Inventor

Scott Charles McEldowney

Inventor

Redmond, WA, US

Overview

1998–2021

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 67 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

G02Bprimary

G02BOptical elements, systems or apparatus33%

G06FElectric digital data processing16%

G02FOptical devices or arrangements for the control of light by modification of the optical properties of the media of the elements involved therein14%

G06TImage data processing or generation, in general9%

H04NPictorial communication, e.g. television5%

G09GArrangements or circuits for control of indicating devices using static means to present variable information4%

G03BApparatus or arrangements for taking photographs or for projecting or viewing them3%

G06VImage or video recognition or understanding3%

A63FCard, board, or roulette games2%

G01BMeasuring length, thickness or similar linear dimensions2%

PatentTitleYear

11,067,855Apparatus and methods for aligning photopolymers using an asymmetrically focused beam2021 11,022,791Assemblies of anisotropic optical elements and methods of making2021 11,025,871Driving scanning projector display with pulses shorter than pixel duration2021 11,009,765Focus adjusting pancharatnam berry phase liquid crystal lenses in a head-mounted display2021 10,983,341Eye tracking based on polarization volume grating2021 10,969,599Polarization conversion using geometric phase and polarization volume hologram optical elements2021 10,942,378Waveguide with coherent interference mitigation2021 10,942,416Hybrid adaptive lenses for head-mounted displays2021 10,939,080Trajectory estimation for a MEMS reflector2021 10,935,804Optical structure comprising a plurality of stacked optical elements that receive light having a first polarization and output light having a second polarization to a focal point2021 10,935,790Active flexible liquid crystal optical devices2021 10,884,309Transferable thin-film optical devices2021 10,877,277Liquid crystal Alvarez lens2020 10,852,558Near-eye display (NED) system and method using flexible reflector2020 10,817,052Eye emulator devices2020 10,809,585Apochromatic pancharatnam berry phase (PBP) liquid crystal structures for head-mounted displays2020 10,789,782Image plane adjustment in a near-eye display2020 10,746,994Spherical mirror having a decoupled aspheric2020 10,712,576Pupil steering head-mounted display2020 10,705,401Apochromatic Pancharatnam Berry Phase (PBP) liquid crystal structures for head-mounted displays2020 10,705,353Waveguide with coherent interference mitigation2020 10,705,341Temporally incoherent and spatially coherent source for waveguide displays2020 10,690,930Optical structure comprising a structure of stacked optical elements that receives circularly polarized light having a first handedness and outputs circularly polarized light having a second handedness to a focal point2020 10,685,431Optical measurement system2020 10,678,057Liquid crystal cells for polarization rotation2020 10,678,116Active multi-color PBP elements2020 10,634,907Eye tracking based on polarization volume grating2020 10,598,945Multifocal system using pixel level polarization controllers and folded optics2020 10,571,692Field curvature corrected display2020 10,545,348Transmission improvement for flat lens based AR/VR glasses2020 10,546,430Image plane adjustment in a near-eye display2020 10,539,829Method of selecting a state of a switchable half waveplate and selecting an optical power of a liquid lens structure in optical series with a liquid crystal lens in a head-mounted display2020 10,504,207Rendering composite content on a head-mounted display including a high resolution inset2019 10,451,885Multifocal system using pixel level polarization controllers and folded optics2019 10,451,947Apochromatic pancharatnam berry phase (PBP) liquid crystal structures for head-mounted displays2019 10,402,950Optical measurement system2019 10,379,419Focus adjusting pancharatnam berry phase liquid crystal lenses in a head-mounted display2019 10,371,872Varifocal structure comprising a liquid lens structure in optical series with a liquid crystal lens in a head-mounted display and method of adjusting an optical power of the varifocal structure2019 10,373,294Rendering composite content on a head-mounted display including a high resolution inset2019 10,345,903Feedback for optic positioning in display devices2019 10,317,772Switchable bragg gratings for chromatic error correction of pancharatnam berry phase (PBP) components2019 10,248,001Varifocal structure comprising a liquid lens structure in optical series with a liquid crystal lens in a head-mounted display2019 10,228,561Eye-tracking system using a freeform prism and gaze-detection light2019 10,151,961Switchable bragg gratings for chromatic error correction of pancharatnam berry phase (PBP) components2018 10,140,695Head-mounted compound display including a high resolution inset2018 9,972,071Rendering composite content on a head-mounted display including a high resolution inset2018 9,779,478'Rendering composite content on a head-mounted display including a high resolution inset'2017 9,759,913'Eye tracking apparatus, method and system'2017 9,625,723'Eye-tracking system using a freeform prism'2017 9,557,574'Depth illumination and detection optics'2017 9,459,451'Eye tracking apparatus, method and system'2016 9,291,449'Detection of configuration changes among optical elements of illumination system'2016 8,723,118'Imager for constructing color and depth images'2014 8,704,763'Image contrast enhancement in depth sensor'2014 8,670,029'Depth camera illuminator with superluminescent light-emitting diode'2014 8,654,152'Compartmentalizing focus area within field of view'2014 8,592,739'Detection of configuration changes of an optical element in an illumination system'2013 8,558,873'Use of wavefront coding to create a depth image'2013 8,373,810'Optical vortex retarder micro-array'2013 8,330,822'Thermally-tuned depth camera light source'2012 8,320,621'Depth projector system with integrated VCSEL array'2012 8,264,536'Depth-sensitive imaging via polarization-state mapping'2012 8,054,290'Image contrast enhancement in depth sensor'2011 7,763,841'Optical component for a depth sensor'2010 7,715,084'Retarder-based despeckle device for laser illumination systems'2010 6,587,288'Optical attenuation filter'2003 5,808,714'Low reflection shadow mask'1998

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1998–2013Based in Windsor, CA, US· patent location history

2010–2014Patents assigned to MICROSOFT CORP (11)· patent assignee history

2010–2021Based in Redmond, WA, US· patent location history

2012–2017Patents assigned to MCELDOWNEY SCOTT (11)· patent assignee history

2016–2020Patents assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (8)· patent assignee history

2017–2020Patents assigned to OCULUS VR LLC (3)· patent assignee history

2018–2021Patents assigned to FACEBOOK TECH LLC (42)· patent assignee history

2020–2021Based in Menlo Park, CA, US· patent location history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
FACEBOOK TECH LLC	42	2018–2021
MCELDOWNEY SCOTTself	11	2012–2017
MICROSOFT CORP	11	2010–2014
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC	8	2016–2020
OCULUS VR LLC	3	2017–2020

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Redmond, Washington, US	60	2010–2021
Windsor, California, US	4	1998–2013
Menlo Park, California, US	3	2020–2021