With Right And Left Channel Discriminator (e.g., Polarized Or Colored Light) Patents (Class 359/464)
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Patent number: 12222579Abstract: An optical element driving mechanism is provided. The optical element driving mechanism includes a first movable portion, a fixed portion, a first driving assembly, and a first guiding assembly. The first movable portion is used for connecting to a first optical element driving mechanism. The first optical element driving mechanism has a main axis that extends in a first direction. The first movable portion is movable relative to the fixed portion. The first driving assembly is used for driving the first movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion. The first guiding assembly is used for guiding the movement of the fixed portion relative to the fixed portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.Inventors: Ya-Hsiu Wu, Ying-Jen Wang, Sin-Jhong Song
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Patent number: 12218519Abstract: A charging pad for transmitting wireless power waves for charging an electronic device is disclosed. The charging pad includes transmitting antenna elements that are configured to be selectively activated to transmit wireless power waves to the electronic device for wireless charging. The charging pad includes a charging surface including a guiding contour that aligns a position of the electronic device on the charging surface such that a transmitting antenna element is within a predetermined distance of the electronic device and has a predetermined coupling efficiency. The charging pad further includes a transmitter controller integrated circuit (IC).Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Energous CorporationInventors: Richard Muryanto, Yunhong Liu, Gabriel Joseph Cohn
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Patent number: 12182945Abstract: Methods and systems for reductions in switching between depth planes of a multi-depth plane display system are disclosed. The display system may be an augmented reality display system configured to provide virtual content on a plurality of depth planes using different wavefront divergence. The system may monitor the fixation points based upon the gaze of each of the user's eyes, with each fixation point being a three-dimensional location in the user's field of view. Location information of virtual objects to be presented to the user are obtained, with each virtual object being associated with a depth plane. In some embodiments, the depth plane on which the virtual object is to be presented is modified based upon the fixation point of the user's eyes. For example, where the user is switching their fixation between virtual objects on two different depth planes, the display system may be configured to modify the presentation of one of the objects such that both objects are placed on the same depth plane.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.Inventors: Nicole Elizabeth Samec, Nastasja U. Robaina, Christopher M. Harrises, Mark Baerenrodt
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Patent number: 12177612Abstract: A projection display system includes a light source assembly, a wavelength adjusting assembly, and a modulation assembly. The light source assembly is configured to emit projected light. The wavelength adjusting assembly is disposed on an optical path of the projected light for adjusting spectrum of the projected light, and a ratio of luminous efficacy of adjusted projected light to luminous efficacy of monochromatic light corresponding to a dominant wavelength of the projected light is greater than a preset ratio, and color gamut of the adjusted projected light satisfies a preset color gamut coverage. The modulation assembly is disposed on a light exiting path of the wavelength adjusting assembly and configured to modulate light emitted by the wavelength adjusting assembly and output corresponding image light to form projection image.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Appotronics Corporation LimitedInventors: Chen-Sheng Gong, Chen Chen, Fei Hu, Xin Yu, Zu-Qiang Guo
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Patent number: 12175776Abstract: A head-mounted display, a display control method, and a program that facilitate a user to understand proximity between the user and an object around the user are provided. A display block (36) is arranged in front of the eyes of the user wearing a HMD (12). In accordance with proximity between the user and an object around the user, the HMD (12) controls the display block (36) so as to have the user visually recognize a forward direction of the display block (36).Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Yuichiro Nakamura, Yasushi Okumura
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Patent number: 12163642Abstract: A lighting device includes a light emitting module and an optical element including first and second liquid crystal cells. Each of the first and second liquid crystal cells includes first and second transparent electrodes extending in a first direction and third and fourth transparent electrodes extending in a second direction. The light emitting module includes a light source, a light guide plate including an end surface into which light emitted from the light source is incident and a first surface from which the light incident into the end surface is emitted, and a prism sheet disposed opposite to the first surface. The second substrate of the first liquid crystal cell and the first substrate of the second liquid crystal cell are adjacent to each other. The first surface includes a plurality of first grooves extending in a third direction intersecting the first direction and the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2023Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kojiro Ikeda, Takeo Koito, Tae Kurokawa, Keiji Takizawa
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Patent number: 12153289Abstract: The present disclosure relates to means of managing eye-length disorders, like myopia. The invention includes an apparatus and methods for the prescription, selection, supply and fitting of sets, stocks, or kits of pairs of myopia management spectacles, or spectacle fronts, attachable impermanent auxiliary optical films or mini optical elements used in conjunction with standard single vision spectacles, wherein the apparatus and methods are configured to provide substantially toric, or astigmatic, or asymmetric, directional optical cues to decelerate, ameliorate, control, inhibit, or reduce the rate of myopia progression over time, wherein the method is a prescribed care regimen providing temporal and spatial variation to the directional optical cues or stop signals.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignees: NTHALMIC HOLDING PTY LTD, Zhong Jing Wei Shi (Suzhou) Optical Technology LtdInventor: Ravi Chandra Bakaraju
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Patent number: 12113956Abstract: A first virtual image and a second virtual image are obtained, based on a relative location of a first eye and a second eye of user(s) with respect to an image plane of a display device. The display device includes a backlight, a first polarizer and a second polarizer, a first liquid crystal (LC) layer and a second LC layer arranged between the first polarizer and the second polarizer and having a gap. Drive signals are generated, based on the first virtual image, the second virtual image, and the relative location of the first eye and the second eye. The first LC layer and the second LC layer are controlled using the drive signals, to adjust a polarization of light passing therethrough, for producing a synthetic light field presenting the first virtual image and the second virtual image to the first eye and the second eye, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2024Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: DISTANCE TECHNOLOGIES OyInventor: Mikko Strandborg
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Patent number: 12044858Abstract: A head-mounted display system includes a frame; an adjustable strap assembly that includes a first side strap coupled to the frame; a second side strap coupled to the frame; and an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a circumferential size defined by the first side strap, the second side strap, and the frame; a see-through display assembly pivotably coupled to the frame; a first temple housing pivotably coupled to the frame and slidably coupled to the first side strap; and a second temple housing pivotably coupled to the frame and slidably coupled to the second side strap.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2023Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: AUGMEDICS LTD.Inventors: Tomer Gera, Yaacov Hillel Rothschild, Boris Nemirovsky
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Patent number: 12044856Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes a frame; a head mounting assembly; and a see-through display assembly coupled to the frame; the see-through display assembly including a display assembly frame; a waveguide lens coupled to the display assembly frame; an anterior lens affixed to the waveguide lens or to the display assembly frame in front of the waveguide lens; a posterior lens frame detachably coupled to the display assembly frame using at least one of: a snap fit, a friction fit, or a clip; and a posterior lens affixed to the posterior lens frame.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2023Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: AUGMEDICS LTD.Inventors: Tomer Gera, Yaacov Hillel Rothschild, Boris Nemirovsky
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Patent number: 12007677Abstract: An optical engine unit and a projection system are provided. The optical engine unit includes a light splitting assembly, first and second spatial light modulators, and a light combining assembly. The light splitting assembly splits an illumination beam incident on the light splitting assembly into first and second light beams. The first and second spatial light modulators respectively modulate the first and second light beams to form first and second modulated light beams. The light combining apparatus includes a light combining surface. The light combining surface is a coated surface and configured to combine the first modulated light beam and the second modulated light beam into an emergent light beam and emit the emergent light beam. An incident angle of the first modulated light beam on the light combining surface and that of the second modulated light beam being smaller than a total reflection angle of the light combining surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: APPOTRONICS CORPORATION LIMITEDInventors: Fei Hu, Peng Du
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Patent number: 12002431Abstract: The present disclosure provides a three-dimensional (3D) display system and a display method of the 3D display system. The 3D display system includes a display device and 3D glasses, the display device includes a plurality of first micro light emitting diodes, a plurality of second micro light emitting diodes, and a plurality of third micro light emitting diodes which are uniformly distributed. The 3D glasses include a first lens and a second lens. The first micro light emitting diodes and the second micro light emitting diodes are alternately turned on, the third micro light emitting diodes are turned off, or the third micro light emitting diodes and the second micro light emitting diodes are simultaneously turned on.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Zhenfei Cai
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Patent number: 11971614Abstract: A contact lens comprises a variable focal length lens embedded within the contact lens and a plurality of oxygen channels extending from an oxygen-permeable outer layer of the contact lens to an oxygen-permeable inner layer of the contact lens. The variable focal length lens is embedded within a non-oxygen-permeable core layer of the contact lens. The contact lens comprises a controller configured to change the operating mode of the contact lens by adjusting the focal distance of the variable focal length lens, for instance in response to an input from a user or in response to determining that the user is looking at a nearby object. For instance, the controller can configure the contact lens to operate in a reading mode or in a normal focus mode.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Tectus CorporationInventor: Brian Elliot Lemoff
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Patent number: 11957032Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display system. The display system includes a backlight configured to emit substantially collimated polarized light from an emission surface thereof. The emitted polarized light is polarized along a polarization direction. The display system further includes a display panel configured to receive an illumination light and form an image. The display system further includes a grating system substantially coextensive in length and width with the display panel and the emission surface. The grating system includes a plurality of substantially parallel elongated features extending along an in-plane first direction and arranged along an orthogonal in-plane second direction. The grating system is configured to receive and transmit an incident polarized light as a first transmitted light having different first and second polarization states in response to different respective first and second signals applied to the grating system.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Stephen J. Etzkorn, Michael L. Steiner, Kevin W. Gotrik, Luke A. Schroeder, Nicholas A. Johnson, John A. Wheatley
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Patent number: 11953693Abstract: An athletic eyeglasses system and method for monitoring and displaying to an athlete relevant information such as elapsed time and heart rate, in real time, without diversion of attention from the view ahead and without extraneous movement of hands or arms, providing an eyeglasses frame, two frame arms, two display glass units having data displays, a controller unit, a battery, a covered port for charging the battery, input buttons, a timer starter, and a sensor to sense physiological conditions such as heart rate and peripheral oxygen saturation.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Inventor: Cedric Bagneris
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Patent number: 11934045Abstract: This eyewear is provided with: a frame; a lens which is supported by the frame, and which includes an optical characteristic varying portion having an optical characteristic which is varied by means of electric control; a communication portion for receiving information from an external terminal; and a control portion for controlling the optical characteristic varying portion on the basis of the information received from the external terminal.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Ryuki Kan, Takafumi Ohto, Akihiro Muramatsu, Eiichiro Hikosaka, Akifumi Aono
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Patent number: 11924396Abstract: A depth camera assembly (DCA) for depth sensing of a local area. The DCA includes a transmitter, a receiver, and a controller. The transmitter illuminates a local area with outgoing light in accordance with emission instructions. The transmitter includes a fine steering element and a coarse steering element. The fine steering element deflects one or more optical beams at a first deflection angle to generate one or more first order deflected scanning beams. The coarse steering element deflects the one or more first order deflected scanning beams at a second deflection angle to generate the outgoing light projected into the local area. The receiver captures one or more images of the local area including portions of the outgoing light reflected from the local area. The controller determines depth information for one or more objects in the local area based in part on the captured one or more images.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Michael Hall, Qing Chao, Byron Taylor, Xinqiao Liu
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Patent number: 11924399Abstract: A stereoscopic display device including a barrier panel is provided. When a viewing distance of a viewer is out of the proper range, the stereoscopic display device may shift the blocking regions and the transmitting regions of the barrier panel. The stereoscopic display device may maintain the ratio of channels located within a barrier blocking region and a barrier transmitting region of the barrier panel by using the channels disposed within trigger regions of the barrier panel. Thus, the stereoscopic display device may provide a stereoscopic image of good quality to the viewer located at a region being out of the proper range.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: You-Yong Jin, Hoon Kang, Byung-Joo Lee, Bu-Yeol Lee, Wook Jeon, Hee-Jin Im, Yong-Ku Lee, Ju-Hoon Jang, Dong-Yeon Kim, Woon-Chan Moon
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Patent number: 11899212Abstract: An image display method for a head mounted display (300) is disclosed. The head mounted display (300) includes a first display screen (3011) and a second display screen (3012). In a first time period S1 of an ith display cycle T, the head mounted display (300) displays an ith frame of a first image on the first display screen (3011). After stopping displaying the ith frame of the first image, the head mounted display (300) displays an ith frame of a second image on the second display screen (3012) in a second time period S2 of T. After the second time period, no image is displayed on the first display screen (3011) and the second display screen (3012). According to the method, a peak current of a device when displaying an image can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Shixian Wang, Yuchao Zhang, Hailin Yuan, Jian Chen
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Patent number: 11892708Abstract: A stereoscopic optical system includes two parallel optical systems that each include, in order from an object side to an image side, a front unit having a negative refractive power, an intermediate unit having two reflective surfaces, and a rear unit. A distance between optical axes of rear units is smaller than that between optical axes of front units in the two optical systems due to bending of an optical path by the two reflective surfaces. At least one of the intermediate unit and the rear unit has a positive refractive power. The front unit includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first subunit consisting of one or more negative lenses disposed on the object side of a positive lens closest to an object in the front unit, and a second subunit having a positive power. A predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takayoshi Yokoyama, Kentaro Mori
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Patent number: 11889234Abstract: Systems for displaying images in a cinema setting can include components to reduce screen-door effect. The systems can include an array of light emitting sources (102) or other active sources of light. In one example, the light emitting source emit pixels of light to a projection lens (124) to project an image represented by the projection lens and a baffle (150) and an aperture stop (118) can block part of the light from the sources that exceeds an allowable cone angle of acceptable of the system. In another example, a display includes the array of light emitting sources and additional elements, such as diffuser elements, positioned in front of the array of light emitting sources.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: IMAX Theatres International LimitedInventors: Barry Silverstein, Steen Svendstorp Iversen, Steven Charles Read, Denis Tremblay, Anton Leonard Baljet, Jesse Donald McMullen-Crummey, Andrew F. Kurtz, John W. Bowron
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Patent number: 11852888Abstract: An optical element driving mechanism is provided. The optical element driving mechanism includes a first movable portion, a fixed portion, a first driving assembly, and a first guiding assembly. The first movable portion is used for connecting to a first optical element driving mechanism. The first optical element driving mechanism has a main axis that extends in a first direction. The first movable portion is movable relative to the fixed portion. The first driving assembly is used for driving the first movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion. The first guiding assembly is used for guiding the movement of the fixed portion relative to the fixed portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.Inventors: Ya-Hsiu Wu, Ying-Jen Wang, Sin-Jhong Song
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Patent number: 11822086Abstract: A see-through illuminator for a reflective display panel provides a better image contrast when the illuminator is configured to direct a leakage light beam exiting the lightguide from a side opposing the display panel to propagate non-parallel to an image light formed by reflection of an illuminating light beam from the display panel. An objective lens may concentrate the image and leakage light beams at different locations, enabling a user's eye placed at a location of the image light beam to see the projected image without interference from the leakage light beam.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Sihui He, Wanli Chi, Ying Geng, Jacques Gollier
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Patent number: 11806606Abstract: A light guide plate for presenting a stereoscopic image via parallax includes: a plurality of deflectors arranged in rows parallel to an incidence surface through which light from a light source enters the light guide plate, the light totally reflecting inside the light guide plate while being guided therethrough, the plurality of deflectors including a reflection surface for reflecting and causing an emission surface to emit said light; and the reflection surfaces in a row of the plurality of deflectors are all oriented in the same direction with the orientation of the reflection surfaces changing for each row in accordance with distance from the incidence surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Jun Kishimoto, Yoshihiko Takagi
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Patent number: 11759105Abstract: An illumination system for producing a spatially distributed illumination pattern for measuring the cornea of an eye and, in particular, for determining the topography of the eye. In so doing, the system facilitates distance-independent measurements. The illumination system includes an illumination unit, an optical element for collimating the illumination light and a unit for producing a spatially distributed illumination pattern in the form of a fraxicon. In particular, the illumination unit includes a plurality of illumination modules which are arranged such that each illumination module illuminates part of the fraxicon, and consequently a full-area illumination is facilitated. The system for producing a spatially distributed illumination pattern serves to determine the topography of the cornea of an eye. Here, the system is designed as a compact module, and so it can be easily combined with other measurement systems, without interfering with the beam paths thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2017Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Beate Bƶhme, Rico Fuchs, GĆ¼nter Rudolph, Michael GĆ¼ntzschel, Jƶrg Meissner, Thomas Mohr, Daniel Bublitz
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Patent number: 11747140Abstract: A sensing element includes a plurality of sensing pixel areas arranged in matrix, wherein each of the plurality of sensing pixel areas includes a first pixel, a second pixel, a first shielding layer, a second shielding layer and at least one micro lens. The second pixel is adjacent to the first pixel in a predetermined direction. The first shielding layer is disposed on the first pixel and has a first opening, wherein an aperture of the first opening increases along the predetermined direction from a center of the first pixel. The second shielding layer is disposed on the second pixel and has a second opening, wherein a shape of the second opening is mirror symmetrical with that of the first opening in the predetermined direction. The at least one micro lens is disposed on the first shielding layer and the second shielding layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.Inventors: En-Feng Hsu, Chia-Yu Liu
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Patent number: 11668951Abstract: Laser or narrow band light sources (e.g., red, green, and blue) are utilized to form left (e.g., R1, G1, B1) and right (e.g., R2, G2, B2) images of a 3D projection. Off-axis viewing of the projections which has the potential to cause crosstalk and/or loss of energy/brightness in any channel or color, is eliminated (or reduced to only highly oblique viewing angles) via the combined use of any of guard bands between light bands of adjacent channels, curvature of viewing filters, and selection of passband wavelengths that maximize usability of the passband as it āshiftsā due to varying or increasing angles of off-axis viewing. Implemented with any number of light sources, the light sources selected may also be converted to showing 2D images where the additional light sources are utilized to affect a desirable increase in color gamut.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATIONInventor: Martin J. Richards
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Patent number: 11663367Abstract: An information handling display presents visual images in a privacy mode that manages visual image brightness with a local processing resource when a predetermined condition is detected, such as multiple individuals in the display field of view. For example, an information handling system provides visual information to a display timing controller that includes a pulse width modulation signal to command display backlight brightness. When in a privacy mode, the timing controller or another processing resource modifies the pulse width modulation signal to command a predetermined reduced brightness, such as in a range of 30 to 50 nits of reduced brightness.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Kuo-Wei Tseng, Yu-Chen Liu, Dan Odell Boice, Hong-Ji Huang, Chi-Fong Lee
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Patent number: 11646606Abstract: A machine implemented method includes alternately energizing multiple transmit coils in a first device, receiving indications of received signal strength at receive coils in a second device, selecting a first pair of coils including a first transmit coil and a first receive coil having the greatest received signal strength, and transferring energy from the first transmit coil to the first receive coil.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Praveen Kumar Palacharla, Jay Michael Fassett, Daniel Tsuteh Chian, RubƩn Caballero
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Patent number: 11604378Abstract: A display device includes a light source, a liquid crystal panel including a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel adjacent to the first sub-pixel in a first direction, and an optical control element including a light shielding layer. Each of the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel has a first width in the first direction. The light shielding layer includes an opening portion having a second width in the first direction. The second width is 1.5 times the first width. In all of light rays irradiated from the light source and transmitting through the opening portion, an angle between a first light ray transmitting through the first sub-pixel and emitted to an outside and the second light ray transmitting through the second sub-pixel and emitted to the outside is less than or equal to 2 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Go Miyazaki, Shuji Hayashi, Takeo Koito
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Patent number: 11598995Abstract: A beam shaping device (1; 31) comprising first (3; 33) and second (4; 37) optically transparent substrates, a liquid crystal layer (2; 36) sandwiched there between, and first (5; 34) and second (6; 35) electrodes arranged on a side of the liquid crystal layer (2; 36) facing the first substrate (3; 34). The beam shaping device (1; 31) is controllable between beam-shaping states, each permitting passage of light through the beam-shaping device in a direction perpendicular thereto. The beam shaping device (1; 31) is configured in such a way that application of a voltage (V) across the first (5; 34) and second (6; 35) electrodes results in an electric field having a portion essentially parallel to the liquid crystal layer (2; 36) in a segment thereof between neighboring portions of the electrodes (5, 6; 34; 35) and extending substantially from the first substrate (3; 34) to the second (4; 35) substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet, Ties van Bommel, Thomas Caspar Kraan, Leon Hendrikus Christiaan Kusters, Siebe Tjerk DeZwart, Oscar Hendrikus Willemsen, Marcellinus Petrus Carolus Michael Krijn
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Patent number: 11595628Abstract: A system and method for the projection of virtual 3-D images onto a surface with perspective shifting viewing capability including: a source of data for at least two different paired left-right view sets of one subject, an image reflecting surface, and a projector capable of simultaneously projecting pairs of left-right view sets, and capable of changing projected left-right view sets of images from a first set to a second set to create a stereopsis effect in which content of a complete projected image appears to move in perspective.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Inventor: Thomas S. Sibley
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Patent number: 11573437Abstract: A switchable privacy display comprises an emissive SLM, a parallax barrier, a switchable LC retarder, and passive retarders arranged between parallel output polarisers. In privacy mode, on-axis light from the SLM is directed without loss, whereas the parallax barrier and retarder layers cooperate to increase the VSL to off-axis snoopers. The display may be rotated to achieve privacy operation in landscape and portrait orientations. In public mode, the LC retardance is adjusted so that off-axis luminance is increased so that the image visibility is increased for multiple users. The display may also switch between day-time and night-time operation, for example for use in an automotive environment. A low reflectivity emissive display for use in ambient illumination comprises a SLM with emissive pixels, an absorptive parallax barrier and a high spectral leakage optical isolator. Head-on light from the pixels is directed with increased transmission efficiency while ambient light is strongly absorbed.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: RealD Spark, LLCInventors: Graham J. Woodgate, Michael G. Robinson, Jonathan Harrold, Robert A. Ramsey
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Patent number: 11509877Abstract: An image display device includes a processor that sets a location of a virtual image plane on which a virtual image is formed according to depth information included in first image data and generates second image data obtained by correcting the first image data based on the set location of the virtual image plane; an image forming optical system including a display element configured to modulate light to form a display image according to the second image data and a light transfer unit that forms the virtual image on the virtual image plane, the virtual image corresponding to the display image formed by the display element, the light transfer unit comprising a focusing member; and a drive unit that drives the image forming optical system to adjust the location of the virtual image plane.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuntae Kim, Bongsu Shin, Geeyoung Sung, Hongseok Lee
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Patent number: 11404918Abstract: Eyewear and receptacles for housing such eyewear include components of a wireless power transfer system. The eyewear includes a receiver system for receiving power from a transmission system associated with the receptacle(s). The receiver system includes at least one receiver antenna, for receiving wireless power from the transmission system, and a repeater antenna for repeating the wireless power signal to the receiver antenna. The receiver antenna is positioned proximate to a first arm of the eyewear and the repeater is positioned proximate to a second arm of the eyewear. Positioning of the receiver and repeater antennas allows for positional freedom of the eyewear and/or the arms of the eyewear, when mechanically received by the receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: NuCurrent, Inc.Inventors: Pratik Halyal, Pavel Shostak, Alberto Peralta
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Patent number: 11385466Abstract: A head mounted display device includes a lens assembly which changes a path of light; a main display module which outputs a main image and is positioned in front of the lens assembly; a main optical block which shields at least a portion of a light representing the main image such that the light representing the main image faces the lens assembly; a sub-display module disposed on a side of the main optical block and which outputs a sub-image; a sub-optical block positioned on the side of the main optical block and which shields at least a portion of a light representing the sub-image; and a light path converter positioned in the sub-optical block and which changes a path of the light representing the sub-image such that the light representing the sub-image faces the lens assembly.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Cheon Myeong Lee, Young Chan Kim, Jae Ho You, Min Gyeong Jo, Joo Woan Cho
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Patent number: 11385472Abstract: Three dimensional (3D) glasses suited for wearers with varying facial geometries may include a frame adapted to position spectrally filtering lenses at a particular distance from the eyes of the wearer. The 3D glasses may include a means for adjusting the distance between the lenses and the eyes of the wearer. The lenses may include positive runout.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Barret Lippey, Martin J. Richards, Christopher L. Huang, Thao Hovanky, Wilson Heaton Allen
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Patent number: 11363942Abstract: An optical system for use with a stereo video endoscope with a fixed lateral viewing direction. The optical system including: a laterally-viewing distal optical assembly; and a proximal optical assembly, the distal optical assembly and proximal optical assembly jointly establishing a beam path, the proximal optical assembly including: a left channel lens system; and a right channel lens system similarly configured to the left channel lens system; wherein the distal optical assembly establishes an optical axis and is configured to couple incident light along the beam path from an object space into the left channel lens system and into the right channel lens system of the proximal optical assembly; and the optical system comprises an angle-selective optical element with a surface oriented perpendicular to the optical axis of the distal optical assembly, the surface being located in the beam path and coated with an incidence-angle-selective dielectric coating.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventors: Peter Schouwink, Jianxin Zhao
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Patent number: 11355966Abstract: An example system charges an electronic device using wirelessly transmitted radio-frequency power (RF) waves. The system includes the electronic device with one or more movable arms. At least one movable arm includes a receiving antenna element. The system further includes a charging pad that includes a housing. The housing includes at least one guiding contour on a surface that is configured for align a position of the electronic device on the surface of the housing. The charging pad further includes transmitting antenna elements that are selectively activated to transmit radio-frequency power waves to the receiving antenna element of the electronic device. The system also includes a transmitter controller integrated circuit (IC) configured to selectively activate a respective transmitting antenna element of the transmitting antenna elements. Activating the respective transmitting antenna element causes transmission of the radio-frequency power waves to the receiving antenna element of the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: ENERGOUS CORPORATIONInventors: Richard Muryanto, Yunhong Liu, Gabriel Joseph Cohn
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Patent number: 11315307Abstract: Pointers are added to a 3D volumetric dataset to help the user visualize the direction of blood flow. A 3D volume containing at least one blood vessel is created. Next, the direction of the blood flow is determined. Next, at least pointer is placed into the 3D volume in an aligned fashion with the direction of blood flow such that the 3D volume is modified. Next, the modified 3D volume is displayed on a head display unit, such as an augmented reality or virtual reality display. Next, at least one pointer is advanced to a new position for additional modification of the 3D imaging volume.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: TIPPING POINT MEDICAL IMAGES, LLCInventors: Robert Edwin Douglas, David Byron Douglas
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Patent number: 11275242Abstract: Pointers are added to a 3D volumetric dataset to help the user visualize the direction of blood flow. A 3D volume containing at least one blood vessel is created. Next, the direction of the blood flow is determined. Next, at least pointer is placed into the 3D volume in an aligned fashion with the direction of blood flow such that the 3D volume is modified. Next, the modified 3D volume is displayed on a head display unit, such as an augmented reality or virtual reality display. Next, at least one pointer is advanced to a new position for additional modification of the 3D imaging volume.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: TIPPING POINT MEDICAL IMAGES, LLCInventors: Robert Edwin Douglas, David Byron Douglas
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Patent number: 11215820Abstract: A three-dimensional display apparatus comprises a display panel (display element) and a parallax barrier (optical element). The display panel displays a left-eye image and a right-eye image respectively in first subpixels and second subpixels. The parallax barrier transmits at least part of the left-eye image toward the left eye, and at least part of the right-eye image toward the right eye. A first certain number of the first subpixels and of the second subpixels are each successively arranged in each column. A region in which the first subpixels are arranged and a region in which the second subpixels are arranged are displaced from each other by a second certain number between two adjacent columns. The first certain number is greater than the second certain number and is not a multiple of the second certain number.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2018Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignees: OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY, KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Hideya Takahashi, Goro Hamagishi, Kaoru Kusafuka
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Patent number: 11209651Abstract: A display system includes a light projection device operatively coupled to an image source that generates image data. The system also includes a composite variable focus element (VFE) assembly operatively coupled to the light projection device, the composite VFE assembly comprising a first VFE arranged in series with a second VFE to provide image frames corresponding to the image data for display. The first VFE is configured to switch between focal states within a first focal range and with a first switching response time. The second VFE is configured to switch between focal states within a second focal range and with a second switching response time. The first focal range is greater than the second focal range. The first switching response time is slower than the second switching response time.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventor: William Hudson Welch
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Patent number: 11200730Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to continuous and/or binocular time warping methods to account for head movement of the user without having to re-render a displayed image. Continuous time warping allows for transformation of an image from a first perspective to a second perspective of the viewer without having to re-render the image from the second perspective. Binocular time warp refers to the late-frame time warp used in connection with a display device including a left display unit for the left eye and a right display unit for the right eye where the late-frame time warp is performed separately for the left display unit and the right display unit. Warped images are sent to the left and the right display units where photons are generated and emitted toward respective eyes of the viewer, thereby displaying an image on the left and the right display units at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Ivan Li Chuen Yeoh, Lionel Ernest Edwin, Samuel A. Miller
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Patent number: 11196986Abstract: A method of displaying a three-dimensional (ā3Dā) image, the method includes determining a shutter electrode of an unit part included in a shutter panel as a left-eye electrode and a right-eye electrode, the unit part including ānā shutter electrodes (herein, n is a natural number), selectively driving the left-eye electrode and the right-eye electrode as an opening part based on an image displayed on a display panel to transmit light through the opening part, and providing light transmitted through the opening part with an observer's two eyes through a lens plate, the lens plate including a plurality of lenses.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2018Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Goro Hamagishi, Ryota Odake, Seung-Jun Yu, Sang-Min Jeon
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Patent number: 11127210Abstract: A system for automatically displaying virtual objects within a mixed reality environment is described. In some embodiments, a see-through head-mounted display device (HMD) identifies a real object (e.g., a person or book) within a field of view of the HMD, detects one or more interactions associated with real object, and automatically displays virtual objects associated with the real object if the one or more interactions involve touching or satisfy one or more social rules stored in a social rules database. The one or more social rules may be used to infer a particular social relationship by considering the distance to another person, the type of environment (e.g., at home or work), and particular physical interactions (e.g., handshakes or hugs). The virtual objects displayed on the HMD may depend on the particular social relationship inferred (e.g., a friend or acquaintance).Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2016Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Christopher Michael Novak, James Liu, Stephen Latta, Anton O. A. Andrews, Craig R. Maitlen, Sheridan Martin
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Patent number: 11120543Abstract: A measurement processing device includes an imaging unit, an image acquisition unit, a display unit, a measurement point display control unit, a corresponding-point calculation unit, a corresponding-point image generation unit, and a corresponding-point image display control unit. The measurement point display control unit causes a measurement point indicating a measurement position designated by a user to be displayed on a first image. The corresponding-point image generation unit generates a corresponding-point image that includes the corresponding point calculated by the corresponding-point calculation unit and a region in the vicinity of the corresponding point in the second image and is constituted of all or a part of the second image. The corresponding-point image display control unit causes the corresponding-point image to be displayed so that a straight line passing through the measurement point and the corresponding point is orthogonal to the parallax direction on a display screen.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Yohei Sakamoto
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Patent number: 11113794Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing system may receive current eye-tracking data associated with a user of a head-mounted display. The system may dynamically adjust a focal length of the head-mounted display based on the current eye-tracking data. The system may generate an in-focus image of a scene and a corresponding depth map of the scene. The system may generate a circle-of-confusion map for the scene based on the depth map. The circle-of-confusion map encodes a desired focal surface in the scene. The system may generate, using a machine-learning model, an output image with a synthesized defocus-blur effect by processing the in-focus image, the corresponding depth map, and the circle-of-confusion map of the scene. The system may display the output image with the synthesized defocus-blur effect to the user via the head-mounted display having the adjusted focal length.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Douglas Robert Lanman, Matthew Steven Chapman, Alexander Jobe Fix, Anton S. Kaplanyan, Lei Xiao
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Patent number: 11106090Abstract: To provide a vertical alignment liquid crystal display device capable of achieving a high-definition image display. Tilt directions of liquid crystal molecules when a voltage is applied are within a plane that is in parallel to a border between a first pixel and a second pixel, and are different by 180 degrees between the first and second pixels. The first pixel is constituted with three sub-pixels for R, G, and B arranged in a direction in parallel to the border. Similarly, the second pixel is constituted with three sub-pixels for R, G, and B. The tilt directions of the liquid crystal molecules when a voltage is applied are different by 180 degrees from each other between the sub-pixels for R of the first and second pixels, between the sub-pixels for G of the first and second pixels, and between the sub-pixels for B of the first and second pixels.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2017Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Kenichi Takatori
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Patent number: 11102468Abstract: A light emitting device and an image capturing device using the light emitting device. The light emitting device includes a light emitting element, a digital micro mirror (DMD), a reflecting prism, and a housing. The light from the light emitting element is modulated by the DMD into structured light. The reflecting prism is on an optical path of the source light. The reflecting prism guides the source light to the DMD. The housing defines a receiving cavity. The light emitting element, the reflecting prism, and the DMD are received in the receiving cavity. The housing defines a light exit opening, the structured light exits from the light exit opening.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: TRIPLE WIN TECHNOLOGY(SHENZHEN) CO.LTD.Inventors: Chun-Yao Huang, Cheng-An Lin