Patents by Inventor Mark Theodore Bolas

Mark Theodore Bolas 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: 12320973
    Abstract: One disclosed example provides a near-eye display device. The near-eye display device comprises an eye tracking system configured to determine a position of an eye of a user relative to the near-eye display device, and a waveguide including at least an input coupler and an output coupler, the output coupler including a plurality of zones, each zone activatable via a dynamically controllable output coupling element of the zone. The near-eye display device further comprises an image source configured to output image light to the input coupler, and a controller configured to selectively activate one or more zones of the output coupler based at least on the position of the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Joel Steven Kollin, Ishan Chatterjee, Benjamin Eliot Lundell, Christopher Charles Aholt, Maria Esther Pace, Andreas Georgiou, Robert Thomas Held, Mark Theodore Bolas
  • Patent number: 11852824
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to using an array of hot mirrors in an eye-imaging system. One example provides a head-mounted display system, comprising a frame, an eye-imaging camera supported on the frame, a switchable hot mirror array comprising a plurality of switchable hot mirrors configured to direct light reflecting from an eye toward the eye-imaging camera, and a controller configured to control switching of a reflectivity of each of the plurality of switchable hot mirrors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Eliot Lundell, Joel Steven Kollin, Ishan Chatterjee, Maria Esther Pace, Mark Theodore Bolas, Bernard Charles Kress, Robert Thomas Held, Andreas Georgiou, Christopher Charles Aholt