Abstract:
A method of extracting hydrocarbons from a hydrocarbon well includes receiving an aqueous solution including dissolved inorganic carbon, and extracting the dissolved inorganic carbon from the aqueous solution to create CO 2 by changing a pH of the aqueous solution. The method also includes pumping the CO 2 into the hydrocarbon well and, in response to pumping the CO 2 into the hydrocarbon well, extracting the hydrocarbons from the hydrocarbon well.
Abstract:
An apparatus for use with a head wearable display includes a curved eyepiece for guiding display light to a viewing region offset from a peripheral location and emitting the display light along an eye-ward direction in the viewing region. The curved eyepiece includes a curved lightguide to guide the display light, an eye-ward facing surface that is concave, a world facing surface that is convex and opposite the eye-ward facing surface, and an optical combiner disposed at the viewing region to redirect the display light towards the eye-ward direction for output from the curved lightguide. The optical combiner is partially transmissive to ambient light incident through the world facing surface such that the viewing region is see-through. In some embodiments, a prism is disposed proximate to the input surface to pre-compensate the display light for lateral chromatic aberrations resulting the curved lightguide.
Abstract:
Embodiments regard micro-size devices formed by etch of sacrificial epitaxial layers. An embodiment of a method includes forming a plurality of epitaxial layers on a sapphire crystal, wherein the epitaxial layers include a buffer layer on the sapphire crystal, a sacrificial layer above the buffer layer, and one or more device layers above the sacrificial layer; etching to singulate the semiconductor devices, the etching being through the one or more device layers and wholly or partially through the sacrificial layer; electrochemical etching of the sacrificial layer; and lift-off of one or more semiconductor devices from the buffer layer.
Abstract:
An image processor is described. The image processor includes an I/O unit to read input image data from external memory for processing by the image processor and to write output image data from the image processor into the external memory. The I/O unit includes multiple logical channel units. Each logical channel unit is to form a logical channel between the external memory and a respective producing or consuming component within the image processor. Each logical channel unit is designed to utilize reformatting circuitry and addressing circuitry. The addressing circuitry is to control addressing schemes applied to the external memory and reformatting of image data between external memory and the respective producing or consuming component. The reformatting circuitry is to perform the reformatting.
Abstract:
A light emitting diode (LED) includes a semiconductor material with an active region. The active region is disposed in the semiconductor material to produce light in response to a voltage applied across the semiconductor material. The active region includes a wide bandgap region disposed to inhibit charge transfer from a central region of the LED to the lateral edges of the LED. The active region also includes a narrow bandgap region disposed in the central region with the wide bandgap region disposed about the narrow bandgap region, and the narrow bandgap region has a narrower bandgap than the wide bandgap region.
Abstract:
Techniques and mechanisms for participating in a wireless communication with an implantable ophthalmic device (100). In an embodiment, an exterior of an ophthalmic device includes a biocompatible surface of an enclosure (115) having control circuitry (105) disposed therein. With the control circuitry, the ophthalmic device aids in sensing a condition at an eye or assists vision with the eye. In another embodiment, wireless communication circuitry (135) is disposed in or on the enclosure, the wireless communication circuitry to participate in a communication of a wireless signal that is in an infrared wavelength range of the electromagnetic spectrum. Electrical signaling between the control circuitry and the wireless communication circuitry is based on the wireless signal. In another embodiment, the wireless signal is based on electrical signaling between the control circuitry and the wireless communication circuitry.
Abstract:
Embodiments are disclosed of an eye-mountable device (300) including a lens enclosure including an anterior layer (305) and a posterior layer (310) sealed to the anterior layer. An anterior electrode (315) is disposed within the lens enclosure on a concave side of the anterior layer, a posterior electrode (320) is disposed within the lens enclosure on a convex side of the posterior layer, and an element (325) changing colour or opacity on demand is disposed across a central region of the lens enclosure, wherein the element separates the anterior electrode (315) from the posterior electrode (320) within the central region and can comprise liquid crystal material with a guest dye or electro-chromic material.
Abstract:
A prescriptive see-through eyepiece includes a meniscus lens body and an optical combiner. The meniscus lens body has an external scene side with a convex curvature and an eye-ward side with a concave curvature. The optical combiner is disposed within the meniscus lens body to combine image light incident through the eye-ward side with external scene light incident through the external scene side into a combined image. The optical combiner is partially reflective and imparts substantially no lensing power to the external scene light passing through. The optical combiner along with the concave curvature of the eye-ward side are configured to impart prescriptive lensing to the image light while the convex curvature of the external scene side and the concave curvature of the eye-ward side are configured to impart the prescriptive lensing to the external scene light.
Abstract:
An apparatus is described having an image signal processor. The image signal processor has a plurality of depth calculation units to calculate a respective time of flight depth value for different pixel array locations. Each of the plurality of depth calculation units is to receive a response signal from a same pixel in a pixel array so that the plurality of depth calculation units are able to calculate multiple depth values for the different locations of the pixel array from respective response signals from different groups of pixels in the pixel array of which the pixel is a member. Each of the groups include pixels of different receive clock phases sufficient to calculate a respective depth value. Another apparatus is also described where multiple depth values are similarly calculated from different groups of pixels that each include a same pixel but where a depth calculation unit calculates each of the multiple depth values.
Abstract:
An eyepiece for a head wearable display includes a curved lightguide component, a curved see-through component, an output coupler, and a prescription layer. The curved lightguide component guides display light received at an input region and releases the display light along an eye-ward direction in a viewing region. The output coupler is disposed at the viewing region to redirect the display light towards the eye-ward direction for output from the curved lightguide component. The output coupler is at least partially transmissive to ambient light incident through a world-facing side such that the viewing region is see-through. The curved see-through component is mated to the world-facing side of the curved lightguide component. The prescription layer has a first side mated to an eye-facing side of the curved lightguide component and a second side having a curvature that introduces prescriptive lensing to both the ambient light and the display light.