Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Adjustable lens systems
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Application No.: US15683993Application Date: 2017-08-23
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Publication No.: US10690991B1Publication Date: 2020-06-23
- Inventor: Graham B. Myhre , Giovanni Carbone , Shih-Chyuan Fan Jiang , Sheng Zhang , Chaohao Wang
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Treyz Law Group, P.C.
- Agent G. Victor Treyz; Joseph F. Guihan
- Main IPC: G02F1/29
- IPC: G02F1/29 ; G06F3/01 ; G06T7/60

Abstract:
An electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have displays that are viewable by the eyes of a viewer through adjustable lenses. The adjustable lenses may be liquid crystal lenses. A camera and other sensors in the head-mounted device may monitor the eyes of the user and gather other information. Control circuitry in the head-mounted device may control the adjustable lenses based on measured characteristics of the eyes of the user such as interpupillary distance and direction-of-view. The control circuitry may match the distance between the centers of the adjustable lenses to the measured interpupillary distance and may align the lens centers with the measured direction-of-view. The adjustable lenses may have transparent electrodes that are supplied with time-varying control signals by the control circuitry.
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