Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Curved optical see-through thin freeform lightguide with large field of view in eyewear formfactor
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Application No.: US16259192Application Date: 2019-01-28
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Publication No.: US11550095B2Publication Date: 2023-01-10
- Inventor: Ozan Cakmakci
- Applicant: GOOGLE LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
- Current Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Main IPC: G02B27/14
- IPC: G02B27/14 ; F21V8/00 ; G02B27/01 ; G06F3/14

Abstract:
An optical device includes a frame supporting a lightguide, a microdisplay, and a field lens positioned therebetween that directs light from the microdisplay into a top surface of the lightguide. Four optical surfaces of the lightguide include: a curved surface where light from the microdisplay enters a top of the lightguide, curved eye-side and world-side surfaces providing total internal reflection, and a combiner surface. The eye-side surface is used twice. Once in total internal reflection, and a second time as a refractive surface when light is reflected from the combiner surface and is thereby refracted out of the lightguide and directed towards a user's eye. The field lens has a curved first surface oriented toward the microdisplay and a curved second surface oriented toward the top of the lightguide. The combiner surface combines ambient light from a world-side of the lightguide with light from the microdisplay.
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