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Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 20, 2022
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Ishan Chatterjee, Seattle, WA (US);

Dmitry Reshidko, Redmond, WA (US);

Bernard Charles Kress, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/01 (2006.01); F21V 8/00 (2006.01); G02F 1/1362 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G02B 6/005 (2013.01); G02B 6/0073 (2013.01); G02F 1/136277 (2013.01);
Abstract

A display engine adapted for use in a head-mounted display (HMD) device includes a reflective liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) spatial light modulator (SLM) that is illuminated using a backlight illumination module and a pair of optical prisms providing a total internal reflection (TIR) function. In an illustrative mixed-reality embodiment, the TIR prism pair guides light to the LCoS SLM from the backlight illumination module and projects virtual images reflected from the LCoS SLM, through projection optics, to a diffractive waveguide combiner for viewing by an HMD user.


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