US Patent Issued on Aug. 25 for "Optical systems with switchable lenses for mitigating variations in ambient brightness" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,139, issued on Aug. 25.

"Optical systems with switchable lenses for mitigating variations in ambient brightness" was invented by Hyungryul Choi (San Jose, Calif.), Guolin Peng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Scott M. DeLapp (San Diego) and Vikrant Bhakta (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may have an optical combiner, a spatial light modulator, and illumination optics. The modulator may produce image light for the combiner by modulating illumination light from the illumination optics. Adjustable optical components in the illumination optics may be controlled to adjust the illumination optics between first a...