Samsung patents AR glasses tech to sharpen virtual images by blocking light
Samsung has filed a patent for a method that improves the clarity of virtual images displayed in augmented reality glasses. The system uses an electroactive panel, which can change how much light passes through it, to create a digital mask that blocks specific areas of light. By adjusting the transparency of different zones on the panel based on the surrounding brightness, the device reduces blur and makes the virtual content appear sharper.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device may include an electroactive panel, memory storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the electronic device to determine a position, a size, and a shape of an occlusion mask based on a virtual image to be displayed, determine an amount of light to be blocked by the occlusion mask based on surrounding brightness, obtain an occlusion mask image representing a projection of the occlusion mask into an image space, and adjust transmittance of the electroactive panel across a plurality of zones of the electroactive panel corresponding to the occlusion mask to reduce blur in the virtual image.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device comprising: an electroactive panel; memory storing instructions; and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions; wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the electronic device to: determine a position, a size, and a shape of an occlusion mask based on a virtual image to be displayed; determine an amount of light to be blocked by the occlusion mask based on surrounding brightness; obtain an occlusion mask image representing a projection of the occlusion mask into an image space; and adjust transmittance of the electroactive panel across a plurality of zones of the electroactive panel corresponding to the occlusion mask to reduce blur in the virtual image.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR BLUR REDUCTION OF OCCLUSION MASK FOR VIRTUAL IMAGE IN AUGMENTED REALITY GLASSES
- Publication number
- US20260320759A1
- Application number
- 19696723
- Filed
- Jun 3, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 5/73 Physics & computingG06T 5/20 Physics & computingG06T 7/11 Physics & computingG06T 19/006 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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