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公开(公告)号:US20220206301A1
公开(公告)日:2022-06-30
申请号:US17571366
申请日:2022-01-07
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Kevin Richard Curtis , Bradley Jay Sissom , Hui-Chuan Cheng , Miller Harry Schuck, III , Samarth Bhargava , Erik Heath Arend
Abstract: An optical system for an augmented reality head mounted display eyepiece that is configured to deliver images to the eye wherein the optical system includes optics. The optics are disposed so as to receive light output from the light source. The optics further arranged with respect to a spatial light modulator such that the light received from the light source passes through the optics and illuminates the spatial light modulator. The light illuminating the spatial light modulator is redirected back through the optics and is coupled into at least one waveguide through at least one in-coupling optical element. At least a portion of the coupled light is ejected from at least one waveguide by at least one out-coupling optical element and directed to the eye of the user.
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公开(公告)号:US20210382317A1
公开(公告)日:2021-12-09
申请号:US17351110
申请日:2021-06-17
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Hui-Chuan Cheng , Chulwoo Oh , Clinton Carlisle , Michael Anthony Klug , William J. Molteni, JR.
Abstract: Illuminations systems that separate different colors into laterally displaced beams may be used to direct different color image content into an eyepiece for displaying images in the eye. Such an eyepiece may be used, for example, for an augmented reality head mounted display. Illumination systems may be provided that utilize one or more waveguides to direct light from a light source towards a spatial light modulator. Light from the spatial light modulator may be directed towards an eyepiece. Some aspects of the invention provide for light of different colors to be outcoupled at different angles from the one or more waveguides and directed along different beam paths.
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公开(公告)号:US11187900B2
公开(公告)日:2021-11-30
申请号:US15927970
申请日:2018-03-21
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Hui-Chuan Cheng , Wei Chen Lin , Hyunsun Chung , Jahja I. Trisnadi , Clinton Carlisle , Kevin Richard Curtis , Chulwoo Oh
IPC: G02B27/01 , G02B27/14 , G03B21/00 , G06T19/00 , G09G3/24 , G02B30/26 , G02B27/00 , G06F3/01 , G02B5/30 , F21V8/00 , G02F1/137 , G03B21/20 , G02B30/52 , H04N13/279 , H04N13/344 , H04N13/239 , G06F3/0482 , G06K9/00 , H04N13/00 , G09G3/02
Abstract: An optical device comprising may include a wedge-shaped light turning element. The optical device can include a first surface that is parallel to a horizontal axis and a second surface opposite to the first surface that is inclined with respect to the horizontal axis by a wedge angle. The optical device may include a light module that includes a plurality of light emitters. The light module can be configured to combine light for the plurality of emitters. The optical device can further include a light input surface that is between the first and the second surfaces and is disposed with respect to the light module to receive light emitted from the plurality of emitters. The optical device may include an end reflector that is disposed on a side opposite the light input surface. The second surface may be inclined such that a height of the light input surface is less than a height of the side opposite the light input surface. The light coupled into the wedge-shaped light turning element may be reflected by the end reflector and/or reflected from the second surface towards the first surface.
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公开(公告)号:US10890773B2
公开(公告)日:2021-01-12
申请号:US16584549
申请日:2019-09-26
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Brian T. Schowengerdt , Hong Hua , Hui-Chuan Cheng , Christophe Peroz
Abstract: Images perceived to be substantially full color or multi-colored may be formed using component color images that are distributed in unequal numbers across a plurality of depth planes. The distribution of component color images across the depth planes may vary based on color. In some embodiments, a display system includes a stack of waveguides that each output light of a particular color, with some colors having fewer numbers of associated waveguides than other colors. The stack of waveguides may include by multiple pluralities (e.g., first and second pluralities) of waveguides, each configured to produce an image by outputting light corresponding to a particular color. The total number of waveguides in the second plurality of waveguides is less than the total number of waveguides in the first plurality of waveguides, and may be more than the total number of waveguides in a third plurality of waveguides, in embodiments where three component colors are utilized.
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公开(公告)号:US10551568B2
公开(公告)日:2020-02-04
申请号:US16445115
申请日:2019-06-18
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Ivan Li Chuen Yeoh , Lionel Ernest Edwin , Hui-Chuan Cheng
Abstract: An eyepiece for projecting an image to an eye of a viewer includes a first planar waveguide positioned in a first lateral plane, a second planar waveguide positioned in a second lateral plane adjacent the first lateral plane, and a third planar waveguide positioned in a third lateral plane adjacent the second lateral plane. The first waveguide includes a first diffractive optical element (DOE) coupled thereto and disposed at a lateral position. The second waveguide includes a second DOE coupled thereto and disposed at the lateral position. The third waveguide includes a third DOE coupled thereto and disposed at the lateral position. The eyepiece further includes a first optical filter disposed between the first waveguide and the second waveguide at the lateral position, and a second optical filter positioned between the second waveguide and the third waveguide at the lateral position.
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公开(公告)号:US10317690B2
公开(公告)日:2019-06-11
申请号:US14611162
申请日:2015-01-30
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Hui-Chuan Cheng
IPC: G02B26/10 , G02B27/22 , G02B27/01 , H04N13/395 , H04N13/344
Abstract: Configurations are disclosed for presenting virtual reality and augmented reality experiences to users. The system may comprise a scanning device for scanning one or more frames of image data. The scanning device may be communicatively coupled to an image source to receive the image data. The system may further comprise a variable focus element (VFE) operatively coupled to the scanning device for focusing the one or more frames of image data on an intermediate image plane, wherein the intermediate image plane is aligned to one of a plurality of switchable screens. The plurality of switchable screens may spread light associated with the intermediate image plane to specific viewing distances. The system may also comprise viewing optics operatively coupled to the plurality of switchable screens to relay the one or more frames of image data.
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公开(公告)号:US20190162970A1
公开(公告)日:2019-05-30
申请号:US16261455
申请日:2019-01-29
Applicant: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
Inventor: William Hudson WELCH , Robert D. TEKOLSTE , Hyunsun Chung , Hui-Chuan Cheng
Abstract: Configurations are disclosed for presenting virtual reality and augmented reality experiences to users. The system may comprise a spatial light modulator operatively coupled to an image source for projecting light associated with one or more frames of image data, and a variable focus element (VFE) for varying a focus of the projected light such that a first frame of image data is focused at a first depth plane, and a second frame of image data is focused at a second depth plane, and wherein a distance between the first depth plane and the second depth plane is fixed.
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公开(公告)号:US20190018245A1
公开(公告)日:2019-01-17
申请号:US15927997
申请日:2018-03-21
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Hui-Chuan Cheng , Hyunsun Chung , Jahja I. Trisnadi , Clinton Carlisle , Chulwoo Oh , Kevin Richard Curtis
Abstract: An optical device comprising may include a light turning element. The optical device can include a first surface that is parallel to a horizontal axis and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The optical device may include a light module that includes a plurality of light emitters. The light module can be configured to combine light for the plurality of emitters. The optical device can further include a light input surface that is between the first and the second surfaces and is disposed with respect to the light module to receive light emitted from the plurality of emitters. The optical device may include an end reflector that is disposed on a side opposite the light input surface. The light coupled into the light turning element may be reflected by the end reflector and/or reflected from the second surface towards the first surface.
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公开(公告)号:US20250164802A1
公开(公告)日:2025-05-22
申请号:US19029730
申请日:2025-01-17
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Kevin Messer , Joshua Naaman Haddock , Hui-Chuan Cheng , Vaibhav Mathur , Clinton Carlisle
IPC: G02B27/01 , G02B25/00 , G02B27/28 , G02F1/01 , G02F1/1335 , G02F1/13363 , G02F1/1337 , G02F1/1343 , G02F1/139
Abstract: A wearable display system includes an eyepiece stack having a world side and a user side opposite the world side. During use, a user positioned on the user side views displayed images delivered by the wearable display system via the eyepiece stack which augment the user's field of view of the user's environment. The system also includes an optical attenuator arranged on the world side of the of the eyepiece stack, the optical attenuator having a layer of a birefringent material having a plurality of domains each having a principal optic axis oriented in a corresponding direction different from the direction of other domains. Each domain of the optical attenuator reduces transmission of visible light incident on the optical attenuator for a corresponding different range of angles of incidence.
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公开(公告)号:US12292571B2
公开(公告)日:2025-05-06
申请号:US18483981
申请日:2023-10-10
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Bradley Jay Sissom , Kevin Richard Curtis , Hui-Chuan Cheng , Miller Harry Schuck, III , Samarth Bhargava
Abstract: This disclosure describes a wearable display system configured to project light to the eye(s) of a user to display virtual (e.g., augmented reality) image content in a vision field of the user. The system can include light source(s) that output light, spatial light modulator(s) that modulate the light to provide the virtual image content, and an eyepiece configured to convey the modulated light toward the eye(s) of the user. The eyepiece can include waveguide(s) and a plurality of in-coupling optical elements arranged on or in the waveguide(s) to in-couple the modulated light received from the spatial light modulator(s) into the waveguide(s) to be guided toward the user's eye(s). The spatial light modulator(s) may be movable, and/or may include movable components, to direct different portions of the modulated light toward different ones of the in-coupling optical elements at different times.
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