Operator Body-mounted Heads-up Display (e.g., Helmet Mounted Display) Patents (Class 345/8)
  • Patent number: 12105873
    Abstract: An eye-tracking system includes light-sensing units, each light-sensing unit including at least three light sensors and converging lens to converge light signals towards one or more of at least three light sensors; and processor(s) configured to: collect sensor data from individual light sensors, sensor data being indicative of respective light intensities of light signals sensed by individual light sensors; determine direction from which light signals are incident upon light-sensing unit, based on differences in light intensities of light signals; determine orientation of user's eye relative to given light-sensing unit, based on direction from which light signals are incident upon light-sensing unit and light intensities of light signals; and determine gaze direction of user's eye, based on orientation of user's eye and position of light-sensing unit relative to user's eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Pixieray Oy
    Inventors: Klaus Melakari, Semih Iseri, Ari Pitkänen
  • Patent number: 12105558
    Abstract: The invention discloses an AI head-mounted computer, which comprises a main body part and a display connected on the main body part through a first connecting arm and a second connecting arm, the main body part, the first connecting arm and the second connecting arm are sequentially and rotationally matched, the rotating planes of the main body part, the first connecting arm and the second connecting arm are the same plane, and the display is connected with the second connecting arm through a connecting assembly. One end of the connecting assembly is in rotating fit with the second connecting arm, so that the displayer can rotate on the plane perpendicular to the plane where the second connecting arm rotates, the other end of the connecting assembly is in rotating fit with the displayer, so that the displayer can rotate automatically, and a wiring channel is formed in the connecting assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Inventor: Bo Li
  • Patent number: 12099202
    Abstract: A head-mounted display apparatus includes a first housing, a second housing, a limiting member and a conducting wire. The first housing is provided with a first inner cavity and a first opening communicated with the first inner cavity. The second housing includes a main part and a first limiting part. The main part is provided with a second inner cavity and a second opening communicated with the second inner cavity. At least a part of the first limiting part extends into the first inner cavity through the first opening. The limiting member includes a second limiting part and a third limiting part. The second limiting part is connected to the main part, and at least part of the second limiting part is accommodated in the second inner cavity. At least part of the third limiting part extends into the first inner cavity through the second opening and the first opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiuqing Guo, Yipang Lin, Wanghuan Jia
  • Patent number: 12099195
    Abstract: Devices and methods for dynamic power configuration (e.g., reduction) for thermal management (e.g., mitigation) in a wearable electronic device such as an eyewear device. The wearable electronic device monitors its temperature and, responsive to the temperature, configures the services it provides to operate in different modes for thermal mitigation (e.g., to prevent overheating). For example, based on temperature, the wearable electronic device adjusts sensors (e.g., turns cameras on or off, changes the sampling rate, or a combination thereof) and adjusts display components (e.g., adjusted rate at which a graphical processing unit generates images and a visual display is updated). This enables the wearable electronic device to consume less power when temperatures are too high in order to provide thermal mitigation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Sumant Hanumante, Bernhard Jung, Matthias Kalkgruber, Anton Kondratenko, Edward Lee Kim-Koon, Gerald Nilles, John James Robertson, Dmitry Ryuma, Alexander Sourov, Daniel Wolf
  • Patent number: 12100108
    Abstract: A cross reality system that provides an immersive user experience shared by multiple user devices by providing quality information about a shared map. The quality information may be specific to individual user devices rendering virtual content specified with respect to the shared map. The quality information may be provided for persistent coordinate frames (PCFs) in the map. The quality information about a PCF may indicate positional uncertainty of virtual content, specified with respect to the PCF, when rendered on the user device. The quality information may be computed as upper bounding errors by determining error statistics for one or more steps in a process of specifying position with respect to the PCF or transforming that positional expression to a coordinate frame local to the device for rendering the virtual content. Applications running on individual user devices may adjust the rendering of virtual content based on the quality information about the shared map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Shahrokni, Rafael Domingos Torres, Joao Lucas Guberman Raza
  • Patent number: 12099196
    Abstract: A display and method for providing an image to an eye of a viewer is provided. The display comprises at least two projector assemblies. Each projector assembly comprises a light-guide optical element (LOE), and an image projector arrangement for generating a partial image and being deployed to introduce the partial image into the LOE for coupling out towards the eye of the viewer. The at least two projector assemblies cooperate to display the image to the eye of the viewer with partial overlap. The display further comprises a controller associated with the image projector arrangements and configured to reduce a pixel intensity of selected pixels in a region of partial overlap between the first and second part of the image so as to enhance a perceived uniformity of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: LUMUS LTD.
    Inventors: Yochay Danziger, Naamah Levin, Daniel Michaels
  • Patent number: 12099652
    Abstract: Techniques for determining a user's IPD are described. A first stimulus is displayed on a first display, and a second stimulus is displayed on a second display. A stimulus separation distance is a distance that exists between the first and second stimuli. The stimulus separation distance is progressively increased by progressively moving, in opposing directions relative to one another, the first and second stimuli. While that distance is being progressively increased, at least one of the user's eyes is tracked. While the distance is being progressively increased, a change in a rate of eye movement for the user's eye is detected. When the change is detected, a value for the stimulus separation distance is recorded. The recorded value is set as a baseline for the user's IPD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Michael Link, Michaela Porubanova
  • Patent number: 12099206
    Abstract: Light of a virtual image of image content is projected by an optical subsystem to an eye location. The optical subsystem collects the light from or through a first aperture onto an exit pupil on a surface proximate to an outer surface of an eye, and forms an image of the first aperture at the exit pupil. The virtual image is of an object located within a second aperture, wherein the first and second apertures are not collocated. In an associated method, a flat-panel image-display modulator within the second aperture imparts image content of the virtual image onto light generated by a source of light within the first aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: PANAMORPH, INC.
    Inventor: Shawn L. Kelly
  • Patent number: 12093450
    Abstract: Image light is generated with a display light source. The image light is visible. An infrared light source emits infrared light. A scan directs the image light and the infrared light to an input coupler of a display waveguide and the display waveguide presents the image light to an eyebox region as a virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mohamed Tarek Ahmed El-Haddad, Babak Amirsolaimani, Francesco Larocca, Yang Yang, Junjie Hu
  • Patent number: 12092817
    Abstract: An augmented reality system includes a light source configured to generate a virtual light beam. The system also includes a light guiding optical element having an entry portion, an exit portion, and a surface having a diverter disposed adjacent thereto. The light source and the light guiding optical element are configured such that the virtual light beam enters the light guiding optical element through the entry portion, propagates through the light guiding optical element by at least partially reflecting off of the surface, and exits the light guiding optical element through the exit portion. The light guiding optical element is transparent to a first real-world light beam. The diverter is configured to modify a light path of a second real-world light beam at the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian T. Schowengerdt, Mathew D. Watson
  • Patent number: 12094487
    Abstract: An audio system for spatializing virtual sound sources is described. A microphone array of the audio system is configured to monitor sound in a local area. A controller of the audio system identifies sound sources within the local area using the monitored sound from the microphone array and determines their locations. The controller of the audio system generates a target position for a virtual sound source based on one or more constraints. The one or more constraints include that the target position be at least a threshold distance away from each of the determined locations of the identified sound sources. The controller generates one or more sound filters based in part on the target position to spatialize the virtual sound source. A transducer array of the audio system presents spatialized audio including the virtual sound source content based in part on the one or more sound filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Pablo Francisco Faundez Hoffmann, Peter Harty Dodds
  • Patent number: 12087256
    Abstract: In a head mounted display 100, a memory 71 stores an application. An image pickup unit 74 takes an image of a site of a user 1, and a position specifying unit 73 specifies a position and a direction of the head mounted display 100. A detector 75 detects a position indicated by the user 1 on the basis of the image taken by the image pickup unit 74, and a setting unit 76 sets a position indicating a home position on the basis of a result detected by the detector 75 and the position and the direction specified by the position specifying unit 73.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 12085717
    Abstract: According to examples, a display system may include a wearable eyewear arrangement that may include a lens assembly having a projector to propagate display light associated with an image. The lens assembly may also include a waveguide for propagating the display light to an eyebox. The waveguide may include a combination of a volume Bragg grating (VBG) component and a partial reflective component that are oriented in a pre-determined configuration to reflect or propagate the display light to maximize a coverage in field of view (FOV) at the eyebox, while minimizing at least one of a ghost image or an intercepting optical lines pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Wai Sze Tiffany Lam, Yang Yang, Dominic Meiser, Wanli Chi
  • Patent number: 12073530
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide a view of an adjusted position of a three-dimensional (3D) representation of another user (e.g., an avatar) during a communication session. At a first device, 3D representation data corresponding to at least a portion of a second user of a second device (e.g., a sender) is obtained during a communication session. Offset information (e.g., a vertical offset value) corresponding to an offset between a camera viewpoint position and an eye viewpoint position associated with the second device is obtained. A position of a first portion of a 3D representation of the second user (e.g., head and torso) is adjusted relative to a 3D environment associated with the first device. A view that includes the first portion of the 3D representation of the second user in the 3D environment is provided during the communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Victor Ng-Thow-Hing
  • Patent number: 12069233
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a near eye assembly having a retaining structure (e.g., a spectacle frame or head up display mounted on a helmet) that is configured to be positioned in proximity to the eye of a user of the assembly. An optical combiner may be mounted on the retaining structure in front of the user eye. The optical combiner may at least partially transmit elements of a scene in front of the assembly through the combiner. In addition, the optical combiner may receive a visible radiation transmission derived from a scene, and/or a visual transmission such as a presentation of data or a marker, and redirect the transmission back to the user's eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Augmedics Ltd.
    Inventors: Nessi Benishti, Nissan Elimelech, Stuart Wolf, Elazar Gerland
  • Patent number: 12065109
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp system includes: a vehicle lamp that emits light to a front area of a vehicle thereby forming a predetermined light distribution pattern; an imaging device that captures an image of the front area of the vehicle; and a foreign substance determination device including a storage unit that stores a light distribution pattern formed in the front area by the vehicle lamp in a state where no foreign substance adheres to a light emitting surface as a reference pattern, and a determination unit that compares a light distribution pattern captured by the imaging device with the reference pattern and determines whether a foreign substance adheres to the light emitting surface based on a determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Sumitani
  • Patent number: 12068530
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a metal structure, or antenna radiator, for an accessory that is configured to function as both an antenna and an input control. The device may be a wearable device with a first surface shaped to be in contact with the human body and a second surface shaped to be exposed when the device is being worn. The antenna radiator may be located internally within the housing of the device and coupled to a printed circuit board (“PCB”). The PCB may be located between the antenna radiator and the surface of the housing such that the PCB may shield the antenna radiator from antenna loss due to the human body. An electric field may extend between the PCB and the antenna radiator. The fringe electric field may improve cross-head and cross-body connectivity between the accessory and another device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Nan Xu, Vijay Asrani, Jiang Zhu
  • Patent number: 12063345
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a near eye assembly having a retaining structure (e.g., a spectacle frame or head up display mounted on a helmet) that is configured to be positioned in proximity to the eye of a user of the assembly. An optical combiner may be mounted on the retaining structure in front of the user eye. The optical combiner may at least partially transmit elements of a scene in front of the assembly through the combiner. In addition, the optical combiner may receive a visible radiation transmission derived from a scene, and/or a visual transmission such as a presentation of data or a marker, and redirect the transmission back to the user's eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Augmedics Ltd.
    Inventors: Nessi Benishti, Nissan Elimelech, Stuart Wolf, Elazar Gerland
  • Patent number: 12061345
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may have a display with first and second pixel arrays that display content for a user. A head-mounted support structure in the device supports the pixel arrays on the head of the user. A left positioner may be used to position a left lens module that includes a left lens and the first pixel array. A right positioner may be used to position a right lens module that includes a right lens and the second pixel array. Sensing circuitry such as proximity sensing circuitry may be used to detect relative positions between the left and right lens modules and facing surfaces of a user's nose while the user is wearing the head-mounted support structure. Control circuitry may adjust the positions of the left and right lens modules using interpupillary distance information for the user and using information from the sensing circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy C. Franklin, Jia Tao, Phil M. Hobson, Stephen E. Dey
  • Patent number: 12055715
    Abstract: A see-through transparent (or semi-transparent) near eye optical module includes a transparent sparsely populated near eye display comprising a plurality of pixels or pixel patches and a sparsely populated micro-lens array comprising a plurality of micro-lenses positioned in optical alignment with the plurality of pixels or pixel patches of the sparsely populated transparent near eye display. The sparsely populated transparent near eye display has a pixel fill factor capable of rendering the near eye display at least partially transparent. Light rays originating from outside the transparent sparsely populated near eye module pass through the transparent sparsely populated near eye display and sparsely populated micro-lens array of the transparent near eye module to an eye of a user to form a real image perceived by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: NewSight Reality, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Blum, Ami Gupta, Igor Landau, Rick Morrison, John Dorfman
  • Patent number: 12055892
    Abstract: A holographic display apparatus includes a backlight unit having a light source configured to emit coherent light, a spatial light modulator configured to diffract incident light from the backlight unit and generate a holographic image, a beam deflector configured to change a traveling direction of the incident light from the backlight unit to change a focal position of the holographic image, an eye-tracking sensor configured to recognize positions of a viewer's eyeballs, and a controller configured to perform, in real time, calibration of the eye-tracking sensor and the beam deflector to focus the holographic image on the recognized positions of the viewer's eyeballs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong-Young Hong, Hoon Song, Juwon Seo
  • Patent number: 12056272
    Abstract: An object is to provide a head-mounted display apparatus that makes it possible to accurately determine a mounting deviation. The technology provides a head-mounted display apparatus including a sensor that detects a change in position of the head-mounted display apparatus relative to a head. The technology further provides an image display system including the head-mounted display apparatus and an information processor that sends image data to the head-mounted display apparatus. The technology further provides an image display method including a detection step of detecting the change in position of the head-mounted display apparatus relative to the head, and an adjustment step of adjusting a position to which the head-mounted display apparatus projects image display light on the basis of the change in position detected in the detection step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Takada
  • Patent number: 12057223
    Abstract: A method and a device for activating a function of a device, preferably of a medical device. The method includes the steps of: detecting an actual state of the device using a camera, preferably an AR device, which is preferably AR glasses; comparing the actual state of the device with a desired state of the device using a CPU connected to the camera; transmitting, on the basis of the comparison, a command for starting the function of the device or a function test, preferably a function test, from the CPU to the device; and activating the function or the function test of the device on the basis of this command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: B. Braun Avitum AG
    Inventors: Florian Bauer, Christian Schleicher
  • Patent number: 12046165
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed that includes at least one processor configured to determine a target portion of an eye motion box and to identify a facet of a light-guide optical element that is configured to direct a light beam comprising at least a portion of an image field of view toward the target portion of the eye motion box. The at least one processor is configured to identify a display region of an image generator that is configured to inject the light beam into the light-guide optical element at an angle that, in conjunction with the identified facet, is configured to direct the light beam toward the target portion of the eye motion box. The at least one processor is configured to selectively activate the identified facet and the identified display region to direct the light beam toward the target portion of the eye motion box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: LUMUS LTD.
    Inventors: Shimon Grabarnik, Tsion Eisenfeld, Elad Sharlin
  • Patent number: 12044855
    Abstract: The technology described herein relates to a vision module for a helmet mounted visual communication and navigation system. A vision module for a helmet mounted visual communication and navigation system may include a sensor directed out of a front portion of a vision module housing, a heads up display (HUD) combiner subassembly including two or more shells, a combiner glass, and a combiner mount frame, a cable connection interface, a laser configured to direct a laser beam out of a laser aperture in the front portion of the vision module housing, and one or more user control buttons. The two or more shells may be treated to minimize fogging and optical distortion for viewing of the combiner glass display. The sensors may include a thermal camera (e.g., a thermal imaging camera), a situational awareness sensor, and a biometric sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Qwake Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Phil Houdek, Mike Ralston, Omer Haciomeroglu, Sam Cossman
  • Patent number: 12038588
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a layout structure of Micro LED for augmented reality and mixed reality is provided in the present invention, including steps of providing a substrate with multiple display units arranged thereon to form an unit array and includes an edge region and a transparent region surrounded by the edge region, forming pixel driver circuits and a first transparent layer on the edge region, setting multiple Micro LEDs on the first transparent layer of edge regions, forming a second transparent layer on the Micro LEDs and the first transparent layer, thinning and removing the substrate on the transparent region to expose the first transparent layer, and forming a protection layer on back sides of the substrate and the exposed first transparent layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Zhibiao Zhou
  • Patent number: 12039673
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for generating augmented reality (AR) scenes where the AR scenes can be adjusted to modify at least part of an image of the physical features of a user to produce a virtual mesh of the physical features. The method includes generating an augmented reality (AR) scene for rendering on a display for a user wearing AR glasses, the AR scene includes a real-world space and virtual objects overlaid in the real-world space. The method includes analyzing a field of view into the AR scene from the AR glasses; the analyzing is configured to detect images of physical features of the user when the field of view is directed toward at least part of said physical features of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Jorge Arroyo Palacios
  • Patent number: 12038629
    Abstract: Eyewear dynamically adjusts viewing effects to match the wearer, the object or scene being viewed (luminance, color prominence, glare, visual blur/noise), other conditions: sensory parameters (gaze direction, focal length, eye gestures, other eye activity, other senses, wearer inputs), medical conditions, wearer location, environmental parameters, wearer activity, use by the wearer, the wearer's field of view. The eyewear can adjust visual features presented to the wearer, such as changes in refraction, polarization/shading, color, prismatic angles/functions, 3D displays. Eyewear can be tailored to form factor: glasses, contacts, RID, IOL, facemask/helmet, vehicles, windows, screens, scopes, AR/VR devices, nerve sensors, external devices. Eyewear can adjust refraction, polarization/shading, color filtering/injection, false coloring, color change; prismatic angles/functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Percept Technologies
    Inventor: Scott W. Lewis
  • Patent number: 12032169
    Abstract: A user may interact and view virtual elements such as avatars and objects and/or real world elements in three-dimensional space in an augmented reality (AR) session. The system may allow one or more spectators to view from a stationary or dynamic camera a third person view of the users AR session. The third person view may be synchronized with the user view and the virtual elements of the user view may be composited onto the third person view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Marshall Miller, IV, Takashi Kuribayashi, John Monos
  • Patent number: 12033240
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of resolving focal conflict in a computer-generated reality (CGR) environment is performed by a device including a processor, non-transitory memory, an image sensor, and a display. The method includes capturing, using the image sensor, an image of a scene including a real object in a particular direction at a first distance from the device. The method includes displaying, on the display, a CGR environment including a virtual object in the particular direction at a second distance from the device. In accordance with a determination that the second distance is less than the first distance, the CGR environment includes the virtual object overlaid on the scene. In accordance with a determination that the second distance is greater than the first distance, the CGR environment includes the virtual object with an obfuscation area that obfuscates at least a portion of the real object within the obfuscation area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Alexis Henri Palangie, Shih Sang Chiu, Bruno M. Sommer, Connor Alexander Smith, Aaron Mackay Burns
  • Patent number: 12019249
    Abstract: A light-transmitting substrate has at least two major surfaces and is deployed with a first of the major surfaces in facing relation to an eye of a viewer. A light redirecting arrangement is associated with the light-transmitting substrate and deflects light from the eye toward an optical sensor that senses light, such that the light deflection occurs at the light-transmitting substrate and the deflected light that reaches the optical sensor is unguided by the light-transmitting substrate. A processor derives current gaze direction of the eye by processing signals from the optical sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: LUMUS LTD.
    Inventors: Eitan Ronen, Ronen Chriki, Naamah Levin, Lilya Lobachinsky
  • Patent number: 12013556
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a compact optical device for augmented reality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: LETINAR CO., LTD
    Inventor: Jeong Hun Ha
  • Patent number: 12008209
    Abstract: A virtual space management system configured to manage a virtual space in which a plurality of users participates as avatars using client terminals performs control to provide a private content in a display area of a user device object via a client terminal of a second user, based on at least one of a gesture of a first avatar of a first user on both the user device object and a second avatar of the second user in the virtual space, and an operation by the second user in the virtual space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuki Shirakawa
  • Patent number: 12008978
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a user operating a cross reality headset, receiving a first location of the cross reality headset, providing image content and audio content to the cross reality headset, and receiving a second location of the cross reality headset. Further embodiments can include determining the cross reality headset is stationary based on the first location and the second location resulting in a determination, and providing instructions to the cross reality headset to adjust positioning the image content on a display of the cross reality headset and to provide the audio content according to the determination resulting in an adjustment of the positioning of the image content. The cross reality headset presents the image content according to the adjustment on the display. The cross reality headset provides the audio content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Kunwar Handa
  • Patent number: 12005919
    Abstract: Extended reality content in a video can be varied based on a risk level of an external environment of a vehicle. The video can be of an external environment of a vehicle can be presented in real-time on a display located within the vehicle. The display can be a video pass through display. The display can be an in-vehicle display, or it can be a part of a video pass-through extended reality headset. The video can present a view of an external environment of the vehicle as well as extended reality content. A risk level of the external environment of the vehicle can be determined. An amount of the extended reality content presented in the video can be varied based on the risk level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yasuda, Simon A. I. Stent
  • Patent number: 12002171
    Abstract: An augmented reality surgical system includes a head mounted display (HMD) with a see-through display screen, a motion sensor, a camera, and computer equipment. The motion sensor outputs a head motion signal indicating measured movement of the HMD. The computer equipment computes the relative location and orientation of reference markers connected to the HMD and to the patient based on processing a video signal from the camera. The computer equipment generates a three dimensional anatomical model using patient data created by medical imaging equipment, and rotates and scales at least a portion of the three dimensional anatomical model based on the relative location and orientation of the reference markers, and further rotate at least a portion of the three dimensional anatomical model based on the head motion signal to track measured movement of the HMD. The rotated and scaled three dimensional anatomical model is displayed on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc
    Inventors: Kenneth Milton Jones, John Popoolapade, Thomas Calloway, Thierry Lemoine, Christian Jutteau, Christophe Bruzy, Yannick James, Joachim Laguarda, Dong-Mei Pei Xing, Sebastien Gorges, Paul Michael Yarin
  • Patent number: 12001020
    Abstract: A display device includes a pair of display units each including displays 1R and 1L and ocular optical systems 2R and 2L. A first driving unit can change an optical positional relationship between the displays 1R and 1L and the ocular optical systems 2R and 2L. A second driving unit can change an interval between the pair of display units. An interpupillary distance adjustment unit adjusts the interval between the display units by the second driving unit in accordance with a detection result obtained by the interpupillary distance detector. After interpupillary distance adjustment is performed, a diopter adjustment unit performs diopter adjustment related to the display unit by the first driving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Oikawa, Ryo Yamasaki, Kyouhei Suzuki, Shunsuke Ninomiya
  • Patent number: 12001015
    Abstract: A projection system includes an optical device, a positioning device, and a projector. The optical device has a substrate and at least two positioning components, and the at least two positioning components are respectively disposed on multiple different areas of the substrate. The positioning device performs positioning on the optical device according to the positioning component on the substrate and generates a position signal. The projector projects an image light beam to the optical device, receives the position signal, and determines a projection direction of the image light beam according to the position signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Chun-Yih Wu, Ta-Chun Pu, Yen-Liang Kuo
  • Patent number: 11996067
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for differently displaying brightness of virtual objects are provided. The apparatus includes an illuminance sensor, a camera module, a display module, a memory, and a processor operatively connected to the illuminance sensor, the camera module, the display module, and the memory, wherein the processor is configured to measure illuminance through the illuminance sensor, set the brightness of a first virtual object on the basis of the measured illuminance, identify the distance between the first virtual object and a second virtual object, set the brightness of the second virtual object on the basis of the brightness of the first virtual object and the identified distance, and control the display of the first virtual object and the second virtual object through the display module on the basis of the set brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junwhon Uhm, Yunguk Lee, Seungnyun Kim
  • Patent number: 11992373
    Abstract: A surgical system includes an AR headset and a AR headset controller. The AR headset is configured to be worn by a user during a surgical procedure and has a see-through display screen configured to display an AR image and to allow at least a portion of a real-world scene to pass therethrough for viewing by the user. The AR headset also includes an opacity filter positioned between at least one of the user's eyes and the real-world scene when the see-through display screen is viewed by the user. The opacity filter provides opaqueness to light from the real-world scene. The AR headset controller communicates with a navigation controller to receive navigation information from the navigation controller which provides guidance to the user during the surgical procedure on an anatomical structure, and generates the AR image based on the navigation information for display on the see-through display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc
    Inventors: Thomas Calloway, Weston Healy, Isaac Dulin, Dale Earle, Keiichi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11994751
    Abstract: Eyewear including a frame having a first side and a second side, a first temple extending from the first side of the frame, a second temple extending from the second side of the frame, electronic components, a first system on a chip (SoC) adjacent the first side of the frame coupled to a first set of the electronic components, and a second system on a chip adjacent the second side, the second SoC coupled to the first SoC and to a second set of the plurality of electronic components. Processing workloads are balanced between the first SoC and the second SoC by performing a first set of operations with the first SoC and performing a second set of operations with the second SoC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Wagner, Erick Mendez Mendez, Patrick Timothy McSweeney Simons, Daniel Colascione
  • Patent number: 11996891
    Abstract: An apparatus embedded with one or more terahertz transceivers is described. The one or more terahertz transceivers based on at least one optical source is provided to facilitate wireless communication in the apparatus, where the apparatus is embedded with one or more planar antennas. The transceiver operates in terahertz and may be coupled to two different antennas, one for transmission and the other for reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Inventor: Darwin Hu
  • Patent number: 11988829
    Abstract: A waveguide type display apparatus is provided. This waveguide type display apparatus includes a waveguide through which an image proceeds and a leakage image reducer configured to reduce emission of a leakage image leaked from the waveguide without total internal reflection in the waveguide, from among images, to the outside by a volume grating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changkun Lee, Seokil Moon, Geeyoung Sung, Bongsu Shin, Hongseok Lee
  • Patent number: 11988840
    Abstract: A wearable image display device includes: a wearing member worn on a head of a user; a supporting member configured to support a display device that displays video; a coupling member that is coupled to the wearing member and the supporting member and that is configured to move the display device and the like from a first position enabling the user to visually recognize the video to a second position; and a control device configured to control an output of sound output from a speaker disposed at the supporting member. The control device makes the sound output from the speaker when the display device and the like are located in the second position louder than the sound output from the speaker when the display device and the like are located in the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takehiro Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11988898
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pair of light emitting diode eyeglasses. The light emitting diode eyeglasses include an eyeglass frame that comprises a pair of leg frames and a front frame that is provided with a plurality of light emitting diodes, a communication module for communicating one or more pattern data with a control terminal unit, a control unit that is provided in the eyeglass frame and configured to control driving of the light emitting diodes such that the pattern data is displayed through the light emitting diodes, and a power supply unit that is provided for each leg frame of at least one of the pair of leg frames, and configured to supply electric power to the light emitting diodes, the memory unit, the communication module, and the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NEOFECT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoyoung Ban, Hyang Jung Kim, Han Sirk Seo, Daehoon Won, Sungjun Roh, Young Geun Choi
  • Patent number: 11988828
    Abstract: An eye-tracking system may include a light source to emit infrared (IR) light. A waveguide may include an input coupler. A scanner may be to direct the infrared (IR) light to the input coupler, which may be configured to direct the infrared (IR) light to exit the waveguide toward an eyebox region for eye-tracking. The scanner may be to direct visible light to the input coupler. The input coupler may be to direct the visible light toward the eyebox region for display as a virtual image. A sensor may be to generate an imaging signal when infrared (IR) light impinges upon the sensor via the scanner and the input coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Mohamed Tarek Ahmed El-Haddad, Francesco LaRocca
  • Patent number: 11988827
    Abstract: A head mounted display with wide field of view (WFOV) is disclosed. A conventional small display is used in conjunction with a Beam Steering Mechanism (BSM) to dynamically steer the FOV of the displayed image at a very fast rate to provide an effectively WFOV for immersive visual experience. An electrically actuated switchable Steering Mechanism (SM) is provided within the display projection module that steers the projected image towards different portions of the lens at a fast rate. The steering can be either in one, two or three dimensions. The steering allows for the displayed image to be wider field of view (FOV) to the observer than conventionally projected images that are small fixed FOV. The SM is steered at a high rate so as to be indistinguishable to the human observer. The steering can be controlled in a gaze tracked dynamic, on-demand fashion so as to save power consumed by the display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Cogni Trax
    Inventor: Sajjad Ali Khan
  • Patent number: 11977236
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to display systems and, more particularly, to augmented reality display systems. In one aspect, an adaptive lens assembly includes a lens stack configured to exert polarization-dependent optical power to linearly polarized light. The lens stack includes a birefringent lens and an isotropic lens contacting each other to form a conformal interface therebetween. The adaptive lens assembly is configured to be selectively switched between a plurality of states having different optical powers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventors: Ravi Kumar Komanduri, Chulwoo Oh
  • Patent number: 11971960
    Abstract: A device may receive a coherent energy illuminated image, of a particular object, that includes laser speckle. The device may process, using a laser speckle reduction model, the coherent energy illuminated image to generate a laser speckle-reduced image. The device may provide the laser speckle-reduced image as output to permit diagnostics based on the laser speckle-reduced image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Nicholas J. Durr, Taylor L Bobrow, Faisal Mahmood
  • Patent number: 11971550
    Abstract: A video transmissive head-mounted display device capable of avoiding danger to a user when worn by the user has an external world image acquired by a first image inputting unit, and the external world image is displayed on a display unit. The head-mounted display device has a second image inputting unit that acquires a binocular image of a wearer. The head-mounted display device is configured so that a control unit determines, from the binocular image of the wearer acquired by the second image inputting unit, that the wearer is awake when both eyes are closed for no longer than a predetermined period of time and that the wearer is asleep when both eyes are closed for a predetermined period of time or longer, and the display unit displays the external world image acquired by the first image inputting unit when the wearer wakes from sleep.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Mayumi Nakade