With Head Mounted Left-right Displays (epo) Patents (Class 348/E13.041)
  • Patent number: 11960093
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may have displays that provide images. Waveguides may be used in conveying the images to eye boxes. The waveguides may overlap lenses in a glasses frame or other head-mounted support structure. The waveguides and lenses may be transparent. This allows real-world objects to be viewed from the eye boxes. Infrared-light reflectors may overlap the lenses. Gaze tracking system light sources may supply infrared light that reflects from the infrared-light reflectors to the eye boxes to illuminate a user's eyes. Gaze tracking system cameras capture gaze tracking images of the eyes from the eye boxes to track the user's gaze. Fiducials associated with the infrared-light reflectors may be monitored using the gaze tracking system cameras. This allows components such as the gaze tracking system cameras to be calibrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brian S. Lau, David A. Kalinowski, Michael J. Oudenhoven
  • Patent number: 11869137
    Abstract: The electronic apparatus includes a memory stored with a multiple light field unit (LFU) structure in which a plurality of light fields is arranged in a lattice structure, and a processor configured to, based on a view position within the lattice structure being determined, generate a 360-degree image based on the view position by using the multiple LFU structure, and the processor is configured to select an LFU to which the view position belongs from among the multiple LFU structure, allocate a rendering field-of-view (FOV) in predetermined degrees based on the view position, generate a plurality of view images based on a plurality of light fields comprising the selected LFU and the allocated FOV, and generate the 360-degree image by incorporating the generated plurality of view images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: INHA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Chae Eun Rhee, Hyunmin Jung, Hyuk-Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 11740478
    Abstract: A display unit and a lens included in a display device constitute a plurality of display optical systems that display a video for each of a user's left eye and right eye. The display device includes a diopter change instruction unit and a diopter change driving unit that can change a diopter related to the plurality of display optical systems, and an object position calculation unit that calculates an object position of a display object in a video. The diopter change instruction unit gives a driving instruction to the diopter change driving unit on the basis of information acquired from a user information recording unit and an operation mode recording unit that record information on usage conditions of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kyouhei Suzuki, Ryo Yamasaki, Makoto Oikawa, Shunsuke Ninomiya
  • Patent number: 11520152
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may have displays that provide images. Waveguides may be used in conveying the images to eye boxes. The waveguides may overlap lenses in a glasses frame or other head-mounted support structure. The waveguides and lenses may be transparent. This allows real-world objects to be viewed from the eye boxes. Infrared-light reflectors may overlap the lenses. Gaze tracking system light sources may supply infrared light that reflects from the infrared-light reflectors to the eye boxes to illuminate a user's eyes. Gaze tracking system cameras capture gaze tracking images of the eyes from the eye boxes to track the user's gaze. Fiducials associated with the infrared-light reflectors may be monitored using the gaze tracking system cameras. This allows components such as the gaze tracking system cameras to be calibrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brian S. Lau, David A. Kalinowski, Michael J. Oudenhoven
  • Patent number: 10359633
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a head-mounted display which comprises: a light source; a lens part disposed on the optical axis of the light source; an image display part disposed apart from the lens part; a body disposed apart from the image display part, including a correction lens having protruding parts disposed at the center of the top and bottom surfaces thereof, and having a first hole, forming a path through which the protruding parts pass and the correction lens moves, disposed in a direction parallel to the optical axis; a correction lens position adjusting part having at least one second hole disposed therein which is coupled to the protruding parts passing through the first hole, surrounding the body, and moving in a direction parallel to the optical axis; and an image viewing part connected to the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Bok Choi, Sang Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 10231030
    Abstract: Digital content items may include additional content such as advertisements. Placement of the additional content may be based on a characteristic of the digital content item and/or a characteristic of a consumer of the digital content item. In one implementation, a level of interest is determined for multiple time points in a digital content item and an advertisement is located in the digital item based on the level of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Roy F. Price
  • Patent number: 10203752
    Abstract: Introduced herein are a variety of techniques for displaying virtual and augmented reality content to a user through head-mounted display (HMD). The techniques described herein can be used to improve the effectiveness of the HMD, as well as general experience and comfort of a user of the HMD. For example, a binocular HMD system could modify the overlap of digital content in real-time so that the two separate images can be viewed without visual discomfort. The HMD system could also present visual stabilizers to each eye allow the user to more easily visually align the two separate images when viewed together. Techniques such as these decrease the eye fatigue and strain experienced by the user when viewing virtual or augmented reality content on HMDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: EYE LABS, LLC
    Inventor: Sina Fateh
  • Patent number: 9918629
    Abstract: A fundus imaging system includes: an image sensor array, where the image sensor array includes monochrome photodiodes and global shutter control, an illumination unit with one or more light-emitting diodes that have one or more dies, a computing system including a processor and memory, one or more lenses, one or more reflective mirrors, and a display. In an example method of use, a clinician positions a patient, initiates a focal adjustment, initiates a retinal imaging process, and the same or a different clinician views the image. In some embodiments, the imaging system is configured to analyze the image and identify detected physical attributes in the image relating to the diagnosis and treatment of diabetic retinopathy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Welch Allyn, Inc.
    Inventor: Ynjiun Paul Wang
  • Patent number: 9848768
    Abstract: A target presenting apparatus includes: a display for emitting a target light flux; a concave mirror for receiving the target light flux in such a manner as to displace the target light flux from an optical axis thereof; a housing for accommodating the concave mirror and the display therein; and an optical member, placed in the housing, for guiding the target light flux from the inside to the outside of the housing to present a target to an examinee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Kanazawa, Noriji Kawai, Ryoji Suzuki, Toshihiro Kobayashi, Yukito Hirayama, Kazunori Shibata
  • Patent number: 9798384
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus of tracking an eye gaze to determine where a gaze point of a user is located on a display unit of a device, based on a facial pose and a position of an iris center, are provided. The method includes detecting a facial feature in a captured initial image, three-dimensionally modeling the detected facial feature, tracking the three-dimensionally modeled facial feature in consecutively captured images, detecting an iris center in the consecutively captured images, acquiring an eye gaze vector based on the tracked three-dimensionally modeled facial feature and the detected iris center, and acquiring a gaze point on a display unit based on the eye gaze vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Adam Strupczewski, Jacek Naruniec, Kamil Mucha, Blazej Czuprynski
  • Patent number: 9760811
    Abstract: A printing apparatus for performing printing in an inkjet mode includes an inkjet head, and a controller. The controller controls the inkjet head such that the inkjet head performs printing on a medium in a multi-pass mode. In each printing pass performed on each position of the medium, the controller controls the inkjet head such that the inkjet head ejects ink drops onto pixels designated by a mask data item. In a case where the spatial frequencies of the arrangement of ink dots formed on the medium during a first printing pass of the printing passes are referred to as first frequencies, and the spatial frequencies of the arrangement of ink dots formed on the medium during a second printing pass later than the first printing pass are referred to as second frequencies, the first frequencies are frequencies lower than the second frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Harayama
  • Patent number: 9759932
    Abstract: Embodiments according to the present disclosure are directed to, for example, head mounted eyewear (e.g., similar in form to traditional eye glasses) that includes low light vision enhancing and/or additional vision enhancing capabilities (e.g., near-vision enhancing capabilities). For example, in some embodiments, a head mounted housing arrangement is provided that includes an eyepiece adjacent to a wearer's eye, one or more imaging devices (e.g., one or more solid state or other imagers sensitive to light, including low light levels), one or more image generator(s) operatively coupled to the imager(s) (e.g., optically coupled, in electrical communication with, or wirelessly coupled) to receive an output from the imaging device(s), and/or one or more optical elements (e.g., a combination of mirror(s) and/or lenses). The one or more optical elements may place an output of the image generator(s) into a position that is visible to the wearer's eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Regener-Eyes, LLC
    Inventors: Sean Ainsworth, Peter Francis, Thomas J. Rea
  • Patent number: 9727717
    Abstract: A mobile device comprises a pupil information collecting module and a master control module, such that the pupil information collecting module may be used for collecting pupil characteristic information of a user. The master control module may receive the pupil characteristic information of the user when the user accesses a controlled unit, and may determine, on the basis of the pupil characteristic in formation of the user, if the user is allowed to access the controlled unit. The mobile device may use the pupil characteristic information of the user to perform identity verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: HUIZHOU TCL MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20130128012
    Abstract: To overcome problems with vergence, a binocular head mounted display (HMD) is used in a simulator in which an out-the-window scene is displayed in real time on a screen arrangement. Imagery for the left and right eyes of the HMD is derived by generating a starting HMD image for a Cyclops viewpoint between the user's eves, and then rendering respective views for each eve from the position of the eye in a virtual 3D model of the screen arrangement, wherein the starting HMD image is frustum projected against the screen arrangement of the 3D model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: L-3 COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: James A. Turner
  • Publication number: 20120293621
    Abstract: [Object] To enable suitable automatic switching of shutter glasses when receiving a multiplexed stream including, in a time sharing manner, a first video stream in which 2-dimensional image data has been inserted and a second video stream in which 3-dimensional image data has been inserted, and performing image display. [Solution] Advance information obtained from a transport stream is inserted at the transmission side with leeway of time T as to the switching timing between the first video stream and the second video stream. Based on this advance information, a shutter mode switching command is transmitted from a shutter control unit to shutter glasses, at a timing earlier than shutter mode switching timing. Based on this shutter mode switching command, the shutter mode is switched at the shutter glasses in accordance with the switching timing from the 3-dimensional image display to the 2-dimensional image display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo Tsukagoshi, Katsunori Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20120182398
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus for obtaining status information of a crystalline lens and equipment including the same. The apparatus generates a reference light and directs the reference light to be perpendicularly incident to the crystalline lens. At least one light receiving unit that is disposed beyond a visual field of the eyeball is configured to directly receive scattered lights generated when the reference light incident from the light source unit to the crystalline lens is scattered against the crystalline lens. The apparatus calculates thickness information of the crystalline lens using information about the scattered lights received by the at least one light receiving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventors: Dae-Shik Seo, Byoung-Yong Kim
  • Publication number: 20110285831
    Abstract: A timing signal generation unit of a content playback device generates a shutter control signal requesting the opening or closing of a shutter of a lens among one or more lenses of a pair of shutter glasses worn by a user viewing a display panel adapted to display content, and a backlight control signal requesting a backlight of the display panel to be turned on at least when the shutter is open. A transmitter unit transmits the shutter control signal to the shutter glasses. The timing signal generation unit changes at least one of the timing of turning on the backlight or the timing of opening the shutter of the lens of the shutter glasses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Akio Ohba, Hiroyuki Segawa, Tetsugo Inada