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公开(公告)号:US12204136B2
公开(公告)日:2025-01-21
申请号:US17901851
申请日:2022-09-02
Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Inventor: Yun-Han Lee , Lu Lu , Mengfei Wang , Fenglin Peng , Junren Wang , Oleg Yaroshchuk , Yingfei Jiang , Babak Amirsolaimani , Scott Charles McEldowney
Abstract: A device includes a display configured to generate an image light. The device also includes a waveguide optically coupled with the display and configured to guide the image light to an exit pupil of the device. The waveguide includes a grating including a birefringent material, and a birefringence of the grating is configured to increase along a pupil-expanding direction of the device.
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公开(公告)号:US12001017B1
公开(公告)日:2024-06-04
申请号:US17672654
申请日:2022-02-15
Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Inventor: Yun-Han Lee , Yu Shi , Lu Lu , Scott Charles McEldowney
CPC classification number: G02B27/0093 , G02B27/0172 , G06F3/013 , G02B2027/0138 , G02B2027/014
Abstract: An illumination system includes a light source configured to emit an infrared light. The illumination system also includes a substrate and a plurality of light deflecting elements coupled with the substrate and configured to deflect the infrared light to illuminate an object.
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公开(公告)号:US11933995B1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-19
申请号:US17719303
申请日:2022-04-12
Applicant: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Inventor: Mengfei Wang , Gang Li , Lu Lu , Yunqi Li
IPC: G02B27/01 , G02B5/02 , G02B27/28 , G02F1/13357
CPC classification number: G02B5/0278 , G02B27/0172 , G02B27/286 , G02F1/13362 , G02B2027/0174 , G02B2027/0178
Abstract: An optical diffuser includes optically anisotropic molecules arranged in a predefined configuration such that the optical diffuser diffuses first light having a first polarization and transmits second light having a second polarization that is different from the first polarization upon receiving the second light. In addition to polarization selectivity, the optical diffuser may also exhibit wavelength selectivity and/or incident angle selectivity. A method of diffusing light using the optical diffuser and a method of making the optical diffuser are also disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US11852949B1
公开(公告)日:2023-12-26
申请号:US17176863
申请日:2021-02-16
Applicant: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Inventor: Lu Lu , Wai Sze Tiffany Lam , Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai
IPC: G02F1/29
CPC classification number: G02F1/29 , G02F1/294 , G02F2202/40 , G02F2203/28
Abstract: A hybrid lens is disclosed including optically coupled varifocal lens and adaptive lens. The varifocal lens is configured for varying optical power of the hybrid lens, and an adaptive lens includes a voltage-controlled element for varying optical power of the adaptive lens in coordination with varying the optical power of the varifocal lens and responsive to variation of the optical power of the hybrid lens, for lessening an optical aberration of the hybrid lens. The hybrid lens may be used in head-mounted displays e.g. for lessening a vergence-accommodation conflict.
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公开(公告)号:US11796881B2
公开(公告)日:2023-10-24
申请号:US18157060
申请日:2023-01-19
Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Inventor: Yuge Huang , Nicholas John Diorio, Jr. , Lu Lu
IPC: G02F1/137 , C09K19/02 , G02F1/1333 , G02F1/1335 , G02F1/1337 , G02F1/139 , G02B27/00 , C09K19/58 , C09K19/54
CPC classification number: G02F1/13775 , C09K19/0275 , C09K19/542 , C09K19/586 , G02B27/0093 , G02F1/1337 , G02F1/1398 , G02F1/13793 , G02F1/133365 , G02F1/133526 , C09K2019/546
Abstract: A device includes a polymer stabilized blue phase liquid crystal (“PS-BPLC”) layer. The device also includes an alignment structure coupled with the PS-BPLC layer. LC molecules disposed in contact with the alignment structure are configured to have a spatially varying in-plane orientation pattern that is at least partially defined by the alignment structure. The PS-BPLC layer is configured to forwardly deflect a polarized light having a predetermined handedness, and transmit a polarized light having a handedness that is orthogonal to the predetermined handedness.
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公开(公告)号:US20230251489A1
公开(公告)日:2023-08-10
申请号:US18129620
申请日:2023-03-31
Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Inventor: Yang Zhao , Afsoon Jamali , Junren Wang , Wai Sze Tiffany Lam , Lu Lu , Douglas Robert Lanman
CPC classification number: G02B27/0172 , G02F1/13718 , G03B13/36
Abstract: A display system includes a source of unpolarized image light, and a stack of polarization-selective optical elements operable to switchably convert the unpolarized image light into two orthogonally polarized light beams, each of which being switchable in at least one beam characteristic. An output polarizer selects one of the two orthogonally polarized light beams for providing to a user. A depolarizer may be disposed between an electronic display emitting polarized light and the stack. The depolarizer may be in the form of an LC bilayer with randomized in-plane optic axis.
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公开(公告)号:US11709411B2
公开(公告)日:2023-07-25
申请号:US17378467
申请日:2021-07-16
Applicant: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Inventor: Fenglin Peng , Ying Geng , Jacques Gollier , Giuseppe Calafiore , Alexander Koshelev , Mengfei Wang , Lu Lu
IPC: G02F1/29 , G02B27/01 , G02F1/13 , G02F1/1347 , G06F3/01
CPC classification number: G02F1/292 , G02B27/0172 , G02B27/0179 , G02F1/1323 , G02F1/13473 , G02B2027/0178 , G02B2027/0187 , G06F3/013
Abstract: A display device includes a directional illuminator providing a light beam, a display panel downstream of a directional illuminator, for receiving and spatially modulating the light beam, and a beam redirecting module downstream of the display panel, for variably redirecting the spatially modulated light beam. Steering the illuminating light by the beam redirecting module enables one to steer the exit pupil of the display device to match the user's eye location(s).
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公开(公告)号:US11579451B1
公开(公告)日:2023-02-14
申请号:US17070678
申请日:2020-10-14
Applicant: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Inventor: Wai Sze Tiffany Lam , Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai , Robin Sharma , Ying Geng , Lu Lu , Jacques Gollier
Abstract: A head-mounted device (HMD) contains a display, an optics block, a redirection structure, and an eye tracking system. The display is configured to emit image light and provide it to an eye of a user. The optics block is configured to direct the emitted light in order to allow it to reach the eye. The eye tracking system contains a camera, an illumination source, and a controller. The camera is configured to capture image data using infrared light reflected from the eye. The controller is configured to use this image data to determine eye tracking information. The illumination source is configured to illuminate the eye with infrared light for the purpose of taking eye tracking measurements. The redirection structure is configured to direct infrared light reflected from the eye to the eye tracking system. In multiple embodiments, redirection structures may comprise prism arrays, lenses, liquid crystal layers, or grating structures.
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公开(公告)号:US11573357B2
公开(公告)日:2023-02-07
申请号:US17093609
申请日:2020-11-09
Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Inventor: Fenglin Peng , Junren Wang , Yuge Huang , Lu Lu , Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai , Ying Geng , Jacques Gollier , Barry David Silverstein
IPC: G02F1/1335 , G02B5/30 , G02B5/08 , G02B7/02
Abstract: A device includes a light source configured to generate an image light. The device also includes a lens assembly coupled with the light source. The lens assembly includes a mirror configured to transmit a first portion of the image light and reflect a second portion of the image light. The lens assembly also includes a reflective polarizer including a birefringent medium with a chirality and configured to substantially reflect the first portion of the image light output from the mirror as a polarized light having a predetermined handedness toward the mirror. The lens assembly further includes a lens disposed between the mirror and the reflective polarizer and configured to provide an optical power to the image light.
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公开(公告)号:US11567332B2
公开(公告)日:2023-01-31
申请号:US17706581
申请日:2022-03-28
Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Inventor: Scott Charles Mceldowney , Babak Amirsolaimani , Yun-Han Lee , Lu Lu , Mengfei Wang , Junren Wang
Abstract: A device includes a light guide. The device also includes a first in-coupling element configured to couple a first input light into the light guide, and a first out-coupling element configured to couple the first input light out of the light guide as a first output light having a first output field of view (“FOV”). The device also includes a second in-coupling element configured to couple a second input light into the light guide. The device further includes a second out-coupling element configured to couple the second input light out of the light guide as a second output light having a second output FOV substantially non-overlapping with the first output FOV. A combination of the first and second output FOVs is larger than at least one of the first or second output FOV, and the first and second input lights have orthogonal polarizations.
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