METASURFACE-BASED IMAGE COMBINER AND AUGMENTED REALITY DEVICE EMPLOYING SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20250147319A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-05-08

    申请号:US19016506

    申请日:2025-01-10

    Inventor: Jeonggeun YUN

    Abstract: Provided is an image combiner including a waveguide, an input-coupling element, in an input-coupling area of the waveguide, configured to input light of a virtual image incident on the input-coupling area into the waveguide, and a folding/output-coupling element, in a folding/output-coupling area of the waveguide, configured to form an eye box by outputting the light input into the waveguide out of the waveguide, wherein the folding/output-coupling element is an anisotropic metasurface including a first sub-metasurface and a second sub-metasurface in a first sub-area and a second sub-area, and wherein the anisotropic metasurface is configured such that among rays input through different areas of the input-coupling area, a first ray having a first incidence angle is diffracted by the first sub-metasurface to be directed to the eye box and a second ray having a second incidence angle is diffracted by the second sub-metasurface to be directed to the eye box.

    ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR TRACKING USER'S GAZE

    公开(公告)号:US20250102807A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-27

    申请号:US18896216

    申请日:2024-09-25

    Abstract: An electronic device, including: an infra-red (IR) light source configured to output infrared light; a waveguide; a first optical element on a first area of the waveguide, wherein the first optical element is configured to allow external light to enter the waveguide; a second optical element on a second area of the waveguide, wherein the second optical element is configured to output the external light incident to an outside of the waveguide; a third optical element on a third area of the waveguide, wherein the third area is different from the first area and the second area, and wherein the third optical element is configured to diffract the infrared light; and an image sensor configured to receive the diffracted infrared light

    AUGMENTED REALITY DEVICE FOR OBTAINING DEPTH INFORMATION OF OBJECT AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:US20240069632A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-29

    申请号:US18384648

    申请日:2023-10-27

    CPC classification number: G06F3/013 G06T7/50 G06T2207/10028

    Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) device for obtaining depth information of an object in a real world, includes: a gaze tracking sensor configured to obtain a gaze point by tracking a gaze direction of a user's eye; a depth sensor configured to obtain depth information of the object; a memory storing one or more instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the one or more instructions to: determine a region of interest (ROI) confidence level indicating a degree to which at least one partial region within a field of view (FOV) of the AR device is predicted as an ROI, based on at least one of a moving speed, an acceleration, a fixation time, a fixation number, or a location of the gaze point; determine an ROI based on the ROI confidence level; and set a parameter for controlling an operation of the depth sensor to obtain depth information of the object within the ROI.

    AUGMENTED REALITY DEVICE
    8.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20230110896A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-13

    申请号:US17967568

    申请日:2022-10-17

    Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) device is provided. The AR device includes a display configured to output light of a first polarization; a polarization-conversion reflector provided opposite to an output side of the display, the polarization-conversion reflector converting the light of the first polarization into light of a second polarization that is orthogonal to the first polarization and reflect the light of the second polarization; a waveguide having a flat plate shape, a normal line of a flat surface of the flat plate shape being inclined with respect to an optical axis of the light of the first polarization output from the display, a side of the waveguide being provided between the display and the polarization-conversion reflector; an input-coupler inputting the light of the second polarization into the waveguide; and an output-coupler outputting light propagating in the waveguide.

    AUGMENTED REALITY DISPLAY DEVICE
    10.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230152592A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-18

    申请号:US18097870

    申请日:2023-01-17

    Abstract: Provided is an augmented reality (AR) display device. The AR display device includes an optical engine configured to output light of a virtual image and a light guide plate including a first region that receives the light of the virtual image, a third region that outputs the light of the virtual image, and a second region that propagates the light of the virtual image input to the first region toward the third region, in which a pupil expansion grating is formed in the second region to duplicate the light of the virtual image incident to the first region into a plurality of beamlets, and in the third region, an output grating array is formed in which a plurality of small diffractive grating regions are arranged at intervals equal to or less than a size of a pupil, in which a diameter of each of the plurality of small diffractive grating regions is equal to or less than the size of the pupil.

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