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US 12,007,559 B2Granted
Multi-layered thin combiner
AssigneeSpectralics Ltd.
InventorsYuval Kashter, Eran Falek, Ran Abraham Bar-Yosef
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Abstract
A multi-layered thin combiner (MLTC) is provided herein. The MLTC may include: a plurality of connectable layers each having a separate active area coated with a primary partially reflective filter; wherein each active area comprises a discrete fraction of an effective aperture; and wherein the active areas are configured to align, when said connectable layers are connected, to collectively define a complete effective aperture.
Claims6
A multi-layered thin combiner (MLTC), comprising:
- a plurality of discrete connectable layers, each of said plurality of discrete connectable layers having a continuous area coated with a primary partially reflective filter;
- wherein each continuous area comprises a discrete fraction of an effective aperture of the MLTC;
- wherein the continuous areas are configured to align, when said plurality of discrete connectable layers are connected together into a multi-layered structure, to form a continuous composite coated area and collectively define the effective aperture;
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- wherein each of said continuous areas further comprises a partial overlap portion coated with a graduated partially reflective filter, and wherein two or more partial overlap portions are configured to align, when said discrete connectable layers are connected, to form a composite overlap portion operable to transmit light with uniform transmissivity throughout said composite overlap portion, the MLTC thereby being configured to merge a virtual image with a real-world image.
2 more elements
A system for augmenting a real-world view with one or more virtual images, said system comprising:
- the MLTC according to any preceding claim positioned between a user and the real-world view;
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- a computer processing device operable to produce and emit, via a lens focused towards said effective aperture of said MLTC, overlay graphics for augmentation with said real-world view.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.