US 11,681,146 B2
Augmented reality display for macular degeneration
Brent Mills, Vashon, WA (US); and Ashley Parsons-Celestein, Gardena, CA (US)
Assigned to Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed by Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/654,490.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/200,619, filed on Mar. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0299773 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01)
CPC G02B 27/0172 (2013.01) [G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06T 19/006 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0138 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0178 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0198 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of providing visual assistance using a head-worn device including one or more display devices and one or more cameras, comprising:
receiving user input defining a size of a forward visual field;
receiving user input defining a size of a peripheral field of view;
capturing the forward visual field using at least one of the cameras;
mapping a central portion of the forward visual field to a near-peripheral field of view; and
displaying the mapped central portion of the forward visual field in the near-peripheral field of view using a forward display device of the one or more of the display devices.