US 11,835,724 B2
System and method for presenting image content on multiple depth planes by providing multiple intra-pupil parallax views
Michael Anthony Klug, Austin, TX (US); Robert Konrad, Palo Alto, CA (US); Gordon Wetzstein, Palo Alto, CA (US); Brian T. Schowengerdt, Seattle, WA (US); and Michal Beau Dennison Vaughn, Round Rock, TX (US)
Assigned to Magic Leap, Inc., Plantation, FL (US)
Filed by Magic Leap, Inc., Plantation, FL (US)
Filed on Feb. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/168,494.
Application 18/168,494 is a continuation of application No. 17/581,773, filed on Jan. 21, 2022, granted, now 11,614,628.
Application 17/581,773 is a continuation of application No. 15/789,895, filed on Oct. 20, 2017, granted, now 11,231,584, issued on Jan. 25, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/411,490, filed on Oct. 21, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0194879 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G02B 30/24 (2020.01); G02B 30/34 (2020.01); H04N 13/128 (2018.01); H04N 13/383 (2018.01); H04N 13/344 (2018.01); H04N 13/341 (2018.01); H04N 13/339 (2018.01); H04N 13/398 (2018.01); H04N 13/324 (2018.01); H04N 13/346 (2018.01)
CPC G02B 27/0172 (2013.01) [G02B 27/0179 (2013.01); G02B 30/24 (2020.01); G02B 30/34 (2020.01); H04N 13/128 (2018.05); H04N 13/339 (2018.05); H04N 13/341 (2018.05); H04N 13/344 (2018.05); H04N 13/383 (2018.05); H04N 13/398 (2018.05); G02B 2027/0134 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0187 (2013.01); H04N 13/324 (2018.05); H04N 13/346 (2018.05); H04N 2213/008 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A head-mounted display system comprising:
a light source comprising a plurality of spatially distinct light output locations;
a spatial light modulator configured to receive light from the light output locations of the light source and to modulate the received light to form images of a virtual object; and
optics configured to direct light from the spatial light modulator for propagation into an eye of a viewer,
wherein the display system is configured to display the virtual object on a depth plane by injecting a set of images of the virtual object into the eye within a flicker fusion threshold of 1/60 of a second, wherein each of the depth planes is at a different depth plane distance along an optical axis of the viewer,
wherein injecting the set of images comprises changing a path of the light from the light source to the spatial light modulator by changing a lateral separation between activated ones of the light output locations based upon the depth plane distance, and
wherein the lateral separation corresponds to an angular separation between different light beams propagating away from the optics, the different light beams for forming different images of a set of images, wherein the angular separation is greater for a closer depth plane than a farther depth plane.