Superimposing Visual Information On Observers Field Of View (e.g., Head-up Arrangement, Etc.) Patents (Class 359/630)
  • 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: 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: 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: 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
  • Patent number: 11796830
    Abstract: A display device of the present disclosure includes, along an optical path of imaging light emitted from an imaging light generation device, a first optical portion having a positive power, a second optical portion including a first diffraction element and having a positive power, a third optical portion having a positive power, and a fourth optical portion including a second diffraction element and having a positive power. In the optical path, the first diffraction element and the second diffraction element diffract the imaging light at least along a primary diffraction plane and a secondary diffraction plane orthogonal to the primary diffraction plane, and a deflection force of the imaging light in the primary diffraction plane is greater than a deflection force of the imaging light in the secondary diffraction plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsutaka Ide
  • Patent number: 11796811
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to reducing shake and vibration in Head-Up Displays (HUDs) under dynamic operating conditions. The apparatus includes a curved mirror for projecting an image from a display unit on a windshield of a vehicle. The curved mirror has damping tape on its nonreflective side to absorb vibrational energy and shift the first natural frequency of the curved mirror to a higher frequency. The damping tape includes at least a viscoelastic adhesive layer and a constraining layer. The method for stabilizing the HUD includes applying damping tape selected and positioned to reduce vibrational amplitude and shift the first natural frequency of the curved mirror to a higher frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: N.S. INTERNATIONAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Saumil Satish Wagle, Ethan Hoang To, Arul Krishna, Xiao Zheng
  • Patent number: 11789189
    Abstract: Architectures are provided for selectively incoupling one or more streams of light from a multiplexed light stream into a waveguide. The multiplexed light stream can have light with different characteristics (e.g., different wavelengths and/or different polarizations). The waveguide can comprise in-coupling elements that can selectively couple one or more streams of light from the multiplexed light stream into the waveguide while transmitting one or more other streams of light from the multiplexed light stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Klug, Brian T. Schowengerdt, Michael Nevin Miller, Vikramjit Singh, Christophe Peroz, Pierre St. Hilaire, Jie Sun
  • Patent number: 11782275
    Abstract: An augmented reality display is disclosed. A colour projector (2) emits an image in a narrow beam comprising three primary colours: red, green and blue. A pair of waveguides (4, 6) is provided in the path of the projected beam. A first input grating (8) receives light from the projector (2) and diffracts the received light so that diffracted wavelengths of the light in first and second primary colours are coupled into the first waveguide (6), and so that diffracted wavelengths of the light in second and third primary colours are coupled out of the first waveguide in a direction towards the second waveguide (4). A second input diffraction grating (10) receives light coupled out of the first waveguide (6) and diffracts the second and third primary colours so that they are coupled into the second waveguide (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Mohmed Salim Valera
  • Patent number: 11782288
    Abstract: A head-mounted device includes a first device portion and a second device portion. A first coupler portion of the first device portion is connectable to a second coupler portion of the second device portion to define a connected position in which the first device portion is connected to the second device portion and a disconnected position in which the first device portion is disconnected from the second device portion. A second adjuster portion of the second device portion causes a first adjuster portion of the first device portion to move a first optical module and a second optical module in response to movement of the first device portion and the second device portion from the disconnected position to the connected position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Anna V. Mirabella, Wey-Jiun Lin, Jia Tao, Aidan N. Zimmerman, Jason C. Sauers, Anthony S. Montevirgen, Andrew Gallaher, Phil M. Hobson, Yoonhoo Jo
  • Patent number: 11782271
    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: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Brilliant Labs Limited
    Inventors: Bobak Tavangar, Rajesh Nakarja
  • Patent number: 11782274
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a computer display stray-light suppression system for a head-worn computer comprising an eye cover including a flexible material with a perimeter, wherein the perimeter is formed to substantially encapsulate an eye of a person, and the eye cover including an attachment system adapted to removably and replaceably attach to a perimeter of the head-worn computer to suppress light emitted from a computer display in the head-worn computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventors: Ralph F. Osterhout, John N. Border, Edward H. Nortrup
  • Patent number: 11774762
    Abstract: Some implementations of the disclosure relate to an optical system, including: a first light source; a secondary light source that is optically coupled to the first light source; a reflective element that is transparent with respect to the first light source but reflective with respect to the secondary light source, the reflective element being disposed between the first light source and the secondary light source; and a semi-reflective layer disposed on the secondary light source, such that reflection of light from the secondary light source by the reflective element and back through the semi-reflective element results in greater than 25% of the light from first light source exiting the optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Brelyon, Inc.
    Inventors: Barmak Heshmat Dehkordi, Christopher Barsi, Albert Redo Sanchez
  • Patent number: 11778265
    Abstract: A live video distribution system has an on-the-spot system including a video signal generating means for generating video signals of a plurality of systems having different display ranges and a communicating means, and a plurality of terminal apparatuses each including a video display means, a display range setting signal generating means, and a communicating means. The systems of the video signals and the terminal apparatuses are associated with each other, the on-the-spot system has a function to determine the display ranges of the video signals of the respective systems on the basis of display range setting signals generated by the terminal apparatuses associated with the respective systems, and a function to send the video signals. Each of the terminal apparatuses can send the display range setting signal, can receive the video signal of the system associated with the terminal apparatus itself, and can display a video image based on the video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: DAP REALIZE INC.
    Inventor: Masahiro Izutsu
  • Patent number: 11766937
    Abstract: In a display control method, a first information image is displayed on a head-up display. The first information image includes a first vehicle icon which is a figure indicating a vehicle, and a first character string arranged above the first vehicle icon. A second information image is displayed on a meter display. The second information image includes a second vehicle icon which is a figure indicating a vehicle, and a second character string which is arranged below the second vehicle icon, and includes the first character string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hikaru Nakao, Akira Morimoto, Kosuke Sato, Shohei Nakamura, Shuko Ishimaru
  • Patent number: 11768410
    Abstract: Provided is a head-up display including a display system that has a liquid-crystal panel including a display screen, a Fresnel lens which is on an opposite side of the liquid-crystal panel from the display screen, and a backlight that emits light toward the Fresnel lens. The head-up display also includes a first mirror that reflects light from the display system, a second mirror that reflects light from the first mirror, and a control circuit that controls the liquid-crystal panel, where a center of the second mirror is closer to a center of the control circuit than a center of the display system in a direction connecting a center of the first mirror and the center of the second mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takato Hada, Takahiro Akiyoshi, Hiroki Hara, Keiji Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11768382
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reflective eyepiece optical system and a head-mounted near-to-eye display apparatus. The system includes: a first lens group, and a first optical element and a second lens group for transmitting and reflecting a light from a miniature image displayer. The second lens group includes an optical reflection surface, and the optical reflection surface is an optical surface farthest from a human eye viewing side in the second lens group. The optical reflection surface is concave to a human eye viewing direction. The first optical element reflects the light refracted by the first lens group to the second lens group, and then transmits the light refracted, reflected, and refracted by the second lens group to the human eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Shenzhen NED Optics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Huajun Peng, Hongpeng Cao, Jianfei Guo
  • Patent number: 11762187
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reflective eyepiece optical system and a head-mounted near-to-eye display device. The system includes: a first optical element and a second optical element arranged successively in an incident direction of an optical axis of human eyes, and a first lens group located on an optical axis of a miniature image displayer. The first optical element is used for transmitting and reflecting an image light from the miniature image displayer. The second optical element includes an optical reflection surface. The first optical element reflects the image light refracted by the first lens group to the second optical element, and then transmits the image light reflected by the second optical element to the human eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Shenzhen NED Optics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Huajun Peng, Hongpeng Cao, Jianfei Guo
  • Patent number: 11762188
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reflective eyepiece optical system and a head-mounted near-to-eye display device. The system includes: a first lens group, a first optical element and a second lens group for transmitting and reflecting light from a miniature image displayer; the second lens group includes an optical reflection surface, and the optical reflection surface is the optical surface farthest from a human eye viewing side in the second lens group; the optical reflection surface is concave to human eyes; the first optical element reflects the light refracted by the first lens group to the second lens group, and then transmits the light refracted, reflected and again refracted by the second lens group to the human eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Shenzhen NED Optics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Huajun Peng, Hongpeng Cao, Jianfei Guo
  • Patent number: 11762422
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing that separates an exterior region from an interior region. The housing may have a front layer on a front face of the housing and a rear layer on an opposing rear face of the housing. Sidewall structures may extend between the front and rear layers. The housing may form a head-mounted housing that is configured to be worn on a user's head. An internal frame may be mounted in the interior region. The internal frame may have a nose bridge structure that is coupled to the housing with a coupling member such as a coupling member formed from an elastomeric vibration damping material. Other portions of the frame such elongated laterally extending support members may not contact any portion of the housing and may therefore be isolated from the housing during drop events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aidan N. Zimmerman, Evan D. Christensen, Ivan S. Maric, Jason C. Sauers, John S. Camp
  • Patent number: 11747623
    Abstract: A display device includes an image light generating device, a light-guiding member on which image light emitted from the image light generating device is incident, a first diffraction element provided at an incident side of the light-guiding member and having positive power, a second diffraction element provided at an exit side of the light-guiding member and having positive power, and a mirror provided at an end portion at the incident side of the light-guiding member and having positive power, in which the image light passed through the first diffraction element is reflected by the mirror and propagates in the light-guiding member, and the image light incident on the second diffraction element is deflected by the second diffraction element forming an exit pupil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Atsushi Saito
  • Patent number: 11747631
    Abstract: A head-mounted fixing device includes a head frame, a bracket and a headband. Two side frame portions of the head frame abut against two sides of a user’s head, and a front frame portion of the head frame is located between the two side frame portions and abuts against the user’s forehead. The headband is movably connected to two first adjusting members of the head frame, so the position of the front frame portion on the forehead can be adjusted by adjusting positions of the two first adjusting members on the headband. The bracket abuts against the top of the head. The headband can wrap around and abut against the back of the head. The head frame, the bracket and the headband abut against the head to restrict the head-mounted fixing device from moving relative to the head, so that the head-mounted fixing device may be worn without shaking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: E-Lead Electronic Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Stephen Chen