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Mary Lou Jepsen is a tech pioneer with over 250 patents and 50 game-changing products to her name.

From virtual and augmented reality systems to laptops and smartphones, from holography to health wearables, Jepsen has touched a wide range of technologies. With her current project Openwater she's working on a suite of cutting-edge diagnostics and therapeutic wearables aimed at curing cancer, mental diseases, and stroke.

Jepsen was executive director of engineering at both Google and Facebook, a CTO at Intel, and the founder of four successful startups, including One Laptop per Child, which transformed education in developing countries and became a multi-billion dollar non-profit.

Jepsen is a former professor at MIT and currently serves as a director at two public companies: Lear Corporation and Luminar Technologies. She's advised government officials in multiple countries, including the United States, and has been recognized by TIME magazine's "Time 100" as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, CNN's top 10 thinkers, Forbes' 50 over 50, and numerous professional societies in the fields of optics, display, and electronics.

Jepsen is a sought-after keynote speaker and has given two highly viewed TED talks. She's frequently featured in top global press publications.

A link to her academic resume via her NIH "bio-sketch" is here

Work Experience

 

CEO, Founder, and Chairman of the Board - Openwater - San Francisco, CA 2016- present

Trying to cure cancer, mental & neurodegenerative diseases and stroke via a wearable that can also enable brain computer interfaces and ultimately communication via thought.

Board Director - Luminar Technologies - 2021 - present

The clear leader in LiDAR system listed as LAZR (NASDAQ) 

 

Executive Director of Engineering - Facebook and Oculus - Menlo Park, CA 2015-2016

Mary Lou was both an architect and an executive at  Facebook / Oculus leading various efforts including a continued transformation of the virtual reality experience.  She had the fundamental insight that a move to liquid crystal based systems from OLED was critical to consumer grade product and pushed it's introduction into Oculus Quest 2 - the best selling VR product ever made smashing all sales records in VR and delivering billions of dollars in revenue.  She invented and created new breakthrough systems including these low-persistence, high frame rate, rich pixel density screens and optical systems.  She also pioneered a form of augmented reality with true foveal vision >180 degree FOV, large eye-box, embedded eye-tracking and alpha-channel mixed reality ability blackening selectively part of the scene all in a sunglasses form factor for low cost high volume production.  This was with a novel way to seamlessly tile pixel groups on the back of the retina as if the retina at software selective resolution per pixel-group.  In addition she led Facebook's first foray into brain computer interfaces (prior to any other efforts). 

 

Board Director - Lear Corporation - Southfield Michigan 2016 - present

Helping steer this $20B Fortune 500 (#174) company listed on the NYSE well through the transformation in transportation underway now.  

 

Director of Engineering & Head of Display Division, Google Mountain View, CA - 2012-2015

Mary Lou led display and hardware efforts throughout Google, and reported to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. While there she played a critical role in Google Glass, several Android programs and also founded and directed two “Moonshot” programs in Google [x]. She was responsible for invention and architecture, R&D (SW and HW engineering) and also business strategy, product management, operations, supply chain, manufacturing, go-to-market and strategic partnerships. One program was reported by the WSJ to be large scale tile-able displays - aka "Lego-TV" the other hasn't been reported to date.

 

CEO and Founder, Pixel Qi Corp Taipei, Taiwan  (and San Bruno, CA) - 2008 - 2014

Mary Lou founded Pixel Qi, the world’s only fabless display developer, as a spin-off of One Laptop per Child to extend and commercialize the breakthrough screen and power management architecture she invented and developed for the $100 laptop.  She built a business to develop new screen architectures to production with less than a year of development time (display innovation typically takes a decade or more to reach fruition).  Pixel Qi technology shipped several million units with >10x lower power consumption and sunlight readability while preserving color, video and image quality. As CEO, she oversaw business strategy, product management, R&D (SW and HW engineering), operations, raising funds, supply chain, manufacturing, go-to-market and strategic partnerships.

 

CTO and Co-founder, One Laptop per Child Cambridge, Mass - 2005 - 2008

Jepsen launched this non-profit organization with Nicholas Negroponte, and was its only employee for its first year. Jepsen invented the fundamental laptop architecture and a new screen and convinced some of world’s largest manufacturers to produce it. She oversaw sequential development from prototypes to scale-manufacture of the innovative underlying components, software, content, IP, firmware, and the entire system; managing over 1000 people.   Millions of units shipped to nearly every country transforming opportunities for children in the developing world.  Multi-billion dollar revenue went through OLPC and this catalyzed $30B of revenue for its for-profit partners.  Its lasting legacy is in changing what a minister of education can do for a countries children.  The CEO of Google is widely quote as saying the Chromebook is the grandchild of One Laptop per Child. 



Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Media Lab Cambridge, Mass - 2005-2007

Jepsen joined the faculty of the MIT Media Lab where she initially co-founded One Laptop per Child and began the Nomadic Displays group.  She drove work in a variety of areas including consumer electronics, software systems, display architecture, and user interfaces particularly for pre-literate children.

 

Chief Technology Officer,  Intel Corporation, Display Division Santa Clara, CA - 2004-2005

Responsible for overall architecture and design of Intel's next generation HDTV products - including optics, liquid crystals, testing, characterization, performance improvement, design and integration of electronics, ASICs, and manufacturing.

 

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer,  MicroDisplay Corporation Richmond, CA - 1995-2003

Created microdisplay technology for virtual reality, augmented reality, wearables, and flat screen HDTVs. Shipped breakthrough product in all these areas working primarily with Asian manufacturers and brand names throughout the globe. Served as overall system architect, led design and integration of electronics, ASICs, optics, liquid crystals, optical engine, TV makers, head-mounted displays, cellphone makers, all for optimized manufacturability in product.

 

Senior Member of Technical Staff,  Philips Consumer Electronics & Research NY - 1998-1999

Part of early Lumileds effort contributing to breakthroughs in efficiency for LED devices now included in billions of devices.  Developed Philips single-panel and triple-panel (500+ frame per second) liquid crystal on silicon devices and front- and rear- projection systems.

 



​Education and Scientific Research and Media Arts

 

Ph.D. Optical Physics, Brown University 1996

Liquid crystal displays that work without polarized light, with liquid crystal filled holographic diffractive structures.

Side Project: Started Moon-TV - to project video on the Moon by redirecting sunlight incident on Earth to the Moon using large solar farms filled with big moving mirrors

Sc.M. Media Technology, MIT Media Lab 1989

World's first fully computer generated holographic video system

Sc.B. Electrical Engineering (with Honors), A.B. Studio Art (req.) Brown University 1987

My focus was on Holography which combined my strong interests in math, engineering and art. 

 

Senior Fellow, Kunsthochschule for Median Köln  Cologne, Germany - 1991-1992

Big Art: made a big computer generated hologram that filled a city block and could be only seen 10 minutes a day for 55 days a year if it wasn't overcast.

Computer Science Professor,  Royal Melbourne Inst of Technology Australia - 1990-1991

Huge computer generated holograms - that filled beach coves, and small ones that were used on the Australian paper (plastic) currency.  Also lots of "straight" 3D computer graphics on flat screens with really good optical modeling (at the time)

Optical Computing - San Diego Fellow, University of California, San Diego, CA - 1989-1990

Diffractive/Refractive solutions for free space optical interconnects for optical computing, neural nets, massively parallel computing, etc.

 



Selected Awards

 

2022 Forbes 50 over 50 Awardee

 

2019-21 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer Award

 

2018 Forbes Top 50 women in technology 

 

2008 TIME 100: named One of the 100 most influential people in world by Time Magazine 

 

2018 Elected a Fellow of the Society for Information Display (SID)

 

2015 NBA (National Basketball Association)/Cisco Inspiring the Future Award 

 

2014 Awarded an Honorary Doctorate - Brown University 

 

2013 CNN top 10 thinker

 

2012 Named to top 50 female computer scientists of all-time - the Anita Borg Institute 

 

2012 Elected Fellow of the Optica/Optical Society of America 

 

2011 Awarded the Edwin Land Medal - Optical Society of America/Optical

 

2011 Awarded the Anita Borg “Woman of Vision” Award for Innovation

 

2011 Awarded the Brown Alumni Excellence in Engineering Medal - Brown University 

 

2010 Won the Display of the Year Award - Society for Information Display (SID)

 

2010 Won the World Technology Award : for individual contributions to hardware 

 

2010 Laptop Magazine: named 19th most influential person in mobile computing 

 

2010 IEEE ACE Award Grand Prize for best emerging technology (awarded to Pixel Qi)

 

2010 Popular Science “Best of What’s New Award”- 2010 (sunlit screens w/ color & video)

 

2009 Best of Computex Award (Taiwan)

 

2008 WITI Hall of Fame Inductee (Women in Technology International)

 

2008 Horace Mann Medal - Brown University

 

2008 Design of the Year - London Design Museum

 

2007 INDEX Design Award - €100,000 for OLPC XO laptop

 

2007 Mobile Innovation Award - Laptop Magazine

 

2006 Popular Science “Best of What’s New Award”   (for $100 Laptop)

 

2006 One of “100 Top Ideas of the Year” - New York Times 

 

2006 IF Product Design Award

 

1990 Popular Science “Best of What’s New Award”  (for Holographic Video System)

1987 Brown University "George H Main Award" for distinguished senior in engineering 

 

 

Boards and Public Service/Other

 

Board of Directors Experience:

 

  • Lear Corporation  LEA:NYSE (a ~$20B Fortune 500 company in the automotive space)

  • Luminar Technologies  LAZR:NASDAQ (the world leader in LiDAR)

  • Pixel Qi Corporation (chairman of board) (2008-2013)

  • One Laptop per Child Non Profit Association (observer) (2005-8)

  • Brown University Engineering Board (reports to president) 2012-present

  • MEDCO (Express Scripts) Innovation Board 2011-2013

  • MicroDisplay Corporation (observer) (1995-2003)

 

Task Force / Advisory Experience:

 

  • National Academies of Engineering, Science and Medicine joint committee on women 2015

  • American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan - co-chair of technology committee 2010-2012

  • Brown University School of Engineering Advisory Council 

  • IEEE Spectrum Editorial Advisory Board

  • Univ of Cal, Berkeley EECS advisory Board

  • Univ of Cal, Berkeley, School of Computing, Data Science & Society Board

  • Google Science Fair: Final Level - Judging for top winners of this award - 2012-2015

  • Brazilian Presidential Task Force on Computers for Education – 2005-6

  • Chinese Academy of Science working group on computers and education 2005

  • ITU Telecom World working group on digital divide in education 2006

  • US State and Defense Departments Science Board contributor 2007

  • Internet Archive “Books In Browsers” technology advisory board 2010-2

  • EPEAT Technology Advisory Board on green devices 2008

  • Grace Hopper – Women in Computer Science Exec Committee 2008

  • Anita Borg Institute awards committee chair 2008-present

  • Magazine Publishers of America Task Force contributor on future devices & screens 2008-9

  • Japanese Government, Industry and Academic Committee on e-publishing outlook 2007

  • Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs - Digital Divide Division launch 2007

  • UN World Summit on Information Society – Education and computing panel 2005

  • Taiwan National Labs (ITRI) “creativity in engineering” task force - 2006

  • Uruguay Minister of Education Digital Education Task Force contributor – 2006-8

  • Peru’s One Laptop Per Child Executive Committee contributor 2006-8

 

Products (a sampler of notable products Mary Lou led)

One Laptop per Child (OLPC) XO Laptop -  Mary Lou architected the lowest cost laptop ever made, lowest power laptop ever made, first with retinal display resolution, first with sunlight readability and color with video, first with mesh networking to connect the laptops within 3 kilometers, first with long life LiFePh battery technology, and with a completely novel architecture where the motherboard is off most of the time while the screen self refreshes.  It was a breakthrough in rugged, droppable, water resistance with a new OS which enabled children to use the laptop without being able to read or write. etc.  This spearheaded fastest growing consumer electronics category until that time ever recorded in the netbook which made $30B for for the laptop ecosystem, OLPC itself had more than a billion dollars in revenue.

 

Oculus Quest 2 Virtual Reality System - Mary Lou was the key architect of liquid crystal display & optics in this system that enabled mass high quality VR at low pricepoints.  Her architectures leapfrogged expensive and bulky OLED+optics in performance and cost in the earlier Oculus systems to enable by far the best selling VR system of all time.  This unit made billions of dollars in revenue and even prompted Facebook to change its name to Meta!  She also invented and architected a suite of AR/MR (augmented reality and mixed reality) in a sunglasses format with 180+ degree of viewing R/L and up/down with variable fovea resolution, large eye box and built in eye tracking in a sleek sunglasses format that can go to market in the near term.

Google Glass - Mary Lou was a key pioneer of this architecture with MicroDisplay and Micro-Optical in the late 1990s with an identical optical and display architecture to Google Glass 15 years early!  At Google she oversaw technology directions for the entire program for Sergey Brin.

 

MicroDisplay Liquid Crystal on Silicon ASICS and SDks - Pioneered this set of 22 LCOS units, with 4 controllers, 2 contrast couplers, 5 SDKs that enabled a generation of early virtual reality, augmented reality systems, Info systems (like Google Glass but in the 90s), smart phones, wrist watch videos, flat screen large area screens for televisions and monitors and pico-projectors.  First to achieve production on LCOS world-wide in the late 1990s enabling the first true wearables with high quality displays in them running on not much of a battery.

 

Pixel Qi array of low power sunlight readable screens with color and video. Mary Lou invented and brought to mass production an array of breakthrough screens that went into laptops, tablets and smartphones from 2009-2014.  These all had color, video, sunlight readability, well documented high fidelity text reliability, and delivered extreme low power and long battery life.  They shipped into a few dozen different devices with different box manufacturers prior to Google acquiring the assets.

 

 

 

Patents:

 

Dr. Jepsen is inventor of over 250 published or issued patents as listed below  (partial list below, many more unpublished)

1    United States    8,830,426     Color shift reduction in transflective liquid crystal displays.
2    United States    20150022754     Configurations for tileable display apparatus with multiple pixel arrays.
3    United States    20080117346     Dual Mode Display.
4    United States    20110285684     Low Power Consumption Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays.
5    United States    6172792     Method and Apparatus for Forming Optical Gratings.
6    United States    20150153023     Multi-aperture illumination layer for tileable display.
7    United States    20150097837     Variable resolution seamless tileable display.
8    United States    9,310,634    Aesthetic layer for display panels.

9    United States    20150177538    Aesthetic Layer for Display Panels.
10    United States    2019072897    APPLICATIONS OF DIFFUSE MEDIUM IMAGING
11    United States    20100225857    Backlight Recirculation in Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays.
12    United States    20150022424    Bezel Pixel Layer in Multi-Panel Display.
13    United States    2018335753    Co-located Imaging and Display Pixel
14    United States    10,775,741    Co-locating Imaging and Display Pixel
15    United States    8,830,426    Color Shift Reduction In Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays
16    United States    20120120341    Color Shift Reduction in Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays.
17    United States    10,297,180    Compensation of Chromatic Dispersion in a Tunable Beam Steering Device for Improved Display
18    United States    20170061838    Compensation of Chromatic Dispersion in a Tunable Beam Steering Device for Improved Display.
19    United States    170219864    Configurations for tileable display apparatus with multiple pixel arrays
20    United States    2017219864    CONFIGURATIONS FOR TILEABLE DISPLAY APPARATUS WITH MULTIPLE PIXEL ARRAYS
21    United States    9,841,624    CONFIGURATIONS FOR TILEABLE DISPLAY APPARATUS WITH MULTIPLE PIXEL ARRAYS
22    United States    20150022754    Configurations for Tileable Display Apparatus with Multiple Pixel Arrays.
23    United States    10,506,181    Device for Optical Imaging
24    United States    20200059611    Device for Optical Imaging
25    United States    10,338,451    Devices and Methods for Removing Zeroth Order Leakage in Beam Steering Devices
26    United States    20170059960    Devices and Methods for Removing Zeroth Order Leakage in Beam Steering Devices.
27    United States    8,384,861    Diffractive liquid crystal display.
28    United States    100026930    Diffractive Liquid Crystal Display.
29    United States    20100026930    Diffractive liquid crystal display.
30    United States    9,557,954    Display panel using direct emission pixel arrays.
31    United States    20170039907    Display with a Tunable Mask for Augmented Reality.
32    United States    20170038591    Display with a Tunable Pinhole Array for Augmented Reality.
33    United States    20170038836    Display with an Embedded Eye Tracker.
34    United States    7,746,431    Dual mode display
35    United States    20080117346    Dual mode display.
36    United States    9,412,336    Dynamic backlight control for spatially independent display regions.
37    United States    20150097853    Dynamic backlight control for spatially independent display regions.
38    United States    2016314765    DYNAMIC UPDATE OF DISPLAY PIXELS
39    United States    9,401,128    Dynamic update of display pixels.
40    United States    9,607,582    Dynamic update of display pixels.
41    United States    20160314765    Dynamic Update of Display Pixels.
42    United States    20170038590    Enhanced Pixel Resolution through Non-Uniform Ocular Projection.
43    United States    10,670,929    Enhanced Spatial Resolution Using a Segmented Electrode Array
44    United States    2019179205    Enhanced Spatial Resolution Using a Segmented Electrode Array
45    United States    20170176818    Enhanced Spatial Resolution using a Segmented Electrode Array.
46    United States    20170039906    Enhanced Visual Perception Through Distance-Based Ocular Projection.
47    United States    11,320,783    Flexible Tip Optical Imaging
48    United States    20200085309    Flexible Tip Optical Imaging
49    United States    9,176,370    High contrast rear projection screen
50    United States    9,013,790    High contrast rear projection screen for use with a diverging illumination source.
51    United States    9,013,790    High Contrast Rear Projection Screen for Use with A Diverging Illumination Source.
52    United States    10,772,574    Imaging with Infrared Imaging Signals
53    United States    10,962,929    Interference Optics for Optical Imaging Device
54    United States    2020089165    Interference Optics for Optical Imaging Device
55    United States    2017277000    INVERTED LCD STRUCTURE FOR VR
56    United States    9,989,801    INVERTED LCD STRUCTURE FOR VR
57    United States    D609703    Laptop computer
58    United States    10,705,262    Liquid Crystal Half-Wave Plate Lens
59    United States    2019212477    Liquid Crystal Half-Wave Plate Lens
60    United States    20170115491    Liquid Crystal Half-Wave Plate Lens.
61    United States    8,698,716    Low power consumption transflective liquid crystal displays.
62    United States    20110285684    Low Power Consumption Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays.
63    United States    9,529,563    Masking mechanical separations between tiled display panels.
64    United States    20160093244    Masking mechanical separations between tiled display panels.
65    United States    10,354,577    Masking non-functioning pixels in a display
66    United States    6,172,792    Method and apparatus for forming optical gratings
67    United States    6,172,792    Method and apparatus for forming optical gratings.
68    United States    11,547,370    Method of infrared imaging
69    United States    11,547,370    Method of infrared imaging
70    United States    2020383646    Method of Infrared Imaging
71    United States    9,349,160    Method, apparatus and system for enhancing a display of video data
72    United States    9,223,536    Method, apparatus and system to determine display misalignment
73    United States    10,552,676    Methods and Devices for Eye Tracking Based on Depth Sensing
74    United States    20170109562    Methods and Devices for Eye Tracking Based on Depth Sensing.
75    United States    20130187962    Mixed Transmissive – Reflective - Transflective Liquid Crystal Display.
76    United States    20150153023    Multi-Aperture Illumination Layer for Tileable Display.
77    United States    20210050704    Multi-channel laser
78    United States    11,581,696    Multi-channel Laser
79    United States    9,594,277    Multi-domain pixel array
80    United States    9,594,277    Multi-domain pixel array.
81    United States    20120127140    Multi-mode liquid crystal display with auxiliary non-display components.
82    United States    20170038589    Near-Ocular Display Based on Hologram Projection.
83    United States    20170039960    Ocular Projection Based on Pupil Position.
84    United States    9,690,535    Optical configurations in a tileable display apparatus
85    United States    2017039020    OPTICAL CONFIGURATIONS IN A TILEABLE DISPLAY APPARATUS
86    United States    9,690,535    OPTICAL CONFIGURATIONS IN A TILEABLE DISPLAY APPARATUS
87    United States    9,500,906    Optical configurations in a tileable display apparatus.
88    United States    9,336,729,    Optical configurations in a tileable display apparatus.
89    United States    20150023051    Optical configurations in a tileable display apparatus.
90    United States    9,730,649    Optical imaging in a diffuse medium
91    United States    11,252,343    OPTICAL IMAGING THROUGH DISPLAY
92    United States    2020396396    OPTICAL IMAGING THROUGH DISPLAY
93    United States    10,880,497    Optical Imaging with Ultrasonic Signal
94    United States    2020059611    OPTICAL IMAGING WITH ULTRASONIC SIGNAL
95    United States    2021153743    Optical Imaging with Unshifted Reference Beam
96    United States    20170039905    Optical System for Retinal Projection from Near-Ocular Display.
97    United States    10,778,911    Optical Transformation Device for Imaging
98    United States    2018052563    Optical Transformation Device for Imaging
99    United States    20120218487    Patterned In-Cell Retarder for Transflective Vertically Aligned Liquid Crystal Display and Method of Fabrication
100    United States    8,692,963    Patterned in-cell retarder for transflective vertically aligned liquid crystal display and method of fabrication.
101    United States    20120218487    Patterned In-Cell Retarder for Transflective Vertically Aligned Liquid Crystal Display and Method of Fabrication.
102    United States    9,424,809    Patterned projection with multi-panel display
103    United States    9,424,809    Patterned projection with multi-panel display.
104    United States    9,411,552    Pixel layer in multi-panel display.
105    United States    9,250,508    Rear projection screen with pin-hole concentrator array.
106    United States    6,307,607    Reflective liquid crystal display with integrated compensation for skew angle rotation and birefringence effects
107    United States    20160091786    Screen configuration for display system.
108    United States    20150138755    Seamless tileable display with peripheral magnification.
109    United States    9,123,266    Seamless tileable display with peripheral magnification.
110    United States    20150138755    Seamless Tileable Display with Peripheral Magnification.
111    United States    20070285428    Self-refreshing display controller for a display device in a computational unit.
112    United States    20100225640    Switching Operating Modes of Liquid Crystal Displays.
113    United States    10,778,912    System and Device for Optical Transformation
114    United States    2021153742    System for Optical Imaging with Unshifted Reference Beam
115    United States    20210153742    System for optical imaging with unshifted reference beam
116    United States    2003053017    Thin cell gap microdisplays with optimum optical properties
117    United States    6,801,285    Thin Cell Gap Microdisplays with Optimum Optical Properties.
118    United States    20030053017    Thin cell gap microdisplays with optimum optical properties.
119    United States    10,345,599    Tile Array for Near-Ocular Display
120    United States    2018252924    Tile Array for Near-Ocular Display
121    United States    20170039904    Tile Array for Near-Ocular Display.
122    United States    20150022727    Tileable Display Apparatus.
123    United States    9,626,145    Tileable display with pixel-tape.
124    United States    10,459,305    Time-Domain Adjustment of Phase Retardation in a Liquid Crystal Grating for a Color Display
125    United States    20170115519    Time-Domain Adjustment of Phase Retardation in a Liquid Crystal Grating for a Color Display.
126    United States    2011025960    Transflective Display Sub-Pixel Structures
127    United States    8,314,907    Transflective display sub-pixel structures with transmissive area having different sizes and reflective area having equal sizes.
128    United States    20110025960    Transflective Display Sub-Pixel Structures with Transmissive Area Having Different Sizes and Reflective Area Having Equal Sizes.
129    United States    20110025962    Transflective Display Sub-Pixel Structures.
130    United States    8,264,646    Transflective display with white tuning.
131    United States    20100020276    Transflective display with white tuning.
132    United States    8,264,645    Transflective display.
133    United States    20100014032    Transflective display.
134    United States    20120039034    Transflective LCD with Arcuate Pixel Portions.
135    United States    8,462,144    Triple mode liquid crystal display.
136    United States    20100020054    Triple Mode Liquid Crystal Display.
137    United States    2016247487    VARIABLE RESOLUTION SEAMLESS TILEABLE DISPLAY
138    United States    9,368,070    Variable resolution seamless tileable display.
139    United States    9,558,720    Variable resolution seamless tileable display.
140    United States    20150097837    Variable Resolution Seamless Tileable Display.
141    United States    20170176753    Wide Angle Beam Steering in Sunglasses for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.
142    Taiwan    201610553     High contrast rear projection screen for use with a diverging illumination source.
143    Taiwan    201525571, 2014/10/21    Aesthetic Layer for Display Panels.
144    Taiwan    201525571, 2015/7/1    Aesthetic layer for display panels.
145    Taiwan    I437324, 2009/9/15    Backlight Recirculation in Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays.
146    Taiwan    201505013, 2014/7/1    Bezel Pixel Layer in Multi-Panel Display.
147    Taiwan    201505013, 2015/2/1    Bezel Pixel Layer in Multi-Panel Display.
148    Taiwan    201513092, 2014/7/1    Configurations for Tileable Display Apparatus with Multiple Pixel Arrays.
149    Taiwan    201513092, 2015/4/1    Configurations for Tileable Display Apparatus with Multiple Pixel Arrays.
150    Taiwan    TW201013260 (A)    Diffractive liquid crystal display
151    Taiwan    I401501, 2009/7/28    Diffractive Liquid Crystal Display.
152    Taiwan    TW200823554 (A);    Dual mode display
153    Taiwan    I354159, 2007/3/2    Dual Mode Display.
154    Taiwan    TWI560694 (B)    Dynamic backlight control for spatially independent display regions
155    Taiwan    201528246, 2014/10/6    Dynamic Backlight Control for Spatially Independent Display Regions.
156    Taiwan    201528246, 2015/7/16    Dynamic Backlight Control for Spatially Independent Display Regions.
157    Taiwan    TW201142421 (A)    Low power consumption transflective liquid crystal displays
158    Taiwan    201142421, 2010/6/28    Low Power Consumption Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays.
159    Taiwan    201626348, 2016/07/16    Masking mechanical separations between tiled display panels.
160    Taiwan    201513092, 2015/6/16    Multi-Aperture Illumination Layer for Tileable Display.
161    Taiwan    201523089, 2014/10/21    Multi-Aperture Illumination Layer for Tileable Display.
162    Taiwan    TW201243442 (A)    Multi-mode liquid crystal display with auxiliary non-display components
163    Taiwan    201243442, 2011/11/17    Multi-Mode Liquid Crystal Display with Auxiliary Non-Display Components .
164    Taiwan    201506869, 2014/7/1    Optical Configurations in A Tileable Display Apparatus.
165    Taiwan    201506869, 2015/2/16    Optical Configurations in A Tileable Display Apparatus.
166    Taiwan    I520116, 2016/02/01    Optical configurations in a tileable display apparatus.
167    Taiwan    201626097, 2016/07/16    Screen configuration for display system.
168    Taiwan    201523553, 2014/10/21    Seamless Tileable Display with Peripheral Magnification.
169    Taiwan    201523553, 2015/6/16n.    Seamless Tileable Display with Peripheral Magnification.
170    Taiwan    I529678, 2016/04/11    Seamless tileable display with peripheral magnification.
171    Taiwan    TW200745857 (A)    Self-refreshing display controller for display devices in a computational unit
172    Taiwan    I437433, 2007/3/23    Self-Refreshing Display Controller for Display Devices in A Computational Unit.
173    Taiwan    201037599, 2009/12/4    Switching Operating Modes of Liquid Crystal Displays.
174    Taiwan    201506868, 2014/7/1    Tileable Display Apparatus.
175    Taiwan    201506868, 2015/2/16    Tileable Display Apparatus.
176    Taiwan    TW201017273 (A)    Transflective display
177    Taiwan    TW201104309 (A)    Transflective display sub-pixel structures
178    Taiwan    TWI414852 (B)    Transflective display sub-pixel structures
179    Taiwan    I414852, 2010/2/25    Transflective Display Sub-Pixel Structures.
180    Taiwan    TW201022780 (A)    Transflective display with white tuning
181    Taiwan    I401496, 2009/7/28    Transflective Display with White Tuning.
182    Taiwan    TW201229628 (A)    Transflective LCD with arcuate pixel portions
183    Taiwan    TW201017635 (A)    Triple mode liquid crystal display
184    Taiwan     I404038, 2009/7/28    Triple Mode Liquid Crystal Display.
185    Taiwan    201523569, 2014/10/6    Variable Resolution Seamless Tileable Display.
186    Taiwan    201523569, 2015/6/16    Variable Resolution Seamless Tileable Display.
187    Korea    1008908410000     컴퓨터 유닛의 디스플레이 장치용 셀프 리프레싱디스플레이 컨트롤러
188    Korea    1020017010510     통합된 보상기를 구비하는 반사성 액정 디스플레이).
189    Korea    KR20160103064    Aesthetic Layer for Display Panels.
190    Korea    KR100933111    DUAL MODE DISPLAY
191    Korea    KR20080091312    DUAL MODE DISPLAY
192    Korea    KR20170016951    HIGH CONTRAST REAR PROJECTION SCREEN FOR USE WITH A DIVERGING ILLUMINATION SOURCE
193    Korea    KR101828730    MULTI-APERTURE ILLUMINATION LAYER FOR TILEABLE DISPLAY
194    Korea    KR20160094410    MULTI-APERTURE ILLUMINATION LAYER FOR TILEABLE DISPLAY
195    Korea    1009331110000    듀얼 모드 디스플레이
196    Korea    1012901950000    백색 튜닝을 갖는 반사투과형 디스플레이
197    Korea    10129167 00000    삼중 모드 액정 디스플레이
198    Korea    1020117023178    액정 디스플레이 동작 모드의 스위칭
199    Korea    101313111 0000    트랜스플랙티브 액정 디스플레이스들과 그 제조방법 및 컴퓨터
200    Korea    1020070096912    트랜스플랙티브 액정 디스플레이스들과 그 제조방법 및 컴퓨터
201    Korea    1012902050000    회절 액정 디스플레이
202    Japan    JP4670102    DUAL MODE DISPLAY
203    Japan    2008129575, 2008/6/5    Dual Mode Display.
204    Japan    2007293296    Power Consumption Reducing Method of Display Subsystem, System for The Same and Second Display Controller.
205    Japan    2011-253194, 2011/12/15    Power Consumption Reducing Method of Display Subsystem, System for The Same, And Second Display Controller.
206    Great Britain    2480976, 2011/11/16    Switching Operating Modes of Liquid Crystal Displays.
207    European Patent    EP3022730    Configurations for tileable display apparatus with multiple pixel arrays
208    European Patent    4014289    Multi-channel laser
209    European Patent    EP3022728    Optical configurations in a tileable display apparatus
210    European Patent    EP 3,512,413    Optical Imaging of Diffuse Medium
211    European Patent    3373167    System and Device for Optical Transformation
212    European Patent    EP3022729    Tileable display apparatus
213    China     200980159097.8(CN102414601A), 2012/4/11     液晶显示器的运行模式切换
214    China     CN105830139    Aesthetic Layer for Display Panels.
215    China     CN102422207    Backlight recirculation in transflective liquid crystal displays
216    China     102422207, 2012/4/28    Backlight Recirculation in Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays.
217    China     CN105453159    Bezel pixel layer in multi-panel display
218    China     CN114098641    Imaging apparatus and method of imaging tissue
219    China     CN106537235    Masking mechanical separations between tiled display panels
220    China     CN114207961    Multi-channel laser
221    China     CN105393295    Optical Configurations in A Tileable Display Apparatus.
222    China     ZL 201780055528.0    Optical Imaging of Diffuse Medium
223    China     CN107003599    Rear projection screen with pin-hole concentrator array
224    China     CN106471423    Screen configuration for display system
225    China     CN105684067    Seamless tileable display with peripheral magnification
226    China     CN102414601    SWITCHING OPERATING MODES OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS
227    China     CN105393294    Tileable display apparatus
228    China     200980129831.6,    三模液晶显示器
229    China     200710110172    双模式显示器
230    China     200980129839    带有白色调谐的透反式显示器
231        CN102422207    透反式液晶显示器中的背光循环
232    China     200980159175    透反式液晶显示器中的背光循环
233    World    WO2015009382     Optical configurations in a tileable display apparatus.
234    World    WO2016053506     Screen configuration for display system.
235    World    2010/014598     Triple Mode Liquid Crystal Display.
236    World    2015/099859    Aesthetic Layer for Display Panels.
237    World    WO2015099859    Aesthetic layer for display panels.
238    World    2010/104529    Backlight Recirculation in Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays.
239    World    2015/009371    Bezel Pixel Layer in Multi-Panel Display.
240    World    2015/009374    Configurations for Tileable Display Apparatus with Multiple Pixel Arrays.
241    World    2010/014624    Diffractive Liquid Crystal Display.
242    World    WO/2016/105811    Display panel using direct emission pixel arrays
243    World    2008/063171    Dual Mode Display.
244    World    2015/053926    Dynamic Backlight Control for Spatially Independent Display Regions.
245    World    WO2011146055    LOW POWER CONSUMPTION TRANSFLECTIVE LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS
246    World    2011/146055    Low Power Consumption Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays.
247    World    WO2016053505    Masking Mechanical Separations between Tiled Display Panels.
248    World    2015/084480    Multi-Aperture Illumination Layer for Tileable Display.
249    World    2012/068342    Multi-Mode Liquid Crystal Display with Auxiliary Non-Display Components.
250    World    WO/2015/009382    Optical Configurations in A Tileable Display Apparatus.
251    World    2018052555    Optical Imaging of Diffuse Medium
252    World    WO2019190764    OPTICAL TRANSFORMATION DEVICE FOR IMAGING
253    World    WO/2016/081101    Rear projection screen with pin-hole concentrator array.
254    World    2015/076939    Seamless Tileable Display with Peripheral Magnification.
255    World    WO2007112021 (A2)    SELF-REFRESHING DISPLAY CONTROLLER FOR A DISPLAY DEVICE IN A COMPUTATIONAL UNIT
256    World    WO2007112021 (A3)    SELF-REFRESHING DISPLAY CONTROLLER FOR A DISPLAY DEVICE IN A COMPUTATIONAL UNIT
257    World    2007/112021    Self-Refreshing Display Controller for A Display Device in A Computational Unit.
258    World    2015/009381    Tileable Display Apparatus.
259    World    2011/016875    Transflective Display Sub-Pixel Structures.
260    World     2010/014601    Transflective Display with White Tuning.
261    World    2010/009286    Transflective Display.
262    World    2012/021767    Transflective LCD with Arcuate Pixel Portions.
263    World    2015/053927    Variable Resolution Seamless Tileable Display.
264    World    2010/101592    Switching Operating Modes of Liquid Crystal Displays.

SELECTED SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

  • Electronic display system for computational holography  Practical Holography IV 1212, 174-182

  • Real-time display of 3-D computed holograms by scanning the image of an acousto-optic modulator   Holographic Optics II: Principles and Applications 1136, 178-185

  • 502018  Liquid-crystal-filled gratings with high diffraction efficiency  Optics letters 21 (14), 1081-1083

  • 431996  Rectangular surface-relief transmission gratings with a very large first-order diffraction efficiency (∼ 95%) for unpolarized light  Applied optics 37 (25), 5823-5829

  • 252001  Electronic display system for computational holography  Practical Holography IV 1212, 20

  • 152013  Holographic video: design and implementation of a display system  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • 142013  Liquid crystal on silicon  Nature Photonics 1 (5), 276-277

  • 142007  10.3: Rear Projection TV: Single Panel LCOS Lumen ThroughputS  ID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers 34 (1), 122-125

  • 132003  High resolution LCOS microdisplay for single-, double-or triple-panel projection systems  Displays 23 (3), 109-114

  • 122016  0.9” SXGA Liquid Crystal on Silicon Panel with 450 Hz. field rate  Microdisplay Conference

  • 92010   Smoke, mirrors, and manufacturable displays  Computer 38 (8), 63-67

  • 82012   High-efficiency liquid-crystal-filled diffraction gratings  Practical Holography XI and Holographic Materials III 3011, 165-176

  • 52014A Conversation with Mary Lou Jepsen: What’s behind that funky green machine?  Queue 5 (7), 9-15

  • 4201439.1: Invited Paper: Why Analog Silicon May Be Best For LCOS Digital TV  SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers 36 (1), 1358-1361

  • 22016   $100 laptop targets the digital divide  Laser Focus World 42 (9), 61-+

  • 22006   Optical transfer of master hologram with 20-meter depth  Holographics International'92 1732, 387-396

  • 21993   Holographic recordings of nematic liquid crystal displays  Applied optics 26 (17), 3717-3720

  • 12010   Liquid crystal filled diffraction gratings  Brown University

 

RECENT KEYNOTES and TALKS

Details and links to talks at https://www.openwater.cc

 

2023 ----------------------------------------------------------------

Jan 15 - DLD Speaker keynote with Howard Morgan "The News on Neuro" - Munich Germany

Jan 28 - SPIE Photonics West - San Francisco, CA

Jan 8- JP Morgan Healthcare meeting - San Francisco, CA

 

 

2022 ----------------------------------------------------------------

Oct 5 - WISH World Innovation Summit on Health) - Mary Lou Jepsen Key note - Doha, Qatar

Sept 30 - Deep Tech Health + Neurotech Boston

Sep 8 - LG Nova - Mary Lou Jepsen Key note - Richmond CA

Aug 25 - DWEB Camp - Mary Lou Jepsen Talk - Mendocino, CA

July 28 - Neuroergonomics & NYC Neuromodulation Conferences - NYC

May 27 - Invited speaker - CNN Life Itself - San Diego, CA

 

2021 ---------------------------------------------------------------

Oct 20 - Milken Global Institute Conference 2021 - Beverly HIlls

Apr 11 - Openwater's new modality for blood flow detection now in clinical trials - OSA Optics

Feb 18 - NIH BRAIN - Panel on optical and acoustic tech - virtual 

Feb 4 - This week's guest on Backstage - Kittyhawk Ventures

Jan 28 - SPIE Photonics West Preview - virtual for SPIE

Jan 26 - a360 - virtual

 

2020 --------------------------------------------------------------

Nov 19 - Brain Computer-Interfaces Symposium - virtual

Oct 21 - Annual Meeting of the International Neuroethics Society - virtual

Oct 10 - fNIRS 2020 - virtual

Oct 5 - Advanced Prototype Engineering Tech Symposium- virtual

Sep 30 - Horasis Extraordinary Meeting - Switzerland

Aug 20 - Abundance Platinum Longevity Meeting - Half Moon Bay, CA

Jul 16 - Kinnernet - Israel / Global

Feb 19 - International Stroke Conference - Los Angeles, Ca

Feb 2 - SPIE Photonics West- San Francisco, CA

Jan 12 - JP Morgan Healthcare Conference - San Francisco, CA

2019-------------------------------------------------------------

Dec 2 - RSNA (105th meeting of the Radiologist Society of N. America)- Chicago, Ill

Oct 10 - Brain Mind Summit - Stanford, Ca

Sep 16 - Newton Distinguished Innovator Lecture - Univ Cal, Berkeley

Sep 3 - Controversies in Breast Cancer - San Francisco, Ca

Aug 26 - Commonwealth Club - Future of Healthcare - San Francisco, CA

Jun 29 - Summer Davos - World Economic Forum - Dalian China

Jun 12 - ISTU - International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound - Barcelona Spain

Jun 12 - Founders Forum - London, England

Jun 9 - London Tech Week & CogX (many talks) - London

Apr 9 - Greg Gutfield Podcast on Fox News

Mar 27 - Abu Dhabi Ideas Fest Keynote - Abu Dhabi UAE

Mar 26 - Wired Health Keynote - London, UK

Feb 19 - Norman Foster Foundation - Digital X - Madrid, Spain 

Feb 4 - SPIE Photonics West - Openwater, and VR/AR Panel - San Francisco

Jan 27 - Peter Diamondis's Abundance A360 - Keynote - Beverly Hills

2018---------------------------------------------------------------

 

Dec 3 - Business Insider - Ignition, New York City

Nov 11 - Techonomy talk - Half Moon Bay, CA

Nov 4 - Exponential Medicine Keynote - San Diego California

Oct 29 - Long Now Foundation Seminar - San Francisco CA

Oct 21 - Focused Ultrasound Foundation Symposium Keynote - Reston Virginia

Oct 13 - Wired 25th anniversary celebration - Podcast, Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA

Sept 24 - Wearable Tech + Digital Health + Neuro - MIT, Cambridge MA

Sept 8 - Brain Mind Summit Keynote, Stanford Univ, California

Aug 21 - Singularity University Global Summit, San Francisco, CA

June 23-24 - Scifoo - Google - Mountain View CA

June 15 - Xconomy Napa Summit - Napa CA

May 20 - SID Display Week - Los Angeles

May 2 - DLD NYC - New York City 

Apr 13 - TED (annual TED conference) - Vancouver, BC CANADA

Feb 26 - Applysci @ Stanford - Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA

Jan 20-23 - DLD Munich

Jan 10 - JPMorgan - Panel - The Future of Healthcare w/ convergence of digital - San Francisco

 

2017 -------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Aug 15 - Singularity University Global Summit

May 23 - VMware keynote for RADIO (3000 R&D engineers)

May 4 - Computer History Museum - Mary Lou Jepsen in conversation with John Hollar

May 3 - Milken Institute Global Conference - With Ed Boyden, Bryan Johnson and Neal Kassel

Apr 20 - Fireside Chat at /dev/color

Apr 19 - Xconomy Forum: Human Impact of Innovation

Apr 2 - OSA Biophotonics Congress: Optics in the Life Sciences

Mar 14 - SxSW featured talk “Telepathy meets Medical Imaging” with Sunny Bates- Austin TX

Mar 11 - Kara Swisher and Lauren Goode interview Mary Lou on “Too Embarrassed to Ask”

Feb 7-8 - Stanford Univ. Neuro-digital Health Conference - Stanford, CA

Jan 13 - Detroit Auto Show - Detroit, MI

 

2016 - Q3+Q4-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Dec 8 - Harvard/MGH - Cambridge, MA

Nov 18 - Washington University - OSA Invited Fellow Lecture- Saint Louis, MO

Nov 1-2 - Fortune Magazine Brainstorm - Health - San Diego

Oct 13-14 - NYU Medical Imaging Invitational - Imaging Systems of Tomorrow - NYC

Oct 6 - TedxSanFrancisco talk online - San Francisco, CA

Oct 5 - Pepsi Academy of Sciences Awards - New York

Sept 27 - Samsung CEO Summit - San Jose, CA

Sept 26-27 - The Mind Brain Summit - Stanford University - Stanford, CA

Sept 23-25 - The Nantucket Project - Nantucket, RI

 

PRESS CLIPS

 

More recent selection at www.openwater.cc or just google

BBC

http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2016/05/160506_tecnologia_mary_lou_jepsen_ingeniera_google_facebook_yv

https://sciencefriday.com/person/mary-lou- jepsen/

 

La Nacion

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1896984-quien- es-mary- lou-jepsen- la-superingeniera- que-deja- facebook-para- curar-con- tecnologia

 

NPR (National Public Radio)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12057367

 

Reuters (many for example http://www.reuters.com/article/us-laptops- idUSN1019897920080110

 

Wall Street Journal

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-loses- virtual-reality- innovator-1462533373

http://online.wsj.com/ad/article/forwardthinking-jepsen.html

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-working- on-large- scale-display- technology-1412346897

 

New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/opinion/sunday/bringing-back- my-real- self-with- hormones.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/technology/30laptop.html

 

Wired (many for example https://www.wired.com/2009/02/mf-netbooks/

https://www.wired.com/2009/07/a-look- back-at- the-olpc- xo-1- and-a- peek-at- the-road- ahead/

 

Economist

http://www.economist.com/node/15048695

 

Technology Review

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/419259/one-tablet- per-child/

 

Scientific American

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/googling-e- t-mind- reading-and- other-crazy- ideas/

 

IEEE Spectrum

http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human- os/biomedical/imaging/why-mary- lou-jepsen- left-facebook- to-transform- heath-care- and-invent- consumer-telepathy

 

http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human- os/biomedical/devices/5-neuroscience- experts-weigh- in-on- elon-musks- mysterious-neural- lace-company

 

Popular Science

http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2010-01/pixel- qi-lcd- screen-could- finally-kill- paper-forever

 

EE Times

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1229362

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1261632

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1261495

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1161792

 

Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/a-google- x-executive- jumps-ship- to-oculus- as-virtual- reality-explodes- 2015-3

 

Forbes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/03/02/the-opposite- of-artificial- intelligence-could- be-the- key-to- saving-tech-jobs/#5393710662c4

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/03/07/why-we- should-be- learning-the- hidden-history- of-scientists/#c83abe0146ee

https://www.forbes.com/2009/12/22/tablet-computer- negroponte-technology- cio-network- olpc.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/04/04/what-its- like-to- be-a- woman-entrepreneur- in-a- male-dominated-sector/#50b84c4a24ae

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenchaykowski/2016/02/24/mark-zuckerberg- has-a- plan-to- make-virtual- reality-social/#455b694e31f1

 

Fortune

http://fortune.com/2016/10/25/brainstorm-health- livestream/

 

PC World

http://www.pcworld.com/article/201073/article.html

 

Re/Code

https://www.recode.net/2017/3/17/14954298/mary-lou- jepsen-opnwatr- reading-minds- wearable-mri-screens-recode-podcast

https://www.recode.net/2015/3/2/11559622/facebook-has- hired-mary- lou-jepsen- away-from- google-x

 

Xconomy

http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2016/05/06/mary- lou-jepsen- on-life- post-facebook- and-new- startup-open-water/

http://www.xconomy.com/national/2017/06/22/introducing-xconomy-voices-podcast-episode-1-mary-lou-jepsen/

 

The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/15/14935440/wearable-tech- openwater-google- project-jacquard- levis-smart-jacket-sxsw- 2017

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