Eastman-kodak Company

Imax Theatres International Limited

Intellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLC

Moxtek, Inc.

Circle Optics, Inc.

Imax Corporation

Monument Peak Ventures, LLC

Auroratech Company

Sony Corporation

Nitto-denko Corporation

Carestream Health, Inc.

Eastman Kodac Company

Mounument Peak Ventures, LLC

Andrew Frederick Kurtz

Barry David Silverstein

Xiang-Dong Mi

John N Border

David D Kessler

Joseph R Bietry

Elena A Fedorovskaya

Sujatha Ramanujan

Ronald S Cok

Kevin Michael Gobeyn

Gary E Nothhard

Donald E Olson

Joseph Anthony Manico

Steven Charles Read

Peter O Stubler

Amy D Enge

Brian E Kruschwitz

Lynn Schilling-Benz

Frances C Williams

Michael Alan Marcus

Paul James Kane

Andrew C Blose

Zakariya Niazi

Thomas O Maier

Robert J Metzger

John Bowron

Thomas Bidwell

Jesse Donald McMullen-Crummey

Joshua Monroe Cobb

Majid Rabbani

Kurt Michael Schroeder

Sanwal P Sarraf

Eugene Sisto

Denis Gilles Tremblay

Anton Leonard Baljet

John W Bowron

Jeffrey Clarence Snyder

James Mazzarella

Jose Manuel Sasian-Alvarado

Sharon Lynn Chu Yew Yee

Kathleen M Costello

Allen Krisiloff

Andrew Charles Gallagher

Keith B Kahen

John P Spoonhower

Christopher M Muir

Tomohiro Ishikawa

John R Debesis

Antanas Matthew Broga

Leslie G Moore

Anna L Hrycin

Donald DeJager

Ziqi Peng

Robert J Stanchus

Allen Davenport Bellinger

Jennifer D Kruschwitz

Bayley Wang

Steen Svendstorp Iversen

Deanan DaSilva

Barry Silverstein

Robert Baldino

Kenneth Alan Parulski

John Randall Fredlund

Jiebo Luo

Marek W Kowarz

Donald R Diehl

John C Boutet

Mark B Flowers

Aaron Thomas Deever

Madirakshi Das

Michael E Harrigan

James R Milch

Russell J Palum

Martin C Kaplan

John Gasper

Gregory Oscar Moberg

Thomas E Madden

Paul O McLaughlin

Peter Milford

Alan C Nutt

Bruce R Whiting

Robert J Parada

Richard P Corey

Francisco J Duarte

Franklin D Ehrne

Drew D Summers

Peter Thomas Fry

Keith A Jacoby

Kenneth J Repich

David H Kirkpatrick

Chih-Li Chuang

Glenn L Kennel

David J Snider

Richard J Sandor

Steven C Sitter

Yiyang Wu

Gail Shepter

Charles P Divito

Adam Inskip

Karen Leap

Systems for displaying images in a cinema setting can include components to reduce screen-door effect. The systems can include an array of light emitting sources or other active sources of light. In one example, the light emitting source emit pixels of light to a projection lens to project an image represented by the projection lens and a baffle and an aperture stop can block part of the light from the sources that exceeds an allowable cone angle of acceptable of the system. In another example, a display includes the array of light emitting sources and additional elements, such as diffuser elements, positioned in front of the array of light emitting sources.

Light conditioning of direct view display for cinema

A low parallax imaging device includes a plurality of imaging lens elements arranged to capture adjacent fields of view. In some examples, adjacent imaging lens elements may contact at datum features to maintain a desired spacing. The spacing may allow for partial overlapping of low-parallax volumes associated with the respective imaging lens elements.

Mounting systems for multi-camera imagers

A lens form for a low parallax imaging device includes a plurality of imaging lens elements arranged to capture adjacent fields of view. The imaging lens elements include a plurality of lens element groups for directing incident light to an imaging plane. The lens elements control a distance between an entrance pupil located behind the image plane and a low parallax point to reduce parallax errors between adjacent of the imaging lens elements.

Lens design for low parallax panoramic camera systems

A low parallax imaging device includes a dome defining an interior volume in which a plurality of imaging lens elements are disposed. The dome includes a first outer optical element associated with a first of the imaging lens elements and a second outer optical element associated with a second of the imaging lens elements. Facets are provided at seams in the dome between the first outer optical element and the second outer optical element.

Multi-camera panoramic image capture devices with a faceted dome

A frame for a low parallax imaging device includes a plurality of interconnected faces configured to mount cameras. The faces are mounted along peripheral edges using kinematic connections. The frame provides a structure on which the mounted cameras provide a combined field of view of up to about 360-degrees with minimal parallax between adjacent cameras.

Low parallax imaging system with an internal space frame

Opto-mechanics of panoramic capture devices with abutting cameras

A projection system includes a projection lens to project image light along an image light path towards a port window and to redirect a portion of the image light away from the image light path as result of being scattered or reflected away from the image light path. The projection system includes a port window for transmitting projected image light from the projection lens. The port window has a surface for redirecting a portion of the projected image light as result of being scattered or reflected away from the image light path. The projection system includes an enclosure positioned between the port window and the projection lens to surround the image light path between the port window and the projection lens. The enclosure absorbs the portion of the image light redirected by the projection lens and absorbs the portion of the projected image light redirected by the surface.

Stereo image projection with high intra-frame contrast

Systems for displaying images in a cinema setting can include components to reduce screen-door effect. The systems can include an array of light emitting sources () or other active sources of light. In one example, the light emitting source emit pixels of light to a projection lens () to project an image represented by the projection lens and a baffle () and an aperture stop () can block part of the light from the sources that exceeds an allowable cone angle of acceptable of the system. In another example, a display includes the array of light emitting sources and additional elements, such as diffuser elements, positioned in front of the array of light emitting sources.

Augmented reality headsets. A plurality of tilted pin-mirrors imbedded between an inner surface and an outer surface of a combiner, where the plurality of tilted pin-mirrors are configured to reflect the guided image light towards the eye box, and wherein the plurality of pin-mirrors include one or more gaps between them wherein the one or more gaps allow the passage of an ambient light through the combiner towards the eye box.

AR headset with an improved display

Light emitting displays can be used in cinemas for cinema presentations that integrate a sound system to achieve immersive conditions in cinema theatres. The cinema screen can include a matrix of light emitters and a diffuser sheet. The matrix of light emitters is configured to form a light-emitting area of the cinema screen. The diffuser sheet includes one or more perforations, and can be positioned between the matrix of light emitters and an audience area in the theatre. The diffuser sheet is positioned with respect to the matrix of light emitters such that the one or more perforations are configured to prevent light outputted by the light emitters from being viewable in the audience area.

Cinema light emitting screen and sound system

AR headsets with improved pinhole mirror arrays

Speckle artifacts as viewed in images projected on a display surface by a projector can be reduced. At least one spatial light modulator, illuminated by one or more light sources, can be imaged to a screen by a projection lens. A deflector subsystem can be provided in image space, proximate to the lens, where the image light emerges. In this location, image light directed to any given field point on the display surface is convergent, but can appear collimated. The deflector subsystem can include a tilted optical plate that is rotated in a plane along an axis. As the deflector subsystem is temporally rotated, the image light to any given field point traverses different optical paths, varying the angular diversity to reduce perceivable speckle by changing at least the angle of incidence to the screen.

Despeckling system for projected light

Light emitting displays and sound systems can be used in cinemas for cinema presentations that integrates a sound system to achieve the same or better immersive conditions in cinema theatres with front projection cinema screens. The screen can be active with light emitters, rather than passive and reflect light projected from a projector. Spaces are formed between adjacent light emitters in the display to allow for sound waves to pass from sound wave emitters positioned behind the screen to a cinema seating area in front of the screen. Loudspeakers may be positioned in the spaces. Diffusers or other structures may be positioned proximate to a front of the screen to facilitate visual performance. In addition or in the alternative, loudspeakers can be positioned in each seat of the viewing seating area that produce sound waves that appear to be coming from a non-seating location in the theatre.

An optical system that includes a micro-mirror array optical modulator that can selectively modulate an incident light beam having a defined narrow spectral bandwidth to encode data thereon based on commands to an ON-state or an OFF-state of a micro-mirror. The micro-mirror array optical modulator can redirect light by diffraction and reflection to provide an output modulated light beam that exhibits a diffraction handedness dependent described by an arrangement of diffraction orders that depend in part on the narrow spectral bandwidth of light incident thereupon. An optical element has an optimized limiting aperture for defining portions of a modulated light beam that are blocked and remaining portions that are transmitted. An ON-state efficiency and an OFF-state contrast of an optically transmitted modulated light beam can depend on the diffraction handedness of the output modulated light beam relative to a size and a shape of the optimized limiting aperture.

Projector optimized for modulator diffraction effects

A method and device for adapting a display image on a hand-held portable wireless display and digital capture device. The device includes a camera for capturing a digital video and/or still image of a user, means for adjusting the captured digital image in response to poor image capture angle of said image capture device so as to create a modified captured digital image; and means for transmitting said modified captured digital image over a wireless communication network to a second hand-held portable wireless display and digital capture device.

Portable video communication system

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Macedon, NY, United States of America

Andrew Frederick Kurtz