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公开(公告)号:US11860368B2
公开(公告)日:2024-01-02
申请号:US17933060
申请日:2022-09-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Noah D. Bedard , Ricardo J. Motta , Emanuele Mandelli , Daniel R. Hennigan , Kathrin Berkner Cieslicki , Branko Petljanski , Brett D. Miller , Kenichi Saito
CPC classification number: G02B27/0172 , G03B30/00 , G02B2027/014 , G02B2027/0123 , G02B2027/0129 , G02B2027/0138 , G02B2027/0198
Abstract: A device for MR/VR systems that includes a two-dimensional array of cameras that capture images of respective portions of a scene. The cameras are positioned along a spherical surface so that the cameras have adjacent fields of view. The entrance pupils of the cameras are positioned at or near the user's eye while the cameras also form optimized images at the sensor. Methods for reducing the number of cameras in an array, as well as methods for reducing the number of pixels read from the array and processed by the pipeline, are also described.
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公开(公告)号:US20200174284A1
公开(公告)日:2020-06-04
申请号:US16612336
申请日:2018-05-03
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Victoria C. Chan , Christina G. Gambacorta , Graham B. Myhre , Hyungryul Choi , Nan Zhu , Phil M. Hobson , William W. Sprague , Edward A. Valko , Qiong Huang , Branko Petljanski , Paul V. Johnson , Brandon E. Clarke , Elijah H. Kleeman
IPC: G02C7/08 , G02F1/133 , G06F1/16 , G02B6/42 , G02B7/02 , G02B7/09 , A61B3/032 , A61B3/00 , A61B3/036
Abstract: A head-mounted display may include a display system and an optical system in a housing. The display system may have displays that produce images. Positioners may be used to move the displays relative to the eye positions of a user's eyes. An adjustable optical system may include tunable lenses such as tunable cylindrical liquid crystal lenses. The displays may be viewed through the lenses when the user's eyes are at the eye positions. A sensor may be incorporated into the head-mounted display to measure refractive errors in the user's eyes. The sensor may include waveguides and volume holograms, and a camera for gathering light that has reflected from the retinas of the user's eyes. Viewing comfort may be enhanced by adjusting display positions relative to the eye positions and/or by adjusting lens settings based on the content being presented on the display and/or measured refractive errors.
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公开(公告)号:US20240411361A1
公开(公告)日:2024-12-12
申请号:US18662964
申请日:2024-05-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Michael J. Rockwell , Oriel Y. Bergig , Geoffrey Stahl , Thibaut Weise , Peter Kaufmann , Branko Petljanski , Jason L. Slupeiks , Tom Sengelaub , Yanghai Tsin , Hesam Najafi , Arthur Y. Zhang , Cheng Chen , Graham B. Myhre , Fletcher R. Rothkopf , Marinus Meursing , Phil M. Hobson , Jason C. Sauers , Jan K. Quijalvo , Jia Tao , Ivan S. Maric , Jeremy C. Franklin , Wey-Jiun Lin
IPC: G06F3/01
Abstract: A head-mountable display device includes a housing defining a front opening and a rear opening, a display screen disposed in the front opening, a display assembly disposed in the rear opening, a first securement strap coupled to the housing, the first securement strap including a first electronic component, a second securement strap coupled to the housing, the second securement strap including a second electronic component, and a securement band extending between and coupled to the first securement strap and the second securement strap.
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公开(公告)号:US20240385454A1
公开(公告)日:2024-11-21
申请号:US18662641
申请日:2024-05-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Ricardo J. Motta , Brett D. Miller , Chad A. Bronstein , Bennett S. Wilburn , Branko Petljanski , Mahmut C. Orsan , David W. Lum , Edward A. Valko , Graham B. Myhre , Wonjae Choi , Manohar B. Srikanth , Michael Slootsky , Nicolas P. Bonnier , Jiaying Wu , ZhiBing Ge , William W. Sprague , Bertrand Nepveu , Michael J. Rockwell , Edward S. Huo , Marinus Meursing , Timothy Y. Chang , Katharina Buckl
IPC: G02B27/01 , G02B7/14 , G02B27/00 , G06F3/01 , H04N13/361
Abstract: A head-mountable display device includes a housing defining a front opening and a rear opening, a display screen disposed in the front opening, a display assembly disposed in the rear opening, a first securement strap coupled to the housing, the first securement strap including a first electronic component, a second securement strap coupled to the housing, the second securement strap including a second electronic component, and a securement band extending between and coupled to the first securement strap and the second securement strap.
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公开(公告)号:US11474348B2
公开(公告)日:2022-10-18
申请号:US17481272
申请日:2021-09-21
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Branko Petljanski , Raffi A. Bedikian , Daniel Kurz , Thomas Gebauer , Li Jia
Abstract: In one implementation, a method includes emitting light with modulating intensity from a plurality of light sources towards an eye of a user. The method includes receiving light intensity data indicative of an intensity of the plurality of glints reflected by the eye of the user in the form of a plurality of glints. The method includes determining an eye tracking characteristic of the user based on the light intensity data. In one implementation, a method includes generating, using an event camera comprising a plurality of light sensors at a plurality of respective locations, a plurality of event messages, each of the plurality of event messages being generated in response to a particular light sensor detecting a change in intensity of light and indicating a particular location of the particular light sensor. The method includes determining an eye tracking characteristic of a user based on the plurality of event messages.
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公开(公告)号:US20220146820A1
公开(公告)日:2022-05-12
申请号:US17450128
申请日:2021-10-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Noah D. Bedard , Branko Petljanski , Kathrin Berkner Cieslicki , Ricardo J. Motta
Abstract: This disclosure describes a novel lens system having an entrance pupil at a location matching, or nearly matching, the eye's optical system entrance pupil. The described lens system is significantly thinner than a single-aperture lens with matched entrance pupil and is achieved by using an array of camera elements. Each camera element contains camera optics called “lenslets” and a sensor (e.g., an image or depth sensor), where a lenslet can include one or more lens elements (e.g., a compound lens). Individual camera elements can be arranged such that THEIR optical axes intersect at, or near, the eye's entrance pupil location. In addition, each camera element's field-of-view (FOV) corresponds to a small sector of a large FOV. The FOVs of adjacent camera elements can be non- or slightly-overlapping so that a wide-angle image can be formed by concatenation of the individual camera element images.
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公开(公告)号:US11143865B1
公开(公告)日:2021-10-12
申请号:US16210909
申请日:2018-12-05
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Noah D. Bedard , Branko Petljanski , Kathrin Berkner Cieslicki , Ricardo J. Motta
Abstract: This disclosure describes a novel lens system having an entrance pupil at a location matching, or nearly matching, the eye's optical system entrance pupil. The described lens system is significantly thinner than a single-aperture lens with matched entrance pupil and is achieved by using an array of camera elements. Each camera element contains camera optics called “lenslets” and a sensor (e.g., an image or depth sensor), where a lenslet can include one or more lens elements (e.g., a compound lens). Individual camera elements can be arranged such that THEIR optical axes intersect at, or near, the eye's entrance pupil location. In addition, each camera element's field-of-view (FOV) corresponds to a small sector of a large FOV. The FOVs of adjacent camera elements can be non- or slightly-overlapping so that a wide-angle image can be formed by concatenation of the individual camera element images.
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公开(公告)号:US20200278539A1
公开(公告)日:2020-09-03
申请号:US16651228
申请日:2017-09-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Branko Petljanski , Raffi A. Bedikian , Daniel Kurz , Thomas Gebauer , Li Jia
Abstract: In one implementation, a method includes emitting light with modulating intensity from a plurality of light sources towards an eye of a user. The method includes receiving light intensity data indicative of an intensity of the plurality of glints reflected by the eye of the user in the form of a plurality of glints and determining an eye tracking characteristic of the user based on the light intensity data. In one implementation, a method includes generating, using an event camera comprising a plurality of light sensors at a plurality of respective locations, a plurality of event messages, each of the plurality of event messages being generated in response to a particular light sensor detecting a change in intensity of light and indicating a particular location of the particular light sensor. The method includes determining an eye tracking characteristic of a user based on the plurality of event messages.
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公开(公告)号:US20240388687A1
公开(公告)日:2024-11-21
申请号:US18662994
申请日:2024-05-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Michael J. Rockwell , Geoffrey Stahl , Thibaut Weise , Peter Kaufmann , Branko Petljanski , Jason L. Slupeiks , Tom Sengelaub , Kathrin Berkner Cieslicki , Yanghai Tsin , Hesam Najafi , Arthur Y. Zhang , Amanda R. Rainer , Cheng Chen , Graham B. Myhre , Fletcher R. Rothkopf , Marinus Meursing , Phil M. Hobson , Jason C. Sauers , Jan K. Quijalvo , Jia Tao , Ivan S. Maric , Jeremy C. Franklin , Wey-Jiun Lin , William A. Sorrentino, III , Jonathan Ive , Alan C. Dye , Stephen O. Lemay , Seung Wook Kim , Ray L. Chang
IPC: H04N13/398 , G06F3/01 , G06F3/044 , H04N13/293 , H04N13/344 , H04N13/383
Abstract: A head-mountable display device includes a housing defining a front opening and a rear opening, a display screen disposed in the front opening, a display assembly disposed in the rear opening, a first securement strap coupled to the housing, the first securement strap including a first electronic component, a second securement strap coupled to the housing, the second securement strap including a second electronic component, and a securement band extending between and coupled to the first securement strap and the second securement strap.
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公开(公告)号:US20240386679A1
公开(公告)日:2024-11-21
申请号:US18662906
申请日:2024-05-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Michael J. Rockwell , Geoffrey Stahl , Thibaut Weise , Peter Kaufmann , Branko Petljanski , Jason L. Slupeiks , Tom Sengelaub , Kathrin Berkner Cieslicki , Yanghai Tsin , Hesam Najafi , Arthur Y. Zhang , Julian Hoenig , Julian Jaede , Jason C. Sauers , James W. Vandyke , Yoonhoo Jo , Forrest C. Wang , Cheng Chen , Graham B. Myhre , Fletcher R. Rothkopf , Marinus Meursing , Phil M. Hobson , Jan K. Quijalvo , Jia Tao , Ivan S. Maric , Jeremy C. Franklin , Wey-Jiun Lin , Bertrand Nepveu , Muhammad F. Hossain , William A. Sorrentino, III , Jonathan Ive , Alan C. Dye , Stephen O. Lemay
Abstract: A head-mountable display device includes a housing defining a front opening and a rear opening, a display screen disposed in the front opening, a display assembly disposed in the rear opening, a first securement strap coupled to the housing, the first securement strap including a first electronic component, a second securement strap coupled to the housing, the second securement strap including a second electronic component, and a securement band extending between and coupled to the first securement strap and the second securement strap.
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