公开(公告)号：US11796856B1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-24

申请号：US17384340

申请日：2021-07-23

Applicant: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

Inventor： Sheng Ye ,  Ryan Li ,  Tingling Rao ,  Lafe Joseph Purvis, II ,  Oleg Yaroshchuk ,  Tanya Malhotra ,  Andrew John Ouderkirk

IPC: G02F1/1333 ,  G02F1/1335 ,  C09K19/24 ,  C09K19/22 ,  C09K19/30 ,  C09K19/34 ,  C09K19/20 ,  C09K19/12 ,  C09K19/18 ,  C08J5/18 ,  C09K19/36 ,  C09K19/58

CPC classification number: G02F1/133543 ,  C08J5/18 ,  C09K19/12 ,  C09K19/18 ,  C09K19/2007 ,  C09K19/22 ,  C09K19/24 ,  C09K19/3003 ,  C09K19/3068 ,  C09K19/348 ,  C09K19/36 ,  C09K19/586 ,  C09K2019/123 ,  C09K2019/188 ,  C09K2019/2035 ,  C09K2019/2042 ,  C09K2019/2078 ,  C09K2019/301 ,  C09K2019/3004 ,  C09K2019/3016 ,  C09K2019/3075

Abstract: An optical film includes a plurality of helically arranged liquid crystals and organic solid crystal structures at least partially surrounding the plurality of helically arranged liquid crystals. A method of making the optical film includes obtaining a substrate with an alignment layer and a film of a first solution on the alignment layer. The first solution includes liquid crystals and organic crystal molecules. The liquid crystals form a plurality of helically arranged liquid crystals on the alignment layer. The method also includes forming organic solid crystal structures by crystallizing the organic crystal molecules. The organic solid crystal structures at least partially surround the plurality of helically arranged liquid crystals.

公开(公告)号：US11681194B2

公开(公告)日：2023-06-20

申请号：US17671449

申请日：2022-02-14

Applicant: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

Inventor： Erik Shipton ,  Oleg Yaroshchuk

IPC: G02F1/137 ,  G02B27/01 ,  G02F1/1337

CPC classification number: G02F1/13768 ,  G02B27/0172 ,  G02F1/1337 ,  G02B2027/0178

Abstract: Various embodiments set forth liquid crystal (LC) patterning control systems in which LCs are aligned using locally applied magnetic fields. The index of refraction experienced by light propagating through an anisotropic LC is dependent on orientation. As a result, a phase difference may be imparted to an optical beam that is passed through, or reflected from, an array of LCs whose orientations are controlled via locally applied magnetic fields. In some embodiments, the locally applied magnetic fields may be generated by driving currents through wires that intersect at micro or nanomagnetic particles or at magnetic domains, or by applying voltages to micro or nanocoils wrapped around high-permeability cores, among other things.

公开(公告)号：US11435585B1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-06

申请号：US16666918

申请日：2019-10-29

Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC

Inventor： Oleg Yaroshchuk ,  Barry David Silverstein ,  Alireza Moheghi ,  Gang Li

IPC: G02B27/01 ,  G03H1/04 ,  F21V8/00 ,  G02B27/00 ,  G03H1/02 ,  G02B27/10

Abstract: An optical device having suppressed rainbow effect is provided. The optical device includes a light source configured to generate an image light, an optical combiner coupled with the light source and configured to direct the image light to an eye-box of the optical device, and a dimming element disposed at the optical combiner. The optical combiner includes at least one diffractive element. The optical combiner has a first side facing the eye-box and an opposing second side facing a real world, and the dimming element is disposed at the second side of the optical combiner. The dimming element is configured to receive a light from the real world and significantly attenuate an intensity of the light having an incidence angle in a predetermined range.