Light Management for Image and Data Control
OwnerJohn Castle Simmonsinventor
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Abstract
Optical devices and cognitive prosthetics based on novel components for enhanced human vision, 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 parent patents are herein made both more useful in practical day-to-day use and are more widely applicable to improving the ability of a user to perceive visual stimuli.
Claims21
A transmissive device for light, to disfavor passage of unpreferred angle of incidence light, to make even full-color images and other signals passing therethrough, from a field of view, more easily perceivable to an eye, comprising:
- angle of incidence limiting components arrayed to encounter light from points in the field of view;
- said angle of incidence limiting components configured such that unpreferred angle of incidence light will strike said angle of incidence limiting components that are in a path of the unpreferred angle of incidence light;
- at least some of said angle of incidence limiting components that are in the path of the unpreferred angle of incidence light configured to cause removal of a portion of some wavelengths of the light such that said removal of each of said portion of some wavelengths of light diminishes the unpreferred angle of incidence light;
- whereby even a full color image of the field of view may be more easily perceived.
A light-transmissive device for light having preferred angle of incidence light and unpreferred angle of incidence light to favor passage therethrough of the preferred angle of incidence light to make even full-color images and other signals, passing from a field of view of the device and through the device, more easily perceived by an eye, comprising:
- a plurality of angle of incidence limiting components configured to cause passage of the unpreferred angle of incidence light to be disfavored;
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- at least one light controlling component;
- such that at least one ray of the preferred angle of incidence light will cause at least one of said angle of incidence limiting components to pass a signal to at least part of said at least one said light controlling component that is in a path of said at least one ray of the preferred angle of incidence light;
- whereby glare from unpreferred angle of incidence light is reduced and bright light from locations in the field of view can be managed without degrading a view of dimmer items in the field of view.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.