G02B27/0172

Shuttered Light Field Display
20230045982 · 2023-02-16 · ·

A method of displaying a light field to one or more viewers using a light field display module comprising an optical image generator for generating an optical image and an array of shutters for selectively providing the viewers with partial views of the optical image, the method comprising determining a shutter pattern that ensures no partial views ever overlap, and repeatedly generating the partial views according to the shutter pattern and from a digital representation of the light field, generating the optical image from the partial views, and shifting the shutter pattern, until each viewer's set of partial views comprise a full 3D view.

WAVEGUIDES WITH INTEGRATED OPTICAL ELEMENTS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME
20230047616 · 2023-02-16 ·

An example waveguide can include a polymer layer having substantially optically transparent material with first and second major surfaces configured such that light containing image information can propagate through the polymer layer being guided therein by reflecting from the first and second major surfaces via total internal reflection. The first surface can include first smaller and second larger surface portions monolithically integrated with the polymer layer and with each other. The first smaller surface portion can include at least a part of an in-coupling optical element configured to couple light incident on the in-coupling optical element into the polymer layer for propagation therethrough by reflection from the second major surface and the second larger surface portion of the first major surface.

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GAZE-BASED CONTROL OF MIXED REALITY CONTENT
20230048185 · 2023-02-16 ·

Systems and methods are presented for discovering and positioning content into augmented reality space. A method includes forming a three-dimensional (3D) map of surroundings of a user of an augmented reality (AR) head mounted display (HMD); determining a depth-wise location of a gaze point of a user based on eye gaze direction and eye vergence; determining a visual guidance line pathway in the 3D map; guiding an action of the user along the visual guidance line pathway at one or more identified focal points; and rendering a mixed reality (MR) object along the visual guidance line pathway at a location corresponding to a direction of the user’s gaze.

LIGHT GUIDE ELEMENT

A light guide element includes: a light guide plate; and a diffraction element that is disposed on a main surface of the light guide plate, in which the diffraction element includes a liquid crystal layer that is formed of a liquid crystal composition including a liquid crystal compound and has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which a direction of an optical axis derived from the liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating in at least one in-plane direction, a refractive index of the light guide plate is 1.70 or higher, and in a case where the refractive index of the light guide plate is represented by n.sub.d and a refractive index of the liquid crystal layer is represented by n.sub.k, n.sub.k−n.sub.d≥0 is satisfied.

Video Processing Systems and Methods
20230047123 · 2023-02-16 ·

Example video processing systems and methods are described. In one implementation, compressed video data is received from a recording device. Additionally, metadata associated with the compressed video data is received such that the metadata includes frame-specific metadata associated with frames in the compressed video data. Further, an application program is received and configured to generate a real-time interactive experience for a user based on the compressed video data and the metadata associated with the compressed video data. A non-fungible token (NFT) is generated that includes the compressed video data, the metadata associated with the compressed video data, and the application program.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING VISUAL ACUITY

A head wearable display system comprising a target object detection module receiving multiple image pixels of a first portion and a second portion of a target object, and the corresponding depths; a first light emitter emitting multiple first-eye light signals to display a first-eye virtual image of the first portion and the second portion of the target object for a viewer; a first light direction modifier for respectively varying a light direction of each of the multiple first-eye light signals emitted from the first light emitter; a first collimator; a first combiner, for redirecting and converging the multiple first-eye light signals towards a first eye of the viewer. The first-eye virtual image of the first portion of the target object in a first field of view has a greater number of the multiple first-eye light signals per degree than that of the first-eye virtual image of the second portion of the target object in a second field of view.

NEAR-EYE DISPLAY BASED ON CONICAL DIFFRACTION
20230050198 · 2023-02-16 ·

A near-eye display system that employs a volume holographic element containing distinct but overlapped planar volume gratings, each corresponding to a subset of pixels in the display. The volume gratings are illuminated using light incident from angles, and at wavelengths, that match the conical diffraction conditions for each grating, thereby achieving both high diffraction efficiency and a wide field of view. A single volume grating can thus be used to display thousands of pixels independently with high efficiency.

DETECTING AND RESPONDING TO LIGHT SOURCE FAILURE

In various examples, a head-mountable display (“HMD”) may include a light source to emit light across a target region of a wearer, a light sensor, and a circuitry operably coupled with the light source and the light sensor. The circuitry may operate the light source to periodically emit light across the light sensor. Based on a determination that a time interval since the circuitry last received a signal from the light sensor satisfies a threshold, the circuitry may trigger a remedial action to cause the light source to cease emission of light across the target region of the wearer.

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
20230047470 · 2023-02-16 ·

An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a line-of-sight estimator, a correction amount calculator, and a registration determination section. The line-of-sight estimator calculates an estimation vector obtained by estimating a direction of a line of sight of a user. The correction amount calculator calculates a correction amount related to the estimation vector on the basis of at least one object that is within a specified angular range that is set using the estimation vector as a reference. The registration determination section determines whether to register, in a data store, calibration data in which the estimation vector and the correction amount are associated with each other, on the basis of a parameter related to the at least one object within the specified angular range.

INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM AND INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD
20230048748 · 2023-02-16 · ·

An information display system according to the present disclosure includes: display device provided in a mask, the display device being configured to display a screen viewed by a person wearing the mask; and display control unit for switching a displaying mode of the screen.