Abstract: A method for controlling a near eye display system, includes determining a target area of a display of the near eye display system, the target area of the display being an area that a user wearing the near eye display system is looking at, and controlling a brightness of the target area of the display of the near eye display system to be different from a brightness of a non-target area of the display of the near eye display system, to cause a diameter of a pupil of the user to be less than or equal to a diameter threshold.

Abstract: An optical lens assembly for a near-eye display device includes a light box and a diffractive optical element (DOE). The light box has a first layer facing a display screen of the near-eye display device and a second layer facing the DOE. The light box is configured to receive a first light from a display screen of the near-eye display device and transmit at least a portion of the first light to the DOE through a folded optical path, where the first layer and the second layer are flat. The DOE aligned with an optical axis of an eye and is configured to receive a second light from the light box and converge the second light to the eye.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide an optical system. The optical system includes a first lens, a second lens, and a vision correction adapter. The first lens includes a first optically transparent member having a first surface and a second surface. A second lens includes a second optically transparent member having a third surface and a fourth surface. The vision correction adapter is positioned between the first lens and the second lens. The first lens and the second lens are spaced apart by a thickness of the vision correction adapter, and the thickness of the vision correction adapter is selected to correct for one of nearsightedness or farsightedness. A center region of the vision correction adapter includes an opening.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide an optical system. The optical system includes a polarization controller that controls polarization states of light beams such that a polarization state of each light beam passing through the polarization controller has one of a first polarization state and a second polarization state. The optical system includes a beam splitter, a reflective polarizer, and one or more lenses between the beam splitter and the reflective polarizer. If a polarization state of a first light beam of the light beams that passes through the polarization controller has the first polarization state, the first light beam passes the one or more lenses only one time. If a polarization state of a second light beam of the light beams that passes through the polarization controller has the second polarization state, the second light beam passes the one or more lenses more than one time.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide an optical system that includes a first lens including a first optically transparent member having a first surface and a second surface and a reflective polarizer on the first surface. The first surface of the first lens includes a first region and a second region, the first region of the first surface is smooth and at a center of the first surface, and the second region of the first surface includes a Fresnel structure and surrounds the first region. The reflective polarizer includes a first region and a second region, the first region of the reflective polarizer matches a profile of the first region of the first surface of the first lens, and the second region of the reflective polarizer matches a profile of the second region of the first surface of the first lens.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide an achromatic lens. The achromatic lens can include a first lens and a second lens. The first lens with a negative focal length includes a first optically transparent member having a first surface and a second surface. The second lens is attached to the first lens at the second surface. The second lens having a positive focal length includes a second optically transparent member having a third surface and a fourth surface. A second chromatic aberration of the second lens is reduced by a first chromatic aberration of the first lens. The second surface of the first lens includes a first Fresnel structure.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a first lens. The first lens can include an optically transparent member having a first surface and a second surface. The optically transparent member can be configured to receive light from a display device via the first surface. The received light exits the optically transparent member through the second surface. The first surface and the second surface of the optically transparent member can be aspheric. An in inner surface of the first surface is convex, and an outer surface of the first surface is concave. The inner surface is surrounded by the outer surface of the first surface. A thickness of a central region of the first lens can decrease from a center of the first lens, and a thickness of a peripheral region of the first lens can increase from a boundary of the central region.

Abstract: A method for controlling a near eye display system, includes determining a target area of a display of the near eye display system, the target area of the display being an area that a user wearing the near eye display system is looking at, and controlling a brightness of the target area of the display of the near eye display system to be different from a brightness of a non-target area of the display of the near eye display system, to cause a diameter of a pupil of the user to be less than or equal to a diameter threshold.

Abstract: A near eye display system includes a display block, a shift block and a controller. The display block includes a display panel and one or more optical elements that direct light beams generated by the display panel to an image receiver to perceive an image displayed by the display panel as a virtual image. The shift block applies a spatial pixel shift adjustment to the virtual image. The controller provides a first image to the display block with a first spatial pixel shift adjustment, and provides a second image to the display block with a second spatial pixel shift adjustment. The first spatial pixel shift adjustment causes the first image being perceived as a first virtual image at first pixel locations, the second spatial pixel shift adjustment causes the second image being perceived as a second virtual image at second pixel locations that are shifted from the first pixel locations.

Abstract: An optical lens assembly for a near-eye display device includes a light box and a diffractive optical element (DOE). The light box has a first layer facing a display screen of the near-eye display device and a second layer facing the DOE. The light box is configured to receive a first light from a display screen of the near-eye display device and transmit at least a portion of the first light to the DOE through a folded optical path, where the first layer and the second layer are flat. The DOE aligned with an optical axis of an eye and is configured to receive a second light from the light box and converge the second light to the eye.

Abstract: A method for controlling a near eye display system, includes obtaining an eye movement of a user wearing the near eye display system using an eye tracking sensor of the near eye display system, determining a target area of a display of the near eye display system based on the eye movement of the user, the target area of the display being an area that the user is looking at, and controlling a brightness of the target area of the display of the near eye display system to cause a size of a pupil of the user to be in a predetermined range.

Abstract: In particular embodiments, a computing system may receive an image to be shown on a display having a plurality of backlight zones. The computing system may compute a backlight matrix for adjusting brightness levels of the backlight zones of the display by computing, for each of the backlight zones, a zone statistic to represent grayscale levels of a portion of the image within the backlight zone, mapping the zone statistic of each of the backlight zones to a brightness value using a particular mapping technique configured to adjust any of the backlight zones having a zone statistic that is below a predetermined threshold, and generating the backlight matrix by filtering the brightness values. The computing system may instruct the display to output the image and adjust the backlight zones based on the backlight matrix.

Abstract: Ghost image formation due to reflections of image light by a display panel to an ocular lens may be suppressed by ensuring that the image light reflected by the lens does not get reflected by the display panel back towards the lens. To that end, the display panel may include a quarter-wave birefringent layer between the top polarizer of the display panel and a layer inside the display panel that the image light reflects from, such as a black grid layer or an active matrix layer.

Abstract: Ghost image formation due to reflections of image light by a display panel to an ocular lens may be suppressed by ensuring that the image light reflected by the lens does not get reflected by the display panel back towards the lens. To that end, the display panel may include a quarter-wave birefringent layer between the top polarizer of the display panel and a layer inside the display panel that the image light reflects from, such as a black grid layer or an active matrix layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device including an LCD panel and a backlight. The backlight includes a plurality of light sources to emit light, and a reflective stack. The reflective stack is positioned to receive light emitted from the light sources and transmit the light to the LCD panel. The reflective stack includes optical elements providing a folded beam path for the light emitted from the light sources to the LCD panel. The light emitted from the light sources is diffused while propagating towards and away from the LCD panel along the folded beam path. The folded beam path has an optical distance that is longer than the spatial distance between the light sources and the LCD panel to improve light diffusion by the backlight without substantially increasing backlight thickness.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device including a backlight with an LED assembly. The LED assembly includes a dichroic combiner and two or more different color LEDs. A substrate of the dichroic combiner receives color light from multiple color LEDs at different input regions and propagating in different directions. Dielectric layers within the substrate selectively reflect or transmit the color light to spatially superimpose the color light, and output the color light in a particular direction at a light output region of the substrate. The light output regions of LED assemblies are arranged behind an LCD panel, along one or more edges, to illuminate the LCD panel. The LED assembly provides edge-lighting without requiring LED placement along the one or more edges.

Abstract: A lens includes immobilized liquid crystals. The liquid crystals in a first region are aligned in a first orientation. The liquid crystals in a second region, located between the first region and a third region and adjacent to the first region and the third region, are aligned in a second orientation that is distinct from the first orientation. The liquid crystals in the third region, located between the second region and a fourth region and adjacent to the second region and the fourth region, are aligned in the first orientation. The liquid crystals in the fourth region, located adjacent to the third region, are aligned in the second orientation. A device with the lens and an array of light emitting devices is also disclosed.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device including an LCD panel and a backlight. The backlight includes a plurality of light sources to emit light, and a reflective stack. The reflective stack is positioned to receive light emitted from the light sources and transmit the light to the LCD panel. The reflective stack includes optical elements providing a folded beam path for the light emitted from the light sources to the LCD panel. The light emitted from the light sources is diffused while propagating towards and away from the LCD panel along the folded beam path. The folded beam path has an optical distance that is longer than the spatial distance between the light sources and the LCD panel to improve light diffusion by the backlight without substantially increasing backlight thickness.

Abstract: A display device includes a liquid crystal layer and a backlight. The liquid crystal layer includes a first liquid crystal portion including a first plurality of pixels, and a second liquid crystal portion including a second plurality of pixels. The backlight includes a first backlight unit corresponding to the first liquid crystal portion, and a second backlight unit corresponding to the second liquid crystal portion. Each backlight unit includes one or more light sources, and a light guide for guiding light generated by the one or more light sources to a respective liquid crystal portion.

Abstract: A head mounted display system includes a display device and an eyetracking device. The display device includes a liquid crystal (LC) panel comprising a plurality of rows of pixels, a back light unit (BLU), and a data driver. The BLU emits light during an illumination period of a frame period from an illumination start time and does not emit light for a remaining portion of the frame period. The eyetracking device determines an eye gaze area of a user in a pixel area of the display device. The illumination start time varies based on a location of the eye gaze area of the user. Liquid crystal material in a row of pixels of the LC panel outside the eye gaze area of the user transitions during the illumination period.