Patents by Inventor Yi-Jung CHIU

Yi-Jung CHIU 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: 20250030827
    Abstract: A stereoscopic camera device, including a first camera, a second camera, and a controller, is provided. The first camera is configured to capture toward an object to obtain a first image of the object. The second camera is configured to capture toward the object to obtain a second image of the object. The controller synthesizes the images to generate a stereoscopic image of the object. By the controller, the cameras are controlled, so that toe-in angles of an optical axis of the first camera and an optical axis of the second camera are greater than 0. The controller image processes the first image and the second image, so that the processed first image and the processed second image are equivalent to images captured when the toe-in angles of the optical axis of the first camera and the optical axis of the second camera are greater than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2023
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi-Jung Chiu, Wei-Kuo Shih, Chao-Kuang Yang, Tsung-Wei Tu
  • Patent number: 12189129
    Abstract: An augmented reality display device includes a display, a polarizing beam splitter, and a reflective liquid crystal panel. The display is configured to provide an image beam. The polarizing beam splitter is disposed on a path of the image beam. The reflective liquid crystal panel is disposed on a path of the image beam from the polarizing beam splitter. The reflective liquid crystal panel is configured to form a plurality of modulating and reflecting regions separate from each other. The modulating and reflecting regions are configured to modulate a polarized direction of the image beam and reflect the image beam back to the polarizing beam splitter. The polarizing beam splitter is configured to make the modulated image beam travel to an eye of the user. The reflective liquid crystal panel is configured to vary a pitch of the modulating and reflecting regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Tsung-Wei Tu, Yi-Jung Chiu
  • Patent number: 12058304
    Abstract: An augmented reality display device including a virtual image display and a controller is provided. The virtual image display is configured to provide a left eye virtual image and a right eye virtual image to a left eye and a right eye of a user, respectively. The controller is electrically connected to the virtual image display, and is configured to command the virtual image display to display a left eye virtual mark and a right eye virtual mark, corresponding to a real mark in space, in the left eye virtual image and the right eye virtual image, respectively, and calculate an interpupillary distance between the left eye and the right eye according to a deviation of the left eye virtual mark with respect to the real mark and a deviation of the right eye virtual mark with respect to the real mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Tsung-Wei Tu, Yi-Jung Chiu, Shih-Ting Huang, Yen-Hsien Li
  • Publication number: 20240168293
    Abstract: An augmented reality display device includes a display, a polarizing beam splitter, and a reflective liquid crystal panel. The display is configured to provide an image beam. The polarizing beam splitter is disposed on a path of the image beam. The reflective liquid crystal panel is disposed on a path of the image beam from the polarizing beam splitter. The reflective liquid crystal panel is configured to form a plurality of modulating and reflecting regions separate from each other. The modulating and reflecting regions are configured to modulate a polarized direction of the image beam and reflect the image beam back to the polarizing beam splitter. The polarizing beam splitter is configured to make the modulated image beam travel to an eye of the user. The reflective liquid crystal panel is configured to vary a pitch of the modulating and reflecting regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Tsung-Wei Tu, Yi-Jung Chiu
  • Publication number: 20240161420
    Abstract: An augmented reality display device, used for wearing in front of an eye of a user, which includes an image source, a polarizer, a first wave plate, a transflective element, a first lens, a second wave plate, a reflective polarizer, a second lens, a light guiding unit, and a curved transflective film. The image source is used for emitting an image light beam. The polarizer, the first wave plate, the transflective element, the first lens, the second wave plate, the reflective polarizer, and the second lens are sequentially disposed on a path of the image light beam. The light guiding unit has a reflective surface. The curved transflective film is disposed on the light guiding unit. After being incident on the light guiding unit, the image light beam is sequentially reflected by the reflective surface and the curved transflective film to the eye of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi-Jung Chiu, Tsung-Wei Tu, Wei-Kuo Shih
  • Patent number: 11960106
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an augmented reality (AR) device, a notebook, and smart glasses. The AR device includes a laser source, a spatial light modulator (SLM), and a hologram optical element (HOE). The laser source provides a coherent laser ray. The SLM provides a diffraction pattern solely corresponding to the coherent laser ray. When the SLM receives the coherent laser ray, the diffraction pattern diffracts the coherent laser ray as a hologram in response to the coherent laser ray. The HOE provides a concave mirror effect merely in response to a wavelength of the coherent laser ray, wherein the HOE receives the hologram and magnifies the hologram as a stereoscopic virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi-Jung Chiu, Wei-Kuo Shih, Shih-Ting Huang
  • Patent number: 11776219
    Abstract: Augmented reality glasses including a first image source, a second image source and a lens set are provided. The first image source emits a first image beam. The second image source emits a second image beam. The lens set includes a first lens and a second lens and disposed on the path of the image beams. A gap is disposed between the first lens and the second lens. The refractive index of the gap is lower than that of the first lens. The image beams enter the lens set at an incident surface of the lens set, are reflected at a first surface of the first lens, and exit the lens set at an exit surface. The optical path length of the first image beam from the first image source to the eyes is different from that of the second image beam from the second image source to the eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi-Jung Chiu, Shih-Ting Huang, Yen-Hsien Li, Tsung-Wei Tu, Wei-Kuo Shih
  • Patent number: 11754768
    Abstract: An augmented reality display device, which is configured to provide an augmented reality image to an eye of a user, includes a display module and multiple mirror sets. The display module includes a projector and multiple switching elements. The projector provides an original image beam. The switching elements are deposed sequentially on a path of the original image beam. Each of the switching elements reflects or transmits the original image beam. Reflection paths of each ray of the original image beam on the switching elements intersect at one point to generate multiple image beams. The mirror sets are disposed on paths of the image beams. The image beams are reflected at different angles on the mirror sets, and the mirror sets reflect the image beams to the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Tsung-Wei Tu, Yi-Jung Chiu, Shih-Ting Huang, Yen-Hsien Li
  • Patent number: 11698531
    Abstract: An optical device combining a spectacle function with an augmented reality function adapted to let an ambient light beam enter an eye of a user is provided. The optical device includes a spectacle lens and a diffractive optical element. The spectacle lens has a first surface facing the eye and a second surface facing away from the eye. The diffractive optical element is disposed on the first surface of the spectacle lens or between the first surface and the second surface of the spectacle lens. The diffractive optical element has a third surface facing the eye and a fourth surface facing away from the eye. The diffractive optical element is a diffractive optical film or a diffractive optical plate. An augmented reality device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi-Jung Chiu, Wei-Kuo Shih
  • Patent number: 11700363
    Abstract: A stereoscopic display, including a display panel and a lenticular plate is provided. The display panel has multiple pixels arranged in an array. The lenticular plate has multiple lenticulars. Each of the lenticulars extends along an extending direction, and the lenticulars are arranged along a periodical direction. The pixels are divided into multiple group. The lenticular plate transmits lights emitted by the pixels of different groups towards multiple different viewing zones, so as to form a stereoscopic vision. In the periodical direction, a pitch of the pixels of the same group is greater than a pitch of the lenticulars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventor: Yi-Jung Chiu
  • Publication number: 20230204845
    Abstract: An augmented reality display device, which is configured to provide an augmented reality image to an eye of a user, includes a display module and multiple mirror sets. The display module includes a projector and multiple switching elements. The projector provides an original image beam. The switching elements are deposed sequentially on a path of the original image beam. Each of the switching elements reflects or transmits the original image beam. Reflection paths of each ray of the original image beam on the switching elements intersect at one point to generate multiple image beams. The mirror sets are disposed on paths of the image beams. The image beams are reflected at different angles on the mirror sets, and the mirror sets reflect the image beams to the eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Tsung-Wei Tu, Yi-Jung Chiu, Shih-Ting Huang, Yen-Hsien Li
  • Publication number: 20230194880
    Abstract: A pair of augmented reality glasses including a projection device and a waveguide is provided. The projection device is configured to provide a collimated beam. The waveguide has a plurality of free form surfaces. Distances between each free form surface and the projection device are different from each other. The collimated beam progresses to and reflects off these free form surfaces in sequence, and then enters eyes of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Tsung-Wei Tu, Yi-Jung Chiu, Shih-Ting Huang, Yen-Hsien Li, Chun-Yu Chen
  • Publication number: 20230194841
    Abstract: An augmented reality display device is used to provide an augmented reality image to one eye of a user. The augmented reality display device includes a curved eyepiece, multiple first micromirrors and two first displays. These first micromirrors are disposed on the curved eyepiece. The two first displays are respectively disposed on two opposite sides of the curved eyepiece. Each first display is for emitting a first image beam. These first micromirrors are for imaging two first image beams emitted by the two first displays onto a retina of the eye to form the augmented reality image. Among them, the horizontal field of view formed by these first micromirrors to the eyes falls within the range of 80 degrees to 110 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Tsung-Wei Tu, Yi-Jung Chiu, Shih-Ting Huang, Yen-Hsien Li
  • Publication number: 20220400247
    Abstract: An augmented reality display device including a virtual image display and a controller is provided. The virtual image display is configured to provide a left eye virtual image and a right eye virtual image to a left eye and a right eye of a user, respectively. The controller is electrically connected to the virtual image display, and is configured to command the virtual image display to display a left eye virtual mark and a right eye virtual mark, corresponding to a real mark in space, in the left eye virtual image and the right eye virtual image, respectively, and calculate an interpupillary distance between the left eye and the right eye according to a deviation of the left eye virtual mark with respect to the real mark and a deviation of the right eye virtual mark with respect to the real mark.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Tsung-Wei Tu, Yi-Jung Chiu, Shih-Ting Huang, Yen-Hsien Li
  • Publication number: 20220394235
    Abstract: A stereoscopic display, including a display panel and a lenticular plate is provided. The display panel has multiple pixels arranged in an array. The lenticular plate has multiple lenticulars. Each of the lenticulars extends along an extending direction, and the lenticulars are arranged along a periodical direction. The pixels are divided into multiple group. The lenticular plate transmits lights emitted by the pixels of different groups towards multiple different viewing zones, so as to form a stereoscopic vision. In the periodical direction, a pitch of the pixels of the same group is greater than a pitch of the lenticulars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventor: Yi-Jung Chiu
  • Publication number: 20220334397
    Abstract: A head mounted display including two display units is provided. An included angle between the two display units is greater than 0 degrees and less than 180 degrees. Each of the two display units includes a display device, a condenser lens and a prism. The condenser lens overlaps the display device. The prism overlaps the condenser lens and the display device. A material of one of the condenser lens and the prism includes flint glass, and a material of the other of the condenser lens and the prism includes crown glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Tsung-Wei Tu, Yi-Jung Chiu, Shih-Ting Huang, Yen-Hsien Li
  • Publication number: 20220335692
    Abstract: Augmented reality glasses including a first image source, a second image source and a lens set are provided. The first image source emits a first image beam. The second image source emits a second image beam. The lens set includes a first lens and a second lens and disposed on the path of the image beams. A gap is disposed between the first lens and the second lens. The refractive index of the gap is lower than that of the first lens. The image beams enter the lens set at an incident surface of the lens set, are reflected at a first surface of the first lens, and exit the lens set at an exit surface. The optical path length of the first image beam from the first image source to the eyes is different from that of the second image beam from the second image source to the eyes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi-Jung Chiu, Shih-Ting Huang, Yen-Hsien Li, Tsung-Wei Tu, Wei-Kuo Shih
  • Publication number: 20220299789
    Abstract: A stereoscopic display device including a display panel and an optical element is provided. The optical element is disposed on a display surface of the display panel. The optical element includes a lenticular lens array. The lenticular lens array includes a plurality of lenticular lenses extending in a first direction. The lenticular lenses are arranged in a second direction. The optical element includes a center line extending in the first direction. The lenticular lenses include a first lenticular lens and a second lenticular lens. The distance between the first lenticular lens and the center line is smaller than the distance between the second lenticular lens and the center line, and the curvature of the first lenticular lens is greater than the curvature of the second lenticular lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi-Jung Chiu, Shih-Ting Huang, Yen-Hsien Li, Tsung-Wei Tu, Wei-Kuo Shih
  • Patent number: 11360315
    Abstract: Augmented reality eyeglasses having a structured light detecting function and including a laser projector, an eyeglass lens, at least one first diffractive optical element (DOE) film, an invisible light camera and a second DOE film are provided. The laser projector is configured to emit at least one invisible beam and an image beam. The at least one first DOE film is disposed on the eyeglass lens. The first DOE film is configured to diffract the invisible beam into a structured beam. The structured beam is transmitted to an object to be detected, so as to form a light pattern on the object to be detected. The invisible light camera is configured to photograph the light pattern on the object to be detected. The second DOE film is disposed on the eyeglass lens, and is configured to make the image beam travel to an eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Tsung-Wei Tu, Yi-Jung Chiu, Shih-Ting Huang, Yen-Hsien Li
  • Publication number: 20220107498
    Abstract: The invention provides smart glasses having expanding eyebox, which includes a projector and at least one beam translation module. The projector provides an image beam, which is polarized. The at least one beam translation module is disposed on a path of the image beam, and includes an adjustable liquid crystal panel and a birefringent crystal plate. The adjustable liquid crystal panel is disposed on the path of the image beam and configured to adjust an amount of phase retardation of the image beam. The birefringent crystal plate is disposed on a path of the image beam from the adjustable liquid crystal panel. After the amount of phase retardation of the image beam is adjusted through the adjustable liquid crystal panel, a translation in a direction parallel to a beam-emitting surface of the birefringent crystal plate occurs on the image beam exited from the birefringent crystal plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Tsung-Wei Tu, Shih-Ting Huang, Yi-Jung Chiu, Yen-Hsien Li