Patents by Inventor Robert Blake Taylor

Robert Blake Taylor 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: 12613420
    Abstract: A wearable display system includes one or more emissive micro-displays, e.g., micro-LED displays. The micro-displays may be monochrome micro-displays or full-color micro-displays. The micro-displays may include arrays of light emitters. Light collimators may be utilized to narrow the angular emission profile of light emitted by the light emitters. Where a plurality of emissive micro-displays is utilized, the micro-displays may be positioned at different sides of an optical combiner, e.g., an X-cube prism which receives light rays from different micro-displays and outputs the light rays from the same face of the cube. The optical combiner directs the light to projection optics, which outputs the light to an eyepiece that relays the light to a user's eye. The eyepiece may output the light to the user's eye with different amounts of wavefront divergence, to place virtual content on different depth planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Klug, Evgeni Poliakov, Jahja I. Trisnadi, Hyunsun Chung, Lionel Ernest Edwin, Howard Russell Cohen, Robert Blake Taylor, Andrew Ian Russell, Kevin Richard Curtis, Clinton Carlisle
  • Patent number: 12518035
    Abstract: Described herein are techniques and technologies to identify an encrypted content within a field of view of a user of a VR/AR system and process the encrypted content appropriately. The user of the VR/AR technology may have protected content in a field of view of the user. Encrypted content is mapped to one or more protected surfaces on a display device. Contents mapped to a protected surface may be rendered on the display device but prevented from being replicated from the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2026
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Blake Taylor, Dmitry Pastouchenko, Frederic Plourde
  • Publication number: 20250244588
    Abstract: A wearable display system includes a light projection system having one or more emissive micro-displays, e.g., micro-LED displays. The light projection system projects time-multiplexed left-eye and right-eye images, which pass through an optical router having a polarizer and a switchable polarization rotator. The optical router is synchronized with the generation of images by the light projection system to impart a first polarization to left-eye images and a second different polarization to right-eye images. Light of the first polarization is incoupled into an eyepiece having one or more waveguides for outputting light to one of the left and right eyes, while light of the second polarization may be incoupled into another eyepiece having one or more waveguides for outputting light to the other of the left and right eyes. Each eyepiece may output incoupled light with variable amounts of wavefront divergence, to elicit different accommodation responses from the user's eyes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Jahja I. Trisnadi, Hyunsun Chung, Lionel Ernest Edwin, Howard Russell Cohen, Robert Blake Taylor, Andrew Ian Russell, Kevin Richard Curtis, Clinton Carlisle
  • Patent number: 12315118
    Abstract: A method for displaying a three dimensional (“3D”) image includes rendering a frame of 3D image data. The method also includes analyzing the frame of 3D image data to generate best known depth data. The method further includes using the best known depth data to segment the 3D image data into near and far frames of two dimensional (“2D”) image data corresponding to near and far depths respectively. Moreover, the method includes displaying near and far 2D image frames corresponding to the near and far frames of 2D image data at near and far depths to a user respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Blake Taylor
  • Publication number: 20250155718
    Abstract: A wearable display system includes one or more emissive micro-displays, e.g., micro-LED displays. The micro-displays may be monochrome micro-displays or full-color micro-displays. The micro-displays may include arrays of light emitters. Light collimators may be utilized to narrow the angular emission profile of light emitted by the light emitters. Where a plurality of emissive micro-displays is utilized, the micro-displays may be positioned at different sides of an optical combiner, e.g., an X-cube prism which receives light rays from different micro-displays and outputs the light rays from the same face of the cube. The optical combiner directs the light to projection optics, which outputs the light to an eyepiece that relays the light to a user's eye. The eyepiece may output the light to the user's eye with different amounts of wavefront divergence, to place virtual content on different depth planes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2025
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Anthony KLUG, Evgeni POLIAKOV, Jahja I. TRISNADI, Hyunsun CHUNG, Lionel Ernest EDWIN, Howard Russell COHEN, Robert Blake TAYLOR, Andrew Ian RUSSELL, Kevin Richard CURTIS, Clinton CARLISLE
  • Publication number: 20250044865
    Abstract: A method for determining a focal point depth of a user of a three-dimensional (“3D”) display device includes tracking a first gaze path of the user. The method also includes analyzing 3D data to identify one or more virtual objects along the first gaze path of the user. The method further includes when only one virtual object intersects the first gaze path of the user identifying a depth of the only one virtual object as the focal point depth of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventor: Robert Blake TAYLOR
  • Patent number: 12190468
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for warping virtual content includes receiving rendered virtual content data, the rendered virtual content data including a far depth. The method also includes receiving movement data indicating a user movement in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis. The method further includes generating warped rendered virtual content data based on the rendered virtual content data, the far depth, and the movement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Reza Nourai, Robert Blake Taylor, Michael Harold Liebenow, Gilles Cadet
  • Patent number: 12158986
    Abstract: A method for determining a focal point depth of a user of a three-dimensional (“3D”) display device includes tracking a first gaze path of the user. The method also includes analyzing 3D data to identify one or more virtual objects along the first gaze path of the user. The method further includes when only one virtual object intersects the first gaze path of the user identifying a depth of the only one virtual object as the focal point depth of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Blake Taylor
  • Publication number: 20240282064
    Abstract: A method in a virtual, augmented, or mixed reality system includes a GPU determining/detecting an absence of image data. The method also includes shutting down a portion/component/function of the GPU. The method further includes shutting down a communication link between the GPU and a DB. Moreover, the method includes shutting down a portion/component/function of the DB. In addition, the method includes shutting down a communication link between the DB and a display panel. The further also includes shutting down a portion/component/function of the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventors: Jose Felix RODRIGUEZ, Ricardo Martinez PEREZ, Reza NOURAI, Robert Blake TAYLOR
  • Publication number: 20240280820
    Abstract: A wearable display system includes one or more emissive micro-displays, e.g., micro-LED displays. The micro-displays may be monochrome micro-displays or full-color micro-displays. The micro-displays may include arrays of light emitters. Light collimators may be utilized to narrow the angular emission profile of light emitted by the light emitters. Where a plurality of emissive micro-displays is utilized, the micro-displays may be positioned at different sides of an optical combiner, e.g., an X-cube prism which receives light rays from different micro-displays and outputs the light rays from the same face of the cube. The optical combiner directs the light to projection optics, which outputs the light to an eyepiece that relays the light to a user's eye. The eyepiece may output the light to the user's eye with different amounts of wavefront divergence, to place virtual content on different depth planes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Anthony KLUG, Evgeni POLIAKOV, Jahja I. TRISNADI, Hyunsun CHUNG, Lionel Ernest EDWIN, Howard Russell COHEN, Robert Blake TAYLOR, Andrew Ian RUSSELL, Kevin Richard CURTIS, Clinton CARLISLE
  • Publication number: 20240257458
    Abstract: A cross reality system that provides an immersive user experience by storing persistent spatial information about the physical world that one or multiple user devices can access to determine position within the physical world and that applications can access to specify the position of virtual objects within the physical world. Persistent spatial information enables users to have a shared virtual, as well as physical, experience when interacting with the cross reality system. Further, persistent spatial information may be used in maps of the physical world, enabling one or multiple devices to access and localize into previously stored maps, reducing the need to map a physical space before using the cross reality system in it. Persistent spatial information may be stored as persistent coordinate frames, which may include a transformation relative to a reference orientation and information derived from images in a location corresponding to the persistent coordinate frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Anush Mohan, Rafael Domingos Torres, Daniel Olshansky, Samuel A. Miller, Jehangir Tajik, Joel David Holder, Jeremy Dwayne Miranda, Robert Blake Taylor, Ashwin Swaminathan, Lomesh Agarwal, Hiral Honar Barot, Helder Toshiro Suzuki, Ali Shahrokni, Eran Guendelman, Prateek Singhal, Xuan Zhao, Siddharth Choudhary, Nicholas Atkinson Kramer, Kenneth William Tossell, Christian Ivan Robert Moore
  • Publication number: 20240231101
    Abstract: A wearable display system includes a light projection system having one or more emissive micro-displays, e.g., micro-LED displays. The light projection system projects time-multiplexed left-eye and right-eye images, which pass through an optical router having a polarizer and a switchable polarization rotator. The optical router is synchronized with the generation of images by the light projection system to impart a first polarization to left-eye images and a second different polarization to right-eye images. Light of the first polarization is incoupled into an eyepiece having one or more waveguides for outputting light to one of the left and right eyes, while light of the second polarization may be incoupled into another eyepiece having one or more waveguides for outputting light to the other of the left and right eyes. Each eyepiece may output incoupled light with variable amounts of wavefront divergence, to elicit different accommodation responses from the user's eyes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Jahja I. Trisnadi, Hyunsun Chung, Lionel Ernest Edwin, Howard Russell Cohen, Robert Blake Taylor, Andrew Ian Russell, Kevin Richard Curtis, Clinton Carlisle
  • Patent number: 12002167
    Abstract: A method in a virtual, augmented, or mixed reality system includes a GPU determining/detecting an absence of image data. The method also includes shutting down a portion/component/function of the GPU. The method further includes shutting down a communication link between the GPU and a DB. Moreover, the method includes shutting down a portion/component/function of the DB. In addition, the method includes shutting down a communication link between the DB and a display panel. The further also includes shutting down a portion/component/function of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Jose Felix Rodriguez, Ricardo Martinez Perez, Reza Nourai, Robert Blake Taylor
  • Publication number: 20240169489
    Abstract: A method for displaying a three dimensional (“3D”) image includes rendering a frame of 3D image data. The method also includes analyzing the frame of 3D image data to generate best known depth data. The method further includes using the best known depth data to segment the 3D image data into near and far frames of two dimensional (“2D”) image data corresponding to near and far depths respectively. Moreover, the method includes displaying near and far 2D image frames corresponding to the near and far frames of 2D image data at near and far depths to a user respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventor: Robert Blake TAYLOR
  • Patent number: 11977230
    Abstract: A wearable display system includes one or more emissive micro-displays, e.g., micro-LED displays. The micro-displays may be monochrome micro-displays or full-color micro-displays. The micro-displays may include arrays of light emitters. Light collimators may be utilized to narrow the angular emission profile of light emitted by the light emitters. Where a plurality of emissive micro-displays is utilized, the micro-displays may be positioned at different sides of an optical combiner, e.g., an X-cube prism which receives light rays from different micro-displays and outputs the light rays from the same face of the cube. The optical combiner directs the light to projection optics, which outputs the light to an eyepiece that relays the light to a user's eye. The eyepiece may output the light to the user's eye with different amounts of wavefront divergence, to place virtual content on different depth planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Klug, Evgeni Poliakov, Jahja I. Trisnadi, Hyunsun Chung, Lionel Ernest Edwin, Howard Russell Cohen, Robert Blake Taylor, Andrew Ian Russell, Kevin Richard Curtis, Clinton Carlisle
  • Patent number: 11978175
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for warping multi-field color virtual content for sequential projection includes obtaining first and second color fields having different first and second colors. The method also includes determining a first time for projection of a warped first color field. The method further includes determining a second time for projection of a warped second color field. Moreover, the method includes predicting a first pose at the first time and predicting a second pose at the second time. In addition, the method includes generating the warped first color field by warping the first color field based on the first pose. The method also includes generating the warped second color field by warping the second color field based on the second pose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Harold Liebenow, Reza Nourai, Robert Blake Taylor, Fahri Yaras
  • Patent number: 11978159
    Abstract: A cross reality system that provides an immersive user experience by storing persistent spatial information about the physical world that one or multiple user devices can access to determine position within the physical world and that applications can access to specify the position of virtual objects within the physical world. Persistent spatial information enables users to have a shared virtual, as well as physical, experience when interacting with the cross reality system. Further, persistent spatial information may be used in maps of the physical world, enabling one or multiple devices to access and localize into previously stored maps, reducing the need to map a physical space before using the cross reality system in it. Persistent spatial information may be stored as persistent coordinate frames, which may include a transformation relative to a reference orientation and information derived from images in a location corresponding to the persistent coordinate frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Anush Mohan, Rafael Domingos Torres, Daniel Olshansky, Samuel A. Miller, Jehangir Tajik, Joel David Holder, Jeremy Dwayne Miranda, Robert Blake Taylor, Ashwin Swaminathan, Lomesh Agarwal, Hiral Honar Barot, Helder Toshiro Suzuki, Ali Shahrokni, Eran Guendelman, Prateek Singhal, Xuan Zhao, Siddharth Choudhary, Nicholas Atkinson Kramer, Kenneth William Tossell, Christian Ivan Robert Moore
  • Patent number: 11942013
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for improving the color uniformity of a display of a display device. A plurality of images of the display are captured using an image capture device. The plurality of images are captured in a color space, with each image corresponding to one of a plurality of color channels. A global white balance is performed to the plurality of images to obtain a plurality of normalized images. A local white balance is performed to the plurality of normalized images to obtain a plurality of correction matrices. Performing the local white balance includes defining a set of weighting factors based on a figure of merit and computing a plurality of weighted images based on the plurality of normalized images and the set of weighting factors. The plurality of correction matrices are computed based on the plurality of weighted images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Messer, Miller Harry Schuck, III, Nicholas Ihle Morley, Po-Kang Huang, Nukul Sanjay Shah, Marshall Charles Capps, Robert Blake Taylor
  • Patent number: 11922602
    Abstract: A method for displaying a three dimensional (“3D”) image includes rendering a frame of 3D image data. The method also includes analyzing the frame of 3D image data to generate best known depth data. The method further includes using the best known depth data to segment the 3D image data into near and far frames of two dimensional (“2D”) image data corresponding to near and far depths respectively. Moreover, the method includes displaying near and far 2D image frames corresponding to the near and far frames of 2D image data at near and far depths to a user respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Blake Taylor
  • Patent number: 11914150
    Abstract: A wearable display system includes a light projection system having one or more emissive microdisplays, e.g., micro-LED displays. The light projection system projects time-multiplexed left-eye and right-eye images, which pass through an optical router having a polarizer and a switchable polarization rotator. The optical router is synchronized with the generation of images by the light projection system to impart a first polarization to left-eye images and a second different polarization to right-eye images. Light of the first polarization is incoupled into an eyepiece having one or more waveguides for outputting light to one of the left and right eyes, while light of the second polarization may be incoupled into another eyepiece having one or more waveguides for outputting light to the other of the left and right eyes. Each eyepiece may output incoupled light with variable amounts of wavefront divergence, to elicit different accommodation responses from the user's eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventors: Jahja I. Trisnadi, Hyunsun Chung, Lionel Ernest Edwin, Howard Russell Cohen, Robert Blake Taylor, Andrew Ian Russell, Kevin Richard Curtis, Clinton Carlisle