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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Joel Steven Kollin, Seattle, WA (US);
Ishan Chatterjee, Mountain View, CA (US);
Benjamin Eliot Lundell, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher Charles Aholt, Newcastle, WA (US);
Maria Esther Pace, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Andreas Georgiou, Cambridge, GB;
Robert Thomas Held, Seattle, WA (US);
Mark Theodore Bolas, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
One disclosed example provides a near-eye display device. The near-eye display device comprises an eye tracking system configured to determine a position of an eye of a user relative to the near-eye display device, and a waveguide including at least an input coupler and an output coupler, the output coupler including a plurality of zones, each zone activatable via a dynamically controllable output coupling element of the zone. The near-eye display device further comprises an image source configured to output image light to the input coupler, and a controller configured to selectively activate one or more zones of the output coupler based at least on the position of the eye.