US 12,266,279 B2
Holographically displaying three-dimensional objects with optical devices having in-coupling and out-coupling diffractive structures
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 (IE)
Assigned to Pacific Light & Hologram, Inc., San Gabriel, CA (US)
Filed by PACIFIC LIGHT & HOLOGRAM, INC., San Gabriel, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 3, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/906,013.
Application 18/906,013 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 2025/0029526 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)] 31 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A 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
one or more 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 in-coupling diffractive structure is configured to cause a first optical dispersion for the light, and at least one of the one or more out-coupling diffractive structures is configured to cause a second optical dispersion for the light, and wherein the first optical dispersion and the second optical dispersion are compensated with each other, such that light diffracted out of the optical guiding device has no or little optical dispersion, and
wherein the in-coupling diffractive structure comprises a first diffraction grating, and the at least one of the one or more out-coupling diffractive structures comprises a second diffraction grating, and wherein the first diffraction grating and the second diffraction grating are configured to cause the first optical dispersion and the second optical dispersion to be opposite dispersions having a same magnitude for the light.