Operator Body-mounted Heads-up Display (e.g., Helmet Mounted Display) Patents (Class 345/8)
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Patent number: 12038588Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 21, 2023Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.Inventor: Zhibiao Zhou
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Patent number: 12038629Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 29, 2022Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Percept TechnologiesInventor: Scott W. Lewis
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Patent number: 12039673Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Jorge Arroyo Palacios
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Patent number: 12032169Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 20, 2023Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.Inventors: Thomas Marshall Miller, IV, Takashi Kuribayashi, John Monos
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Patent number: 12033240Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Alexis Henri Palangie, Shih Sang Chiu, Bruno M. Sommer, Connor Alexander Smith, Aaron Mackay Burns
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Patent number: 12019249Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: LUMUS LTD.Inventors: Eitan Ronen, Ronen Chriki, Naamah Levin, Lilya Lobachinsky
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Patent number: 12013556Abstract: Disclosed herein is a compact optical device for augmented reality.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: LETINAR CO., LTDInventor: Jeong Hun Ha
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Patent number: 12008209Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 7, 2023Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yuki Shirakawa
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Patent number: 12008978Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 24, 2023Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventor: Kunwar Handa
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Patent number: 12005919Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi Yasuda, Simon A. I. Stent
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Patent number: 12001020Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 11, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Makoto Oikawa, Ryo Yamasaki, Kyouhei Suzuki, Shunsuke Ninomiya
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Patent number: 12001015Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 6, 2023Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: HTC CorporationInventors: Chun-Yih Wu, Ta-Chun Pu, Yen-Liang Kuo
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Patent number: 12002171Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 27, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Globus Medical, IncInventors: 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
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Patent number: 11992373Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Globus Medical, IncInventors: Thomas Calloway, Weston Healy, Isaac Dulin, Dale Earle, Keiichi Matsuda
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Patent number: 11994751Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Daniel Wagner, Erick Mendez Mendez, Patrick Timothy McSweeney Simons, Daniel Colascione
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Patent number: 11996891Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 16, 2023Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Inventor: Darwin Hu
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Patent number: 11996067Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junwhon Uhm, Yunguk Lee, Seungnyun Kim
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Patent number: 11988829Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 8, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Changkun Lee, Seokil Moon, Geeyoung Sung, Bongsu Shin, Hongseok Lee
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Patent number: 11988827Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 16, 2018Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Cogni TraxInventor: Sajjad Ali Khan
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Patent number: 11988898Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: NEOFECT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hoyoung Ban, Hyang Jung Kim, Han Sirk Seo, Daehoon Won, Sungjun Roh, Young Geun Choi
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Patent number: 11988840Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Takehiro Fujiwara
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Patent number: 11988828Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Mohamed Tarek Ahmed El-Haddad, Francesco LaRocca
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Patent number: 11977236Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 17, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.Inventors: Ravi Kumar Komanduri, Chulwoo Oh
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Patent number: 11972530Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for placing and rendering virtual objects in three-dimensional environments. The techniques include providing, by a device, a view of an environment of a first user. A first computing system associated with the first user receives an instruction to display, within the view of the environment of the first user, a virtual marker at a specified position of the environment of the first user, the specified position derived from a second user's interaction with a three-dimensional (3D) model of at least a portion of the environment of the first user. The device displays, within the view of the environment of the first user, the virtual marker at the specified position of the environment of the first user.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions LimitedInventors: Matthew Thomas Short, Sunny Webb, Joshua Opel, Theo E. Christensen
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Patent number: 11971550Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Mayumi Nakade
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Patent number: 11971960Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The Johns Hopkins UniversityInventors: Nicholas J. Durr, Taylor L Bobrow, Faisal Mahmood
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Patent number: 11967148Abstract: In a display device 100, a photographing unit 12 is configured to photograph the surroundings of the display device 100, and the recognizing unit 16 is configured to recognize a clock 300 (a real object regarding a time or date) from a result of the photographing. When the recognizing unit 16 recognizes the clock 300, the schedule obtaining unit 11 is configured to obtain schedule information, and the display controller 17 is configured to display and output the schedule information in accordance with a position of the clock 300. In this case, since the display device 100 displays the schedule information in accordance with the position of the clock 300, the schedule information can be displayed in association with actual environment, and the schedule information can be outputted in a format that is easier to recognize the schedule information.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventor: Naohisa Takamizawa
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Patent number: 11967021Abstract: Various techniques pertaining to methods, systems, and computer program products a spatial persistence process that places a virtual object relative to a physical object for an extended-reality display device based at least in part upon a persistent coordinate frame (PCF). A determination is made to decide whether a drift is detected for the virtual object relative to the physical object. upon or after detection of the drift or deviation, the drift or deviation is corrected at least by updating a tracking map into an updated tracking map and further at least by updating the persistent coordinate frame (PCF) based at least in part upon the updated tracking map, wherein the persistent coordinate frame (PCF) comprises six degrees of freedom relative to the map coordinate system.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Yilun Cao, Mohan Babu Kandra, David Geoffrey Molyneaux, Daniel Olshansky, David Paul Pena, Frank Thomas Steinbrücker, Rafael Domingos Torres
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Patent number: 11953696Abstract: The present disclosed subject matter relates to a display device for displaying an image to an eye, comprising a support mounting a light source and a mirror assembly. The light source is configured to emit a visible light beam carrying the image towards the mirror assembly, and the mirror assembly is configured to angularly oscillate and deflect the emitted visible light beam towards the eye. A light sensor is mounted on the support and configured to record return light received via said mirror assembly from the eye. The display device further comprises a processor connected to the light sensor and configured to detect a state of the eye from the recorded return light.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: TriLite Technologies GmbHInventors: Louahab Noui, Joerg Reitterer
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Patent number: 11953694Abstract: A right temple member and a left temple member are provided, close to a display unit, at inner side faces of a right case member and a left case member that store at least a part of the display unit. A right support member and a left support member are provided at the right temple member and the left temple member. Accordingly, the provision of the right support member and the left support member enables to adjust a degree of opening and an inward repulsive force of the right temple member and the left temple member.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuya Kamakura
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Patent number: 11947731Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology provide for intention-based user interface control for electronic devices. For example, an electronic device may utilize multiple indirect engagement indicators performed by a user of the electronic device, to confirm which of several displayed user interfaces with which the user intends to engage. Once the electronic device determines which of the multiple user interfaces the user intends to engage with, the electronic device may provide a user input to the application or other process underlying that user interface. The user input may be based, in whole or in part, one or more of the multiple indirect engagement indicators.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: James T. Turner, Peter L. Hajas
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Patent number: 11947116Abstract: A method and an apparatus are defined for displaying images on a flexible display in a head-mountable device (HMD). One or more flexible display devices may be inserted in the HMD. The one or more flexible display devices may be constrained by the HMD to take a particular curved form and wrap the field of view (FOV) of images displayed on the one or more flexible display devices for an improved user experience. The display surface of the one or more flexible displays may be divided in display areas, the display areas corresponding to a focus area and a peripheral FOV. Image processing may be differentiated according to display area.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Pierre Andrivon, Franck Galpin, Fabrice Urban
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Patent number: 11947122Abstract: A tracking system for use in head-mounted device (HMD) includes light sources arranged spatially around user-interaction controller(s); controller-pose-tracking means arranged in user-interaction controller(s); HMD-pose-tracking means; camera(s) arranged on portion of HMD that faces real-world environment in which HMD is in use; and processor(s) configured to estimate relative pose, based on controller-pose-tracking data and HMD-pose-tracking data; determine sub-set of light sources, based on estimated relative pose and arrangement of light sources; selectively control light sources such that light sources of sub-set are activated, whereas remaining light sources are deactivated; process at least one image, captured by camera(s), to identify operational state of light source(s) of sub-set that is visible in image(s), wherein image(s) is indicative of actual relative pose; and correct estimated relative pose to determine actual relative pose, based on operational state.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Varjo Technologies OyInventors: Roman Golovanov, Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Juha Ala-Luhtala
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Patent number: 11941172Abstract: A method for training an eye tracking model is disclosed, as well as a corresponding system and storage medium. The eye tracking model is adapted to predict eye tracking data based on sensor data from a first eye tracking sensor. The method comprises receiving sensor data obtained by the first eye tracking sensor at a time instance and receiving reference eye tracking data for the time instance generated by an eye tracking system comprising a second eye tracking sensor. The reference eye tracking data is generated by the eye tracking system based on sensor data obtained by the second eye tracking sensor at the time instance. The method comprises training the eye tracking model based on the sensor data obtained by the first eye tracking sensor at the time instance and the generated reference eye tracking data.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Tobii ABInventors: Carl Asplund, Patrik Barkman, Anders Dahl, Oscar Danielsson, Tommaso Martini, MÃ¥rten Nilsson
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Patent number: 11941167Abstract: A head-mounted VR all-in-one machine comprises a front cover plate. Four first tracking cameras are arranged on an outer side frame of the front cover plate, two second tracking cameras are respectively arranged at positions on an inner side of the front cover plate that are close to the left eye and the right eye of a user, and a third tracking camera is arranged at a position on the lower bottom of the front cover plate that is close to the mouth of the user, wherein the four first tracking cameras and an IMU sensor form a 6DoF user head tracking module, the two second tracking cameras form a user eyeball tracking module, the two second tracking cameras and the one third tracking camera form a user facial expression recognition module, and the four first tracking cameras form a user bare hand recognition tracking module in a multiplexed manner.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: QINGDAO PICO TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventor: Tao Wu
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Patent number: 11942989Abstract: There is provided a method including receiving an incoming ID at a first wearable heads-up display (WHUD), which incoming ID is associated with a communicant device. The method also includes sending match data from the first WHUD to a match engine. The match data includes a first WHUD ID and the incoming ID. Moreover, the method includes receiving a match indicator at the first WHUD from the match engine. The match indicator is to indicate a match event between the first WHUD and the communicant device based on the match data. Furthermore, the method includes effecting communication between the first WHUD and the communicant device comprising at least one of sending a message from the first WHUD to the communicant device and receiving at the first WHUD a corresponding message from the communicant device. The first WHUD, and a method of operating the match engine are also described.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Ido Raveh, Stuart James Myron Nicholson
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Patent number: 11933982Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for using a user's line of sight (LOS) and/or gaze direction to enhance displayed data and control various displays and instruments. The user's LOS is tracked, corresponding element(s) in a scene at which the user gazes are identified, e.g., in a database, and respective displayed data are enhanced or otherwise manipulated with respect to the identified element(s). The database may be multilayered and may comprise data layers which are conformal to a scene representation. Users may also select, using their LOS, among multiple layers of information and among multiple displayed parts to enhance or attenuate respective layers or parts. Designated elements may be real-world elements, displayed elements or instruments in the operational surroundings of the user. Identification of elements at which LOSs of multiple users are aimed at may be used for exchange of information among the users.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Elbit Systems Ltd.Inventors: Itamar Nocham, Avner Shahal
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Patent number: 11934735Abstract: A method and a device capable of supporting various display methods using an electronic device and/or glasses-type wearable electronic device (e.g., AR glasses) in an augmented reality (AR) are provided. An AR providing device for AR services includes a display and a processor. The processor is configured to provide content through an AR screen, detect a specified external object through the AR screen while providing the content, determine a display mode for providing the content, based on detection of the specified external object, control to display the content through a display of the specified external object, based on the determined display mode, and perform control to display the content through a virtual display area associated with the specified external object on the AR screen, based on the determined display mode.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Youngchan Woo, Donghee Kang, Choonkyoung Moon, Christian Park, Joayoung Lee, Jiwon Jeon, Hoon Han
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Patent number: 11935201Abstract: An information handling system operating an HMD device may include a video display device to display application images or a fiducial image when the HMD device is worn by a user; the HMD device including: a display device in the HMD device to present to a user an XR (XR) image of a surrounding XR environment; a pass-through camera to detect the fiducial image displayed by the video display device; and an HMD processor to receive data from an HMD wearing sensor indicating that the user is wearing the HMD device and execute computer readable program code to display an XR environment to the user including an XR image version of the application images presented to the user via the video display device; wherein detection of the fiducial image triggers an API with the XR image version of the video display application images via the video display device.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Dell Products LPInventors: Loo Shing Tan, Michiel Knoppert, Gerald Rene Pelissier, Martin Douglas Sawtell
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Patent number: 11927751Abstract: The present application discloses a system and device for displaying content. The system includes two optical units. The two optical units are part of the system that is wearable. Each of the two optical units comprises a front lit display. The system includes an adjustable mounting. The adjustable mounting enables a user to adjust a mounting position of the two optical units.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Sindarin, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Eli Nelson Chelf, John Aaron Boiles, Nicholas Cory Johnson, Kevin Robert McKinney, Steven David Oliver, Tun Yuen Yeung, Keith Alsberg, Jeremiah O'Leary
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Patent number: 11928384Abstract: A computer implemented method of facilitating communication between first and second users includes displaying, by a first head-worn device, a first virtual object to the first user first user wearing the first head-worn device. The method also includes displaying, by a second head-worn device, a second virtual object to the second user wearing the second head-worn device. The method further includes facilitating, by the first and second head-worn devices, communications between the first and second users using the first and second virtual objects to simulate the first and second users being present in a common environment.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Rodolpho C. Cardenuto, David Charles Lundmark
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Patent number: 11927761Abstract: A head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing. The head-mounted housing may have rear-facing display that displays a three-dimensional image to rear eye boxes. The head-mounted device may also have a front-facing display that faces away from the rear eye boxes. The front-facing display may cover a front face of the head-mounted housing. To share content such as content being displayed by the rear-facing displays with external viewers, the head-mounted device may use the front-facing display or a separate display to display images. An accessory that is coupled to the front face of the housing may reflect an image on the front-facing display towards a viewer for viewing. Sensors in the device may detect presence of the accessory. Display projectors and waveguides or optical layers on the front face that overlap the front-facing display may be used to display three-dimensional images to front eye boxes.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Muhammad F. Hossain, Syed F. Mohiuddin
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Patent number: 11927754Abstract: A virtual image display device includes: an image light generating device; a projection optical system configured to project image light emitted from the image light generating device; a folding mirror configured to reflect, in an intersecting direction, the image light from the projection optical system; a semi-transmissive mirror configured to reflect a portion of the image light from the folding mirror; and a concave surface mirror configured to reflect, toward the semi-transmissive mirror, the image light reflected at the semi-transmissive mirror to form an exit pupil, in which an optical axis of the image light extending from the image light generating device to the folding mirror is disposed between a first virtual extension plane obtained by imaginarily extending the semi-transmissive mirror and a second virtual extension plane obtained by imaginarily extending the concave surface mirror.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Daiki Matsumoto, Masatoshi Yonekubo, Takashi Takeda
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Patent number: 11927764Abstract: Disclosed is a head mounted display device. The head mounted display device includes a head mount unit wearable on a head of a user, a display unit supported on the head mount unit and sending an image to eyes of the user, and a position adjustment unit coupled to the head mount unit, connected to the display unit, and moving the display unit relative to the head mount unit such that a position of the display unit varies with respect to the eyes of the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: MEGAGEN IMPLANT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kwang Bum Park, Hyun Wook An, Keun Oh Park, Tae Gyoun Lee
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Patent number: 11924401Abstract: A system and method for displaying a 3D image with depths, which utilize at least one light signal generator to sequentially generate multiple light signals(S100) and at least one optical assembly to receive the multiple light signals from the at least one light signal generator, and project and scan the multiple light signals within a predetermined time period to display the 3D image in space(S200). Each pixel of the 3D image is displayed at a position by at least two of the multiple light signals to a viewer's eye, paths or extensions of the paths of the at least two light signals intersects at the position and at an angle associated with a depth of the pixel, and the predetermined time period is one eighteenth of a second. Accordingly, the advantages of simplified structure, a miniatured size, and a less costly building cost can be ensured.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: HES IP HOLDINGS, LLCInventor: Tai Kuo Chen
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Patent number: 11921288Abstract: A display device includes a light source array including a plurality of light sources where at least one of the plurality of light sources is selectively driven, a spatial light modulator for modulating light from the light source array to form image light, a focusing optical system for focusing the image light formed by the spatial light modulator at a position in a predetermined eye box, a micro mirror array arranged in an optical path formed in the focusing optical system and including a plurality of mirror cells. The plurality of mirror cells are controlled to be in an ON state in that light is reflected in a direction toward an inside of the eye box or to be in an OFF state in that light is reflected in a direction toward an outside of the eye box.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Wontaek Seo, Hongseok Lee, Sunil Kim, Seokil Moon, Bongsu Shin, Daeho Yang, Changkun Lee
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Patent number: 11921966Abstract: Systems and methods related to intelligent typing and responses using eye-gaze technology are disclosed herein. In some example aspects, a dwell-free typing system is provided to a user typing with eye-gaze. A prediction processor may intelligently determine the desired word or action of the user. In some aspects, the prediction processor may contain elements of a natural language processor. In other aspects, the systems and methods may allow quicker response times from applications due to application of intelligent response algorithms. For example, a user may fixate on a certain button within a web-browser, and the prediction processor may present a response to the user by selecting the button in the web-browser, thereby initiating an action. In other example aspects, each gaze location may be associated with a UI element. The gaze data and associated UI elements may be processed for intelligent predictions and suggestions.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Dmytro Rudchenko, Eric N. Badger, Akhilesh Kaza, Jacob Daniel Cohen, Harish S. Kulkarni
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Patent number: 11914149Abstract: A system for generating a virtual image for a wearer includes: a lens providing vision of a real scene and having refractive power related to the prescription of the wearer, a directive light source that emits directive light beams to create the virtual image, a reflecting element positioned on or in the lens that receives and redirects the directive light beams emitted by the directive light source toward a convergence area of an eye of the wearer, a dynamical optical element for modifying the received light beams, and a memory storing prescription data relative to the prescription of the wearer, the dynamical optical element modifying the light beams at the convergence area so as to compensate at least partly the prescription of the wearer.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Essilor InternationalInventor: Vincent Roptin
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Patent number: 11914765Abstract: Systems and methods for overlaying virtual objects in a virtual environment based on user interest and user interactions are disclosed. The methods analyze a live view of a surface viewed through camera or a transparent lens and determine if the policies of the surface allow overlaying of virtual objects. The method fetches a virtual object and calculates a score based on user interest, user gaze, and user engagement. Virtual objects that meet the policies of the surface and a scoring criterion are overlayed on the surface in the virtual environment and enhanced based on a plurality of enhancement factors. Virtual objects are also overlayed in frames of a live broadcast based on their scores. Virtual objects displayed on a conference call interface, which may be meeting tools or icons associated with other conferencing functionality, are enhanced, or removed from the user interface based on their utilization.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.Inventor: Serhad Doken
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Patent number: 11915348Abstract: Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for optimizing visual contents are provided. A particular mathematical object corresponding to a particular visual content in a mathematical space including a plurality of mathematical objects corresponding to visual contents may be determined. The mathematical space and the particular mathematical object may be used to obtain first and second mathematical objects of the plurality of mathematical objects. The visual content corresponding to the first mathematical object may be used in a communication with a first user and the visual content corresponding to the second mathematical object may be used in a communication with a second user. Indications of the reactions of the first and second users to the communications may be received. A third visual content may be obtained based on the reactions. The third visual content may be used in a communication with a third user.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: BRIA ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LTD.Inventors: Yair Adato, Gal Jacobi, Ori Feldstein, Bar Fingerman