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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2020
Facebook Technologies, Llc, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ying Geng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jacques Gollier, Sammamish, WA (US);
Stephen James McNally, Sammamish, WA (US);
Brett Joseph Bryars, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Scott Charles McEldowney, Redmond, WA (US);
Facebook Technologies, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A head mounted display (HMD) includes a field curvature corrected (FC) display to mitigate field curvature in an image that is output to a user's eyes. The FC display includes elements that generate the image light and elements to mitigate field curvature from the image light. The FC display may include a display panel with lenses, a display panel with a reflective polarizer and reflective surface, or other optical elements. The FC display may include a pancake lens configuration including a polarized display with a quarter wave plate, a reflective mirror, and a polarization reflective mirror.