Superimposing Visual Information On Observers Field Of View (e.g., Head-up Arrangement, Etc.) Patents (Class 359/630)
  • Patent number: 11971545
    Abstract: There is provided a small-sized HUD device having a high image display reliability and a high thermal reliability. A HUD device 1 includes: an image display unit 2 including a display panel (liquid crystal panel) 22 that displays an image, and an optical system 3 that projects image light of the displayed image onto a windshield of a vehicle, in which a virtual image of the image is visually recognized by light reflected off the windshield. In the image display unit 2, an effective display region 22a that displays the image is set to a region on a side close to one end of the display panel 22. The optical system 3 includes a first reflector 31 that reflects the image light emitted from the image display unit 2 and a second reflector 32 that reflects the reflected light of the first reflector 31 toward the windshield. The image display unit 2 is disposed to face the first reflector 31, and the display panel 22 is disposed in an attitude in which the one end faces the second reflector 32 side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takanobu Toyoshima
  • Patent number: 11971549
    Abstract: Very high refractive index (n>2.2) lightguide substrates enable the production of 70° field of view eyepieces with all three color primaries in a single eyepiece layer. Disclosed herein are viewing optics assembly architectures that make use of such eyepieces to reduce size and cost, simplifying manufacturing and assembly, and better-accommodating novel microdisplay designs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Klug, Kevin Richard Curtis, Vikramjit Singh, Kang Luo, Michal Beau Dennison Vaughn, Samarth Bhargava, Shuqiang Yang, Michael Nevin Miller, Frank Y. Xu, Kevin Messer, Robert D. Tekolste
  • Patent number: 11971552
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises a display configured to display an image, an ocular optical system for viewing the display, and a control unit configured to control the display unit so as to change a display area of the display based on a distance from the ocular optical system to an eye of a user looking into the ocular optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Saki Nakamichi
  • Patent number: 11964560
    Abstract: There is provided ahead-up display in a vehicle arranged to display a picture, the head-up display comprises a first optical sub-system disposed in an upper region of the windscreen and a second optical sub-system disposed underneath the dashboard of the vehicle proximate a lower region of the windscreen. The first optical sub-system is arranged to output a light field. The first optical sub-system comprises a light source and a spatial light modulator. The light source is arranged to emit light. The spatial light modulator is arranged to receive the light from the light source and spatially-modulated the light in accordance with a computer-generated hologram displayed on the spatial light modulator. The second optical sub-system is arranged to receive the light field from the first optical sub-system and project the light field onto a windscreen of the vehicle to form a virtual image on the windscreen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Envisics Ltd
    Inventor: Jamieson Christmas
  • Patent number: 11964561
    Abstract: There is provided a head-up display for a vehicle having a window. The head-up display comprises a picture generating unit (410) and an optical system (420). The picture generating unit is arranged to output pictures. The optical system is arranged to receive the pictures output by the picture generating unit and project the pictures onto the window (430) of the vehicle to form a virtual image (450, 707) of each picture within a virtual image area (605). The picture generating unit is arranged to output pictures within a cropped picture area such that the virtual image area (605) has a corresponding cropped shape. FIG. 7 illustrates a perspective view of a three lanes road (501,502,503) onto which a virtual image (707) within a cropped virtual image area (605) is overlaid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Envisics Ltd
    Inventor: Jamieson Christmas
  • Patent number: 11966054
    Abstract: A display device includes a frame that includes a front portion, temple portions, and a pad portion, and is mounted on head of an observer, and an image display device attached to the frame. The image display device includes an image forming device, and an optical device on which light emitted from the image forming device is incident and from which the light is emitted toward the observer. One end portion of the optical device is fixed to a temple portion side of the front portion. Other end portion of the optical device is on a pad portion side of the front portion. A light shielding member that prevents external light from being incident on the other end portion of the optical device from above the other end portion of the optical device is attached to the pad portion side of the front portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Machida, Misaki Shimizu, Mitsuru Akahori, Nobuhiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11967027
    Abstract: Described herein are embodiments of methods and apparatuses for a wearable augmented reality system for fitness. The embodiments may include producing an avatar in the field of vision of the wearer, wherein a perceived position of the avatar may be controlled to aid the wearer in fitness training by establishing a controllable pace for the wearer. The embodiments may further include an optical system that produces the avatar such that it may be perceived by the wearer of the wearable augmented reality apparatus as a virtual running partner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Peloton Interactive, Inc.
    Inventors: Abdurrahman Bin Shahzad Bhatti, Jensen Rarig Steven Turner, Xander E. Fries
  • Patent number: 11960085
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a waveguide and a head mounted display device having the waveguide are provided. The head mounted display device includes a display unit, a first waveguide and a second waveguide. The display unit is configured to provide an image beam. The first waveguide is located between the display unit and the second waveguide. The first waveguide is configured to transmit the image beam to the second waveguide and adjust a light shape of the image beam to maintain a field angle and expand a pupil in a single dimension. The second waveguide is configured to transmit the image beam to outside of the head mounted display device, and the second waveguide can extend a light transmission path and provide a uniform image beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Coretronic Corporation
    Inventors: Chih-Wei Shih, Hung-Ta Chien
  • Patent number: 11953682
    Abstract: An optical aperture multiplier includes a first optical waveguide (10) having a rectangular cross-section and including partially reflecting surfaces (40) at an oblique angle to a direction of elongation of the waveguide. A second optical waveguide (20), also including partially reflecting surfaces (45) at an oblique angle, is optically coupled with the first optical waveguide (10). An image coupled into the first optical waveguide with an initial direction of propagation at an oblique coupling angle advances by four-fold internal reflection along the first optical waveguide, with a proportion of intensity of the image reflected at the partially reflecting surfaces so as to be coupled into the second optical waveguide, and then propagates through two-fold reflection within the second optical waveguide, with a proportion of intensity of the image reflected at the partially reflecting surfaces so as to be directed outwards from one of the parallel faces as a visible image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Lumus Ltd.
    Inventor: Yochay Danziger
  • Patent number: 11944272
    Abstract: A system operable to allowing viewing of a physical subject with information regarding at least an item separate from the subject overlaid thereon. The system includes a viewscreen. The system is further able to determine the position of the item relative to the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic Xomed, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle A. Godwin, James Britton Hissong, Christopher S. Kellar
  • Patent number: 11947112
    Abstract: An optical arrangement of data smart glasses includes a first laser device configured to emit a projection light beam, a second laser device configured to emit a measuring light beam, a first scanner, a second scanner, and a beam combiner configured to bundle the projection light beam and the measuring light beam into a common light beam, wherein the first scanner is configured to deflect the projection light beam emitted by the first laser device in a first axis, and wherein the second scanner is configured to deflect the common light beam focused by the beam combiner in a second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: Robert Bosch Gmbh, Trumpf Photonic Components GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Petersen, Thomas Alexander Schlebusch, Hans Spruit, Jochen Hellmig
  • Patent number: 11941084
    Abstract: A method for training a machine learning model includes obtaining a set of training samples. For each training sample in the set of training samples, during each of one or more training iterations, the method includes cropping the training sample to generate a first cropped image, cropping the training sample to generate a second cropped image that is different than the first cropped image, and duplicating a first portion of the second cropped image. The method also includes overlaying the duplicated first portion of the second cropped image on a second portion of the second cropped image to form an augmented second cropped image. The first portion is different than the second portion. The method also includes training the machine learning model with the first cropped image and the augmented second cropped image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Kihyuk Sohn, Chun-Liang Li, Jinsung Yoon, Tomas Jon Pfister
  • Patent number: 11940628
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to display devices having a common light path region. One example provides a display device comprising a light source configured to emit illumination light along an illumination path, and a spatial light modulator configured to modulate the illumination light and emit the modulated illumination light as image light along an imaging path, wherein at least a portion of the illumination path and at least a portion of the imaging path extend through a common light path region. The display device further comprises one or more optical elements positioned within the common light path region, at least one optical element being configured to guide the illumination light as the illumination light travels through the common light path region toward the spatial light modulator, and shape the image light as the image light travels through the common light path region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ishan Chatterjee, Dmitry Reshidko
  • Patent number: 11940629
    Abstract: An optical system for a head-worn computer includes an upper optical module adapted to convert illumination into image light by illuminating a reflective display through a field lens, wherein the image light is transmitted back through the field lens, then through a partially reflective partially transmissive surface and into a lower optic module adapted to present the image light to an eye of a user wearing the head-worn computer and the upper optical module being positioned within a housing for the head-worn computer and having a height of less than 24 mm, as measured from the reflective display to the bottom edge of the rotationally curved partial mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventors: John N. Border, Joseph Bietry, John D. Haddick
  • Patent number: 11934852
    Abstract: To facilitate use of a vast help content, while a modeling application is running, user interface actions to the modeling application are monitored, at least for an automatic help. When it is detected that consecutive user interface actions fulfill at least one of a plurality of predefined criteria for automatic help, help content is retrieved from online helping information. The online helping information comprises at least helping information of the modeling application and helping information created by a user community. In the retrieving of the help content at least a portion of the consecutive user interface actions are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Trimble Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Jaana Hannila
  • Patent number: 11933980
    Abstract: The information display apparatus configured to display video information of a virtual image on a reflecting surface of conveyance includes: a display configured to display the video information; and a virtual image optical system configured to display a virtual image at a front of the conveyance by reflecting light emitted from the display by means of the reflecting surface. The virtual image optical system includes a concave mirror and an optical element. The optical element is arranged between the display and the concave mirror, and is configured to correct distortion of the virtual image obtained so as to correspond to a viewpoint position of a driver on a basis of a shape of the concave mirror and a shape of the optical element. The information display apparatus further includes a virtual image double image conversion reducer configured to reduce double image conversion of the virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: MAXELL, LTD., HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Hirata, Masahiko Yatsu, Toshinori Sugiyama, Kazuomi Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11933985
    Abstract: A method for producing light-guide optical elements (LOEs) (16, 18, 56, 58) each having a set of mutually-parallel partially-reflecting surfaces (17) located between, and oriented non-parallel to, a pair of major external surfaces, and at least one region (30a, 30b, 30c) without partially-reflecting surfaces. The method includes bonding together parallel-faced plates (4) at interfaces to form a stack (42) of plates with partially-reflecting coatings between them. The stack is cut and polished to form a boundary plane (48, 48a, 48b) intersecting the interfaces, and a block (50, 50a, 50b) of transparent material is bonded to the stack. The resulting precursor structure (52, 52?) is sliced along parallel planes to form slices, each containing a part of the stack for the active region of the LOE and a part of the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: LUMUS LTD.
    Inventors: Ido Fuchs, Edgar Friedmann, Elad Sharlin, Kobi Greenstein, Lilach Zuaretz, Tsion Eisenffeld, Shimon Grabarnik, Amir Shapira, Dror Hermoni
  • Patent number: 11927872
    Abstract: A display system (500) for displaying an image to an eye of a user includes a light-guide optical element (LOE) (506) and an image projector (512) projecting image illumination of a collimated image into the LOE. The image projector includes an electrically-controllable variable lens (10, 13, 71, 77, 58A, 58B, 59, 58C, 58D, 58E, 58F1, 58F2, 58G1, 58G2, 58H, 1223). A controller (18) determines a current region of interest of the image, either from tracking of the user's eye or by analysis of the image content, and controls the variable lens so as to reduce aberrations in the current region of interest at the expense of increased aberration in at least one area of the image outside the current region of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: LUMUS LTD.
    Inventor: Yochay Danziger
  • Patent number: 11921383
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device and a method for operating the liquid crystal display device. In the liquid crystal display device including a plurality of pixels, one pixel of the plurality of pixels includes a first sub pixel and a second sub pixel, which are adjacent to each other. The one pixel includes a first substrate, a first electrode provided on the first substrate, metamaterial layers provided on the first electrode, wherein the metamaterial layers include a first metamaterial layer within the first sub pixel and a second metamaterial layer within the second sub pixel, a liquid crystal layer provided on the first and second metamaterial layers, a second electrode provided on the liquid crystal layer, and a second substrate provided on the second electrode. The first and second metamaterial layers include metamaterials having properties different from each other, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yong Hae Kim, Chi-Sun Hwang
  • Patent number: 11914160
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device for providing images to a wearer includes a focus-supporting light projector and a beam steerer. The focus-supporting light projector is configured to project light for rendering images based at least on virtual reality contents and/or augmented reality contents. The light projected from the focus-supporting light projector corresponds to an image plane that is selected based at least in part on a position of a pupil of an eye of the wearer. The beam steerer is configured to change a path of the light projected from the focus-supporting light projector based on the position of the pupil of the eye of the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Douglas Robert Lanman
  • Patent number: 11914093
    Abstract: A method for human movement classification includes a plurality of radio frequency (RF) antennas to expose a body surface of a human user to an E-field, at least a part of the human user positioned within a near-field region relative to the RF antennas. The plurality of RF antennas are scanned to determine ground-relative changes in electrical conditions. A differential-scanning subset of RF antennas are selected, including two or more RF antennas for which the changes in electrical conditions exceed a threshold. For each RF antenna in the differential-scanning subset, a set of antenna-relative changes in electrical conditions are determined by comparing the RF antenna to one or more other RF antennas in the differential-scanning subset as a plurality of pairs. Based at least in part on the ground-relative changes in electrical conditions and the antenna-relative changes in electrical conditions, a movement performed by the human user is classified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jouya Jadidian, Emily Po-Kay Chung, James Chester Meador
  • Patent number: 11906734
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods of operating an augmented reality device can involve capturing camera images, processing the camera images, and displaying virtual display images. The camera images can be captured automatically using a camera disposed within an augmented reality device worn by a user. The camera images can be processed automatically using a processor located within the augmented reality device. The virtual display images can be displayed automatically to the user within the augmented reality device while the user is looking through the augmented reality device and simultaneously viewing real objects through the augmented reality device. The virtual display images can be based on the processed camera images. Additional steps can include accepting a first user input, storing camera image(s) on a memory located within the augmented reality device based on the first input, accepting a second user input, and displaying stored image(s) to the user based on the second input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Brilliant Labs Private Limited
    Inventors: Benjamin Raymond Heald, Bobak Tavangar, Rajesh Nakarja
  • Patent number: 11906751
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lens for eye-tracking applications. The lens comprises a first protective layer, arranged to face towards the eye to be tracked when the lens is used for eye-tracking. It also comprises at least one light source, at least partly arranged in the first protective layer, arranged to emit a first light from the first protective layer in a direction towards the eye. Moreover, it comprises at least one image capturing device, at least partly arranged in the first protective layer, arranged to receive the first light within the first protective layer. The lens further comprises an absorptive layer, arranged on the far side of the first protective layer seen from the eye to be tracked when the lens is used for eye-tracking, adapted to be absorptive for wavelengths of the majority of the first light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Tobii AB
    Inventors: Axel Tollin, Daniel Ljunggren
  • Patent number: 11906733
    Abstract: A laminate including: a first ply having a first surface and a second surface, where the first surface is an outer surface of the laminate; a second ply having a third surface facing the second surface and a fourth surface opposite the third surface, where the fourth surface is an inner surface of the laminate; an interlayer between the plies; and an enhanced p-polarized reflective coating positioned over at least a portion of a surface of the plies. When the laminate is contacted with radiation having p-polarized radiation at an angle of 60° relative to normal of the laminate, the laminate exhibits a LTA of at least 70% and a reflectivity of the p-polarized radiation of at least 10%. A display system and method of projecting an image in a heads-up display is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Vitro Flat Glass LLC
    Inventors: Andrew V. Wagner, Zhixun Ma, Dennis J. O'Shaughnessy, Adam D. Polcyn
  • Patent number: 11899203
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a design method of a coupling-out grating and the design method including: calculating a diffraction coupling-in angle, at which a light beam is diffracted and coupled into the optical waveguide body through the coupling-in grating, according to an angle at which the light beam is incident to the coupling-in grating, a wavelength of the light beam and a grating period of the coupling-in grating; calculating a distance between two adjacent coupling-out positions of the light beam; calculating a brightness difference rate of the light beam after being coupled out multiple times through the coupling-out grating according to the maximum diffraction efficiency of the coupling-out grating; and calculating the number of partitions of the coupling-out grating according to a length of the coupling-out grating, a sensitivity of a human eye to the light beam, the brightness difference rate, and the distance between the two adjacent coupling-out positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: JIAXING UPHOTON OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xingming Zhao, Zhentao Fan, Qingfeng Zhu, Lei Sui, Kehan Tian
  • Patent number: 11903243
    Abstract: An optical film including a refractive index changing unit region comprising at least one high-refraction unit region and at least one low-refraction unit region, the refractive index changing unit region in which a refractive index varies along the plane direction, is provided. The optical film has excellent abrasion resistance and pressure resistance while having excellent light extraction efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Suk Song, Min Soo Song, Sang Choll Han
  • Patent number: 11892635
    Abstract: There is provided an optical system, including a light-transmitting substrate (20) having at least two major surfaces (26) and edges, all optical prism (54) having at least a first (58), a second (56) and a third (60) surface, for coupling light waves having a given field-of-view into the substrate by total internal reflection, at least one partially reflecting surface located in the substrate, the partially reflecting surface being orientated non-parallelly with respect to the major surfaces of the substrate, for coupling light waves out of the substrate, at least one of the edges (50) of the substrate is slanted at an oblique angle with respect to the major surfaces, the second surface of the prism is located adjacent to the slanted edge of the substrate, and a part of the substrate located next to the slanted edge is substantially transparent, wherein the light waves enter the prism through the first surface of the prism, traverse the prism without any reflection and enter the substrate through the slanted
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LUMUS LTD.
    Inventor: Yaakov Amitai
  • Patent number: 11886635
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an eye movement detecting device comprises first, second, third, fourth and fifth electrodes. A line connecting the first and the third electrodes passes through the right eye and a line connecting the second and the fourth electrodes passes through the left eye on at least one of a front view, a plan view or a side view. A distance between the fifth and the first electrodes is equal to a distance between the fifth and the second electrodes. A distance between the fifth and the third electrodes is equal to a distance between the fifth and the fourth electrodes. The detector respectively detects a horizontal movement of the right eye and a horizontal movement of the left eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hiroaki Komaki
  • Patent number: 11887495
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer products according to the principles of the present inventions may involve a training system for a pilot of an aircraft. The training system may include an aircraft sensor system affixed to the aircraft adapted to provide a location of the aircraft, including an altitude of the aircraft, speed of the aircraft, and directional attitude of the aircraft. It may further include a helmet position sensor system adapted to determine a location of a helmet within a cockpit of the aircraft and a viewing direction of a pilot wearing the helmet. The helmet may include a see-through computer display through which the pilot sees an environment outside of the aircraft with computer content overlaying the environment to create an augmented reality view of the environment for the pilot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: RED SIX AEROSPACE INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Augustine Robinson, Nikola Vladimir Bicanic, Glenn Thomas Snyder
  • Patent number: 11880037
    Abstract: A control method applied in a display device is provided. The display device includes an image generator and a screen. The image generator is directed to output an output image. The screen is directed to operate in a first operation mode or a second operation mode. The screen has a first light-transmittance in the first operation mode and has a second light-transmittance in the second operation mode. The first light-transmittance is different from the second light-transmittance. In response to the screen operating in the first operation mode or the second operation mode, the image generator outputs the output image onto the screen in a light-emitting period and stops outputting the output image onto the screen in a non-light-emitting period after the light-emitting period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chin-Lung Ting, Yu-Chia Huang, Ming-Chia Shih, Hong-Sheng Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11872887
    Abstract: A display system and a vehicular head-up display system using the same is disclosed. The display system includes an image generating device, a polarization reflection film, a light-transmitting substrate, a curved wave plate, a curved reflector and a transparent substrate. The image generating device emits polarized light. The curved wave plate adheres to the reflective curved surface of the curved reflector through an optical adhesive. The curved wave plate and the reflective surface have the same curvatures. The reflective curved surface faces towards the polarization reflection film. When the curved reflector reflects the polarized light sequentially passing through the polarization reflection film and the curved wave plate to the polarization reflection film through the curved wave plate, the curved wave plate converts the polarization direction of the polarized light. Finally, the polarization reflection film reflects the polarized light to the transparent substrate to generate a virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: Interface Technology (Chengdu) Co., Ltd., Interface Optoelectronics (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Interface Optoelectronics (WuXi) Co., Ltd., General Interface Solution Limited
    Inventors: Wei Hung Tsay, Kun Da Lu
  • Patent number: 11877366
    Abstract: A lighting system for a motor vehicle with a pixelated light source having a plurality of selectively activatable elementary light sources is described. The activation of each elementary light source being controlled exclusively by a switch assigned to the elementary light source. A power converter designed to supply an electrical power to the pixelated light source and a controller designed to control the voltage supplied by the power converter and to control the switches controlling the activation of the elementary light sources. The lighting system also includes an electrical current sensor designed to measure the electrical current supplied by the power converter to the pixelated light source and to transmit information relating to said measured current to the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Hafid El Idrissi, Guillaume Zante, Olivier Valorge, Thomas Giraud-Sauveur, Marjaneh Kazemi, Sebastian Krick
  • Patent number: 11860359
    Abstract: A display system aligns the location of its exit pupil with the location of a viewer's pupil by changing the location of the portion of a light source that outputs light. The light source may include an array of pixels that output light, thereby allowing an image to be displayed on the light source. The display system includes a camera that captures images of the eye and negatives of the images are displayed by the light source. In the negative image, the dark pupil of the eye is a bright spot which, when displayed by the light source, defines the exit pupil of the display system. The location of the pupil of the eye may be tracked by capturing the images of the eye, and the location of the exit pupil of the display system may be adjusted by displaying negatives of the captured images using the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Anthony Klug
  • Patent number: 11860395
    Abstract: A self-lit display panel includes a photonic integrated circuit payer including an array of waveguides and an array of out-couplers for out-coupling portions of the illuminating light through pixels of the panel. The self-lit display panel may include a transparent electronic circuitry layer backlit by the photonic integrated circuit layer; the two layers may be on a same substrate or on opposed substrates defining a cell filled with an electro-active material. The configuration allows for chief ray engineering, zonal illuminating, and separate illumination with red, green, and blue illuminating light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Zhujun Shi, Keith Patterson, Maxwell Parsons, Yongdan Hu, Giuseppe Calafiore, Zhimin Shi
  • Patent number: 11860364
    Abstract: The present application discloses a head-mounted augmented reality (AR) apparatus, including: a head gear for being worn on a user's head; an optical module configured to provide AR display, connected to the head gear, and movable relative to the head gear; and a limit mechanism acting between the head gear and the optical module to enable the optical module to be selectively lockable in a first position or a second position relative to the head gear, in which in the first position the user when wearing the head gear is able to observe the outside scenery only through the optical module, and in the second position the user when wearing the head gear is able to observe the outside scenery completely not through the optical module. The present application also discloses a pair of AR eyeglasses similarly configured and an AR device for installation on the eyeglasses. Using the inventive technical means, the user is able to observe the real-world scene clearly and conveniently at any time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Matrixed Reality Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bing Xiao, Yue He, Jingxian Zhao, Chi Xu
  • Patent number: 11852818
    Abstract: Disclosed is a thin near-to-eye display device with a large field of view angle. Two or more radial reflection units are adopted to be arranged in front of human eyes, and a large-area image is projected and formed on the retina of the human eyes, so that a near-to-eye display effect of the large field of view angle is achieved in a thin volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING ANTVR TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zheng Qin
  • Patent number: 11846781
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a thin type large field of view near-eye display device, which comprises two or more radial reflection units, which are arranged in front of human eyes to generate two or more sub-images and spliced into a larger image on the retina of human eyes, so as to realize a near-eye display effect with a large field of view in a thinner volume; the radial reflection units comprise a light source, a reflecting surface, a transmissive dioptric apparatus and/or a reflective optical component, and the present invention relates to the technical field of near-eye display devices. The thin type large field of view near-eye display device realizes the nesting of images with various definitions by adopting different areas of the same screen, and is widely used as a low-cost display solution to improve the definition of the central area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING ANTVR TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zheng Qin
  • Patent number: 11846775
    Abstract: A head-up display arranged to form a virtual image viewable from an eye-box area. The head-up display is arranged to received picture content within a sub-region of a substantially quadrilateral display area. The head-up display further comprises an optical relay system arranged to relay the received picture content to an eye-box of the head-up display such that a virtual image of the picture content is visible therefrom. The optical relay system comprises at least one optical component shaped in correspondence with the shape of the sub-region. The shape of the eye-box area is non-rectangular such as a corner-cropped rectangular shape or elliptical shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Envisics Ltd
    Inventors: Jamieson Christmas, Michael Spurr, Daniel Molina, Gary Mills
  • Patent number: 11846782
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may have head-mounted support structures configured to be worn on a head of a user. The head-mounted device may have stereo optical components such as left and right cameras or left and right display systems. The optical components may have respective left and right pointing vectors. Deformation of the support structures may cause the camera pointing vectors and/or the display system pointing vectors to become misaligned. Sensor circuitry such as strain gauge circuitry may measure pointing vector misalignment. Control circuitry may control the cameras and/or the display systems to compensate for measured changes in pointing vector misalignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Patton, Clas M. Oldenbo, Scott M. DeLapp
  • Patent number: 11841526
    Abstract: A method for generating an image in a near-eye display may include operating a light source to emit the image as incident light. The light source may be configured such that incident light as received by the light reflecting elements compensates for the chromatic reflectance of the light reflecting elements. The method may include coupling the incident light into a light-transmitting substrate, thereby trapping the light between first and second major surfaces of the light-transmitting substrate by total internal reflection and coupling the light out of the substrate by the light reflecting elements having chromatic reflectance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Lumus Ltd.
    Inventors: Elad Sharlin, Ronen Chriki, Yochay Danziger
  • Patent number: 11835728
    Abstract: An example eye-tracking optical assembly includes a light source for illuminating an eye, a first diffraction type polarizing beam splitter (DT-PBS), and a second DT-PBS, wherein the first DT-PBS is configured to direct, based on polarization, a first portion of light from the second DT-PBS towards an eye-tracking detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Fenglin Peng, Ying Geng, Oleg Yaroshchuk
  • Patent number: 11828937
    Abstract: A head up display assembly includes an optical system (52) and a transmissive display. A light source is configured to projected a light through the transmissive display. A diffuser (64) is located between the optical system and the transmissive display (62).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Cashen, Andreas H Buechel, George E Kachouh, Eugen Vetsch
  • Patent number: 11828939
    Abstract: A data space such as a virtual/augmented reality environment is generated, through which a viewer/point of view may move. The physical world motion of a display outputting the data space is sensed, received, or computed. The motion of a physical world environment in which the display also is sensed, received, or computed. An output adjustment is determined from the display and environment motions, typically being equal to the environment motion(s). Motion of a point of view within the data space to be outputted by the display is determined. The viewpoint motion corresponds with the display motion within physical space adjusted by the output adjustment. At least part of the data space is outputted to the display from the point of view. The point of view is navigated through the data space according to the viewpoint motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventors: Allen Yang Yang, Sleiman Itani
  • Patent number: 11822155
    Abstract: Eyewear is provided including a frame, and a camera connected with the frame, in which the camera is configured to be controlled by a remote controller. The camera may be configured to capture video and/or a photo. The eyewear may include data storage, and the camera may be connected to the data storage. A wrist watch may be configured to act both as a time piece and a controller of the camera. The eyewear may also include a heads up display and/or a video file player. The eyewear may also include an electro-active lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald D. Blum, William Kokonaski, Dwight P. Duston
  • Patent number: 11819459
    Abstract: A method for providing control data for an eye surgical laser of a treatment apparatus for removing tissue is disclosed. The method includes utilizing a control device for determining a corneal geometry and an ocular wavefront of a human or animal eye from predetermined examination data. A corneal wavefront is then determined from the corneal geometry using a physical model, and an internal wavefront is calculated from a difference between the ocular wavefront and the corneal wavefront. A wavefront to be achieved is calculated from a difference of a preset target wavefront and the calculated internal wavefront. A target corneal geometry is determined from the wavefront to be achieved by the physical model, and a tissue geometry to be removed is calculated from a difference of the corneal geometry and the target corneal geometry, and control data for controlling the eye surgical laser is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SCHWIND EYE-TECH-SOLUTIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Samuel Arba Mosquera, Shwetabh Verma
  • Patent number: 11817022
    Abstract: A method for correcting artifacts in artificial reality headsets is provided. The method includes coupling a first image portion into a waveguide in a display for an artificial reality device, provided by a first array of pixels, coupling a second image portion into the waveguide in the display, provided by a second array of pixels, directing the first image portion through an eyebox, directing the second image portion through the eyebox, and tiling, in a user's retina, the first image portion and the second image portion to form an image having an extended field of view that includes an overlapping area comprising light provided by the first array of pixels and the second array of pixels. A system including a memory storing instructions and a processor to execute the instructions to cause the system to perform the above method are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Daniel Trail, Byron Taylor, Yufeng Zhu, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Hee Yoon Lee, Sharvil Shailesh Talati, Behnam Bastani, Pasi Saarikko
  • Patent number: 11809619
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may have catadioptric lenses that each include a partial mirror, a quarter wave plate, and a polarizer. An optical system in the head-mounted device may have an infrared light-emitting device and an infrared light-sensing device. The optical system may illuminate a user's eyes in eye boxes and may gather measurements from the illuminated eye boxes for eye tracking and other functions. The optical system may operate through the catadioptric lenses. To enhance optical system performance, the polarizers may be wire grid polarizers that are formed from conductive lines that exhibit enhanced infrared transmission and/or the quarter wave plates may be formed from cholesteric liquid crystal layers that serve as quarter wave plates at visible wavelengths and that do not serve as quarter wave plates at infrared wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Yokoyama, John N. Border, Naoto Matsuyuki, Serhan O. Isikman, Wei-Liang Hsu
  • Patent number: 11808942
    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments comprises: a display including a plurality of pixels; a first polarizing plate arranged on a first area of the display and capable of rotating, in a first rotational direction, a first light outputted through one or more first pixels included in the first area; a second polarizing plate arranged on a second area of the display and capable of rotating, in a second rotational direction, a second light outputted through one or more second pixels included in the second area; a first mirror arranged to have a first designated incline on the first area and capable of reflecting the first light rotating in the first rotational direction; a second mirror arranged to have a second designated incline on the second area and capable of reflecting at least a part of the second light rotating in the second rotational direction; and a flat lens capable of transmitting a first reflective light obtained by allowing the first light rotating in the first rotational direction
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoyoung Jung, Nari Kim, Sehoon Kim, Wonhee Choe
  • Patent number: 11796803
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device may include at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to receive input from one or more sensors and, based on the input from the one or more sensors, determine that a trigger related to a user moving between viewing a first display location and a second display location is satisfied. Responsive to the determination, the instructions may be executable to move at least one graphical object presented on at least one display from the first display location to a third display location different from the first and second display locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Timothy Robbins, Matthew Fardig, Sathish Kumar Ganesan, Anthony Mourey
  • Patent number: 11796807
    Abstract: A head-up display device is provided in a vehicle together with a headlamp. The head-up display device includes a light source, a control unit, and a projection unit. The light source emits white light whose correlated color temperature is changeable. The control unit adjusts the correlated color temperature of the white light emitted from the light source. The projection unit forms image light by the white light emitted from the light source. The projection unit projects the image light onto a projection target member disposed in front of a driver of the vehicle, thereby displaying a virtual image superimposed on a landscape for the driver. The control unit adjusts the correlated color temperature of the white light emitted from the light source in accordance with a correlated color temperature of irradiation light emitted from the headlamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Tsuda, Yuichi Shibata