Samsung patents HMD lens that sharpens center vision for AR
Samsung describes a lens design for head-mounted displays that mimics how the human eye focuses. It uses specific zones within the lens to provide high resolution in the center of your view while lowering resolution in the peripheral areas.
In the filing’s own words
A lens includes at least one lens element configured to interface with a user's pupil along an optical-axis direction from a side of the user's pupil to a side of a display surface. The at least one lens element defines an aperture stop that is configured to be at least a portion of an area for facing the user's pupil. The aperture stop defines a plurality of sub-stop areas corresponding to a plurality of gaze directions within an entire viewing angle of the user with respect to the optical-axis direction. An orientation of the plurality of sub-stop areas are based on a human visual system.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A head-mounted display (HMD) apparatus comprising: at least one camera configured to obtain an image by capturing an object in a real-world space; and a lens configured as a catadioptric lens comprising a plurality of lens elements arranged between an eye of a user and at least one display, wherein the lens includes an aperture stop area configured to be at least a portion of an area for facing the eye of the user, wherein the aperture stop area includes a plurality of sub-stop areas that have different optical paths corresponding to a plurality of gaze directions by eye rotation, respectively, and wherein each of the plurality of sub-stop areas is designed to have an optical characteristic in which the image has a first resolution in a first area within a predetermined viewing angle range and a second resolution lower than the first resolution in a second area outside the predetermined viewing angle range.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- LENS BASED ON HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM, VIDEO SEE-THROUGH APPARATUS EMPLOYING THE LENS, AND METHOD OF DESIGNING THE LENS
- Publication number
- US20260276998A1
- Application number
- 19666904
- Filed
- May 4, 2026
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 14
Classified under
G02B 27/0172 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in AR, VR & displays
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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