ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,260, issued on April 7, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Near-eye display using pinhole aperture array" was invented by Alexander Plopski (Graz, Austria) and Xiaodan Hu (Graz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein relate to a near-eye display using a pinhole aperture array. In some examples, a near-eye display system includes a ray-limiting structure to provide a pinhole aperture array with a plurality of apertures. The plurality of apertures can each have a shape defined by radially extending elements. Examples also describe extended reality (XR) devices including such a near-e...