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Eye mounted displays and systems, with headpiece

  • US 9,824,668 B2
  • Filed: 09/30/2016
  • Issued: 11/21/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An eye mounted display system, comprising:

  • an eye mounted display mountable on an eye of a human user for forming a visual sensation of an image that spans a field of view of the user'"'"'s eye, the eye mounted display comprising;

    a contact lens; and

    a plurality of sub-displays in the contact lens, the eye mounted display moving with the user'"'"'s eye as the user'"'"'s eye rotates in its socket, each of the sub-displays comprising;

    a plurality of display pixels displaying a different portion of the image for each sub-display, anddisplay optics projecting light from the display pixels to a portion of the retina corresponding to the portion of the image displayed by that sub-display, wherein the portion of the retina is fixed as the user'"'"'s eye rotates in its socket and thereby forming a visual sensation of the portion of the image displayed by that sub-display, each such projection of light propagating through a partial corneal aperture for that sub-display, different sub-displays projecting light to different portions of the retina, and the sub-displays in aggregate projecting light to portions of the retina that in aggregate span the field of view;

    the eye mounted display receiving images in an output format suitable for projection by the eye mounted display onto a retina of the eye, the images in the output format including pixels of different resolutions within each image; and

    a headpiece worn on a head of the human user when using the eye mounted display, the headpiece facilitating a generation and/or transmission of the images to the eye mounted display.

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