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Robin Sharma

Andrew John Ouderkirk

Karol Constantine Hatzilias

Qi Zhang

Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai

Ying Geng

Brian M Wheelwright

Christopher Yuan-Ting Liao

Katherine Marie Smyth

Jacques Gollier

Gregory Olegovic Andreev

Robert Dale Cavin

Christopher Yuan Ting Liao

Barry David Silverstein

Lu Lu

Spencer Allan Wells

Babak Amirsolaimani

Mohamed Tarek El-Haddad

Nicholas Daniel Trail

Tanya Malhotra

Kenneth Alexander Diest

John M Cooke

Wai Sze Tiffany Lam

Byron Taylor

Alexander Sohn

Ruobing Qian

Kurt Jenkins

Sheng Ye

Alexander Jobe Fix

Yun-Han Lee

Erik Shipton

Jonathan Robert Peterson

Liliana Ruiz Diaz

Kyle Justin Curts

Abbas Mehdi Kazmi

Paul Armen Tchertchian

Giuseppe Calafiore

Fenglin Peng

Sebastian Sztuk

Afsoon Jamali

Mengfei Wang

Junren Wang

Nihar Ranjan Mohanty

Renate Eva Klementine Landig

Maik Andre Scheller

Javier San Agustin Lopez

Marina Zannoli

Nagi H Elabbasi

Garam Young

Hannah D Noble

Elias Daniel Guestrin

Hannah Noble

Christopher Stipe

Michael Anthony Hall

Hee Yoon Lee

James Ronald Bonar

Vincenzo Casasanta, Iii

Behnam Bastani

Matthew E Colburn

Maxwell Parsons

Pooya Saketi

Weichuan Gao

Qing Chao

Matthieu Charles Raoul Leibovici

Jo Anne Etter

Gang Li

Kevin James MacKenzie

Yang Yang

Ming Lei

Patrick Joseph Hughes

Kun Liu

Jeb Wu

Christopher Percival

Kirk Erik Burgess

Neeraj Choubey

John Goward

Celine Claire Oyer

Selso Luanava

Guohua Wei

Ian Erkelens

Bo Asp Andersen

Chadwick Brian Martin

Sascha Hallstein

Francesco Larocca

Sho Nakahara

James Howard Thomas Ransley

Alexander Randon Cope

Mohamed Tarek Ahmed El-Haddad

Jixu Chen

Clare Joyce Robinson

Carl Chancy

Garret Odom

Giancarlo Sigurd Sante Nucci

Matthew James Hancock

Erfan M Fard

Greg Olegovic Andreev

Ruiting Huang

Neil Naples

Karol Constantine Hatzillias

Brent Bollman

Eyeglass devices may include a frame shaped and sized to be worn by a user at least partially in front of the user's eyes, a varifocal optical element mounted to the frame, and an eye-tracking element mounted to the frame. The varifocal optical element may include a substantially transparent actuator positioned at least partially within an optical aperture of the varifocal optical element and configured to alter a shape of the varifocal optical element upon actuation. The eye-tracking element may be configured to track at least a gaze direction of the user's eyes, and the varifocal optical element may be configured to change, based on information from the eye-tracking element, in at least one optical property including a focal distance. Various other devices, systems, and methods are also disclosed.

Eyeglass devices and related methods

An actuator includes a primary electrode, a secondary electrode overlapping at least a portion of the primary electrode, and an electroactive layer disposed between and abutting the primary electrode and the secondary electrode, where a mechanical deformation of the electroactive layer is locally controllable over an area of the actuator. The mechanical deformation of the electroactive layer may be configured to generate compound curvature, e.g., in an optical element co-integrated with the actuator, without buckling the optical element.

Actuator for generating compound curvature

An optical assembly is configured to receive visible scene light at the backside of the optical assembly and to direct the visible scene light on an optical path toward the eyeward side. The optical assembly includes a dimming element disposed on the optical path, where the dimming element includes a photochromic material that is configured to darken in response to exposure to a range of light wavelengths. A display layer is disposed on the optical path between the eyeward side of the optical assembly and the dimming element. The display layer is configured to direct visible display light toward the eyeward side and also to direct activation light to the dimming element, where the activation light is within the range of light wavelengths to activate a darkening of the photochromic material to dim the visible scene light.

Dimming control with display-directed activation light for an optical assembly

An optical element may include two or more zones to perform functions in a head-mounted display (HMD) device. An optical component may include a first optical zone characterized by a first sag profile to correct a refractive error of an eye of a user and a second optical zone characterized by a second sag profile to redirect a path of an illumination light beam. A transition zone located between the first optical zone and the second optical zone may provide a smooth transition between the first optical zone and the second optical zone.

Zonal lenses for a head-mounted display (HMD) device

The disclosure includes near-eye optical elements configured to suppress stray infrared light. Infrared light sources illuminate an eyebox area. A combiner layer may receive reflected infrared light and direct the reflected infrared light to a camera.

Beam shaping optic for light sources

An apparatus for a pancake lens with integration accommodation may include a beamsplitter, a first lens, a reflective polarizer, and a second lens, where the second lens includes at least one planar module embedded within the second lens. Other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.

Pancake lenses with integrated accommodation

A light source structure includes a vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) device having a top surface and at least one side surface substantially perpendicular to and adjoining the top surface. The VCSEL device is configurable to output directed emission of light through the top surface. The light source structure also includes a light barrier surrounding at least a top portion of the VCSEL device and separated from the at least one side surface. The light barrier is configured to receive spontaneous emission out of the VCSEL device through the at least one side surface.

Vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) with a light barrier

An optical system includes a first optical element having at least a first optical surface and a second optical surface, the first optical surface is not parallel to the second optical surface. The optical system includes a plurality of optical elements positioned adjacent to the second optical surface of the first optical element. The respective optical element of the plurality of optical elements is configured to receive light transmitted through the first optical surface at a first angle with respect to the second optical surface and direct the light back toward the first optical surface at a second angle, that is distinct from the first angle, with respect to the second optical surface.

Wedge combiner for eye-tracking

A retinal imaging system includes a projector, an imaging device, and a controller coupled to an eye tracking system under test. The projector emits a light pattern to be delivered to a pupil of an eye, a location of the pupil being estimated by the eye tracking system under test. The imaging device captures one or more images of a retina of the eye illuminated with at least a portion of the light pattern. The controller determines one or more eye tracking parameters based on the captured one or more images of the retina. The controller compares each determined eye tracking parameter with each of estimated one or more eye tracking parameters, wherein values for the one or more eye tracking parameters are estimated by the eye tracking system under test. The controller characterizes each estimated eye tracking parameter based on the comparison.

Full field retinal imaging system for characterization of eye trackers

An eye is illuminated with infrared illumination light. Illuminating the eye includes illuminating a near-eye ellipsoidal lensing structure. A tracking image of Purkinje reflections of the infrared illumination light is captured by a camera. An eye position of the eye is determined in response to the tracking image.

Dual Purkinje imaging with ellipsoidal lensing structure

An apparatus, system, and method for an imaging system that may be used to support eye tracking in a head mounted display. The imaging system may include an image sensor positioned in a user's field of view and within a lens assembly to capture light that is reflected from an eye. The imaging system may include two optical elements that are configured to at least partially direct scene light around the image sensor to conceal the image sensor from the user's eye. The image sensor is positioned between the two optical elements within the lens assembly.

In-field imaging system for eye tracking

A near-eye imaging system includes a light source, a waveguide, a scanner, and a sensor. The light source is configured to emit light. The waveguide includes an output coupler. The scanner is configured to direct the light to the output coupler at varying scan angles. The waveguide confines the light to guide the light to the output coupler. The output coupler has negative optical power and is configured to direct the light to exit the waveguide as expanding illumination light toward an eyebox region. The sensor is configured to generate a tracking signal in response to returning light incident on the sensor via the scanner and via the output coupler.

Scanning near-eye imaging and sensing system

A system includes a diffractive optical element including at least one substrate and a grating structure. The grating structure is configured to diffract a first light having an incidence angle within a predetermined range, and the at least one substrate is configured to reflect a second light. The system also includes a polarization selective mechanism configured to generate images based on the first light and the second light, respectively.

Optical system for multi-view eye-tracking

An eye-tracking method includes enabling at least one light source of an array of light sources to emit non-visible light to illuminate an eye. The method also includes obtaining at least one image of the eye while the at least one light source is enabled. A position of the eye may then be determined based on a position of the at least one light source within the array of light sources in response to determining that the at least one image indicates a bright pupil condition when the at least one light source was enabled.

Bright pupil eye-tracking system

Angular sensors that may be used in eye-tracking systems are disclosed. An eye-tracking system may include a plurality of light sources to emit illumination light and a plurality of angular light sensors to receive returning light that is the illumination light reflecting from an eyebox region. The angular light sensors may output angular signals representing an angle of incidence of the returning light.

Angular light sensor and eye-tracking

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