimize error between a reproduced image and the source image. The two or more mixed-primary colors selected for each block of the source image are not limited to any particular set of colors and each mixed-primary color component may be selected from any color capable of being reproduced by the mixed-primary display.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: NVIDIA CorporationInventors: Fu-Chung Huang, David Patrick Luebke, Jan Kautz, Dawid Stanislaw Pajak
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Publication number: 20200118252Abstract: Systems and methods for compensating for at least one optical aberration in a vision system of a viewer viewing a display. Image data for an image to be displayed is received, at least one parameter related to at least one optical aberration in the vision system of a viewer is received and an aberration compensated image to be displayed is computed based on the at least one received parameter related to the vision system of a viewer and on at least one characteristic of the light field element. The aberration compensated image is displayed on the display medium, such that when a viewer whose vision system has the at least one optical aberration views the aberration compensated image displayed on the display medium through a light field element, the aberration compensated image appears to the viewer with the at least one aberration reduced or eliminated.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Fu-Chung Huang, Gordon Wetzstein, Brian Barsky, Ramesh Raskar
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Patent number: 10529059Abstract: Systems and methods for compensating for at least one optical aberration in a vision system of a viewer viewing a display. Image data for an image to be displayed is received, at least one parameter related to at least one optical aberration in the vision system of a viewer is received and an aberration compensated image to be displayed is computed based on the at least one received parameter related to the vision system of a viewer and on at least one characteristic of the light field element. The aberration compensated image is displayed on the display medium, such that when a viewer whose vision system has the at least one optical aberration views the aberration compensated image displayed on the display medium through a light field element, the aberration compensated image appears to the viewer with the at least one aberration reduced or eliminated.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2015Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignees: The Regents of the University of California, The Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Fu-Chung Huang, Gordon Wetzstein, Brian Barsky, Ramesh Raskar
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Patent number: 10395624Abstract: A method, computer readable medium, and system are disclosed for adjusting an angular sampling rate during rendering. The method includes the steps of determining a location of a gaze within a displayed scene, and adjusting, during a rendering of the scene, an angular sampling rate used to render at least a portion of the scene, based on the location of the gaze within the displayed scene.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: NVIDIA CorporationInventors: Qi Sun, Fu-Chung Huang, Joohwan Kim, David Patrick Luebke
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Publication number: 20190156793Abstract: A method, computer readable medium, and system are disclosed for adjusting an angular sampling rate during rendering. The method includes the steps of determining a location of a gaze within a displayed scene, and adjusting, during a rendering of the scene, an angular sampling rate used to render at least a portion of the scene, based on the location of the gaze within the displayed scene.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2018Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: Qi Sun, Fu-Chung Huang, Joohwan Kim, David Patrick Luebke
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Publication number: 20180373200Abstract: A method for rendering a light field comprises projecting rays from a viewpoint positioned at a first side of a spatial light modulator (SLM) to a clipping plane positioned at an opposing side of the SLM to form an elemental view frustum within a three-dimensional scene and rendering objects within the elemental view frustum to generate components of a first elemental image for the first elemental region. The SLM may include a tiled array of non-overlapping elemental regions and a top edge and a bottom edge of a first elemental region of the non-overlapping elemental regions are intersected by the rays to form the elemental view frustum. Furthermore, the light field may include the first elemental image and additional elemental images corresponding to the array of elemental regions and each one of the additional elemental images is rendered using an additional elemental view frustum.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2018Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Liang Shi, Fu-Chung Huang, Ward Lopes
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Publication number: 20160307482Abstract: A method, computer readable medium, and system are disclosed for generating mixed-primary data for display. The method includes the steps of receiving a source image that includes a plurality of pixels, dividing the source image into a plurality of blocks, analyzing the source image based on an image decomposition algorithm, encoding chroma information and modulation information to generate a video signal, and transmitting the video signal to a mixed-primary display. The chroma information and modulation information correspond with two or more mixed-primary color components and are generated by the image decomposition algorithm to minimize error between a reproduced image and the source image. The two or more mixed-primary colors selected for each block of the source image are not limited to any particular set of colors and each mixed-primary color component may be selected from any color capable of being reproduced by the mixed-primary display.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2016Publication date: October 20, 2016Inventors: Fu-Chung Huang, David Patrick Luebke, Jan Kautz, Dawid Stanislaw Pajak
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Publication number: 20160042501Abstract: Systems and methods for compensating for at least one optical aberration in a vision system of a viewer viewing a display. Image data for an image to be displayed is received, at least one parameter related to at least one optical aberration in the vision system of a viewer is received and an aberration compensated image to be displayed is computed based on the at least one received parameter related to the vision system of a viewer and on at least one characteristic of the light field element. The aberration compensated image is displayed on the display medium, such that when a viewer whose vision system has the at least one optical aberration views the aberration compensated image displayed on the display medium through a light field element, the aberration compensated image appears to the viewer with the at least one aberration reduced or eliminated.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventors: Fu-Chung Huang, Gordon Wetzstein, Brian Barsky, Ramesh Raskar