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公开(公告)号:US11500208B2
公开(公告)日:2022-11-15
申请号:US17145156
申请日:2021-01-08
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Brian T. Schowengerdt , Hong Hua , Hui-Chuan Cheng , Christophe Peroz
Abstract: Images perceived to be substantially full color or multi-colored may be formed using component color images that are distributed in unequal numbers across a plurality of depth planes. The distribution of component color images across the depth planes may vary based on color. In some embodiments, a display system includes a stack of waveguides that each output light of a particular color, with some colors having fewer numbers of associated waveguides than other colors. The stack of waveguides may include by multiple pluralities (e.g., first and second pluralities) of waveguides, each configured to produce an image by outputting light corresponding to a particular color. The total number of waveguides in the second plurality of waveguides is less than the total number of waveguides in the first plurality of waveguides, and may be more than the total number of waveguides in a third plurality of waveguides, in embodiments where three component colors are utilized.
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公开(公告)号:US11428859B2
公开(公告)日:2022-08-30
申请号:US16798236
申请日:2020-02-21
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Kevin Curtis , Hui-Chuan Cheng , Paul M. Greco , William Hudson Welch , Eric C. Browy , Miller Schuck , Bradley Jay Sissom
IPC: G06F3/147 , G09G3/00 , G09G3/20 , G02B27/01 , G02B7/00 , G02B5/30 , G02B27/00 , G02B27/28 , G02B27/10 , F21V8/00 , G06F3/01 , H04N9/31 , G02C5/16 , G02C11/00 , G06F1/16 , G06F1/20 , H05K7/20 , G02B5/18 , G02B6/34 , G02B6/293 , G02B27/30
Abstract: An artifact mitigation system includes a projector assembly and a set of imaging optics optically coupled to the projector assembly. The artifact mitigation system also includes an eyepiece optically coupled to the set of imaging optics. The eyepiece includes a diffractive incoupling interface. The artifact mitigation system further includes an artifact prevention element disposed between the set of imaging optics and the eyepiece. The artifact prevention element includes a linear polarizer, a first quarter waveplate disposed adjacent the linear polarizer, and a color select component disposed adjacent the first quarter waveplate.
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公开(公告)号:US11249309B2
公开(公告)日:2022-02-15
申请号:US16006080
申请日:2018-06-12
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Jason Schaefer , Hui-Chuan Cheng , David Manly , Jahja I. Trisnadi , Clinton Carlisle , Michael Anthony Klug
Abstract: In some embodiments, an augmented reality system includes at least one waveguide that is configured to receive and redirect light toward a user, and is further configured to allow ambient light from an environment of the user to pass therethrough toward the user. The augmented reality system also includes a first adaptive lens assembly positioned between the at least one waveguide and the environment, a second adaptive lens assembly positioned between the at least one waveguide and the user, and at least one processor operatively coupled to the first and second adaptive lens assemblies. Each lens assembly of the augmented reality system is selectively switchable between at least two different states in which the respective lens assembly is configured to impart at least two different optical powers to light passing therethrough, respectively. The at least one processor is configured to cause the first and second adaptive lens assemblies to synchronously switch between different states in a manner such that the first and second adaptive lens assemblies impart a substantially constant net optical power to ambient light from the environment passing therethrough.
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公开(公告)号:US20210356748A1
公开(公告)日:2021-11-18
申请号:US17332373
申请日:2021-05-27
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Hui-Chuan Cheng
Abstract: A display system includes projection optics configured to project a beam of light in a first direction and an eyepiece unit including a first waveguide layer disposed in a first lateral plane and including an incident light surface and an opposing surface opposite the incident light surface and an incoupling diffractive optical element disposed on the incident light surface. The incoupling diffractive optical element is configured to incouple a first portion of the beam of light and to propagate the first portion of the beam of light by total internal reflection in a second direction and transmit a second portion of the beam of light along the first direction. The eyepiece also includes a retroreflector disposed adjacent the opposing surface. The retroreflector is configured to retroreflect the second portion of the beam of light along a reflected direction opposite to the first direction.
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公开(公告)号:US20210278672A1
公开(公告)日:2021-09-09
申请号:US17194086
申请日:2021-03-05
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Kevin Messer , Joshua Naaman Haddock , Hui-Chuan Cheng , Vaibhav Mathur , Clinton Carlisle
IPC: G02B27/01 , G02B25/00 , G02B27/28 , G02F1/13363 , G02F1/1337 , G02F1/01 , G02F1/1335 , G02F1/1343 , G02F1/139
Abstract: A wearable display system includes an eyepiece stack having a world side and a user side opposite the world side. During use, a user positioned on the user side views displayed images delivered by the wearable display system via the eyepiece stack which augment the user's field of view of the user's environment. The system also includes an optical attenuator arranged on the world side of the of the eyepiece stack, the optical attenuator having a layer of a birefringent material having a plurality of domains each having a principal optic axis oriented in a corresponding direction different from the direction of other domains. Each domain of the optical attenuator reduces transmission of visible light incident on the optical attenuator for a corresponding different range of angles of incidence.
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公开(公告)号:US11016292B2
公开(公告)日:2021-05-25
申请号:US15897971
申请日:2018-02-15
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Miller Harry Schuck, III , Kevin Richard Curtis , Hui-Chuan Cheng , Bradley Jay Sissom , Paul M. Greco , William Hudson Welch , Eric C. Browy
Abstract: An eyepiece unit with optical filters includes a set of waveguide layers including a first waveguide layer and a second waveguide layer. The first waveguide layer is disposed in a first lateral plane and includes a first incoupling diffractive element disposed at a first lateral position, a first waveguide, and a first outcoupling diffractive element. The second waveguide layer is disposed in a second lateral plane adjacent to the first lateral plane and includes a second incoupling diffractive element disposed at a second lateral position, a second waveguide, and a second outcoupling diffractive element. The eyepiece unit also includes a set of optical filters including a first optical filter positioned at the first lateral position and operable to attenuate light outside a first spectral band and a second optical filter positioned at the second lateral position and operable to attenuate light outside a second spectral band.
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公开(公告)号:US10739593B2
公开(公告)日:2020-08-11
申请号:US15443002
申请日:2017-02-27
Applicant: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
Inventor: Hui-Chuan Cheng
IPC: G02B26/08 , G02B26/10 , G02B26/12 , G02B27/14 , G02B27/01 , F21V8/00 , G02B27/10 , G02B27/28 , G02B27/42
Abstract: An imaging system includes a light source configured to generate a light beam. The system also includes first and second light guiding optical elements having respective first and second entry portions, and configured to propagate at least respective first and second portions of the light beam by total internal reflection. The system further includes a light distributor having a light distributor entry portion, a first exit portion, and a second exit portion. The light distributor is configured to direct the first and second portions of the light beam toward the first and second entry portions, respectively. The light distributor entry portion and the first exit portion are aligned along a first axis. The light distributor entry portion and the second exit portion are aligned along a second axis different from the first axis.
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公开(公告)号:US20200183172A1
公开(公告)日:2020-06-11
申请号:US16794513
申请日:2020-02-19
Applicant: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
Inventor: William Hudson WELCH , Robert D. TEKOLSTE , Hyunsun Chung , Hui-Chuan Cheng
Abstract: Configurations are disclosed for presenting virtual reality and augmented reality experiences to users. The system may comprise a spatial light modulator operatively coupled to an image source for projecting light associated with one or more frames of image data, and a variable focus element (VFE) for varying a focus of the projected light such that a first frame of image data is focused at a first depth plane, and a second frame of image data is focused at a second depth plane, and wherein a distance between the first depth plane and the second depth plane is fixed.
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公开(公告)号:US10678055B2
公开(公告)日:2020-06-09
申请号:US15826315
申请日:2017-11-29
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Lionel Ernest Edwin , Ivan Li Chuen Yeoh , Brian T. Schowengerdt , Kevin Richard Curtis , William Hudson Welch , Pierre St. Hilaire , Hui-Chuan Cheng
Abstract: A method and system for increasing dynamic digitized wavefront resolution, i.e., the density of output beamlets, can include receiving a single collimated source light beam and producing multiple output beamlets spatially offset when out-coupled from a waveguide. The multiple output beamlets can be obtained by offsetting and replicating a collimated source light beam. Alternatively, the multiple output beamlets can be obtained by using a collimated incoming source light beam having multiple input beams with different wavelengths in the vicinity of the nominal wavelength of a particular color. The collimated incoming source light beam can be in-coupled into the eyepiece designed for the nominal wavelength. The input beams with multiple wavelengths take different paths when they undergo total internal reflection in the waveguide, which produces multiple output beamlets.
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公开(公告)号:US10564533B2
公开(公告)日:2020-02-18
申请号:US15927807
申请日:2018-03-21
Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
Inventor: Jahja Trisnadi , Pierre St. Hilaire , Hui-Chuan Cheng , Clinton Carlisle , Michael Anthony Klug , Kevin Richard Curtis
Abstract: Examples of light projector systems for directing input light from a light source to a spatial light modulator are provided. For example, an optical device is disclosed which includes a first surface having a diffractive optical element, a second surface normal to the first surface, and a third surface arranged at an angle to the second surface. The third surface may be a beam splitting surface that is reflective to light of a first state and transmissive to light of a second state. The diffractive optical element may receive an input beam made up of light having the first state, and convert the input beam into at least a first diffracted beam at a first diffraction angle such that the first diffracted beam is directed toward the third surface and is reflected by the third surface in a direction substantially parallel to the first surface.
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