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公开(公告)号:US20220270571A1
公开(公告)日:2022-08-25
申请号:US17344394
申请日:2021-06-10
Applicant: GOOGLE LLC
Inventor: Stuart James Myron Nicholson , Isaac James Deroche , Jerrold Richard Randell , Lai Pong Wong , Chris Brown
IPC: G09G5/393
Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for generating, processing, assembling, and/or formatting data for display are described. Example display controllers are described in which image data is stored in a framebuffer, and a compositor selectively retrieves portions of the image data. At least one P-operator produces lines of intermediate P-operated data by performing at least one intra-line operation on the image data retrieved by the compositor, such as repeating or reordering pixels of the image data. A Q-operator produces a stream of pixel data by performing inter-line operations on the intermediate P-operated data, such as interpolating between lines of the P-operated data. A display is driven according to the stream of pixel data.
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公开(公告)号:US20220269091A1
公开(公告)日:2022-08-25
申请号:US17229523
申请日:2021-04-13
Applicant: GOOGLE LLC
Inventor: Stuart James Myron Nicholson , Andrew S. Logan
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 “like glasses” 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.
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公开(公告)号:US20220269077A1
公开(公告)日:2022-08-25
申请号:US17204308
申请日:2021-03-17
Applicant: GOOGLE LLC
Inventor: Daniel Adema , Stuart James Myron Nicholson , Ian Andrews
Abstract: A laser projection system utilizes a waveguide having a narrow incoupler for double-bounce mitigation and form factor reduction. An optical scanner includes an optical relay positioned in between two scan mirrors. The first scan mirror scans laser light into the optical relay in a first dimension, and the optical relay and converges the scanned laser light towards a second scan mirror. The second scan mirror scans laser light along a second dimension substantially perpendicular to a path over which the laser light is scanned across the second scan mirror, and the convergence introduced by the optical relay causes the laser light to be scanned as a line or arc path of an exit pupil plane that is coincident with the incoupler. The optical relay may include one or more lenses or may be a monolithic molded structure, which may be an Offner-style relay or a molded reflective relay.
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公开(公告)号:US20220030203A1
公开(公告)日:2022-01-27
申请号:US17495308
申请日:2021-10-06
Applicant: Google LLC
Inventor: Isaac James Deroche , Lai Pong Wong , Stuart James Myron Nicholson , Jerrold Richard Randell , Dustin Griesdorf
Abstract: There is provided a method including obtaining an initial spatial coordinate of a pixel of an image to be projected. The method may also include generating a pre-warped spatial coordinate associated with the initial spatial coordinate. The pre-warped spatial coordinate may be calculated as a sum of a value of a warp path function at the initial spatial coordinate and a delta. Moreover, the method may include outputting the pre-warped spatial coordinate.
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公开(公告)号:US11153539B2
公开(公告)日:2021-10-19
申请号:US16904788
申请日:2020-06-18
Applicant: GOOGLE LLC
Inventor: Isaac James Deroche , Lai Pong Wong , Stuart James Myron Nicholson , Jerrold Richard Randell , Dustin Griesdorf
Abstract: There is provided a method including obtaining an initial spatial coordinate of a pixel of an image to be projected. The method may also include generating a pre-warped spatial coordinate associated with the initial spatial coordinate. The pre-warped spatial coordinate may be calculated as a sum of a value of a warp path function at the initial spatial coordinate and a delta. Moreover, the method may include outputting the pre-warped spatial coordinate.
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公开(公告)号:US11143861B2
公开(公告)日:2021-10-12
申请号:US16508850
申请日:2019-07-11
Applicant: GOOGLE LLC
Inventor: Stuart James Myron Nicholson
Abstract: There is provided a wearable heads-up display (WHUD) having a laser projector to generate a display image. The display image can have a pixel having a pixel on-time. Furthermore, the laser projector can have a laser diode to emit laser light. The WHUD can also include a controller communicatively coupled to the laser diode. The controller can modulate the laser diode during the pixel on-time to be off during a laser off-time of the pixel on-time and on during a laser on-time of the pixel on-time. Moreover, the WHUD can include a holographic optical element to receive the laser light from the laser projector and redirect the laser light towards an eye of a user of the WHUD.
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公开(公告)号:US20240235679A1
公开(公告)日:2024-07-11
申请号:US18614289
申请日:2024-03-22
Applicant: GOOGLE LLC
Inventor: Ido Raveh , Stuart James Myron Nicholson
IPC: H04B10/114 , G02B27/01 , H04W76/10
CPC classification number: H04B10/1143 , G02B27/01 , H04W76/10
Abstract: There is provided a method including receiving an incoming ID at a first wearable heads-up display (WHUD), which incoming ID is associated with a communicant device. The method also includes sending match data from the first WHUD to a match engine. The match data includes a first WHUD ID and the incoming ID. Moreover, the method includes receiving a match indicator at the first WHUD from the match engine. The match indicator is to indicate a match event between the first WHUD and the communicant device based on the match data. Furthermore, the method includes effecting communication between the first WHUD and the communicant device comprising at least one of sending a message from the first WHUD to the communicant device and receiving at the first WHUD a corresponding message from the communicant device. The first WHUD, and a method of operating the match engine are also described.
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公开(公告)号:US11960094B2
公开(公告)日:2024-04-16
申请号:US18150982
申请日:2023-01-06
Applicant: GOOGLE LLC
Inventor: Stuart James Myron Nicholson , Timothy Paul Bodiya
CPC classification number: G02B27/0172 , G02B6/0023 , G02B6/005 , G02C11/10 , G02B26/0816 , G02B26/10 , G02B2027/0123 , G02B2027/014 , G02B2027/0178 , G02C5/22 , H01S5/0014
Abstract: A wearable heads-up display includes a power source, laser sources, and a lightguide. A photodetector is positioned to detect an intensity of a test light emitted at a perimeter of the lightguide from an optical path within the lightguide. A laser safety circuit provides a control to reduce or shut off a supply of electrical power from the power source to the laser sources in response to an output signal from the photodetector indicating that the detected intensity is below a threshold.
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公开(公告)号:US11921292B2
公开(公告)日:2024-03-05
申请号:US17517290
申请日:2021-11-02
Applicant: GOOGLE LLC
Inventor: Stuart James Myron Nicholson , Timothy Paul Bodiya , Stefan Alexander
CPC classification number: G02B27/0172 , G02B6/00 , G02B6/0013 , G02B6/0033 , G02B27/0081 , G02B27/0176 , G02B27/0179 , G02B2027/015 , G02B2027/0174 , G02B2027/0178 , G02B2027/0187
Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for eyebox expansion in wearable heads-up displays (“WHUDs”) are described. The WHUDs described herein each include a projector and an optical waveguide positioned in an optical path between the projector and an eye of the user. For any given light signal from the projector, the optical waveguide receives the light signal at an input coupler and outputs multiple instances or copies of the light signal from multiple discrete, spatially-separated output couplers. The multiple instances or copies of the light signal may be converged by the optical waveguide directly to respective exit pupils at the user's eye or may be routed by the optical waveguide to a holographic combiner in the user's field of view from which the light signals may be converged to respective exit pupils at the user's eye. The optical waveguide employs exit pupil replication to expand the eyebox of the WHUD.
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公开(公告)号:US20240064362A1
公开(公告)日:2024-02-22
申请号:US18260730
申请日:2021-02-01
Applicant: GOOGLE LLC
Inventor: Stuart James Myron Nicholson , Steven Benjamin Goldberg
IPC: H04N21/41 , H04N21/262 , H04N21/482
CPC classification number: H04N21/41265 , H04N21/26258 , H04N21/4825
Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium can comprise instructions stored thereon. When executed by at least one processor, the instructions can be configured to cause a mobile computing device to receive, from a companion device, multiple files, each of the multiple files including at least media content, a trigger condition, and an action to be performed upon satisfaction of the trigger condition. The action included in at least one of the files can include playing media content from another one of the multiple files. The instructions can be further configured to cause the mobile computing device to play the media content included in at least one of the multiple files, receive at least one additional file from the companion device, erase at least one of the multiple files, and play media content included in the at least one additional file.
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