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公开(公告)号:US09581820B2
公开(公告)日:2017-02-28
申请号:US14635474
申请日:2015-03-02
Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventor: Steven John Robbins
IPC: G02B6/42 , G02B6/00 , G02B6/26 , G02F1/00 , G09G5/00 , G03B21/00 , G02B27/28 , G02B27/01 , G02B5/30 , G06T19/00 , F21V8/00 , G02B6/27
CPC classification number: G02B27/0172 , G02B5/30 , G02B6/00 , G02B6/0056 , G02B6/2726 , G02B6/4206 , G02B27/283 , G02B2027/0125 , G02B2027/0178 , G06T19/006 , Y10S385/901
Abstract: In embodiments of a multiple waveguide imaging structure, a wearable display device includes left and right imaging units of respective display lens systems to generate an augmented reality image that includes a virtual image. Each of the left and right imaging units include a first waveguide for see-through viewing at a first field of view, where the first waveguide includes a first polarizing beam splitter to reflect light that enters at a first polarization orientation angle and pass through the light that enters at a second polarization orientation angle. Each of the left and right imaging units also include at least a second waveguide for see-through viewing at a second field of view, where the second waveguide includes a second polarizing beam splitter to reflect the light that enters at the first polarization orientation angle and pass through the light that enters at the second polarization orientation angle.
Abstract translation: 在多波导成像结构的实施例中,可戴式显示装置包括各显示透镜系统的左和右成像单元,以生成包括虚像的增强现实图像。 左和右成像单元中的每一个包括在第一视场处用于透视观看的第一波导,其中第一波导包括第一偏振分束器,以反射以第一偏振取向角进入并穿过光的光 其以第二偏振取向角进入。 左和右成像单元中的每一个还包括至少第二波导,用于在第二视场处进行透视观察,其中第二波导包括第二偏振分束器以反射以第一偏振取向角进入的光;以及 穿过以第二偏振取向角进入的光。
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公开(公告)号:US10809529B2
公开(公告)日:2020-10-20
申请号:US15623906
申请日:2017-06-15
Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
IPC: G02B27/01 , G02F1/139 , G02F1/1335 , G02F1/1343 , G03H1/02 , G03H1/22
Abstract: An optical device comprises a pixel array including one or more pixels. Two or more independently controllable electrodes are electrically coupled to each pixel. A common ground reference electrode is electrically coupled to all pixels of the pixel array. Each pixel includes a plurality of liquid crystal molecules. The liquid crystal molecules may be oriented in a first direction based on a first function of voltages applied by the two or more independently controllable electrodes for the pixel, and oriented in a second direction based on a second function of the voltages applied by the two or more independently controllable electrodes for the pixel. In this way, both phase modulation and polarization modulation may be introduced to light illuminating the pixel array.
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公开(公告)号:US10560688B2
公开(公告)日:2020-02-11
申请号:US15627093
申请日:2017-06-19
Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventor: Steven John Robbins
IPC: G02B27/01 , G06F3/01 , H04N13/383 , G06T11/80 , H04N13/279 , H04N13/344
Abstract: A non-telecentric display system that prevents ghost images includes an optical waveguide and a display engine. An image former of the display engine includes a reflective surface having a surface normal thereto. An illumination engine of the display engine emits light towards the reflective surface of the image former such that chief rays are offset by acute angles from the surface normal to the reflective surface. The display engine directs light corresponding to an image, that reflects off the reflective surface of the image former, towards an input-coupler of the optical waveguide so light corresponding to the image is coupled therein and travels by total internal reflection to an output-coupler of the waveguide. Ghost images are prevented at least in part due to the chief rays of light emitted by the illumination engine being offset by acute angles from the surface normal to the reflective surface.
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公开(公告)号:US10388073B2
公开(公告)日:2019-08-20
申请号:US15417325
申请日:2017-01-27
Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventor: William J. Westerinen , Steven John Robbins , Rajeev Badyal , Rod G. Fleck
IPC: G06T19/00 , G06T11/00 , G06F1/16 , G06F3/14 , G06F3/01 , G02B27/01 , G06F3/03 , G06T15/20 , H04N1/00 , G06F3/147 , G06F3/0346 , H04N101/00
Abstract: Augmented reality light guide display techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an apparatus includes a housing configured in a hand-held form factor, one or more sensors configured to detect a position and orientation of the housing in three dimensions in a physical environment of the housing, a light guide that is at least partially transparent and supported by the housing, a light engine that is optically coupled to the light guide, and one or more modules disposed within the housing and implemented at least partially in hardware. The one or more modules are configured to calculate a position and orientation of an augmentation and cause the light engine to output the augmentation for display using the light guide such that the augmentation is viewable concurrently with at least a portion of the physical environment through the light guide.
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公开(公告)号:US10175489B1
公开(公告)日:2019-01-08
申请号:US15829762
申请日:2017-12-01
Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Inventor: Steven John Robbins , David Douglas Bohn
IPC: G06F3/01 , G02B27/01 , F21V8/00 , G02B27/10 , G01S17/89 , G01S7/481 , G01S17/02 , H04N3/08 , G02B27/28 , G01S17/87
Abstract: An optical system that deploys micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) scanners to contemporaneously generate CG images and to scan a terrain of a real-world environment. An illumination engine emits a first spectral bandwidth and a second spectral bandwidth into an optical assembly along a common optical path. The optical assembly then separates the spectral bandwidth by directing the first spectral bandwidth onto an image-generation optical path and the second spectral bandwidth onto a terrain-mapping optical path. The optical system deploys the MEMS scanners to generate CG images by directing the first spectral bandwidth within the image-generation optical path and also to irradiate a terrain by directing the second spectral bandwidth within the terrain-mapping optical path. Accordingly, the disclosed system provides substantial reductions in both weight and cost for systems such as, for example, augmented reality and virtual reality systems.
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公开(公告)号:US10162181B2
公开(公告)日:2018-12-25
申请号:US14958751
申请日:2015-12-03
Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventor: James Randolph Webster , Jeb Wu , Steven John Robbins , Tuomas Heikki Sakari Vallius , Yarn Chee Poon
Abstract: Introduced here is a display device that comprises a light emitter and a diffractive optical element (DOE) that is optically coupled to receive light from the light emitter and to convey the light along an optical path. The DOE may have an input surface and an output surface parallel to the input surface, where the input surface and the output surface each have a central region and a peripheral region. The DOE further may have optical characteristics such that light exiting the DOE in the peripheral region of the output surface has greater brightness than light exiting the DOE in the central region of the output surface.
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公开(公告)号:US09971150B1
公开(公告)日:2018-05-15
申请号:US15581466
申请日:2017-04-28
Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventor: Steven John Robbins
CPC classification number: G02B27/0018 , G02B26/101 , G02B27/0081 , G02B27/0172 , G02B27/283 , G02B27/4227 , G02B2027/0118 , G02B2027/0125
Abstract: A near-eye optical display system utilizes a compact display engine that couples image light from an imager to a waveguide-based display having diffractive optical elements (DOEs) that provide exit pupil expansion in two directions. The display engine comprises a pair of single axis MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical System) scanners that are configured to reflect the image light through horizontal and vertical scan axes of the display system's field of view (FOV) using raster scanning. The MEMS scanners are arranged with their axes of rotation at substantially right angles to each other and operate with respective quarter wave retarder plates and a polarizing beam splitter (PBS) to couple the image light into an in-coupling DOE in the waveguide display without the need for additional optical elements such as lenses or relay systems.
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公开(公告)号:US20170140577A1
公开(公告)日:2017-05-18
申请号:US15417325
申请日:2017-01-27
Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventor: William J. Westerinen , Steven John Robbins , Rajeev Badyal , Rod G. Fleck
IPC: G06T19/00 , G06T15/20 , G06F3/0346 , G06F1/16 , G02B27/01
CPC classification number: G06T19/006 , G02B27/0101 , G02B2027/014 , G05B2219/32014 , G06F1/1626 , G06F1/1637 , G06F1/1643 , G06F3/011 , G06F3/0346 , G06F3/147 , G06F2200/1637 , G06F2203/04804 , G06T11/00 , G06T15/20 , G09G2320/0261 , H04N1/00129 , H04N2101/00
Abstract: Augmented reality light guide display techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an apparatus includes a housing configured in a hand-held form factor, one or more sensors configured to detect a position and orientation of the housing in three dimensions in a physical environment of the housing, a light guide that is at least partially transparent and supported by the housing, a light engine that is optically coupled to the light guide, and one or more modules disposed within the housing and implemented at least partially in hardware. The one or more modules are configured to calculate a position and orientation of an augmentation and cause the light engine to output the augmentation for display using the light guide such that the augmentation is viewable concurrently with at least a portion of the physical environment through the light guide.
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