Customized head-mounted display device

• US 9,001,427 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2012
• Issued: 04/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Jacobs, Joel, Cajigas, Elmer, Denhez, Nicolas, Bosveld, Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Martinez, Joseph P
• Application Number:
  US13/484,024
• Publication Number:
  US 20130321925A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,042 Days
• Field of Search: 359630-634
• US Class Current: 359/630
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/014 comprising information/image processing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0178 Eyeglass type eyeglass details G02C
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0187 slaved to motion of at least a part of the body of the user, e.g. head, eye
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0176 characterised by mechanical features
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining

Abstract

A head-mounted display device includes a modular frame assembly including one or more different components. Each of the different components may be selected from a component set including at least two or more differently-sized versions of each different component. The head-mounted display device also includes a modular see-through display sub-assembly including one or more mountings for selectably coupling the modular see-through display sub-assembly to the modular frame assembly. The modular see-through display sub-assembly may be configured to couple to any combination of differently-sized versions of different components of the modular frame assembly.

Claims

1. A head-mounted display device, comprising:

a modular frame assembly including one or more different components, each of the different components selected from a component set, the component set including at least two or more differently-sized versions of each different component; and

a modular see-through display sub-assembly including one or more mountings for selectably coupling the modular see-through display sub-assembly to the modular frame assembly, the modular see-through display sub-assembly configured to couple to any combination of differently-sized versions of different components of the modular frame assembly.

2. The head-mounted display device of claim 1, wherein the modular see-through sub-assembly is coupled to the modular frame assembly via a brow bar, the brow bar coupled to the mountings of the see-through display sub-assembly.

3. The head-mounted display device of claim 1, wherein the modular see-through display assembly is coupled to the modular frame assembly such that exit pupils of the modular see-through display assembly are aligned with pupils of a user when the head-mounted display device is worn by the user.

4. The head-mounted display device of claim 1, wherein the modular see-through display sub-assembly includes a see-through display and a plurality of optical sensors.

5. The head-mounted display device of claim 4, wherein the see-through display comprises a right-eye module and a left-eye module.

6. The head-mounted display device of claim 1, further comprising a control subsystem coupled to the modular frame assembly.

7. The head-mounted display device of claim 1, further comprising a control subsystem coupled to the modular see-through display sub-assembly.

8. The head-mounted display device of claim 1, further comprising an audio subsystem coupled to the modular frame assembly.

9. The head-mounted display device of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of fit components coupled to the modular frame assembly.

10. The head-mounted display device of claim 9, wherein the plurality of fit components comprise a nose pad, a right temple pad and a left temple pad.

11. The head-mounted display device of claim 1, wherein the modular see-through display sub-assembly is selected from a plurality of differently-sized modular see-through display sub-assemblies.

12. A modular component set for a head-mounted display device, comprising:

a plurality of differently-sized see-through display sub-assemblies, each see-through display sub-assembly including;

a see-through display; and

a brow bar coupled to the see-through display and including one or more mountings at a common mount location,

each brow bar configured to be mounted to any size of a plurality of differently-sized frames via the one or more mountings of the brow bar.

13. The modular component set of claim 12, further comprising an audio subsystem configured to be mounted to any size of the plurality of differently-sized frames.

14. The modular component set of claim 12, wherein each see-through display sub-assembly further comprises a plurality of optical sensors.

15. The modular component set of claim 12, wherein each brow bar is configured to be mounted to any size of the plurality differently-sized frames at a common location on each frame.

16. A method for customizing a head-mounted display device, comprising:

selecting a modular see-through display that closely accommodates a user fit profile, the modular see-through display selected from a plurality of differently-sized modular see-through displays; and

coupling the selected modular see-through display to a modular frame that closely accommodates the user fit profile, the modular frame selected from a plurality of differently-sized modular frames.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein coupling the selected modular see-through display to the modular frame further comprises coupling the selected modular see-through display to a brow bar and mounting the brow bar to the modular frame.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising coupling an audio subsystem to the modular frame.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising coupling one or more fit components to the modular frame.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the fit profile of the user comprises an interpupillary distance and one or more fit points, and wherein selecting the modular see-through display that closely accommodates the user fit profile further comprises selecting the modular see-through display such that exit pupils of the modular see-through display are spaced apart by a distance equal to the interpupillary distance when the modular see-through display is coupled to the modular frame.