ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,744, issued on July 22, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"3D mapping in 2D scanning display" was invented by Babak Amirsolaimani (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable display device includes a light source, a beam scanner, a pupil-replicating lightguide, and a detector. The light source is configured to emit an image beam and a ranging beam. The beam scanner co-scans both beams. The image beam is used to form an image in angular domain for displaying to a user of the wearable display device, and a ranging beam is used to scan outside environment at the same time. Light reflecte...