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Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 05, 2018
Applicant:

Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Behnam Bastani, San Jose, CA (US);

Carlin Vieri, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Assignee:

GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 3/34 (2006.01); G09G 3/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 3/342 (2013.01); G09G 3/36 (2013.01); G09G 2310/04 (2013.01); G09G 2320/0257 (2013.01); G09G 2320/0626 (2013.01); G09G 2340/0435 (2013.01); G09G 2354/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

Head-mounted displays (HMDs) for virtual reality (VR) provide backlit illumination when the LCD rows corresponding to a non-dominant eye of the viewer are being updated. For example, when a human viewer operates a VR computer in the form of a smartphone with an LCD screen embedded in specialized goggles (e.g., Google Cardboard), the human viewer may specify that his/her right eye is dominant. In this case, the VR computer times the backlit illumination to be activated when the rows of LCD pixels in the field of view of the non-dominant, i.e., left, eye are being updated. When the rows of LCD pixels in the field of view of the dominant, i.e., right eye are being updated, the VR computer deactivates the backlit illumination.


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