ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,129, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Wafer level optics for virtual reality cameras" was invented by Daniel Adema (Kitchener, Canada) and Shreyas Potnis (Kitchener, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various configurations of projectors and cameras are disclosed that use shared wafer level optics, in which optical elements, e.g., microlenses, of a projector are fabricated on the same wafer as optical elements, e.g., microlenses, of a camera. Projectors and cameras can be mounted together on a mixed reality headset, e.g., an AR/VR headset, for example, as a feature of smart glasses. Some proj...