IP Library Granted Patent US 10,460,165
Granted Patent B2
US 10,460,165 · App. 15/028,838 · Granted Oct 29, 2019

Head mounted display

Inventors: Lochlainn Wilson (Tokyo, JP); Keiichi Seko (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: FOVE, Inc.
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Patent No.
US 10,460,165
App. No.
15/028,838
Granted
Oct 29, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A head mounted display includes a lens disposed at a position facing a user's cornea; a plurality of infrared light sources disposed in a periphery of the lens that emit infrared light toward the user's cornea; a hot mirror that reflects the infrared light; a camera that captures an image projected into the hot mirror; an output unit that outputs an image captured by the camera to an eyesight direction detection unit that detects an eyesight direction of the user; and a housing, wherein when the periphery of the lens is divided into four regions: a first corresponding to the outer corner side of the eye, a second corresponding to the inner corner side, a third corresponding to the top side of the head, and a fourth corresponding to the jaw side, the plurality of infrared light sources are disposed in any of the first region and the second region.

Claims (11)

1. An eyesight detection device comprising:

a lens to be disposed at a position facing a user's cornea when the device is used by the user;

a plurality of infrared light sources disposed in a periphery of the lens that emit infrared light toward the user's cornea; and

a camera that captures an image including the user's cornea;

wherein, when the periphery of the lens is equally divided into four regions of a first region corresponding to the outer corner side of the eye of the user, a second region corresponding to the inner corner side of the eye, a third region corresponding to the top side of the head, and a fourth region corresponding to the jaw side, the plurality of infrared light sources are disposed in the first region and the second region wherein the plurality of infrared light sources are disposed asymmetrically with respect to an axis extending through a center of the first region and a center of the second region.

2. The eyesight detection device according to claim 1 , further comprising a lens holding unit that holds the lens, wherein the plurality of infrared light sources are included in the lens holding unit.

3. The eyesight detection device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a hot mirror that reflects the infrared light;

an output unit that outputs an image captured by the camera to an eyesight direction detection unit that detects an eyesight direction of the user; and

a housing that houses the lens, the infrared light sources, the hot mirror, the output unit, and the camera,

wherein the lens is disposed between the hot mirror and the user's cornea.

Assignments (4)
MERGER Recorded Oct 24, 2024
From: FOVE, INC.
To: FOVE USA, INC.
Reel/Frame 068996/0294 →
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Oct 24, 2024
From: FOVE USA, INC.
To: FOVE, INC.
Reel/Frame 068996/0351 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE ASSIGNEES ADDRESS AND THE ASSIGNMENT DOCUMENT PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 038256 FRAME 0352. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Aug 18, 2016
From: WILSON, LOCHLAINN; SEKO, KEIICHI
To: FOVE, INC.
Reel/Frame 039711/0955 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 12, 2016
From: WILSON, LOCHLAINN; SEKO, KEIICHI
To: FOVE, INC.
Reel/Frame 038256/0352 →
Continuity (1)
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