Displays With Logos and Alignment Marks
    71.
    发明申请
    Displays With Logos and Alignment Marks 审中-公开
    显示标志和对齐标记

    公开(公告)号:US20140098332A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-04-10

    申请号:US13648404

    申请日:2012-10-10

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display mounted in a housing. The display may include a color filter layer, a liquid crystal layer, and a thin-film transistor layer. The color filter layer may form the outermost layer of the display. A color filter layer substrate in the color filter layer may have opposing inner and outer surfaces. A layer of patterned metal on the inner surface may form metal alignment marks. The metal alignment marks may include alignment marks for color filter elements, alignment marks for a black matrix layer that is formed on top of the color filter elements, and post spacer alignment marks. The layer of patterned metal may also form structures such as logo structures that are visible on the outer surface in an inactive border region of the display.

    Abstract translation: 电子设备可以设置有安装在壳体中的显示器。 显示器可以包括滤色器层,液晶层和薄膜晶体管层。 滤色器层可以形成显示器的最外层。 滤色器层中的滤色器层基板可以具有相对的内表面和外表面。 内表面上的图案化金属层可以形成金属对准标记。 金属对准标记可以包括用于滤色器元件的对准标记,形成在滤色器元件顶部的黑矩阵层的对准标记和柱间隔物对准标记。 图案化金属层还可以形成诸如在显示器的非活动边界区域中的外表面上可见的标志结构的结构。

    Tiling Display System
    75.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220244901A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-04

    申请号:US17575793

    申请日:2022-01-14

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A tiling display system has multiple display panels. The display panels may be positioned by positioners that are coupled to the display panels. In an untiled operating mode, the display panels of the tiling display system are moved apart. In this mode, each display panel can display different content such as different static images of artwork. In a tiled operating mode, the display panels of the tiling system are moved together to form a single display that displays a single still or moving image. Components on the backs of the display panels and/or along the edges of the display panels may be used to facilitate panel-to-panel alignment, to help couple adjacent panels together, and to support the transfer of power and/or data signals among the panels. The components may include optical and/or electrical alignment sensors, magnets for alignment and coupling, and transmitters and receivers for transmitting and receiving signals.

    Electronic device with display apertures

    公开(公告)号:US11068089B1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-20

    申请号:US15675566

    申请日:2017-08-11

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display such as an organic light-emitting diode display. The display may have an active area formed from an array of pixels with light-emitting diodes. The light-emitting diodes may be formed from an organic layer containing emissive material between an anode layer and a cathode layer. Apertures may be formed in the active area of the display. The apertures may allow light to pass to light-sensitive components under the display. A polarizer may overlap the display and may have a bleached area that forms part of a camera aperture. Light may pass through the camera aperture to a camera under the display. The display may have an array of apertures that allow light to pass to a light-sensitive fingerprint sensor under the display.

    Electronic device with adaptive lighting system

    公开(公告)号:US10997948B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-04

    申请号:US16560093

    申请日:2019-09-04

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A head-mounted device may include a display that generates content and an optical system through which the content is viewable. The head-mounted device may include a lighting system that illuminates a periphery of the optical system. When the user places the device on his or her head in a brightly lit environment, control circuitry may operate the lighting system to provide bright illumination to the user's peripheral vision. The lighting system may gradually decrease in brightness until the user transitions from a bright-adapted state to a dark-adapted state. When the user is partially or fully dark-adapted, the lighting system may be turned off and the display may be turned on. In some arrangements, an ambient light sensor may measure ambient light conditions outside of the electronic device and the control circuitry may control the lighting system based on the ambient lighting conditions.

    Electronic Device With A Tunable Lens

    公开(公告)号:US20210041705A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-11

    申请号:US17082736

    申请日:2020-10-28

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A lens module in a head-mounted device may include a fluid-filled chamber, a semi-rigid lens element that at least partially defines the fluid-filled chamber, and at least one actuator configured to selectively bend the semi-rigid lens element. The semi-rigid lens element may become rigid along a first axis when the lens element is curved along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis. Six actuators that are evenly distributed around the periphery of the semi-rigid lens element may be used to control the curvature of the semi-rigid lens element. The semi-rigid lens element may initially be planar or non-planar. For example, the semi-rigid lens element may initially have a spherically convex surface and a spherically concave surface. A tunable spherical lens may be incorporated into the lens module to offset a parasitic spherical lens power from the semi-rigid lens element.

    Electronic device with a tunable lens

    公开(公告)号:US10852553B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-01

    申请号:US16520200

    申请日:2019-07-23

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A lens module in a head-mounted device may include a fluid-filled chamber, a semi-rigid lens element that at least partially defines the fluid-filled chamber, and at least one actuator configured to selectively bend the semi-rigid lens element. The semi-rigid lens element may become rigid along a first axis when the lens element is curved along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis. Six actuators that are evenly distributed around the periphery of the semi-rigid lens element may be used to control the curvature of the semi-rigid lens element. The semi-rigid lens element may initially be planar or non-planar. For example, the semi-rigid lens element may initially have a spherically convex surface and a spherically concave surface. A tunable spherical lens may be incorporated into the lens module to offset a parasitic spherical lens power from the semi-rigid lens element.

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