US 12,230,176 B2
Holographically displaying three-dimensional objects
Jonathan Seamus Blackley, South Pasadena, CA (US); Richard Bahr, Atherton, CA (US); Watson Brent Boyett, Los Angeles, CA (US); Sylvain Marcel Colin, Ventura, CA (US); Robin James Green, Duvall, WA (US); Isaac Serrano Guasch, Barcelona (ES); Stephen John Hart, San Juan Capistrano, CA (US); Robert Alan Hess, Mesa, AZ (US); Margaret H. Hsu, Pasadena, CA (US); Christoph Von Jutrzenka, Santa Barbara, CA (US); Deagyu Kim, Pasadena, CA (US); Mark Anthony Loya, Temple City, CA (US); Kelly Swan Macneill, Seattle, WA (US); Benjamin Francis Neil, South Pasadena, CA (US); Kamran Qaderi, San Gabriel, CA (US); Tina Qin, Rosemead, CA (US); Jesus Manuel Caridad Ramirez, Altadena, CA (US); Jayakrishna Sashidharan, San Gabriel, CA (US); Asher Zelig Sefami, Altadena, CA (US); Jeff Smith, Las Vegas, NV (US); Robert David Srinivasiah, Mountain View, CA (US); Sameer Sudhir Walavalkar, Glendale, CA (US); Joshua D. Wiensch, Altadena, CA (US); and Daniel Dereck Williamson, Brighton (GB)
Assigned to Pacific Light & Hologram, Inc., San Gabriel, CA (US)
Filed by PACIFIC LIGHT & HOLOGRAM, INC., San Gabriel, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 4, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/907,386.
Application 18/907,386 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2024/028873, filed on May 10, 2024.
Application PCT/US2024/028873 is a continuation in part of application No. 18/410,185, filed on Jan. 11, 2024, granted, now 12,170,038.
Application 18/410,185 is a continuation of application No. 18/468,571, filed on Sep. 15, 2023, granted, now 11,900,842, issued on Feb. 13, 2024.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/501,928, filed on May 12, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0029534 A1, Jan. 23, 2025
Int. Cl. G09G 3/00 (2006.01); G02F 1/1343 (2006.01); G09G 3/34 (2006.01); G09G 3/36 (2006.01)
CPC G09G 3/003 (2013.01) [G02F 1/134309 (2013.01); G02F 1/13439 (2013.01); G09G 3/3413 (2013.01); G09G 3/36 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An optical device, comprising:
an optical guiding device configured to guide light to propagate along a first direction within the optical guiding device, the light having a spectral bandwidth with a peak wavelength;
an in-coupling diffractive structure configured to diffract the light to propagate in the optical guiding device; and
a plurality of out-coupling diffractive structures arranged downstream the in-coupling diffractive structure along the first direction and configured to diffract at least part of the light out of the optical guiding device along a second direction different from the first direction,
wherein the plurality of out-coupling diffractive structures are configured to have gradually increased diffraction efficiencies for the light along the first direction away from the in-coupling diffractive structure, and
wherein a first diffraction efficiency of the in-coupling diffractive structure for light with the peak wavelength is no smaller than a first threshold, and a second diffraction efficiency of each of the plurality of out-coupling diffractive structures for the light with the peak wavelength is no greater than a second threshold, the first threshold being greater than the second threshold.