Patents by Inventor Jasmine Soria Sears
Jasmine Soria Sears 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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Publication number: 20230028165Abstract: A headset for augmented reality applications is provided. The headset includes at least one eyepiece configured to provide a see-through image to a user via a transparent optical component, and to provide an artificial image through a display, and a dimming shutter configured to adjust a transparency level of the transparent optical component. The dimming shutter further includes an active liquid crystal layer configured to adjust a transparency level according to an electrical power provided between two electrodes, and a photoactive layer configured to adjust the transparency level upon absorption of an ultraviolet radiation for a selected period of time. A default orientation of a host material in the active liquid crystal layer may be in a dark state or in a clear state, when no electrical power is provided. A method and a memory storing instructions to execute the method for use of the above device are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Inventors: Jasmine Soria Sears, Afsoon Jamali
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Patent number: 11543570Abstract: An optical dimming device is provided. The optical dimming device includes a photochromic element including a photochromic composition. The photochromic composition includes a combination of a first photochromic material and a second photochromic material having different steady-state absorption profiles. In a direction from a first portion to a second portion of the photochromic element, a concentration of the first photochromic material in the combination decreases and a concentration of the second photochromic material in the combination increases.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Jasmine Soria Sears, John Goward, Nathan Matsuda
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Publication number: 20220398953Abstract: A device includes a display including multiple pixels, each pixel having an optical emitter to provide at least one light beam from an image. The device also includes an optical element to relay light beams from the display to a viewer through an eyebox, the eyebox limiting an area that includes a pupil of the viewer and a varifocal assembly to direct, through the eyebox, light beams having a first and second mutually orthogonal polarization states, according to a desired mode of operation of the device, and associated with a first and second field of view of the image in a focused mode of operation of the device, and an immersive mode of operation of the device, respectively. A memory storing instructions and a processor to execute the instructions to cause the device to perform a method for adjusting between the immersive mode and the focused mode are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Inventors: Jasmine Soria Sears, Afsoon Jamali
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Patent number: 11435641Abstract: A switchable optical retardation device includes a switchable retardation element including liquid crystals and an electrical driver circuit. While in a first state, the switchable retardation element modifies light transmitted through the switchable retardation element by causing a phase shift of a first retardation angle. While in a second state, the switchable retardation element modifies the light transmitted through the switchable retardation element by causing a phase shift of a second retardation angle distinct from the first retardation angle. The electrical driver circuit provides a first voltage for placing the switchable retardation element in the first state and a second voltage for placing the switchable retardation element in the second state. The first voltage is greater than the second voltage, the second voltage is a non-zero voltage, and the electrical driver circuit alternatingly provides the first voltage and the second voltage with a predefined frequency.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Afsoon Jamali, Arman Boromand, Jasmine Soria Sears, Sandro Pintz
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Patent number: 11428977Abstract: A configurable occluder/dimmer for a near-eye display includes an array of polarization rotators and a polarization-selective scatterer downstream of the array of polarization rotators. The array of rotators and the polarization-selective scatterer are disposed between a pair of polarizers. The polarization-selective scatterer only scatters light at one of two orthogonal polarizations, thereby enhancing the achieved extinction ratio of the configurable occluder/dimmer. The configurable occluder/dimmer may be used in the near-eye display to provide occlusion effects rendering added virtual objects opaque, and/or to equalize contrast of the generated virtual imagery across the field of view of the display.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies LLCInventors: Nathan Matsuda, Douglas Robert Lanman, Afsoon Jamali, Jasmine Soria Sears, Oleg Yaroshchuk, Alireza Moheghi
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Patent number: 11422390Abstract: A device includes an optical assembly and a digital projector. The optical assembly is configured to receive visible scene light at a backside of the optical assembly and to direct the visible scene light on an optical path toward an eyeward side. The optical assembly includes a dimming layer disposed on the optical path. The dimming layer includes a photochromic material that is configured to darken in response to exposure to a range of light wavelengths. The digital projector is disposed on the eyeward side of the optical assembly and is configured to selectively emit an activation light within the range of light wavelengths to activate a darkening of a region of the dimming layer to dim the visible scene light within the region.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Matthieu Charles Raoul Leibovici, Jasmine Soria Sears, Christophe Antoine Hurni, Nathan Matsuda, Guohua Wei, Yu Shi, John Goward
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Patent number: 11423621Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing device may determine a virtual content to be displayed with a scene of a real-world environment. The device may generate an image depicting the virtual content. Using one or more sensors, the device may detect characteristics of the scene of the real-world environment. Based on the image and the characteristics of the scene, the device may determine that a visual enhancement is to be applied to the virtual content depicted in the image to enhance a contrast between the depicted virtual content and the scene. The device may generate a visually-enhanced image depicting the virtual content by applying the visual enhancement to the virtual content depicted in the image. The device may display the visually-enhanced image of the virtual content on a display of the computing device, wherein the scene of the real-world environment is visible through the display.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC.Inventors: Charlene Mary Atlas, Romain Bachy, Kevin James MacKenzie, Nathan Matsuda, Thomas Scott Murdison, Ocean Quigley, Jasmine Soria Sears
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Publication number: 20220230352Abstract: One embodiment is directed to controlling a computing system based on an interpreted user intention. Another embodiment is directed to generating a smoothed position of a feature based upon detected and reprojected positions of the feature. Another embodiment is directed to performing one or more image treatments on a facial region of a user until the perceived SQS satisfies the predetermined target SQS. Another embodiment is directed to video conferencing monitoring the quality of video feed coming from the participants of the video conferencing and creating an image or video from the feed when that participant's feed is good and replacing the live video with the newly created good quality image or video when the feed is bad. Another embodiment is directed to a process of baked triplanar projection using triangles generated from a tessellation, where the baked triplanar projection can generate a 2D mesh including UV coordinates.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2022Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Mahdi Salmani Rahimi, Yu Mao, Zhiqing Rao, Charlene Mary Atlas, Jasmine Soria Sears, Ocean Quigley, Romain Bachy, Yehezkel Shraga Resheff, Michal Rosen, Michael Bunnell, Bret Hobbs
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Publication number: 20220221754Abstract: An optical element includes a first boundary layer and a second boundary layer. A solution is disposed between the first boundary layer and the second boundary layer. The solution includes liquid crystals co-mingled with oblong photochromic dye molecules. The photochromic dye molecules are matched to the liquid crystals to offset a decrease in absorption of the photochromic dye molecules in response to a temperature increase of the photochromic dye molecules.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2022Publication date: July 14, 2022Inventors: Jasmine Soria Sears, Afsoon Jamali, Yun-Han Lee
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Publication number: 20220197061Abstract: An optical element includes a first layer, a second layer, and a fluid. A first surface of the first layer is configured to change hydrophobicity in response to incoming activation light. Absorbing molecules in the fluid are repelled or attracted to the first surface in response to the hydrophobicity of the first surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Jasmine Soria Sears, Christopher Andrew Galea, Junren Wang, Stephen John Holmes
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Publication number: 20220163826Abstract: A device includes a polarization rotator configured to be switchable between operating in two switching states. The device also includes a controller configured to control the polarization rotator to switch between operating in the two switching states at a predetermined switching frequency, to thereby switch, a polarization of a component of an input light having an initial light intensity, between two orthogonal polarizations at the predetermined switching frequency. The device also includes a polarizer coupled with the polarization rotator, and configured to convert the input light transmitted through the polarization rotator into an output light having a light intensity reduced to a predetermined percentage of the initial light intensity of the input light.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2022Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventors: Jasmine Soria SEARS, Afsoon JAMALI, Gareth VALENTINE, Nathan MATSUDA
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Patent number: 11320684Abstract: An optical element includes a first boundary layer and a second boundary layer. A solution is disposed between the first boundary layer and the second boundary layer. The solution includes liquid crystals co-mingled with oblong photochromic dye molecules.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Jasmine Soria Sears, Afsoon Jamali, Yun-Han Lee
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Patent number: 11281031Abstract: An optical dimming device includes at least one polarization rotator configured to switch a polarization of a linearly polarized component of an incoming light between two orthogonal polarizations. The optical dimming device also includes at least one polarizer coupled with the at least one polarization rotator, and configured to output a light having a light intensity reduced to a predetermined percentage of an initial light intensity of the incoming light. The predetermined percentage is substantially the same for different incoming lights having different initial polarizations.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Jasmine Soria Sears, Afsoon Jamali, Gareth Valentine, Nathan Matsuda
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Patent number: 11262584Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a first emission region and one or more second emission regions disposed adjacent to the first emission region. The display device includes a plurality of light emitters, arranged in the first emission region, corresponding to a first color gamut and a plurality of light emitters, arranged in the one or more second emission regions, corresponding to a second color gamut that is distinct from the first color gamut. A method for making a display device with a plurality of light emitters corresponding to a first color gamut in a first emission region and a plurality of light emitters corresponding to a second color gamut in a second emission region is also described.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Andrew John Ouderkirk, James Hillis, Marina Zannoli, Jasmine Soria Sears, James Ronald Bonar, Gareth Valentine, Barry David Silverstein, Warren Andrew Hunt
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Publication number: 20220011587Abstract: An optical element includes a metal layer and a transparent conductor layer. Strips of the metal layers extend and curl based on a switching signal driven onto the transparent conductor layer that controls a polarization attenuation of the optical element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Jasmine Soria Sears, Christopher Andrew Galea
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Patent number: 11209676Abstract: An optical assembly is configured to receive visible scene light at a backside of the optical assembly and to direct the visible scene light on an optical path toward the eyeward side. The optical assembly also includes a dimming layer disposed on the optical path, where the dimming layer includes a photochromic material that is configured to darken in response to exposure to a range of light wavelengths. An activation layer, included in the optical assembly, is also disposed on the optical path and includes an in-field dimmer. The in-field dimmer is configured to selectively emit an activation light within the range of light wavelengths to activate a darkening of a region of the dimming layer to dim the visible scene light within the region.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Matthieu Charles Raoul Leibovici, Jasmine Soria Sears, Christophe Antoine Hurni, Nathan Matsuda, Guohua Wei, Yu Shi, John Goward
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Patent number: 11176860Abstract: A method for transferring an image to a subpixel array may include generating a set of subframes in which each subframe contains a fraction of the range of intensities of the image. The bit-depth of the subframes may be reduced from the bit-depth of the image. The computer-implemented method may include (1) receiving image data for an image including a set of intensities in one or more channels, (2) processing the image data into subframe data for a plurality of subframes, each subframe including a fractional range of intensities that are a subset of the set of intensities of the image, and (3) temporally multiplexing the plurality of subframes generated from the subframe data to reconstitute the image in a viewing region using an optical system having a light deviator that laterally shifts light from an emissive array. Various other apparatus, systems, and methods are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2020Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventor: Jasmine Soria Sears
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Publication number: 20210325696Abstract: A device includes an optical assembly and a digital projector. The optical assembly is configured to receive visible scene light at a backside of the optical assembly and to direct the visible scene light on an optical path toward an eyeward side. The optical assembly includes a dimming layer disposed on the optical path. The dimming layer includes a photochromic material that is configured to darken in response to exposure to a range of light wavelengths. The digital projector is disposed on the eyeward side of the optical assembly and is configured to selectively emit an activation light within the range of light wavelengths to activate a darkening of a region of the dimming layer to dim the visible scene light within the region.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2020Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: MATTHIEU CHARLES RAOUL LEIBOVICI, JASMINE SORIA SEARS, CHRISTOPHE ANTOINE HURNI, NATHAN MATSUDA, GUOHUA WEI, Yu Shi, John Goward
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Publication number: 20210325699Abstract: An optical assembly is configured to receive visible scene light at a backside of the optical assembly and to direct the visible scene light on an optical path toward the eyeward side. The optical assembly also includes a dimming layer disposed on the optical path, where the dimming layer includes a photochromic material that is configured to darken in response to exposure to a range of light wavelengths. An activation layer, included in the optical assembly, is also disposed on the optical path and includes an in-field dimmer. The in-field dimmer is configured to selectively emit an activation light within the range of light wavelengths to activate a darkening of a region of the dimming layer to dim the visible scene light within the region.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2020Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: MATTHIEU CHARLES RAOUL LEIBOVICI, JASMINE SORIA SEARS, CHRISTOPHE ANTOINE HURNI, NATHAN MATSUDA, GUOHUA WEI, YU SHI, JOHN GOWARD
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Patent number: 11145631Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a first emission region and a second emission region that is distinct from and mutually exclusive to the first emission region and surrounds the first emission region. The display device includes a first plurality of light emitters arranged in the first emission region, a plurality of activation lines for the first emission region, a second plurality of light emitters arranged in the second emission region, and a plurality of activation lines for the second emission region. A single activation line of the plurality of activation lines for the first emission region is electrically coupled with a first number of light emitters in the first emission region and a single activation line of the plurality of activation lines for the second emission region is electrically coupled with a second number, distinct from the first number, of light emitters in the second emission region.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Andrew John Ouderkirk, James Ronald Bonar, Jasmine Soria Sears