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Eye mounted displays and systems, with eye tracker and head tracker

  • US 9,858,901 B2
  • Filed: 09/30/2016
  • Issued: 01/02/2018
  • 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;

    an eye tracker that detects an orientation of the eye; and

    a device that generates images from an image input, the images generated based on the orientation of the eye and generated in an output format suitable for use in the eye mounted display, the images in the output format including pixels of different resolutions within each image, and the eye mounted display projecting the images onto a retina of the eye.

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