Light Management for Image and Data Control
OwnerJohn Castle Simmonsinventor
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Abstract
Optical devices based on novel components for selective video/television display, digital processing and/or unique image analysis to modify the image that a user sees and significantly improve the perception of that user are disclosed. What the user sees is responsive to specific perceptual and informational needs of the user in real time. Devices from the previous (parent) patents are herein made both more useful in practical day-to-day use and more widely applicable to improving the ability of a user to perceive visual stimuli.
Claims25
A device through which light passes from a field of view of an eye of a user to that eye comprising:
- a first array comprised of see-through light sensitive elements;
- a second array comprised of light controlling elements;
- wherein said see-through light sensitive elements are operably connected to at least one of said light controlling elements;
- wherein said first array and said second array are configured so that the light passing through at least one of said see-through light sensitive elements, as the light proceeds from said first array towards said second array, stimulates a signal to at least one of said light controlling elements;
- wherein, responsive to said signal, at least one of said light controlling elements is configured to control how much light is allowed to pass through said light controlling elements;
- whereby the user, looking through said first array and said second array, is at least partially protected from bright areas of light in the field of view of the eye at least partially in proportion to the intensity of the light passing through at least one of said see-through light sensitive elements.
A device for an eye of a user to look through located between an eye and the field of view of that eye comprising:
- a transparent light-sensitive section;
- and
- a light controlling section;
- wherein
- at least some portions of said transparent light-sensitive section are operably connected to at least some portions of said light controlling section;
- and
- wherein said transparent light-sensitive section is configured, when light passes through a portion of said transparent light-sensitive section on a way to the eye, to stimulate a portion of said light controlling section to adjust passage of light through a nearby portion of said light controlling section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.