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公开(公告)号:US20230314816A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-05
申请号:US18330448
申请日:2023-06-07
Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventor: Ishan CHATTERJEE , Dmitry RESHIDKO , Bernard Charles KRESS
IPC: G02B27/01 , G02F1/1362 , F21V8/00
CPC classification number: G02B27/0172 , G02F1/136277 , G02B6/0073 , G02B6/005
Abstract: A display engine adapted for use in a head-mounted display (HMD) device includes a reflective liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) spatial light modulator (SLM) that is illuminated using a backlight illumination module and a pair of optical prisms providing a total internal reflection (TIR) function. In an illustrative mixed-reality embodiment, the TIR prism pair guides light to the LCoS SLM from the backlight illumination module and projects virtual images reflected from the LCoS SLM, through projection optics, to a diffractive waveguide combiner for viewing by an HMD user.
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公开(公告)号:US20230228996A1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-20
申请号:US17648534
申请日:2022-01-20
Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventor: Ishan Chatterjee , Dmitry RESHIDKO
IPC: G02B27/01 , G02F1/1362 , G02B26/08
CPC classification number: G02B27/0172 , G02F1/136277 , G02B26/0833 , G02F2203/12 , G02B2027/0178 , G02B6/26
Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to display devices having a common light path region. One example provides a display device comprising a light source configured to emit illumination light along an illumination path, and a spatial light modulator configured to modulate the illumination light and emit the modulated illumination light as image light along an imaging path, wherein at least a portion of the illumination path and at least a portion of the imaging path extend through a common light path region. The display device further comprises one or more optical elements positioned within the common light path region, at least one optical element being configured to guide the illumination light as the illumination light travels through the common light path region toward the spatial light modulator, and shape the image light as the image light travels through the common light path region.
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公开(公告)号:US20220300073A1
公开(公告)日:2022-09-22
申请号:US17208880
申请日:2021-03-22
Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventor: Dmitry RESHIDKO , Congshan WAN
Abstract: In a see-through waveguide-based HMD device configured to display holographic virtual images within a field of view (FOV) of the device user, a single pixel or group of pixels are lit to supply illumination at known locations on the display that is reflected from the user's eyes and captured by one or more sensors in an eye tracker. The eye tracker may apply real-time image analysis to the captured reflected light, called “glints,” to extract features of the user's eyes to determine where the HMD device user is looking—the gaze point—and calculate eye movement, location, and orientation. A negative lens functionality utilized in the HMD device to provide a fixed focal depth for the virtual images enables the lit pixels to function as virtual glint sources for the eye tracker sensor that are located at the fixed focal depth and from multiple illumination positions within the user's FOV.
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公开(公告)号:US20230343254A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-26
申请号:US17660816
申请日:2022-04-26
Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventor: Dmitriy CHURIN , Dmitry RESHIDKO , Parry Byron JOHNSON , Fei CHEN , Sean Patrick DEVER
CPC classification number: G09G3/001 , G02B27/0172 , G09G2320/041 , G09G2320/0693 , G09G2360/141 , G09G2360/145 , G09G2320/08 , G09G2320/0666 , G09G2320/0233 , G09G2320/0242 , G09G2330/021 , G09G2320/043 , G02B2027/0178
Abstract: A system is presented for a display engine. An optical imaging pathway comprises at least a selectively reflective image forming device. An illumination beam pathway comprises an optical source cluster including one or more optical sources, optical componentry configured to generate uniform illumination of the selectively reflective image forming device, and one or more photodiodes positioned to capture light reflected off the selectively reflective image forming device. A controller is configured to command the selectively reflective image forming device to operate with a predetermined reflectivity. While the selectively reflective image forming device is operating with the predetermined reflectivity, the optical source is commanded to emit a pulse of light and the one or more photodiodes are read out. A performance profile of one or more of the optical sources and the selectively reflective image forming device is adjusted based on the photodiode readout.
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公开(公告)号:US20230239443A1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-27
申请号:US17584976
申请日:2022-01-26
Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
Inventor: Parry Byron JOHNSON , Dmitriy CHURIN , Dmitry RESHIDKO
IPC: H04N9/31
CPC classification number: H04N9/3191 , H04N9/3161 , H04N9/3176
Abstract: A projection system includes an illumination light source configured to emit an illumination light beam, a monitor light source configured to emit a monitor light beam, and a projector configured to project both the illumination light beam and the monitor light beam into a projected combined light beam. A first portion of the projected combined light beam is propagated over a first beam path in a first direction, causing an eye of a user to see a display image. A second portion of the projected combined light beam is propagated over a second beam path in a second direction, causing a monitor camera to capture a monitor image. The monitor image is analyzed to determine an orientation or a position of the monitor image. In response to determining that the monitor image is not properly oriented or positioned, an orientation or position of the projector or the illumination image is adjusted.
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公开(公告)号:US20230103091A1
公开(公告)日:2023-03-30
申请号:US17448890
申请日:2021-09-26
Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventor: Robert Thomas HELD , Bernard Charles KRESS , Ashley SAULSBURY , Dmitry RESHIDKO
Abstract: An optical combiner in a display system of a mixed-reality head-mounted display (HMD) device comprises a lens of birefringent material and a ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) modulator that are adapted for use with a reflective waveguide to provide multiple different focal planes on which holograms of virtual-world objects (i.e., virtual images) are displayed. The birefringent lens has two orthogonal refractive indices, ordinary and extraordinary, depending on the polarization state of the incident light. Depending on the rotation of the polarization axis by the FLC modulator, the incoming light to the birefringent lens is focused either at a distance corresponding to the ordinary refractive index or the extraordinary refractive index. Virtual image light leaving the birefringent lens is in-coupled to a see-through reflective waveguide which is configured to form an exit pupil for the optical combiner to enable an HMD device user to view the virtual images from the source.
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公开(公告)号:US20200271932A1
公开(公告)日:2020-08-27
申请号:US16281805
申请日:2019-02-21
Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventor: Pietari TUOMISTO , William J. CUMMINGS , Dmitry RESHIDKO , Tuomas VALLIUS , David Douglas BOHN
Abstract: MicroLED arrays offer a small form factor solution for the HMD image sources since they do not need a separate illumination optics. Features of the present disclosure implement a MicroLED display system that incorporate a plurality of monochrome projectors (e.g., three MicroLED projectors) to generate three monochrome images (e.g., red, blue, and green images) that are separately input into a single waveguide of the HMD and combined to form an image that is displayed to the user. By utilizing a single waveguide that includes a plurality of spatially separated input regions (e.g., a region for inputting blue light, a region for inputting red light, a region for inputting green light), the MicroLED display system of the present disclosure may reduce the form factor of the HMD device because of the reduced number of plates that may be required to combine the three monochrome images.
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公开(公告)号:US20240114123A1
公开(公告)日:2024-04-04
申请号:US18539216
申请日:2023-12-13
Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventor: Dmitriy CHURIN , Parry Byron JOHNSON , Dmitry RESHIDKO , Congshan WAN
IPC: H04N13/327 , G02B27/01 , H04N13/341 , H04N13/344 , H04N13/363 , H04N13/398
CPC classification number: H04N13/327 , G02B27/0172 , H04N13/341 , H04N13/344 , H04N13/363 , H04N13/398 , G02B2027/0134 , G02B2027/0178
Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to calibration of a stereoscopic display system of an HMD via an optical calibration system comprising a waveguide combiner. One example provides an HMD device comprising a first image projector and a second image projector configured to project a stereoscopic image pair, and an optical calibration system. The optical calibration system comprises a first optical path indicative of an alignment of the first image projector, a second optical path indicative of an alignment of the second image projector, a waveguide combiner in which the first and second optical paths combine into a shared optical path, and one or more boresight sensors configured to detect calibration image light traveling along one or more of the first optical or the second optical path.
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公开(公告)号:US20240028117A1
公开(公告)日:2024-01-25
申请号:US18480181
申请日:2023-10-03
Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventor: Curtis Alan TESDAHL , Benjamin Eliot LUNDELL , David ROHN , Dmitry RESHIDKO , Dmitriy CHURIN , Kevin James MATHERSON , Sayyed Jaffar Ali RAZA
CPC classification number: G06F3/013 , G06V40/193 , G06V40/11 , G06N3/084 , G02B27/017 , G02B27/0101 , G06V10/82 , G02B27/0093 , G02B2027/0138 , G02B2027/014
Abstract: Eye and hand tracking systems in head-mounted display (HMD) devices are arranged with lensless camera systems using optical masks as encoding elements that apply convolutions to optical images of body parts (e.g., eyes or hands) of HMD device users. The convolved body images are scrambled or coded representations that are captured by a sensor in the system, but are not human-recognizable. A machine learning system such as a neural network is configured to extract body features directly from the coded representation without performance of deconvolutions conventionally utilized to reconstruct the original body images in human-recognizable form. The extracted body features are utilized by the respective eye or hand tracking systems to output relevant tracking data for the user's eyes or hands which may be utilized by the HMD device to support various applications and user experiences. The lensless camera and machine learning system are jointly optimizable on an end-to-end basis.
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公开(公告)号:US20190155046A1
公开(公告)日:2019-05-23
申请号:US15818668
申请日:2017-11-20
Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventor: Richard Andrew WALL , Joseph Daniel LOWNEY , Dmitry RESHIDKO , Ian Anh NGUYEN
Abstract: An eye-tracking system is provided. An at least partially transparent visible light waveguide has a visible light display region configured to emit visible light to an eye of a user. A light source is configured to emit at least infrared (IR) light that travels along an IR light path to the eye of the user. A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) projector positioned in the IR light path directs the IR light. At least one diffractive input coupler on an input end of the IR light path downstream of the MEMS projector diffracts at least a portion of the IR light. At least one diffractive output coupler positioned in the IR light path downstream of the diffractive input coupler receives the IR light and directs the IR light toward the eye. At least one sensor is configured to receive the IR light after being reflected by the eye.
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