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公开(公告)号:US20180205937A1
公开(公告)日:2018-07-19
申请号:US15409314
申请日:2017-01-18
Applicant: Oculus VR, LLC
Inventor: Zhaoming Zhu , Nicholas Daniel Trail , Renzo De Nardi , Richard Andrew Newcombe
CPC classification number: H04N13/254 , G01B11/2513 , G06F3/013 , G06T7/521 , H04N13/332
Abstract: A depth camera assembly (DCA) includes a projector, a detector and a controller. The projector emits a tiled structured light (SL) pattern onto a local area. Each illumination source of the projector includes one or more light emitters and an augmented diffractive optical element (ADOE) designed with a pattern mask. The ADOE diffracts at least a portion of light beams emitted from the light emitters to form a first SL pattern projection having a field-of-view corresponding to a first tileable boundary. The pattern mask prevents projection of light that would otherwise be diffracted outside the first tileable boundary. The first SL pattern projection is combined with at least a second SL pattern projection into the tiled SL pattern illuminating objects in the local area. The detector captures images of the objects illuminated by the SL pattern. The controller determines depth information for the objects using the captured images.
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公开(公告)号:US20180172999A1
公开(公告)日:2018-06-21
申请号:US15384745
申请日:2016-12-20
Applicant: Oculus VR, LLC
CPC classification number: G02B27/0179 , G02B27/0093 , G02B27/0172 , G02B27/286 , G02B2027/0185 , G02B2027/0187 , G02F1/0136 , G02F1/29 , G02F2001/294 , G02F2203/50
Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) includes a multifocal block having one or more possible focal distances and includes a multifocal structure. The multifocal structure has a first focal distance and a second focal distance of the one or more possible focal distances. The multifocal structure includes one or more optical components positioned in series such that light from an electronic display is received and passes through each of the one or more optical components at least once before being output from the multifocal structure. The one or more optical components includes a switchable half waveplate (SHWP). The SHWP has a first state that causes the multifocal structure to output image light at the first focal distance, and a second state that causes the multifocal structure to output the image light at the first focal distance.
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公开(公告)号:US09983709B2
公开(公告)日:2018-05-29
申请号:US15335634
申请日:2016-10-27
Applicant: Oculus VR, LLC
Inventor: Nicholas Daniel Trail , Robert Dale Cavin
IPC: G09G5/00 , G06F3/041 , G06K9/00 , G06T7/00 , G06T19/00 , G01B11/25 , G06K9/20 , G02B27/01 , G02B27/00
CPC classification number: G06F3/041 , G01B11/2513 , G02B27/0093 , G02B27/0172 , G06K9/00604 , G06K9/0061 , G06K9/00617 , G06K9/2036 , G06T7/004 , G06T7/70 , G06T19/006
Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for tracking a user's eye using structured light. The structured light system is calibrated by training a model of surface of the user's eye. A structured light emitter projects a structured light pattern (e.g., infrared structured light) onto a portion of the surface of the eye. From the viewpoint of a camera, the illumination pattern appears distorted. Based on the distortion of the illumination pattern in the captured image, the eye tracking system can determine the shape of the portion of the user's eye that the structured light is incident upon. By comparing the determined shape of the portion of the user's eye to the model, the orientation of the eye may be determined. The eye tracking system or elements thereof may be part of a head-mounted display, e.g., as part of a virtual reality system.
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公开(公告)号:US20170139211A1
公开(公告)日:2017-05-18
申请号:US14944495
申请日:2015-11-18
Applicant: Oculus VR, LLC
Inventor: Nicholas Daniel Trail
IPC: G02B27/01
Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) includes an electronic display element, a microlens array, and an optics block. The electronic display element outputs image light via sub-pixels having different colors, the sub-pixels separated from each other by a dark space region. The sub-pixels have associated emission distributions that describe ranges of angles of light emitted from the plurality of sub-pixels. The microlens array includes microlenses that are each coupled to at least one corresponding sub-pixel, of the sub-pixels, where the microlenses concentrate the emission distributions and direct the emission distributions toward a target region. The optics block, which is located in the target region optically corrects the image light and directs the optically corrected image light from the microlens array to an exit pupil of the HMD corresponding to a location of an eye of a user of the HMD.
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公开(公告)号:US20180205943A1
公开(公告)日:2018-07-19
申请号:US15408104
申请日:2017-01-17
Applicant: Oculus VR, LLC
Inventor: Nicholas Daniel Trail
CPC classification number: H04N13/383 , A63F13/00 , G02B27/017 , G06F1/163 , G06F1/1686 , G06F1/325 , G06F3/011 , G06F3/013 , G06F3/0304 , G06K9/00604 , G06K9/0061 , G06K9/2036 , G06T7/50 , G06T7/73 , G06T2207/10012 , G06T2207/30201 , H04N13/211 , H04N13/344
Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) includes an eye tracking system that determines user's eye tracking information based on depth information derived from time-of-flight methods. The eye tracking system includes an illumination source, an imaging device and a controller. The illumination source illuminates the user's eye with a temporally varying irradiance pattern. The imaging device includes a detector that captures temporal phase shifts (temporal distortions) caused by a local geometry and the illumination pattern being reflected from a portion of the eye. The detector comprises multiple pixels, each pixel having multiple units for capturing, over multiple time instants, light signals related to the temporally distorted illumination pattern. The controller determines phase differences between the temporally distorted illumination pattern and the temporally varying irradiance pattern, based on the captured light signals. The controller determines depth information related to eye surfaces and updates a model of the eye, based on the phase differences.
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公开(公告)号:US20180196509A1
公开(公告)日:2018-07-12
申请号:US15400256
申请日:2017-01-06
Applicant: Oculus VR, LLC
Inventor: Nicholas Daniel Trail
CPC classification number: G06F3/013 , G02B27/0172 , G02B2027/0138 , H04N5/33
Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) includes an eye tracking system that determines user's eye tracking information based on combining structured light information and time-of-flight information. The eye tracking system includes an illumination source, an imaging device and a controller. The illumination source modulates a structured light by a carrier signal and illuminates a user's eye with the modulated structured light. The imaging device includes a detector that captures the modulated structured light. The detector comprises a plurality of pixel groups, each pixel group receiving a control signal determining when a pixel group captures light, the control signal causing pixel groups to capture light at different times relative to other pixel groups. The controller determines phases of the carrier signal based on intensities of light received by different pixel groups and generates depth information related to surfaces of the user's eye, which is used to model and track the user's eye.
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公开(公告)号:US20180096458A1
公开(公告)日:2018-04-05
申请号:US15684769
申请日:2017-08-23
Applicant: Oculus VR, LLC
Inventor: Austin Wilson , Douglas Robert Lanman , Nicholas Daniel Trail , Scott Charles McEldowney , Stephen James McNally , Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai
IPC: G06T3/40 , G06T1/20 , G06T11/00 , G06F3/01 , G06F3/0346
CPC classification number: G06T3/4092 , G02B27/0093 , G02B27/0172 , G02B2027/0132 , G02B2027/0134 , G06F3/012 , G06F3/013 , G06F3/0346 , G06F3/1423 , G06T7/0018 , G06T7/12 , G06T11/00 , G09G3/002 , G09G5/00 , G09G2340/0407
Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) divides an image into a high resolution (HR) inset portion at a first resolution, a peripheral portion, and a transitional portion. The peripheral portion is downsampled to a second resolution that is less than the first resolution. The transitional portion is blended such that there is a smooth change in resolution that corresponds to a change in resolution between a fovea region and a non-fovea region of a retina. An inset region is generated using the HR inset portion and the blended transitional portion, and a background region is generated using the downsampled peripheral portion. The inset region is provided to a HR inset display, and the background region is provided to a peripheral display. An optics block combines the displayed inset region with the displayed background region to generate composite content.
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公开(公告)号:US20180058844A1
公开(公告)日:2018-03-01
申请号:US15803328
申请日:2017-11-03
Applicant: Oculus VR, LLC
Inventor: Nicholas Daniel Trail
CPC classification number: G01B11/2513 , G01C3/08 , G01S17/32 , G01S17/36 , G01S17/46 , G01S17/89 , G06T7/30 , G06T7/35 , G06T7/521 , G06T7/529 , G06T19/006 , G06T2207/10016 , G06T2207/10028
Abstract: A depth camera assembly (DCA) determines distances between the DCA and objects in a local area within a field of view of the DCA. The DCA includes an illumination source that projects a known spatial pattern modulated with a temporal carrier signal into the local area. An imaging device capture the modulated pattern projected into the local area. The imaging device includes a detector that comprises different pixel groups that are each activated to captured light at different times. Hence, different pixel groups capture different phases of the temporally modulated pattern from the local area. The DCA determines times for light from the illumination source to be reflected and captured by the imaging device from the phases captured by the different pixel groups and also determines distances between the DCA and objects in the local area based on deformation of the spatial pattern captured by the imaging device.
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公开(公告)号:US09858672B2
公开(公告)日:2018-01-02
申请号:US15268325
申请日:2016-09-16
Applicant: Oculus VR, LLC
Inventor: Nicholas Daniel Trail
CPC classification number: G01B11/2513 , G01C3/08 , G01S17/32 , G01S17/36 , G01S17/46 , G01S17/89 , G06T7/30 , G06T7/35 , G06T7/521 , G06T7/529 , G06T19/006 , G06T2207/10016 , G06T2207/10028
Abstract: A depth camera assembly (DCA) determines distances between the DCA and objects in a local area within a field of view of the DCA. The DCA includes an illumination source that projects a known spatial pattern modulated with a temporal carrier signal into the local area. An imaging device capture the modulated pattern projected into the local area. The imaging device includes a detector that comprises different pixel groups that are each activated to captured light at different times. Hence, different pixel groups capture different phases of the temporally modulated pattern from the local area. The DCA determines times for light from the illumination source to be reflected and captured by the imaging device from the phases captured by the different pixel groups and also determines distances between the DCA and objects in the local area based on deformation of the spatial pattern captured by the imaging device.
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公开(公告)号:US10061352B1
公开(公告)日:2018-08-28
申请号:US15676626
申请日:2017-08-14
Applicant: Oculus VR, LLC
Inventor: Nicholas Daniel Trail
CPC classification number: G06F1/163 , A61B5/6822 , A61B5/6831 , G02B27/0172 , G02B27/0176 , G02B2027/0138 , G02B2027/014 , G02B2027/0156 , G02B2027/0161 , G02C3/006 , G02C3/04 , G06F3/011 , G06F3/013 , G06F3/017 , G06F3/167 , H02J50/10 , H04R1/08 , H04R1/406
Abstract: A distributed augmented reality system for producing rendered environment includes a neckband formed from a first arm, second arm, and computation compartment. A power source is embedded in the first and/or second arm, while a processor is embedded in the computation compartment of the neckband. The neckband may be capable of producing an AR, VR or MR environment, or any combination thereof. The neckband device may be used with a coupled eyewear device system encompassing a Near-Eye Display (NED) and/or secondary user device, which may also produce an AR, VR or MR environment, or any combination thereof. The neckband device may provide power and computation to the eyewear device, allowing for a reduced form factor AR/VR/MR eyewear device.
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