Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Eye tracking with switchable gratings
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Application No.: US17697592Application Date: 2022-03-17
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Publication No.: US11846774B2Publication Date: 2023-12-19
- Inventor: Sihui He , Jacques Gollier , Maxwell Parsons , Babak Amirsolaimani , Wanli Chi , Daniel Guenther Greif , Renate Eva Klementine Landig , Xiayu Feng , Zhimin Shi , Nicholas John Diorio , Yang Yang , Giuseppe Calafiore , Fenglin Peng , Tanya Malhotra , Andrew John Ouderkirk
- Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: PEQUIGNOT + MYERS
- Agent Matthew A. Pequignot
- Main IPC: G02B27/00
- IPC: G02B27/00 ; G02B27/01 ; G06F3/01 ; G02F1/29 ; F21V8/00 ; G02B6/35 ; G02F1/1335 ; G09G3/00 ; G09G3/34 ; G06T7/246 ; H04N23/56 ; G02F1/335 ; G03H1/02 ; G06F1/16 ; H04N23/698 ; G01B11/22 ; G01S7/4865 ; G01S17/10 ; G02B27/42 ; G02F1/33 ; G06T3/40 ; G02B27/44 ; G02B26/08 ; H04N23/10

Abstract:
A pupil-replicating lightguide includes a slab of transparent material, a switchable out-coupling grating for out-coupling portions of image light to propagate towards an eyebox, and a switchable tracking grating for redirecting tracking light carrying an eye image towards an eye tracking camera. One of the two gratings may be turned ON while the other is turned OFF, in a time-sequential manner, allowing the combined use of the pupil-replicating lightguide for carrying image light and eye tracking light.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230176370A1 EYE TRACKING WITH SWITCHABLE GRATINGS Public/Granted day:2023-06-08
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