Superimposing Visual Information On Observers Field Of View (e.g., Head-up Arrangement, Etc.) Patents (Class 359/630)
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
  • Patent number: 11416026
    Abstract: The various embodiments disclosed in the present document relate to wearable electronic devices. A wearable electronic device can be provided, according to various embodiments of the present document, comprising: a housing for accommodating electronic components; at least one band; and a connector, a relative position of which can be adjusted with respect to the band, wherein the connector comprises: a connector housing; a spur gear engaged with at least a portion of the band; a wheel disposed inside the connector housing, coaxial with the spur gear, and at least partially exposed to the outside of the connector housing; a circular plate coaxial with the wheel and of which at least a portion is inserted into a circular recess formed in the wheel; and a first pawl of which at least a portion is inserted into a recess guide channel formed in the circular plate and which engages along the inner circumferential surface of the circular recess. In addition, various other embodiments can be implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyoungjin Ahn
  • Patent number: 11415807
    Abstract: A headset system is described herein including a number of features including a frame and optical element. The headset system may include different combinations of bumper systems to permit the headset to accommodate different sized or dimensioned mobile device for use with the headset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Mira Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Montana Reed, Norio Fujikawa, Oliver Henderson, Sean Missal, Scott Pancioli, Nicci Cazares, Tom Cohlmia, Simon Gatrall, Jessica Gilbertson, Shawn Levin, David Rinaldis
  • Patent number: 11409109
    Abstract: A HMD includes a display block. The display block combines light from a local area with image light to form an augmented scene. The display block also provides the augmented scene to an eyebox corresponding a location of a user's eye. The display block includes a waveguide display, a focusing assembly and a compensation assembly. The waveguide display emits the image light. The focusing assembly includes a focusing geometric phase lens and presents the augmented scene at a focal distance. The compensation assembly includes a compensation geometric phase lens that has an axis of orientation orthogonal to an axis of orientation of the focusing geometric phase lens. The compensation assembly compensates the optical power of the focusing assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Wai Sze Tiffany Lam
  • Patent number: 11409108
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a near-eye display panel and a near-eye display device. The near-eye display panel includes a spherical display element, and a lens array located at a light emission side of the spherical display element. Lenses of the lens array are arranged on a spherical surface, the lens array and the spherical display element share a common spherical center, and a distance between each lens of the lens array and the spherical display element is configured such that a light beam emitted from each pixel point of the spherical display element is collimated after passing through the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jian Gao
  • Patent number: 11402899
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an infrared ray module, a camera module, and a display module including an active area through which an image is displayed and a non-active area adjacent to the active area and including a high transmittance area and a low transmittance area which are defined in the active area. The high transmittance area includes a first transmission area and a second transmission area, the camera module overlaps the first transmission area, and the infrared ray module overlaps the second transmission area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Inventors: Sungkook Park, Hyosun Kim, Young-Jun Seo, Yongwoo Yi
  • Patent number: 11398208
    Abstract: An information display apparatus capable of reducing the viewpoint movement of a driver and achieving safer driving in consideration of the relationship between the traveling speed and the stopping distance of a vehicle is provided. The information display apparatus is configured to display image information in a transportation and comprises a HUD apparatus disposed between a windshield of the transportation and an instrument panel of the transportation. The HUD apparatus detects a viewpoint position of a driver; and displays a virtual image of the image information in front of the transportation by reflecting light emitted from the HUD apparatus to display the image information by the windshield. The HUD apparatus is configured to set a display position of the virtual image in accordance with movement of the viewpoint position of the driver who is driving the transportation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Hirata, Akio Misawa, Takumi Nakada
  • Patent number: 11390209
    Abstract: A lighting system for a local vehicle, comprising: a head lamp including a low-beam lamp for shining low-beam light in a first zone, and a first high-beam lamp for shining first high-beam light in the first zone; a sensory cluster for detecting a remote vehicle proximate to the local vehicle, the sensory cluster including a distance sensor for determining a distance of the remote vehicle from the local vehicle, and a velocity sensor for determining a velocity of the remote vehicle with respect to the local vehicle; and a lighting controller for determining a minimum-distance target time when the remote vehicle will reach a minimum distance from the local vehicle based on the distance of the remote vehicle and the velocity of the remote vehicle, and for controlling the operation of the first high-beam lamp based on the distance of the remote vehicle and the velocity of the remote vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Grote Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Suyash Kulkarni, Sankalp Pampattiwar, Brian Norris, Cesar Perez-Bolivar
  • Patent number: 11385594
    Abstract: A holographic display with an illumination device, an enlarging unit and a light modulator. The illumination device includes at least one light source and a light collimation unit, the light collimation unit collimates the light of the at least one light source and generates a light wave field of the light that is emitted by the light source with a specifiable angular spectrum of plane waves, the enlarging unit is disposed downstream of the light collimation unit, seen in the direction of light propagation, where the enlarging unit includes a transmissive volume hologram realising an anamorphic broadening of the light wave field due to a transmissive interaction of the light wave field with the volume hologram, and the light modulator is disposed upstream or downstream of the anamorphic enlarging unit, seen in the direction of light propagation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SEEREAL TECHNOLOGIES S.A.
    Inventor: Gerald Futterer
  • Patent number: 11385465
    Abstract: A curved light guide can be used as an imaging optical unit or as part of an imaging optical unit for an HMD. The light guide can be arranged in front of at least one eye and have a concave curvature, as seen from the eye. The light can include a back surface facing the eye and a front surface facing away from the eye, an input coupling structure for coupling light into the light guide in such a way that light is guided through the light guide with reflection at the front surface and/or the back surface, and an output coupling structure for coupling out the light guided through the light guide. The light guide can have a diverging structure, the absolute value of the focal length of which is less than or equal to the radius of curvature of the light guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: tooz technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Holger Muenz
  • Patent number: 11378804
    Abstract: A display device configured to emit image light to display an image, and a camera or an illuminance sensor as an external light sensor configured to sense external light are provided, and the camera or the illuminance sensor is positioned to overlap a visually transparent light-guiding unit forming a front-of-eye part of the display device in an emission direction of the image light. Thus, the direction of sensing the external light in the illuminance sensor and the camera is set correspondingly to the direction of the line of sight of the viewer and a state, where these are located in the proximity of the eye of the viewer, is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Terashima
  • Patent number: 11372476
    Abstract: A low-profile eye-tracking system for an off-visor helmet-mounted display (HMD) includes annular illuminators clipped to, and aligned with, the terminal component (e.g., the emitter or combiner) of the HMD optical chain. The illuminators include visible-light or IR light sources mounted around the circumference of the illuminator for bouncing light off the visor's inner surface and into the pilot's left or right eye (the HMD may include separate eye-tracking systems for each eye). Image sensors are positioned to sequentially capture images of the illuminated eyes reflected off the visor surface. HMD onboard electronics analyze the captured image sequence to determine the azimuth and elevation of the pilot's eye relative to the centerline of the HMD optics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Bobby D. Foote, Brock A. Macknick, Jeffrey E. Crow
  • Patent number: 11370360
    Abstract: A tangent line, described next, is, in top view, parallel to a straight line extending in a width direction of the display surface in a range in which the attitude can be changed. The tangent line is present on a plane orthogonal to the up-down direction of the automobile, and contacts a center of the final reflective surface. In top view, of an angle formed by a straight line connecting a center of the final reflective surface with a center of the display surface and the tangent line of the final reflective surface, a supplementary angle which is supplementary to an angle that is on a rear side of the automobile and that is on a side where the observer is present is an acute angle of less than 90 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norihiro Imamura, Kenji Nagatomi, Michihiro Yamagata, Shoji So, Keiichi Matsuzaki
  • Patent number: 11372250
    Abstract: A head-mounted display including a display module is provided. The display module includes a light source configured to provide a light beam and a combiner disposed on a transmission path of the light beam. The combiner includes a plurality of reflective elements spaced apart from each other and obliquely disposed. A maximum width of each of the plurality of reflective elements along an oblique direction thereof is less than 4 mm and greater than 10 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Jiun-Yi Lien, Bo-Han Lyu, Meng-Ko Tsai, Yin-Tung Lu
  • Patent number: 11366320
    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: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventors: Edward H. Nortrup, John N. Border, John D. Haddick
  • Patent number: 11366318
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device includes: a display; a communicator comprising a circuitry, for obtaining, from an external device, an image captured by the external device and information about at least one among an acceleration and angular velocity of the external device, the acceleration and angular velocity being measured while capturing an image; and a processor for identifying a degree of movement of the external device per a preset unit time period based on the obtained information, and controlling the display to display the image with an adjusted field of view (FOV) based on the degree of movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-Seok Jeon, Min-Soo Koo, Yong-Woo Lee
  • Patent number: 11360308
    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 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Maimone, Junren Wang, Barry Silverstein
  • Patent number: 11353716
    Abstract: A scanning-type display device includes: a light source which emits projection-display laser light; a condensing unit which condenses the laser light emitted from the light source; an optical scanning unit which uses the laser light passing through the condensing unit in scanning; and a light diffusion unit which includes a plurality of light diffusion channels arranged in two dimensions and diffuses the laser light scanned by the optical scanning unit. When a wavelength of the laser light is denoted by ?, an effective opening diameter of the optical scanning unit is denoted by M, a distance from the optical scanning unit to the light diffusion unit is denoted by L, and an arrangement pitch of the plurality of light diffusion channels is denoted by P, the light diffusion unit is configured so that the arrangement pitch becomes a value set on the basis of P?(4?L)/(?M).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventor: Shinya Iwashina
  • Patent number: 11353713
    Abstract: A virtual image display device includes a projection optical system that includes a projection mirror that projects an image display light toward a virtual image presentation plate. The projection mirror has a concavely curved surface and is arranged such that a curvature in a second cross section intersecting the concavely curved surface is larger than a curvature in a first cross section intersecting the concavely curved surface. The second cross section is orthogonal to the first cross section. The display unit is provided at a focal point of a composite optical system within a meridional plane, the composite optical system being formed by the virtual image presentation plate and the projection optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: JVCKENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Kojima
  • Patent number: 11350079
    Abstract: A wearable 3D augmented reality display and method, which may include 3D integral imaging optics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignees: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
    Inventors: Hong Hua, Bahram Javidi
  • Patent number: 11340460
    Abstract: A system for tracking a position and an orientation of an external device such as a smart watch or a handheld controller relative to a head mounted display (HMD) device is provided. A combination of active markers and passive markers on the external device may be detected by a point tracking camera of the HMD to collect position data for the external device relative to the HMD. Acceleration and/or orientation data of the external device relative to the HMD may be collected from an inertial measurement unit(s) (IMU(s)) of the external device and/or the HMD. The fusion of the position data with the data collected by the IMU(s) may allow for tracking of the external device relative to the HMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ian Muldoon, Clayton Kimber, Jeremy Swerdlow, Srivatsan Ravindran
  • Patent number: 11340475
    Abstract: A display device (1A) according to the present invention includes a first light source, a first retro-reflective part disposed at a position in an emission direction of first light emitted from the first light source, and a first light-separating part configured to reflect a part of the first light that has passed through the first retro-reflective part as a first reflected light and transmits at least a part of the first reflected light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Utsunomiya University
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Yamamoto, Yutaka Tokuda, Shusei Ito, Nao Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 11333887
    Abstract: An optical device that includes a light guide plate, a first deflection means, arranged on at least one of a first surface or a second surface of the light guide plate, that deflects light incident on the light guide plate to cause the light incident on the light guide plate to be totally reflected inside the light guide plate, and a second deflection means, arranged on at least one of the first surface or the second surface of the light guide plate, that deflects the light propagated inside the light guide plate by total reflection to cause the light propagated inside the light guide plate by total reflection to be emitted from the light guide plate. The light guide plate further includes a substrate including a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface, a first planarizing film, formed on the first surface of the substrate, containing an organic material, and a second planarizing film, formed on the second surface of the substrate, containing an organic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Suzuki, Daisuke Tsukuda
  • Patent number: 11333886
    Abstract: A head up display arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a head up display module having a picture generation unit emitting a light field. A plurality of linear polarizers are arranged in a stack. A first of the linear polarizers receives the light field from the picture generation unit. A last of the linear polarizers emits the light field. A windshield reflects the light field from the last linear polarizer such that the reflected light field is visible to a human driver of the motor vehicle as a virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company ot America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
    Inventors: David Kay Lambert, Steven Craig Bower
  • Patent number: 11327303
    Abstract: The information display apparatus configured to display video information of a virtual image on a reflecting surface of conveyance includes: a display configured to display the video information; and a virtual image optical system configured to display a virtual image at a front of the conveyance by reflecting light emitted from the display by means of the reflecting surface. The virtual image optical system includes a concave mirror and an optical element. The optical element is arranged between the display and the concave mirror, and is configured to correct distortion of the virtual image obtained so as to correspond to a viewpoint position of a driver on a basis of a shape of the concave mirror and a shape of the optical element. The information display apparatus further includes a virtual image double image conversion reducer configured to reduce double image conversion of the virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: MAXELL, LTD., HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Hirata, Masahiko Yatsu, Toshinori Sugiyama, Kazuomi Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11317861
    Abstract: A system and method for testing a subject for cognitive or oculomotor impairment includes presenting the subject with a display of an object, while presenting the display to the subject, and the subject's head moves horizontally or vertically within a predefined range of movement rates, measuring the subject's right eye positions and/or the subject's left eye positions. The system generates a metric by statistical analysis of the measurements of subject's right eye positions or the subject's left eye positions, and generates a report based on the metric. In some embodiments, the system is configured to train the subject to improve their performance, and thereby remediate or reduce cognitive and oculomotor impairment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SYNC-THINK, INC.
    Inventors: Jamshid Ghajar, Jun Maruta
  • Patent number: 11312458
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a watercraft comprising: a management system for use in managing functionality associated with the watercraft; an augmented reality system arranged to interact with the management system, at least a part of the augmented reality system being arranged to be wearable by a user of the watercraft to provide augmented reality image data to the user based on the interaction between the augmented reality system and the management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS PLC
    Inventors: Daniel Martyn Forrester, Owen Edward Jones, Jonathan Paul Ker Goodwin
  • Patent number: 11314087
    Abstract: There are provided a projection image-displaying member, a windshield glass, and a head-up display system in which both high visible light transmittance and good tint of a screen image displayed are achieved. The projection image-displaying member has a selectively reflecting layer that wavelength-selectively reflects light. The selectively reflecting layer has a maximum reflectivity in a wavelength range of 700 to 850 nm at an incidence angle of 5° and has a peak with a reflectivity of 15% or more in a wavelength range of 470 to 540 nm. The selectively reflecting layer further has two or more peaks of reflectivity in a wavelength range of 540 to 700 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Ando, Wataru Majima, Akihiro Anzai, Katsuyuki Takada, Kenji Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11307416
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device according to the present invention. The electronic device according to the present invention may move a display unit so that the position of the display unit corresponds to the pupil position of a user, and nanopatterns of an in-coupling portion, where a beam enters the display unit, and an out-coupling portion, where a beam is emitted, may be the same pattern. The electronic device according to the present invention 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 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seong Jo, Seungyong Shin, Kyoungtae Kim, Changkyu Hwang
  • Patent number: 11300810
    Abstract: A display device (1A) according to the present invention includes a first light source, a first retro-reflective part disposed at a position in an emission direction of first light emitted from the first light source, and a first light-separating part configured to reflect a part of the first light that has passed through the first retro-reflective part as a first reflected light and transmits at least a part of the first reflected light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Utsunomiya University
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Yamamoto, Yutaka Tokuda, Shusei Ito, Nao Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 11294188
    Abstract: An eyewear device with flexible frame for Augmented Reality (AR) is disclosed. At least two sensors and a display are mounted on the flexible frame. When in use, the real time geometry of the eyewear device may change from factory calibrated geometry, resulting in low quality AR rendering. A modeling module is provided to model the real time geometry of the eyewear device on the fly using sensor information of the at least two sensors. The modeled real time geometry is then provided to a rendering module to accurately display the AR to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Clemens Birklbauer, Georg Halmetschlager-Funek, Jeroen Hol, Matthias Kalkgruber, Daniel Wagner
  • Patent number: 11281005
    Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) has an enhanced optical arrangement that permits high-resolution imaging in a compact device. The HMD system includes an optical arrangement; a first image panel, wherein the optical arrangement directs image light from the first image panel along a first optical pathway having a first length; and a second image panel arranged orthogonal to the first image panel, wherein the optical arrangement directs image light from the second image panel along a second optical pathway different from the first optical pathway having a second length. The first length is equal to the second length, and the optical arrangement is configured such that light from the first image panel and the second image panel are emitted from the HMD system in a combined fashion in a first eye direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Chengze Song, William Frederick Smith, David James Montgomery
  • Patent number: 11281004
    Abstract: A second gear includes the second gear meshed with a first gear to rotate, and a protruding part that protrudes in a direction of a rotational axis of a gear part. A supporting part supports the second gear. A spring includes a winding part through which the protruding part is inserted, and a first arm and a second arm extending respectively from the both ends of the winding part. On a first hooked part, the first arm is hooked, and on a second hooked part, the second arm is hooked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Ogura
  • Patent number: 11275234
    Abstract: The invention concerns a projection objective and a waveguide display. The objective is adapted to project an image from a first plane to a second plane and comprises in order from the second plane a first optical element group having a positive effective focal length, a second optical element group placed between the first plane and the first optical element group and having a negative effective focal length, and a third optical element group placed between the first plane and the second optical element group and having a positive effective focal length. Counting from the second plane, the first refractive surface of the second optical element group is concave towards the second plane and the second refractive surface of the third optical element group is convex towards the first plane. The objective suits well for projecting images to diffractive optical displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Dispelix Oy
    Inventor: Mika Aikio
  • Patent number: 11269180
    Abstract: An example head-mounted display device includes a light projector and an eyepiece. The eyepiece includes a light guiding layer and a first focusing optical element. The first focusing optical element includes a first region having a first optical power, and a second region having a second optical power different from the first optical power. The light guiding layer is configured to: i) receive light from the light projector, ii) direct at least a first portion of the light to a user's eye through the first region to present a first virtual image to the user at a first focal distance, and iii) direct at least a second portion of the light to the user's eye through the second region to present a second virtual image to the user at a second focal distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric C. Browy, Derek Michael Geiger
  • Patent number: 11253149
    Abstract: A system and a method for holographic eye testing device are disclosed. The system renders one or more three dimensional objects within the holographic display device. The system updates the rendering of the one or more three dimensional objects within the holographic display device, by virtual movement of the one or more three dimensional objects within the level of depth. The system receives input from a user indicating alignment of the one or more three dimensional objects after the virtual movement. The system determines a delta between a relative virtual position of the one or more three dimensional objects at the moment of receiving input and an optimal virtual position and generates prescriptive remedy based on the delta.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Veyezer, LLC
    Inventors: William V. Padula, Teddi R. Dinsmore
  • Patent number: 11256088
    Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a controller that controls an image projection unit on the basis of acquired information regarding a vehicle and information on a face orientation and eye point of a driver acquired from an image analysis unit to perform a display image control for displaying a virtual image at a predetermined position in a virtual image display region. In a case where the acquired information regarding the vehicle is state change information, the controller performs a display image control for a display image displayed by the image projection unit so that a state change virtual image S1 corresponding to the state change information is displayed in the same display form in both of a right monocular viewing region and a left monocular viewing region at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuya Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11256100
    Abstract: A frame supports a display apparatus against the head of a viewer. A projector fitted within the frame generates a beam of image-bearing light. A light guide coupled to a forward section of the frame has a waveguide, an in-coupling diffractive optic formed on the waveguide for directing image-bearing light beams into the waveguide, a turning optic formed on the waveguide for expanding the respective image-bearing light beams from the in-coupling diffractive optic in a first dimension, and an out-coupling diffractive optic formed on the waveguide for expanding the respective image-bearing light beams in a second dimension orthogonal to the first dimension and forming a virtual image within a viewer eyebox. A mount supports the light guide in front of the viewer and provides a hinge for angular adjustment of the waveguide with respect to the projector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Vuzix Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Schultz, Paul J. Travers, Tyler W. Porter
  • Patent number: 11252391
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for packing images into a frame and/or including additional content and/or graphics are described. A composite image is generated including at least one image in addition to another image and/or additional image content, e.g., a logo, texture, sign, or advertisement. In some embodiments, first and second pairs of stereoscopic images are combined, e.g., with additional image content to generate a composite image which is then encoded, e.g., using a UHD (Ultra High Definition) encoder. In some other embodiments, the rather than two pairs of stereo images a pair of stereo images are combined with images captured by two mono cameras. In various embodiments, the set of cameras which are sources of captured images for the composite image are dynamically selected, e.g., with different sets of cameras in a camera rig being selected at different times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Nevermind Capital LLC
    Inventors: David Cole, Alan McKay Moss, Hector M. Medina, Ryan Michael Sheridan
  • Patent number: 11243427
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display device configured to output a first image; an optical coupler configured to: combine the first image received through a first path from the display device with a second image received through a second path that is different from the first path, output, through an exit surface of the optical coupler, a first light corresponding to the first image in a first polarization and a second light corresponding to the second image in a second polarization; and a polarization selection optical system arranged on the exit surface of the optical coupler and configured to have different refractive power with respect to the first light of the first polarization and the second light of the second polarization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Changkun Lee, Wontaek Seo, Geeyoung Sung, Bongsu Shin, Jungkwuen An