US 12,405,464 B2
Display system having 1-dimensional pixel array with scanning mirror
Nicolas Abele, Lausanne (CH)
Assigned to Magic Leap, Inc., Plantation, FL (US)
Appl. No. 17/427,601
Filed by Magic Leap, Inc., Plantation, FL (US)
PCT Filed Jan. 27, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/015243
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 30, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/159883, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 6, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/800,140, filed on Feb. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0121027 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G02B 26/10 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 27/0101 (2013.01) [G02B 26/10 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0132 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display system comprising:
an emissive pixel array comprising first and second columns of pixels;
relay optics configured to receive incident light and to output the incident light to a viewer; and
a scanning mirror disposed to receive the light from the first and second columns of pixels and to reflect the received light toward the relay optics,
wherein the scanning mirror is configured to move between a plurality of positions comprising a first position and a second position, the first position oriented for the scanning mirror to reflect the light from the first column of pixels onto the relay optics as a first one-dimensional array of pixels, the second position oriented for the scanning mirror to reflect the received light from the second column of pixels onto the relay optics as a second one-dimensional array of pixels,
wherein locations for the first and the second one-dimensional array of pixels define spatially overlapping lines on the relay optics, and
wherein the pixels of the first column of pixels are configured to emit light while the scanning mirror moves from a first position to a second position, and wherein the pixels of the second column of pixels are configured to emit light while the scanning mirror moves from the second position to the first position.