Patents by Inventor Joel Hegland

Joel Hegland 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).

  • Publication number: 20230362348
    Abstract: A device for providing a reverse pass-through view of a user of a headset display to an onlooker includes an eyepiece comprising an optical surface configured to provide an image to a user on a first side of the optical surface. The device also includes a first camera configured to collect an image of a portion of a face of the user reflected from the optical surface in a first field of view, a display adjacent to the optical surface and configured to project forward an image of the face of the user, and a screen configured to receive light from the display and provide the image of the face of the user to an onlooker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Nathan Matsuda, Brian Wheelwright, Joel Hegland
  • Patent number: 11736679
    Abstract: A device for providing a reverse pass-through view of a user of a headset display to an onlooker includes an eyepiece comprising an optical surface configured to provide an image to a user on a first side of the optical surface. The device also includes a first camera configured to collect an image of a portion of a face of the user reflected from the optical surface in a first field of view, a display adjacent to the optical surface and configured to project forward an image of the face of the user, and a screen configured to receive light from the display and provide the image of the face of the user to an onlooker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nathan Matsuda, Brian Wheelwright, Joel Hegland
  • Publication number: 20230239456
    Abstract: According to examples, a display system may include a head-mounted display (HMD) headset. The HMD may comprise at least one exterior-facing RBG camera mounted on a front face of the HMD and on a same visual plane of a user's eye. The at least one exterior-facing RBG camera may collects images for view synthesis. The HMD may include a processor, and a memory storing instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to provide view synthesis in accordance with a machine-learning (ML) based technique comprising at least one of the following: depth estimation, imaging to sharpening, forward splatting, disocclusion filtering, or fusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC.
    Inventors: Lei XIAO, Salah Eddine Nouri, Joel Hegland, Douglas Robert Lanman
  • Publication number: 20220239893
    Abstract: A device for providing a reverse pass-through view of a user of a headset display to an onlooker includes an eyepiece comprising an optical surface configured to provide an image to a user on a first side of the optical surface. The device also includes a first camera configured to collect an image of a portion of a face of the user reflected from the optical surface in a first field of view, a display adjacent to the optical surface and configured to project forward an image of the face of the user, and a screen configured to receive light from the display and provide the image of the face of the user to an onlooker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Nathan Matsuda, Brian Wheelwright, Joel Hegland
  • Publication number: 20220201273
    Abstract: A device for providing a reverse pass-through view of a user of a headset display to an onlooker includes an eyepiece comprising an optical surface configured to provide an image to a user on a first side of the optical surface. The device also includes a first camera configured to collect an image of a portion of a face of the user reflected from the optical surface in a first field of view, a display adjacent to the optical surface and configured to project forward an image of the face of the user, and a screen configured to receive light from the display and provide the image of the face of the user to an onlooker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Nathan Matsuda, Brian Wheelwright, Joel Hegland, Stephen Anthony Lombardi, Jason Saragih, Tomas Simon Kreuz, Shunsuke Saito, Michael Zollhoefer, Amit Raj, James Henry Hays
  • Publication number: 20110036030
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a building insulation sheathing system that provides for efficient installation of insulation, material and labor reduction during installation, as well as provides a stable structure for ease in attachment of protective and/or decorative cladding to a building. The present invention further includes a method for insulating a building using the sheathing system of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Inventor: Adam Joel Hegland