Systems, devices, and methods for waveguide-based eyebox expansion in wearable heads-up displays
AssigneeThalmic Labs Inc.
InventorsStuart James Myron Nicholson, Timothy Paul Bodiya, Stefan Alexander
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AssigneeThalmic Labs Inc.
InventorsStuart James Myron Nicholson, Timothy Paul Bodiya, Stefan Alexander
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Systems, devices, and methods for eyebox expansion in wearable heads-up displays (“WHUDs”) are described. The WHUDs described herein each include a projector and an optical waveguide positioned in an optical path between the projector and an eye of the user. For any given light signal from the projector, the optical waveguide receives the light signal at an input coupler and outputs multiple instances or copies of the light signal from multiple discrete, spatially-separated output couplers. The multiple instances or copies of the light signal may be converged by the optical waveguide directly to respective exit pupils at the user's eye or may be routed by the optical waveguide to a holographic combiner in the user's field of view from which the light signals may be converged to respective exit pupils at the user's eye. The optical waveguide employs exit pupil replication to expand the eyebox of the WHUD.
A wearable heads-up display comprising:
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