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公开(公告)号:US20240385686A1
公开(公告)日:2024-11-21
申请号:US18478780
申请日:2023-09-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Aidan N. Zimmerman , Blake N. Trekell , Ivan S. Maric , Marinus Meursing
Abstract: A head-mountable display can include a structural frame defining a viewing opening, an optical module coupled to the structural frame. The optical module can include a display screen to project light through the viewing opening. The display screen can define an inner edge, an outer edge opposite the inner edge, a lower edge extending between the inner edge and the outer edge, and an upper edge opposite the lower edge. The optical module can include a first camera disposed adjacent the inner edge and closer to the lower edge than the upper edge, and a second camera disposed adjacent the lower edge and closer to the outer edge than the inner edge.
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公开(公告)号:US12140770B2
公开(公告)日:2024-11-12
申请号:US18480958
申请日:2023-10-04
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Ivan S. Maric , Aidan N. Zimmerman , Brian Baillargeon , Evan D. Christensen , Jason C. Sauers , Jia Tao , Phil M. Hobson , Sivesh Selvakumar
Abstract: A head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing. The housing may include a chassis with left and right openings that overlap respective left and right optical modules that present images eye boxes. Each optical module may have a lens and display that presents an image through the lens. The chassis may have an inner frame and outer frame. A middle portion of the chassis may form a stiffened nose bridge structure. Components in the housing such as a display, a fan housing, a heat sink layer, optical module guide rods, and a rear cover may span the width of the housing and may be attached to edge portions of the chassis, thereby forming a box-shaped structure that provides rigidity and helps prevent housing deformation.
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公开(公告)号:US12092896B2
公开(公告)日:2024-09-17
申请号:US18331010
申请日:2023-06-07
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Ivan S. Maric , Aidan N. Zimmerman , David R. Cramer , Zechariah D. Feinberg , Samuel A. Resnick
IPC: G02B7/12
CPC classification number: G02B7/12
Abstract: A head-mounted device may have optical modules that present images to a user's eyes. Each optical module may have a lens barrel with a display and a lens that presents an image from the display to a corresponding eye box. To accommodate users with different interpupillary distances, the optical modules may be slidably coupled to guide members such as guide rods. Actuators may slide the optical modules towards or away from each other along the guide rods. The guide rods may be formed from fiber-composite tubes with end caps that are fastened to a frame in the head-mounted device. The tubes may be partly or completely filled with cores to add strength. Low-friction coatings such as metal coatings may be formed on the fiber-composite tubes and the corresponding inner surfaces of the optical module structures that slidably engage the fiber-composite tubes.
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公开(公告)号:US11360587B1
公开(公告)日:2022-06-14
申请号:US17183210
申请日:2021-02-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Paul X. Wang , Alex J. Lehmann , Bradley J. Hamel , Dinesh C. Mathew , Fletcher R. Rothkopf , John C. DiFonzo , Keith J. Hendren , Navpreet S. Kaloty , Nicholas L. Qu , Scott J. Krahn , Aidan N. Zimmerman
IPC: G06F3/038 , G06F3/0338 , G06F3/02 , H02J50/10
Abstract: A system may include a finger device that is worn on a user's finger. The finger device may serve as a controller for a head-mounted device or other devices in the system. The finger device may have a foldable housing with hinge structures that allow portions of the housing to fold with respect to each other. Magnets or other bistability structures may be used to provide the folding housing with folding bistability. This allows the housing to be placed in a stable unfolded state that releases the finger or a stable folded state in which the housing snaps over the finger and holds the finger device in place. A base may be used to store the finger device for charging. The base may have deployment structures that help place the finger device on the user's finger for use.
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公开(公告)号:US11269127B2
公开(公告)日:2022-03-08
申请号:US15961016
申请日:2018-04-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Paul X. Wang , Aidan N. Zimmerman , Michael Y. Cheung , Ming Yu
Abstract: Electrical equipment such as a tablet computer cover, a laptop computer, or other equipment may include keys. Each key may have a key member. Coatings such as opaque coating layers may be formed on the key members. Opaque coating layers may be patterned to form symbol-shaped openings associated with key labels. Opaque coating layers may also have recessed peripheral portions and other features to enhance the appearance of the keys. Metal coating layers such as physical vapor deposition metal layers may be incorporated into the keys. Key members may have outer surfaces and opposing inner surface on which patterned coating layers may be formed. Peripheral edge portions of the key members may extend between the outer and inner surfaces and may be coated with metal coating layers to form reflective metal trim structures. Backlight illumination for the keys may be formed form light sources such as light-emitting diodes.
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公开(公告)号:US11169628B2
公开(公告)日:2021-11-09
申请号:US16869422
申请日:2020-05-07
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Aidan N. Zimmerman , Wingshan Wong , Kevin Armendariz , Nathan Bohney , Christopher Pasma , Mahmoud Amini , Brenton A. Baugh , Ryan P. Brooks
IPC: G06F3/038 , G06F3/0354 , G06F3/041
Abstract: A user input system including a stylus and an electronic device. A user may manipulate the stylus across an input surface of the electronic device and the movement may be detected using axially-aligned electric fields generated by the stylus. The stylus may also include a force-sensitive structure that can be used to estimate a force applied to the electronic device by the stylus.
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公开(公告)号:US20210325680A1
公开(公告)日:2021-10-21
申请号:US17185715
申请日:2021-02-25
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Ivan S. Maric , Aidan N. Zimmerman , Brian Baillargeon , Evan D. Christensen , Jason C. Sauers , Jia Tao , Phil M. Hobson , Sivesh Selvakumar
Abstract: A head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing. The housing may include a chassis with left and right openings that overlap respective left and right optical modules that present images eye boxes. Each optical module may have a lens and display that presents an image through the lens. The chassis may have an inner frame and outer frame. A middle portion of the chassis may form a stiffened nose bridge structure. Components in the housing such as a display, a fan housing, a heat sink layer, optical module guide rods, and a rear cover may span the width of the housing and may be attached to edge portions of the chassis, thereby forming a box-shaped structure that provides rigidity and helps prevent housing deformation.
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公开(公告)号:US20210080746A1
公开(公告)日:2021-03-18
申请号:US17021387
申请日:2020-09-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Anna V. Mirabella , Wey-Jiun Lin , Jia Tao , Aidan N. Zimmerman , Jason C. Sauers , Anthony S. Montevirgen , Andrew Gallaher , Phil M. Hobson , Yoonhoo Jo
Abstract: A head-mounted device includes a first device portion and a second device portion. A first coupler portion of the first device portion is connectable to a second coupler portion of the second device portion to define a connected position in which the first device portion is connected to the second device portion and a disconnected position in which the first device portion is disconnected from the second device portion. A second adjuster portion of the second device portion causes a first adjuster portion of the first device portion to move a first optical module and a second optical module in response to movement of the first device portion and the second device portion from the disconnected position to the connected position.
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公开(公告)号:US20190354179A1
公开(公告)日:2019-11-21
申请号:US16524741
申请日:2019-07-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Storrs T. Hoen , Daniel D. Sunshine , Aidan N. Zimmerman , Daniel A. Podhajny , Maurice P. May
IPC: G06F3/01 , A41D31/02 , G06F3/0488 , D03D1/00 , G06F3/045 , G06F3/041 , A61B5/00 , G01L1/14 , A41D1/00 , G06F3/044
Abstract: A fabric-based item such as a fabric glove may include force sensing circuitry. The force sensing circuitry may include force sensor elements formed from electrodes on a compressible substrate such as an elastomeric polymer substrate. The fabric may include intertwined strands of material including conductive strands. Signals from the force sensing circuitry may be conveyed to control circuitry in the item using the conductive strands. Wireless circuitry in the fabric-based item may be used to convey force sensor information to external equipment. The compressible substrate may have opposing upper and lower surfaces. Electrodes for the force sensor elements may be formed on the upper and lower surfaces. Stiffeners may overlap the electrodes to help decouple adjacent force sensor elements from each other. Integrated circuits can be attached to respective force sensing elements using adhesive.
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公开(公告)号:US10310639B2
公开(公告)日:2019-06-04
申请号:US15259898
申请日:2016-09-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Aidan N. Zimmerman , Wingshan Wong , Kevin Armendariz , Nathan Bohney , Christopher Pasma , Mahmoud Amini , Brenton A. Baugh , Ryan P. Brooks
IPC: G06F3/0354 , G06F3/041 , G06F3/038
Abstract: A user input system including a stylus and an electronic device. A user may manipulate the stylus across an input surface of the electronic device and the movement may be detected using axially-aligned electric fields generated by the stylus. The stylus may also include a force-sensitive structure that can be used to estimate a force applied to the electronic device by the stylus.
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