Superimposing Visual Information On Observers Field Of View (e.g., Head-up Arrangement, Etc.) Patents (Class 359/630)
  • Patent number: 11604358
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate a head-worn computer with a see-through display wherein computer content is presented to a user wearing the head-worn computer and through which the user sees a surrounding environment, wherein the see-through display generates image light comprised of narrow bandwidths of red, green and blue light and wherein the see-through display further includes a tristimulus notch mirror positioned to reflect the image light towards the user's eye, and wherein the tristimulus notch mirror reflects less than a full width half max of the red image light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventors: Edward H. Nortrup, John N. Border, John D. Haddick
  • Patent number: 11592671
    Abstract: A near-eye display apparatus is disclosed. The near-eye display apparatus includes a lens and an optical path folding assembly. The lens is configured to receive incident light of a first image, which is projected by a micro-display, and shape the first image; the lens includes a primary optical axis and a first lens face and a second lens face which are opposed in a first direction where the primary optical axis of the lens is positioned, and both the first lens face and the second lens face are aspheric surfaces; and the optical path folding assembly is configured to receive light of the first image shaped by the lens and fold an optical path from the lens to an exit pupil of the near-eye display apparatus. By adopting the bi-aspherical lens, image quality of the near-eye display apparatus can be improved and the volume can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ruijun Dong, Yali Liu, Chenru Wang, Ke Li, Hao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11586040
    Abstract: An information display apparatus that displays image information on a vehicle includes a HUD apparatus projecting a large-scale virtual image onto a distant position and serving as a first information display apparatus 100 arranged between a windshield glass 6 of the vehicle and an instrument panel, and effectively displays a plurality of pieces of the image information by making coordination with a second information display apparatus 48 close to the windshield glass 6, the second information display apparatus causing a transparent dispersion sheet in the windshield glass to directly reflect a screen of a large-scale high-resolution image display panel so that the screen is observed by the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Hirata, Koji Fujita, Eiji Takagi, Toshinori Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11586038
    Abstract: An image projection device includes: a light source emitting a light beam; an image input unit inputting image data; a control unit generating an image light beam based on the input image data, and controlling emission of the image light beam from the light source; a scan unit scanning the image light beam emitted from the light source; and a projection optical member illuminating a retina of an eyeball of a user with the image light beam scanned by the scan unit, and projecting an image onto the retina, wherein a diameter of the image light beam at a time when the image light beam enters a cornea of the eyeball is not smaller than 310 ?m and not larger than 800 ?m, and a user having an original visual acuity in a range of 0.04 to 1.2 has an acquired visual acuity of 0.4 or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: QD LASER, INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Suzuki, Kenji Yasui, Mitsuru Sugawara
  • Patent number: 11580707
    Abstract: An adjustable frame assembly for augmented reality eyewear. The frame assembly includes a face portion for supporting at least one waveguide that creates an eye box, a support rest for supporting the face portion on a user, and a coupling for adjusting the position of the face portion relative to the support rest. This enables movement of the waveguide eye box relative to the support rest to position the eye box in front of the wearer's eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Julio Cesar CastaƱeda, Samuel Bryson Thompson
  • Patent number: 11567252
    Abstract: An optical device includes a first polarization selective reflector; a second polarization selective reflector positioned relative to the first polarization selective reflector so that the first polarization selective reflector directs first light having a first nonplanar polarization toward the second polarization selective reflector and the second polarization selective reflector directs at least a portion of the first light toward the first polarization selective reflector as second light. The optical device includes a first reflector positioned relative to the first polarization selective reflector so that the first polarization selective reflector directs at least a portion of the second light having a second nonplanar polarization toward the first reflector as third light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew John Ouderkirk, Tanya Malhotra, Weichuan Gao, Ying Geng, Babak Amirsolaimani
  • Patent number: 11567316
    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: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Lumus Ltd.
    Inventor: Yochay Danziger
  • Patent number: 11567334
    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 along an incident direction of an optical axis of human eyes, and a first lens group located on an optical axis of an 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 one 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. The effective focal lengths of the first sub-lens group and the second sub-lens group are a combination of positive and negative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Shenzhen NED Optics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Huajun Peng, Hongpeng Cao, Jianfei Guo
  • Patent number: 11561336
    Abstract: An optical element includes a transparent layer, outcoupling elements, and a waveguide structure. The outcoupling elements are positioned across the transparent layer. The waveguide structure provides non-visible light to the outcoupling elements and the outcoupling elements outcouple the non-visible light as non-visible illumination light to illuminate an eye region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Guohua Wei, Qi Zhang, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Matthew E Colburn
  • Patent number: 11561335
    Abstract: A transparent substrate has two parallel faces and guides collimated image light by internal reflection. A first set of internal surfaces is deployed within the substrate oblique to the parallel faces. A second set of internal surfaces is deployed within the substrate parallel to, interleaved and in overlapping relation with the first set of internal surfaces. Each of the internal surfaces of the first set includes a first coating having a first reflection characteristic to be at least partially reflective to at least a first subset of components of incident light. Each of the internal surfaces of the second set includes a second coating having a second reflection characteristic complementary to the first reflection characteristic to be at least partially reflective to at least a second subset of components of incident light. The sets of internal surfaces cooperate to reflect all components of light from the first and second subsets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: LUMUS LTD.
    Inventors: Yochay Danziger, Elad Sharlin
  • Patent number: 11550154
    Abstract: A display element, and a light-guiding member including a plurality of reflection surfaces and configured to guide image light from the display element by reflecting the image light at an inner surface, and cause the image light and external light to be visually recognized in an overlapping manner are provided, wherein at a boundary between a first reflection surface and a second reflection surface adjacent to each other included in the plurality of reflection surfaces of the light-guiding member with at least one of the first reflection surface and the second reflection surface including a curved surface, an end of the first reflection surface and an end of the second reflection surface match when projected from a specific direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Takagi, Tokito Yamaguchi, Toshiaki Miyao, Takashi Takeda
  • Patent number: 11543565
    Abstract: A display panel, a display device and a display method. The display panel includes a first microlens array, a pixel island array and a second lens. The pixel island array is configured to display a plurality of sub-original images. The first microlens array is configured to converge light emitted from the plurality of sub-original images so as to obtain imaging light, and the imaging light is capable of forming a first virtual image. The second lens is on a user viewing side of the display panel relative to the first microlens array, and the second lens is configured to converge the imaging light so as to obtain a second virtual image. The first virtual image is a virtual image in which the plurality of sub-original images are stitched and enlarged, and the second virtual image is an enlarged virtual image of the first virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiandong Meng, Wei Wang, Tao Hong, Zhenxing Zhou, Gaolei Xue, Qiuyu Ling, Jifeng Tan, Xianqin Meng, Xiaochuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11543773
    Abstract: A display for displaying a wide Field of View (FoV) scene including a holographic image within the scene, including a first Spatial Light Modulator (SLM) and an optical system for producing a first holographic image at a center of a displayed scene, and a second image display for producing at least a first additional image adjacent to the first holographic image. In some embodiments an augmented reality display is used for the displaying of the first holographic image at the center of a field of view and the second image adjacent to the first holographic image. In some embodiments a virtual reality display is used for the displaying of the first holographic image near the center of a field of view and the second image adjacent to the first holographic image. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Real View Imaging Ltd.
    Inventors: Shaul Alexander Gelman, Carmel Rotschild, Aviad Kaufman
  • Patent number: 11541421
    Abstract: A wearable element is disclosed. In an embodiment a wearable element includes at least one piezoelectric element configured to vibrate so that a haptic impression of an acoustic signal is generated, wherein the wearable element is wearable on a body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: TDK ELECTRONICS AG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Rauch
  • Patent number: 11536966
    Abstract: A display device includes a relay waveguide and a scanner. The scanner is configured to angularly scan image light for coupling into the waveguide, and includes a scanning reflector and a second reflector disposed between the scanning reflector and an input coupler of the waveguide. The scanning reflector has an aperture for the image light to propagate therethrough toward the second reflector. The second reflector is configured to reflect at least a portion of the image light received through the aperture back toward the scanning reflector and to transmit at least a portion of the image light reflected from the scanning reflector toward the input coupler. The arrangement enables a compact design of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Babak Amirsolaimani, Brian Wheelwright, Daniel Guenther Greif, Weichuan Gao, Miaomiao Xu, Jacques Gollier
  • Patent number: 11536964
    Abstract: Provided is a head-mounted display apparatus including: a display unit configured to display each of virtual screens that is set to each of a plurality of predetermined focal lengths; a distance-specific image generation unit configured to generate distance-specific display images for displaying, on the virtual screens, a display object representing an object to be displayed present between two focal lengths next to each other of the plurality of focal lengths; and a display controller configured to display each of the generated distance-specific display images on the virtual screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yutaka Fujimaki
  • Patent number: 11523063
    Abstract: Annotation techniques are implemented in an augmented reality environment. A user is presented with a GUI configured to place three-dimensional virtual annotations in an environment displayed via the user's computing device. The GUI presents a central GUI element that is center-locked with respect to the environment displayed via the user's computing device. The central GUI element is coplanar to a detected surface of the environment on which the central GUI element is virtually located. The annotation may be a three-dimensional arrow. While viewing the environment, a preview of the three-dimensional arrow pointing towards the central GUI element is presented to the user. Upon providing user input, the arrow is placed on the detected surface. The user may provide additional input that rotates the three-dimensional arrow around the central GUI element before placing the arrow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Cedric Khanntipo Ith, Gregory Bishop Bahm, Xonatia Ravelle Lee, Josiah Michael McClanahan
  • Patent number: 11513357
    Abstract: An image display device includes, an imaging light generation part configured to generate an imaging light having a single color, a light-guiding plate, an incident side diffraction element provided at a light incident part of the light-guiding plate, and configured to cause the imaging light to enter the light-guiding plate, an exit side diffraction element provided at a light emitting part of the light-guiding plate, and configured to cause the imaging light propagating within the light-guiding plate to exit, and an angle dependent reflective film provided between the light-guiding plate and the exit side diffraction element, and having a reflectance varying depending on magnitude of a propagation angle of the imaging light, in which the reflectance for the imaging light propagating at a relatively small propagation angle is larger than the reflectance for the imaging light propagating at a relatively large propagation angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Osamu Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11513373
    Abstract: A diffraction grating includes a substrate and a plurality of fringes supported by the substrate. The fringes run parallel to each other in a first direction. A refractive index of a material of the plurality of fringes is anisotropic, whereby a refractive index contrast of the diffraction grating depends on direction of electric field of an impinging light beam, and through that dependence is a function of an azimuthal angle of the impinging light beam. A dependence of the diffraction efficiency on the azimuthal angle is affected by the dependence of the refractive index contrast on the direction of electric field of an impinging light beam. A pupil-replicating waveguide may use such a diffraction grating as a coupler for in- our out-coupling image light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Siddharth Buddhiraju, Yu Shi, Ningfeng Huang, Hee Yoon Lee, Pasi Saarikko
  • Patent number: 11514687
    Abstract: A control system using an in-vehicle gesture input, and more particularly, a system for receiving a vehicle occupant's gesture and controlling the execution of vehicle functions. The control system using an in-vehicle gesture input includes an input unit configured to receive a user's gesture, a memory configured to store a control program using an in-vehicle gesture input therein, and a processor configured to execute the control program. The processor performs an information display control for areas layered in a windshield screen according to the user's gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Joon Ahn, Seung Hwan Lee
  • Patent number: 11508097
    Abstract: Disclosed is an approach for generating interactive visualizations for multi-nodal transfers that may involve terminal nodes and multiple transitional nodes by using various protocols to acquire data from computing systems or devices associated with each node. A first visualization layer comprising a set of geographic or physical indicators in a multi-nodal transfer route (which comprises a set of three or more nodes) may be generated. API protocols (and/or non-API protocols) corresponding to each node in the transfer route may be identified. The protocols may be executed to obtain, from computing systems and devices associated with the nodes, data packets used to generate a second visualization layer, which may comprise graphics that visually depict details of a transfer along the transfer route. An overlay of visualization layers may be displayed such that the graphics are displayed in association with multiple nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Andriy Fedorchuk, Rajiv Ranjan, Sreenath Sandru, Shivani Singh
  • Patent number: 11505273
    Abstract: A straddle type vehicle characterized by comprising: an air guiding plate arranged on a front side of the straddle type vehicle; and a display control unit configured to display information concerning automatic traveling control of the straddle type vehicle, wherein the display control unit displays the information concerning the automatic traveling control on the air guiding plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kihoko Kaita, Masashi Hagimoto, Yoshiyuki Kuroba, Hiroshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 11508700
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are display devices having a left projector and a right projector. According to certain embodiments, a display device includes a first display package having a first LED die, a second LED die, a third LED die, and a first backplane die that is electrically connected to the first LED die, the second LED die, and the third LED die. Each of the first LED die, the second LED die, and the third LED die is symmetric about a first plane that is parallel to an emission direction of the first LED die and perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the first LED die. The first backplane die is symmetric about a second plane that is parallel to the emission direction of the first LED die and parallel to the longitudinal direction of the first LED die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Rajendra D. Pendse
  • Patent number: 11506888
    Abstract: A gaze tracking system for use by the driver of a vehicle includes an opaque frame circumferentially enclosing a transparent field of view of the driver, light emitting diodes coupled to the opaque frame for emitting infrared light onto various regions of the driver's eye gazing through the transparent field of view, and diodes for sensing intensity of infrared light reflected off of various regions of the driver's eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORP.
    Inventors: Eric Whitmire, Kaan Aksit, Michael Stengel, Jan Kautz, David Luebke, Ben Boudaoud
  • Patent number: 11498696
    Abstract: An apparatus to improve a situational awareness of a pilot or driver controlling a vehicle using a control appliance. The control appliance includes a display for depicting surroundings of the vehicle, and the vehicle includes a missile warner and a sensor for fine tracking (FTS) configured to provide high-resolution images for a tracking of an approaching missile detected by the missile warner. The apparatus also includes a control unit, configured to couple a directable line-of-sight of the FTS with the display, and to employ the high-resolution images of the FTS to improve the depiction of the surroundings of the vehicle on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: HENSOLDT SENSORS GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Assel, Andrea Thum-Jaeger
  • Patent number: 11500208
    Abstract: Images perceived to be substantially full color or multi-colored may be formed using component color images that are distributed in unequal numbers across a plurality of depth planes. The distribution of component color images across the depth planes may vary based on color. In some embodiments, a display system includes a stack of waveguides that each output light of a particular color, with some colors having fewer numbers of associated waveguides than other colors. The stack of waveguides may include by multiple pluralities (e.g., first and second pluralities) of waveguides, each configured to produce an image by outputting light corresponding to a particular color. The total number of waveguides in the second plurality of waveguides is less than the total number of waveguides in the first plurality of waveguides, and may be more than the total number of waveguides in a third plurality of waveguides, in embodiments where three component colors are utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian T. Schowengerdt, Hong Hua, Hui-Chuan Cheng, Christophe Peroz
  • Patent number: 11493772
    Abstract: A Head Mounted Display (HMD) includes a pixel array having multiple pixels configured in a two-dimensional surface, each pixel providing multiple light beams forming an image provided to a user. The HMD also includes a first optical element configured to provide a central portion of a field of view for the image through an eyebox that limits a volume including a pupil of the user, and a second optical element configured to provide a peripheral portion of the field of view for the image through the eyebox, wherein the peripheral portion of the field of view comprises at least one steradian of a user's field of view at a resolution of at least fifteen arcminutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Wheelwright, Kieran Connor Kelly, Ying Geng
  • Patent number: 11493762
    Abstract: There is provided a head mounted display including: an optical system comprising: right-eye and left-eye optical systems that guide a real image light and right-eye and left-eye virtual image lights; and an optical element comprising: first polarization plates disposed at emission sides of the right-eye and left-eye optical systems; wherein the right-eye virtual image light from the right-eye optical system and the left-eye virtual image light from the left-eye optical system are blocked by the first polarization plate at the emission side of the left-eye optical system and by that of the right-eye optical system respectively; and at least one of: first wave plates disposed at the emission sides of the right-eye and left-eye optical systems so that the real image light from the right-eye and left-eye optical systems passes therethrough; and second wave plates disposed at incident sides of the right-eye and left-eye optical systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Oka, Tetsuji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11490673
    Abstract: The headwear with integrated image projector comprises an image projector and a hat. The hat may be adapted to be worn upon a head of a wearer. The image projector may be coupled to the hat. The hat may project a projected image from the hat onto a viewing surface using the image projector. In some embodiments, the image projector may be coupled to a first position of the hat and the viewing surface may be a second position of the hat. As a non-limiting example, the first position may be the front of the hat bowl and the second position may be the top surface of the hat brim. In some embodiments, the hat having the image projector may comprise a wireless communication interface such that the image projector may communicate with an application program running on a wearer's smartphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventor: Otis Wilson
  • Patent number: 11488316
    Abstract: An optical system is provided. The optical system includes an image generator configured to output image signals for configuring a virtual image, and an infrared (IR) image signal, a multipath optical element configured to guide the beams, a diffraction grating configured to diffract parts of the output beams and transmit other parts of the output beams, an outcoupler configured to allow the diffracted beams to exit the multipath optical element, a first camera configured to sense a pattern of reflection of an IR beam exiting the outcoupler, an IR filter diffraction element, a second camera configured to sense a pattern of reflection of the IR beam projected toward the real world, and a processor configured to determine a line of sight of a user based on the pattern sensed by the first camera, and to determine depth information of the object based on the pattern sensed by the second camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi-yul Yoon, Ji-Woon Yeom, Jae-Eun Kang
  • Patent number: 11487413
    Abstract: For realistic mounting simulation of an image device, a mobile device according to one embodiment comprises: a display; a camera for photographing a space in which the image device is to be mounted; a user interface unit for receiving a user's input; and a control unit for controlling the display so that an image of the space photographed by the camera is displayed together with a grid, and controlling the display so that a virtual image of the image device, of which the size has been adjusted in response to the user's input, is displayed on the grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Sun Park, Sung Hyun Jang, Eun Young Choi, Ji-Youn Han
  • Patent number: 11487125
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods provide for the prevention of laser light escaping a foldable wearable heads-up display (WHUD) when the WHUD is folded. For a WHUD that adopts the form factor of conventional eyeglasses or sunglasses, enabling the WHUD to fold ā€œlike glassesā€ can cause an interruption in the optical path of display light and enable display light to escape into the external environment. This can be hazardous when laser light is used to provide display light. Systems, devices, and methods that automatically detect, sense, and/or respond to the fold configuration state of a WHUD are described. When the WHUD is unfolded a laser-based display operates normally. When the WHUD is folded the laser-based display is disabled to prevent laser light from projecting out of the WHUD through the folded region. Proximity sensors and laser light containing mechanisms also may be employed as alternative or supplementary safety elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Stuart James Myron Nicholson, Andrew S. Logan
  • Patent number: 11480801
    Abstract: The disclosed flexible facial interface assemblies for head-mounted display systems may include a rigid support frame element and a flexible facial interface frame element. The rigid support frame element may be shaped and configured to physically support a display of a head-mounted display system in front of a user's eyes when the facial interface assembly is worn by the user. The flexible facial interface frame element may be configured to flex to conform to the user's facial features when the facial interface assembly is worn by the user. An outer periphery of the flexible facial interface frame element may be independently movable relative to an outer periphery of the rigid support frame element. Various other systems and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Quintin Morris, Shane Michael Ellis, Scott Andrew Dallmeyer, Peter Wesley Bristol, David Michael Pickett, Joel Bernard Jacobs, Yi-Yaun Chen, Enric Vial Roig
  • Patent number: 11474357
    Abstract: An augmented reality display device includes a micro-display; a relay lens array configured to be disposed at the rear stage of the micro-display and having a combination of two or more spherical or aspherical lenses; a combiner configured to be disposed at the rear stage of the relay lens array to project laterally an image light emitted from the relay lens array to a substrate to be described later and implement an ultra-short throw image using together with the relay lens array; a transparent or translucent substrate configured to form an image by projecting the image light transmitted from the combiner on the substrate; and a coating or film configured to be attached to one surface of a component part of the relay lens array, the combiner or the substrate so as to reflect, penetrate or refract the image light transmitted from the micro display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: PRAZEN.CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Heekyung Kim
  • Patent number: 11474575
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to thermal management systems for head-worn computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventors: Ralph F. Osterhout, Robert Michael Lohse, Michael Van Huynh
  • Patent number: 11467717
    Abstract: Techniques for optimizing window resize actions for a remoted application are provided, where the remoted application has a server-side window running within a remote desktop of a server system, and where the server-side window is made accessible to a user of a client system as a client-side window displayed in a client desktop of the client system. In one embodiment, the client system can receive from the server system a notification that the server-side window is being resized in the remote desktop, and can determine that the user is currently entering one or more input commands for resizing the server-side window. In response, the client system can send a message to the server system for canceling the resizing of the server-side window. The client system can then allow the user to resize the client-side window via the one or more input commands, while the server-side window remains a fixed size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventor: Adam Gregory Gross
  • Patent number: 11467410
    Abstract: A display apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a left eyepiece display unit including a left-eye image display device and a left eyepiece optical system guiding a displayed left-eye display image to a left eye; and a right eyepiece display unit including a right-eye image display device and a right eyepiece optical system guiding a displayed right-eye display image to a right eye, and an image magnification upon observation by both eyes is twice or more. The left eyepiece optical system and the right eyepiece optical system each include a plurality of single lenses, and at least one of the single lenses is a free-form surface lens including a resin material. At least one of the single lenses is arranged in at least one of an eccentric state or a rotated state with respect to an optical axis of the left-eye image display device or the right-eye image display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuharu Matsumoto, Mamoru Suzuki, Susumu Ichikawa, Takatoshi Matsuyama, Masatoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11467405
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device according to the present disclosure. In the electronic device according to the present disclosure, a light source unit is disposed to be parallel to a first optical axis formed when eyes of the user look straight ahead; The electronic device according to the present disclosure may be associated with an artificial intelligence module, a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, a device related to a 5G service, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Changkyu Hwang, Sungchul Shin, Seungyong Shin, Dongyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 11460707
    Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) apparatus comprises a head attachment unit comprising a first attachment member configured to attach the HMD to a user's head when the HMD is worn by the user and a first element having an adjustable weight distribution, and an adjustment unit configured to adjust a distribution of the weight of the HMD based on user profile information associated with the user, wherein the adjustment unit is configured to adjust the weight distribution of the first element of the HMD based on the user profile information by adjusting a configuration of one or more mobile components of the first element without adjusting a position or an orientation of the first element with respect to the HMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Richard James Forster, Andrew William Walker, Matthew Sanders, Jessica Rose Grant
  • Patent number: 11454783
    Abstract: A near eye display system can include a first triplet lens arranged in a tile fashion and configured to be associated with a left eye. The near eye display system also can include a second triplet lens arranged in the tile fashion and configured to be associated with a right eye. A multiple display system can be paired with the first triplet lens and the second triplet lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Igor Stamenov
  • Patent number: 11448879
    Abstract: An augmented reality device can include an outer housing, an attachment component, a camera, and a display arrangement. The outer housing can have a transparent front and back arranged to allow a user to see therethrough. The attachment component can removably attach the augmented reality device to user eyewear. The camera can capture images through the outer housing front. The display arrangement can provide a virtual display at an angle to the user looking through the augmented reality device. The display arrangement can include an image emitting component, a prism component, a projecting optic component, a combining optic component, and a unibody optics enclosure. The augmented reality device can also include a processor and a memory configured to store and retrieve buffer clips of captured images, and a wireless communication component configured for communications with outside devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin Raymond Heald, Bobak Tavangar, Austin Wilson, Venkat Rangan
  • Patent number: 11448810
    Abstract: A display device for displaying images conveying depth information comprises a first display unit for representing first image information on a first screen. The first display unit comprises the first screen with a holographic optical element, HOE, provided thereon, and a first light source for providing light for illuminating the first screen. The display device further comprises a second display unit for representing second image information. The second display unit comprises a second light source for providing light with a plurality of predetermined discrete wavelengths for creating the second image information, and a second screen which is provided in parallel or oriented at an acute angle relative to the first screen in order to project the second image information onto the first screen and thereby generate a virtual image corresponding to the second image information behind the first screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Axel Torschmied, Giang-Nam Nguyen, Ryo Kajiura
  • Patent number: 11442243
    Abstract: The head mounted display device includes a tube, a reflecting mirror, an infrared camera, and an imaging lens. The reflecting mirror is arranged in the tube. The reflecting mirror has a first plane and a second plane connected in sequence, wherein the first plane and the second plane have normal vectors that are not parallel to each other. The infrared camera receives the reflected image beam from the second plane of the reflecting mirror, wherein the second plane of the reflecting mirror receives the image beam to generate the reflected image beam. The imaging lens is arranged at the first open end of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Yen-Fang Cheng, Iok Kan Choi, Qing-Long Deng
  • Patent number: 11428937
    Abstract: Improved wearable optics is disclosed. The wearable optics comprises a frame member and a lens. The wearable optics also includes circuitry within the frame member for enhancing the use of the wearable optics. A system and method in accordance with the present invention is directed to a variety of ways to enhance the use of eyeglasses. They are: (1) media focals, that is, utilizing the wearable optics for its intended purpose and enhancing that use by using imaging techniques to improve the vision of the user; (2) telecommunications enhancements that allow the eyeglasses to be integrated with telecommunication devices such as cell phones or the like; and (3) entertainment enhancements that allow the wearable optics to be integrated with devices such as MP3 players, radios, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Percept Technologies
    Inventor: Scott W. Lewis
  • Patent number: 11429265
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for controlling an output device are provided. For example, features are extracted from data points of an object. A set of data points are identified from the data points based upon the set of data points having features corresponding to target features. Marker elements are assigned to the set of data points. A mapping structure is used to assign output indicators to the marker elements. The output device is controlled to provide output indicators assigned to marker elements as the marker elements become a current focus of the user navigation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Sukriti Chadha, Jean-Baptiste Maurice Queru, Darren Burton, Gary Moulton, Michael Brent Shebanek
  • Patent number: 11420558
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an interior trim part of a motor vehicle which comprises: a shaped part made of glass or a glass-like material which is arranged on the side of the interior trim part facing the interior of the motor vehicle, a thin-film display device which as seen from the motor vehicle interior is arranged behind the shaped part or is integrated therein, and a control device for activating the thin-film display device, so that the latter transmits an image through the shaped part to the interior of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: International Automotive Components Group GmbH
    Inventors: Huib Seegers, Henk Rijpkema, Carter Scott Cannon
  • Patent number: 11422389
    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: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Blum, William Kokonaski, Dwight Duston
  • Patent number: 11422373
    Abstract: An optical device for a head-mounted display device includes a first partial reflector and a second partial reflector positioned relative to the first partial reflector so that the second partial reflector receives first light transmitted through the first partial reflector and reflects at least a portion of the first light toward the first partial reflector as second light. At least a portion of the second light is reflected by the first partial reflector as third light, and at least a portion of the third light is transmitted through the second partial reflector. At least one of the first partial reflector or the second partial reflector includes a reflective holographic element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Maimone, Junren Wang, Barry Silverstein
  • Patent number: 11420079
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an in-mask display or feedback system having a lens coupled to a face blank of the mask, the lens covering a facepiece. The feedback system includes a display apparatus coupled to the facepiece, and disposed within an interior of the mask, the display apparatus being powered by a first power source coupled to a housing of the display apparatus. The feedback system further includes a recording device (e.g., a camera) coupled to the face blank, the recording device operable to communicate data (e.g., wirelessly or wired) with the display apparatus. In some approaches, the recording device is powered by a second power source. In other approaches, the first power source provides power to both the recording device and the display apparatus. In another approach, the display apparatus includes an adjustment aperture formed therethrough to allow adjustment of an eye piece housing a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Scott Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Darin Kyle Thompson, Eric James Bassani, Graham Peter Wilson, Troy Alan Baker, Kyle Dane Hudson, Christopher Ward, Longin James Kloc, Kimberly Michelle Henry
  • Patent number: 11422620
    Abstract: A wearable device may include a head-mounted display (HMD) for rendering a three-dimensional (3D) virtual object which appears to be located in an ambient environment of a user of the display. The relative positions of the HMD and one or more eyes of the user may not be in desired positions to receive image information outputted by the HMD. For example, the HMD-to-eye vertical alignment may be different between the left and right eyes. The wearable device may determine if the HMD is level on the user's head and may then provide the user with a left-eye alignment marker and a right-eye alignment marker. Based on user feedback, the wearable device may determine if there is any left-right vertical misalignment and may take actions to reduce or minimize the effects of any misalignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventor: Bjorn Nicolaas Servatius Vlaskamp