Inventor · Bellevue, WA, US

Douglas Robert Lanman

108Patents
14h-index
69Co-inventors
85Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 20, 2009 → Mar 31, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US11061239B2 Augmented reality head-mounted display with a pancake combiner and pupil steering Physics 46 Active
US9779478B1 Rendering composite content on a head-mounted display including a high resolution inset Physics 33 Active
US9519144B2 System, method, and computer program product to produce images for a near-eye light field display having a defect Electricity 29 Active
US8848006B2 Tensor displays Physics 27 Active
US10664953B1 Systems and methods for generating defocus blur effects Physics 22 Active
US10140695B2 Head-mounted compound display including a high resolution inset Physics 22 Active
US9972071B2 Rendering composite content on a head-mounted display including a high resolution inset Physics 20 Active
US10429647B2 Focus adjusting virtual reality headset Physics 20 Active
US10241569B2 Focus adjustment method for a virtual reality headset Physics 16 Active
US10168531B1 Lightfield waveguide integrated eye tracking Physics 16 Active
US8651678B2 Polarization fields for dynamic light field display Physics 16 Active
US10775633B1 Exit pupil steering for near-eye displays Physics 15 Active
US10901205B1 Focus adjusting liquid crystal lenses in a head-mounted display Physics 15 Active
US10025060B2 Focus adjusting virtual reality headset Physics 15 Active
US9582922B2 System, method, and computer program product to produce images for a near-eye light field display Electricity 13 Active
US10871627B1 Head-mounted display device with direct-current (DC) motors for moving displays Physics 12 Active
US11009737B1 Occluder / dimmer based on polarization-selective scatterer and near-eye display containing same Physics 10 Active
US9146403B2 Content-adaptive parallax barriers for automultiscopic display Electricity 9 Active
US10445860B2 Autofocus virtual reality headset Physics 9 Active
US9880325B2 Hybrid optics for near-eye displays Physics 9 Active
US8654234B2 Bi-directional screen Electricity 9 Active
US10816809B2 Holographic in-field illuminator Physics 9 Active
US10504207B1 Rendering composite content on a head-mounted display including a high resolution inset Physics 8 Active
US9594247B2 System, method, and computer program product for a pinlight see-through near-eye display Physics 8 Active
US10402950B1 Optical measurement system Physics 7 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.