US 12,131,437 B2
Dynamic foveated pipeline
Tobias Eble, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Ye Cong, Santa Clara, CA (US); Cody J. White, San Francisco, CA (US); Arthur Yasheng Zhang, San Jose, CA (US); Randall Rauwendaal, San Jose, CA (US); Moinul Khan, San Jose, CA (US); Jim C. Chou, San Jose, CA (US); Hao Pan, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Nicolas Bonnier, Campbell, CA (US)
Assigned to APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/510,916.
Application 18/510,916 is a continuation of application No. 17/053,181, granted, now 11,836,885, previously published as PCT/US2019/030819, filed on May 6, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/667,733, filed on May 7, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0087080 A1, Mar. 14, 2024
Int. Cl. G06T 3/18 (2024.01); G06T 3/40 (2024.01); G06T 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06T 3/18 (2024.01) [G06T 3/40 (2013.01); G06T 9/001 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving a warped image with a plurality of pixels at respective locations uniformly spaced in a grid pattern in a warped space, wherein the plurality of pixels is respectively associated with a plurality of respective pixel values and a plurality of respective scaling factors indicating a plurality of respective resolutions at a plurality of respective locations in a display space; and
generating, based on the plurality of respectively pixels values of the warped image and the plurality of respective scaling factors, a lens-compensated warped image that is a version of the warped image distorted in an inverse relationship to distortion caused by an eyepiece.