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公开(公告)号:US20240411361A1
公开(公告)日:2024-12-12
申请号:US18662964
申请日:2024-05-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Michael J. Rockwell , Oriel Y. Bergig , Geoffrey Stahl , Thibaut Weise , Peter Kaufmann , Branko Petljanski , Jason L. Slupeiks , Tom Sengelaub , Yanghai Tsin , Hesam Najafi , Arthur Y. Zhang , Cheng Chen , Graham B. Myhre , Fletcher R. Rothkopf , Marinus Meursing , Phil M. Hobson , Jason C. Sauers , Jan K. Quijalvo , Jia Tao , Ivan S. Maric , Jeremy C. Franklin , Wey-Jiun Lin
IPC: G06F3/01
Abstract: A head-mountable display device includes a housing defining a front opening and a rear opening, a display screen disposed in the front opening, a display assembly disposed in the rear opening, a first securement strap coupled to the housing, the first securement strap including a first electronic component, a second securement strap coupled to the housing, the second securement strap including a second electronic component, and a securement band extending between and coupled to the first securement strap and the second securement strap.
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公开(公告)号:US11778856B2
公开(公告)日:2023-10-03
申请号:US16802385
申请日:2020-02-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Aleksandr N. Polyakov , Aditi G. Kanhere , Brandon E. Clarke , Cheng Chen , John N. Border , Nan Zhu , Rui Liu , Wei-Liang Hsu
IPC: H01L51/52 , H10K50/856 , G02B17/08 , H10K50/852 , H10K59/12
CPC classification number: H10K50/856 , G02B17/0856 , H10K50/852 , H10K59/12
Abstract: An electronic device may have a support structure that supports a display and lenses. Each lens may be a reflective lens such as a catadioptric lens that receives polarized image light from the display and provides a corresponding image to an eye box. The display may be an emissive display with pixels that include light-emitting diodes. The light-emitting diodes may be overlapped by a light recycling layer such as a reflective polarizer or cholesteric liquid crystal layer. The light recycling layer recycles emitted light to enhance display efficiency.
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公开(公告)号:US11700738B2
公开(公告)日:2023-07-11
申请号:US16888451
申请日:2020-05-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Gloria Wong , Jaein Choi , Sunggu Kang , Hairong Tang , Xiaodan Zhu , Wendi Chang , Kanuo C. Kustra , Rui Liu , Cheng Chen , Teruo Sasagawa , Wookyung Bae
IPC: H01L51/52 , H10K50/824 , H10K50/818 , H10K59/35 , H10K59/121
CPC classification number: H10K50/818 , H10K50/824 , H10K59/121 , H10K59/35
Abstract: Pixels in an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display may be microcavity OLED pixels having optical cavities. The optical cavities may be defined by a partially transparent cathode layer and a reflective anode structure. The anode of the pixels may include both the reflective anode structure and a supplemental anode that is transparent and that is used to tune the thickness of the optical cavity for each pixel. Organic light-emitting diode layers may be formed over the pixels and may have a uniform thickness in each pixel in the display. Pixels may have a conductive spacer between a transparent anode portion and a reflective anode portion, without an intervening dielectric layer. The conductive spacer may be formed from a material such as titanium nitride that is compatible with both anode portions. The transparent anode portions may have varying thicknesses to control the thickness of the optical cavities of the pixels.
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公开(公告)号:US11309372B2
公开(公告)日:2022-04-19
申请号:US16604491
申请日:2018-04-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Jaein Choi , Andrew Lin , Cheuk Chi Lo , Chun-Yao Huang , Gloria Wong , Hairong Tang , Hitoshi Yamamoto , James E. Pedder , KiBeom Kim , Kwang Ohk Cheon , Lei Yuan , Michael Slootsky , Rui Liu , Steven E. Molesa , Sunggu Kang , Wendi Chang , Chun-Ming Tang , Cheng Chen , Ivan Knez , Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov , Giovanni Carbone , Graham B. Myhre , Jungmin Lee
Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display may have an array of organic light-emitting diode pixels that each have OLED layers interposed between a cathode and an anode. Voltage may be applied to the anode of each pixel to control the magnitude of emitted light. The conductivity of the OLED layers may allow leakage current to pass between neighboring anodes in the display. To reduce leakage current and the accompanying cross-talk in a display, the pixel definition layer may disrupt continuity of the OLED layers. The pixel definition layer may have a steep sidewall, a sidewall with an undercut, or a sidewall surface with a plurality of curves to disrupt continuity of the OLED layers. A control gate that is coupled to a bias voltage and covered by gate dielectric may be used to form an organic thin-film transistor that shuts the leakage current channel between adjacent anodes on the display.
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公开(公告)号:US11143806B1
公开(公告)日:2021-10-12
申请号:US15709729
申请日:2017-09-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Giovanni Carbone , Cheng Chen , Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov
Abstract: An electronic device with a display may be provided with an array of pixels each of which includes subpixels formed from organic light-emitting diodes. The electronic device may have support structures such as a head-mountable frame or other head-mountable support structure. Optical structures such as lenses may be provided through which the array of pixels is viewable by a user. The array of pixels and the lenses or other optical structures may be supported by the head-mounted support structure. Light spreading structures may overlap the array of pixels to enhance the fill factor of the pixels. The light spreading structures may be formed from a fiber bundle layer, an array of microlenses, or other optical structures that laterally spread light that has been emitted by the organic light-emitting diodes and thereby enhances the fill factor of the pixels.
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公开(公告)号:US20210057670A1
公开(公告)日:2021-02-25
申请号:US16888451
申请日:2020-05-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Gloria Wong , Jaein Choi , Sunggu Kang , Hairong Tang , Xiaodan Zhu , Wendi Chang , Kanuo C. Kustra , Rui Liu , Cheng Chen , Teruo Sasagawa , Wookyung Bae
Abstract: Pixels in an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display may be microcavity OLED pixels having optical cavities. The optical cavities may be defined by a partially transparent cathode layer and a reflective anode structure. The anode of the pixels may include both the reflective anode structure and a supplemental anode that is transparent and that is used to tune the thickness of the optical cavity for each pixel. Organic light-emitting diode layers may be formed over the pixels and may have a uniform thickness in each pixel in the display. Pixels may have a conductive spacer between a transparent anode portion and a reflective anode portion, without an intervening dielectric layer. The conductive spacer may be formed from a material such as titanium nitride that is compatible with both anode portions. The transparent anode portions may have varying thicknesses to control the thickness of the optical cavities of the pixels.
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公开(公告)号:US10923013B2
公开(公告)日:2021-02-16
申请号:US16677522
申请日:2019-11-07
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Cheng Chen , Deniz Teoman , Jiaying Wu , John Z. Zhong , Jun Jiang
Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels and having display control circuitry that controls the operation of the display. The display control circuitry may adaptively adjust the spectral characteristics of display light emitted from the display to achieve a desired effect on the human circadian system. For example, the display control circuitry may adjust the spectral characteristics of blue light emitted from the display based on the time of day such that a user's exposure to the display light may result in a circadian response similar to that which would be experienced in natural light. The spectral characteristics of blue light emitted from the display may be adjusted by adjusting the relative maximum power levels provided to blue pixels in the display or by shifting the peak wavelength associated with blue light emitted from the display.
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公开(公告)号:US10725228B2
公开(公告)日:2020-07-28
申请号:US16280925
申请日:2019-02-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Hyungryul J. Choi , Zhibing Ge , Cheng Chen , Hossein Nemati , Wei Chen , Jun Qi , Khadijeh Bayat , David A. Doyle , John Z. Zhong
IPC: G02F1/13 , F21V8/00 , G02F1/13357 , G02F1/1334 , G02F1/29 , G02F1/1333 , G02F1/1335 , G02F1/1343 , G02F1/139 , G02F1/137
Abstract: An electronic device may generate content that is to be displayed on a display. The display may have an array of liquid crystal display pixels for displaying image frames of the content. The display may be operated in at least a normal viewing mode, a privacy mode, an outdoor viewing mode, and a power saving mode. The different view modes may exhibit different viewing angles. In one configuration, the display may include a backlight unit that generates a collimated light source and that includes a switchable diffuser film for selectively scattering the collimated light source depending on the current viewing mode of the display. In another configuration, the display may include a backlight unit that generates a scattered light source that includes a switchable microarray structure such as a switchable mirror structure or a tunable microlens array for selectively collimating the scattered light source depending on the current viewing mode.
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公开(公告)号:US20200096770A1
公开(公告)日:2020-03-26
申请号:US16520200
申请日:2019-07-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: James E. Pedder , Igor Stamenov , Cheng Chen , Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov , Graham B. Myhre , Victoria C. Chan , Xiaonan Wen , Peng Lv , Yuan Li , Yu Horie , Siddharth S. Hazra
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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公开(公告)号:US20200075683A1
公开(公告)日:2020-03-05
申请号:US16437979
申请日:2019-06-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Aleksandr N. Polyakov , Meng-Huan Ho , Yi Huang , Yi Qiao , David S. Hum , Jean-Pierre S. Guillou , Yanming Li , Jun Qi , KiBeom Kim , Kwang Ohk Cheon , Cheng Chen , Rui Liu , ByoungSuk Kim , Ying-Chih Wang , Hung Sheng Lin , Donghee Nam , Tyler R. Kakuda , Takahide Ishii , Yurii Morozov
Abstract: Display structures for controlling viewing angle color shift are described. In various embodiments, polarization sensitive diffusers, independent controlled cathode thicknesses, filtermasks, touch detection layers, and color filters are described.
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