US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 15 for "Polarization-dependent augmented reality display" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,384, issued on July 15, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Polarization-dependent augmented reality display" was invented by Yi Qin (Mountain View, Calif.), Oscar Alberto Martinez (Mountain View, Calif.), Serge Joel Armand Bierhuizen (San Jose, Calif.) and Xinda Hu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device provides light for augmented reality vision. The device includes a display that emits light toward a beam splitter. The beam splitter reflects light from the display toward a polarization-dependent lens. The beam splitter allows world scene light to pass therethrough to the polarization-dependent ...