Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Apple Inc.

Chuan Pu

Wenjun Liao

Ruipeng Sun

Charles Walter Boecker

Jeffrey Neil Margolis

Barry Thompson

Kingsuk Maitra

Michael James Nystrom

Niranjan Achugundla Puttaswamy

Sheethal Somesh Nayak

Jincheng Wang

Victor H Yin

Jun Qi

Joshua Owen Miller

Yarn Chee Poon

Chenhua You

Richard Allen James

Shin-Ying Lu

Sheng Min Wang

Seyed Ahmad Mortazavi

Implementations of local demura algorithms for correcting display artifacts are provided. One aspect includes a method comprising: receiving image data; segmenting the image data into a plurality of regions of interest; applying a plurality of demura algorithms to the plurality of regions of interest to generate a plurality of corrected regions of interest by at least: applying a first demura algorithm to a first region of interest; and applying a second demura algorithm different from the first demura algorithm to a second region of interest; and generating a corrected image using at least the plurality of corrected regions of interest.

Local demura algorithms for correcting display artifacts

One example provides a method enacted on a scanning display device comprising an illumination source, and a scanning mirror system including a sense circuit coupled to a scanning mirror. The method comprises operating the scanning mirror system using a drive signal while operating the illumination source to thereby project an image, obtaining a control parameter based at least upon an output of the sense circuit, and comparing the control parameter to a noise threshold condition. The method further comprises, when the control parameter does not meet the noise threshold condition, continuing operating the scanning mirror according to the drive signal. The method also comprises, when the control parameter meets the noise threshold condition, adjusting the drive signal to form an adjusted drive signal to change a trajectory of the scanning mirror.

Utilizing noise threshold conditions for controlling scanning mirrors

A laser beam scanning ('LBS') display device is configured with an optical system that includes a laser beam emitter configured to emit a laser beam. The optical system also includes a driver configured to generate a driving signal for controlling a mirror, such as a microelectromechanical systems (“MEMS”) mirror. The optical system also includes a controller configured to generate a driving signal while rejecting a system disturbance response.

Disturbance rejection for laser beam scanning display

A display device includes a display substrate and a backplane substrate. The display substrate includes an array of micro-LEDs forming individual pixels. The backplane substrate includes a plurality of pixel logic hardware modules. Each pixel logic hardware module includes a local memory element configured to store a multi-bit pixel intensity value of a corresponding micro-LED for an image frame. The backplane substrate is bonded to a backside of the display substrate such that the pixel logic hardware modules are physically aligned behind the array of micro-LEDs and each pixel logic hardware module is electrically connected to a micro-LED of the corresponding pixel.

Micro-LED display

Techniques are described herein that are capable of adjusting a center frequency of an adaptive voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) that is included in an adaptive phase lock loop (PLL) and/or a phase difference target of the adaptive PLL. An adaptive PLL is a PLL that includes an adaptive VCO. An adaptive VCO is a VCO that is capable of adjusting its center frequency and/or a phase difference target of the adaptive PLL that includes the adaptive VCO. The adaptive PLL may be configured to drive (e.g., control) a device. A drive signal that is used to drive the device and a resulting output signal that is proportional to movement of the device may be fed back to respective inputs of the adaptive PLL so that the phases of those signals may be processed to facilitate adjustment of the center frequency and/or the phase difference target.

Adaptive phase lock loop that adjusts its phase difference target

A laser beam scanning ('LBS') display device is configured with an optical system that includes a laser beam emitter configured to emit a laser beam. The optical system also includes a driver configured to generate a driving signal for controlling a mirror, such as a microelectromechanical systems ('MEMS') mirror. The optical system also includes a controller configured to generate a driving signal while rejecting a system disturbance response.

The description relates to computing devices that employ steerable optics. One example includes a steering mechanism and a base substrate positioned relative to the steering mechanism. The example also includes an optical substrate positioned over the base substrate and an adhesive complex securing the optical substrate relative to the base substrate with multiple different types of adhesives.

Steerable optical assemblies

A laser beam display device that can dynamically control the resonant frequency of a mirror is provided. The increase the reliability of a device by controlling the resonant frequency of a mirror instead of requiring components of a display device to react to changes in the resonant frequency of a mirror. A controller can drive a mirror with an input signal, receive a signal or data indicating a target resonant frequency, and bias the input signal to control the resonant frequency of the mirror. In some embodiments, the controller can also receive a feedback signal from a mirror indicating a current resonant frequency. The controller can also bias the input signal to increase or decrease the current resonant frequency. By dynamically controlling the resonant frequency of a mirror, a device can minimize any difference between the current resonant frequency detected in a feedback signal and the target resonant frequency.

Control loop for stabilizing a resonant frequency of a mirror of a laser beam scanning display

A display device, including a display surface, a laser beam emitter, and a processor. The display device may further include a slow-scan MEMS driver configured to drive a slow-scan mirror and a fast-scan MEMS driver configured to drive a fast-scan mirror. The slow-scan mirror and the fast-scan mirror may reflect the laser beam onto an active region of the display surface. The slow-scan period may include a scanning interval in which the slow-scan mirror is configured to move to a final scanning position at one or more scanning ramp rates and a flyback interval in which the slow-scan mirror is configured to return to the initial scanning position. The processor may generate a modified slow-scan drive signal by modifying one or more of the initial scanning position, the final scanning position, and the scanning ramp rate in a blank region of the display surface.

Modified slow-scan drive signal

Adaptive phase lock loop that adjusts center frequency of voltage controlled oscillator therein

The techniques disclosed herein provide methods, devices, and systems to compensate the drive waveform to a slow-scan mirror in a laser beam scanning (LBS) display device. The slow-scan controller generates the drive waveform, which is combined with feedback and coupled to the input of a notch filter in the control loop. Ripple in the slow-scan mirror trajectory, which occurs as a consequence of mismatches between the notch frequency of the notch filter and the resonance of the slow-scan mirror, is effectively suppressed in real time by an adaptive notch compensator. Consequently, the described compensation scheme allows for relaxed notch filter design criteria with high tolerance and mitigation of ripple is achieved at reduced cost. The parameters, logic and blocks of the adaptive notch compensator scheme may be time-domain or frequency domain solutions that are implemented, in hardware, software or combinations thereof.

Closed loop controller for laser beam scanning display with high tolerance to mirror resonance frequency variation

Techniques are described herein that are capable of adjusting a notch frequency of an adaptive notch filter ('filter') to track a resonant frequency of a slow scan MEMS mirror ('mirror'). For instance, an adaptive feedback may be configured to determine one or more resonant frequencies of the mirror based at least in part on a frequency response of an output signal that is proportional to movement of the mirror. The adaptive feedback may be further configured to adjust at least one notch frequency of the filter to track at least one respective resonant frequency of the mirror. The filter may be configured to modify a magnitude of a frequency response of a combination of the filter and the mirror to be substantially constant by suppressing the at least one notch frequency in a frequency response of the mirror.

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