公开(公告)号：US20240430561A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-26

申请号：US18662980

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 ,  Kathrin Berkner Cieslicki ,  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 ,  William A. Sorrentino, III ,  Jonathan Ive ,  Alan C. Dye ,  Stephen O. Lemay

IPC: H04N23/611 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/01 ,  H04N23/90

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.

公开(公告)号：US20240386817A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-21

申请号：US18662921

申请日：2024-05-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jason C. Sauers ,  Amanda R. Rainer ,  Cheng Chen ,  Graham B. Myhre ,  Michael J. Rockwell ,  Fletcher R. Rothkopf ,  Marinus Meursing ,  Phil M. Hobson ,  Jan K. Quijalvo ,  Jia Tao ,  Ivan S. Maric ,  Jeremy C. Franklin ,  Wey-Jiun Lin ,  William A. Sorrentino, III ,  Jonathan Ive ,  Alan C. Dye ,  Stephen O. Lemay ,  Jeffrey M. Faulkner ,  Seung Wook Kim ,  Ray L. Chang

IPC: G09G3/00 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/02 ,  G06F3/0338 ,  G06F3/0362 ,  G06T19/00

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.

公开(公告)号：US20240385448A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-21

申请号：US18787271

申请日：2024-07-29

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

IPC: G02B27/01 ,  G02B3/00 ,  G02B3/12

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.

公开(公告)号：US20240385443A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-21

申请号：US18662954

申请日：2024-05-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Julian Hoenig ,  Julian Jaede ,  Jason C. Sauers ,  James W. Vandyke ,  Cheng Chen ,  Graham B. Myhre ,  Michael J. Rockwell ,  Fletcher R. Rothkopf ,  Marinus Meursing ,  Phil M. Hobson ,  Jan K. Quijalvo ,  Jia Tao ,  Ivan S. Maric ,  Jeremy C. Franklin ,  Wey-Jiun Lin ,  William A. Sorrentino, III ,  Jonathan Ive ,  Alan C. Dye ,  Stephen O. Lemay ,  Jeffrey M. Faulkner

IPC: G02B27/01 ,  G02B27/00

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.

公开(公告)号：US12147038B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-19

申请号：US16539818

申请日：2019-08-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Se Baek Oh ,  Bradley C. Steele ,  Byron R. Cocilovo ,  Francesco Aieta ,  Graham B. Myhre

IPC: G02B27/01 ,  G02B5/08 ,  G02B5/18 ,  G02B5/32 ,  G02B27/09

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display that produce images. The display may generate light for an optical system that redirects the light towards an eye box. The optical system may include a waveguide that propagates the light in a first direction towards the output coupler. The output coupler may couple the light out of the waveguide towards the eye box while inverting a parity of the light about the first direction. The coupler may include a first element such as a set of partial mirrors or diffractive gratings that redirects a first portion of the light in a second direction. The coupler may include a second element that redirects a second portion of the light in a third direction opposite the second direction. The first element may redirect the second portion and the second element may redirect the first portion towards the eye box.

公开(公告)号：US11852819B2

公开(公告)日：2023-12-26

申请号：US17479322

申请日：2021-09-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Graham B. Myhre ,  Guolin Peng ,  Hyungryul Choi ,  Scott M. DeLapp ,  Vikrant Bhakta

IPC: G02B27/01 ,  G02B27/00 ,  G02B27/28 ,  G02B27/10

CPC classification number: G02B27/0172 ,  G02B27/0093 ,  G02B27/283 ,  G02B27/1066 ,  G02B2027/014 ,  G02B2027/0138 ,  G02B2027/0147

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display module that produces foveated images having high and low resolution regions. The module may include a reflective display panel that produces first reflected light during first time periods and second reflected light during second time periods. The first reflected light may reflect off of a beam splitter to form the low resolution region of the foveated image. The second reflected light may be transmitted by the beam splitter, de-magnified by a lens, and redirected by an optical steering element to produce the high resolution region at a desired, adjustable, location in the foveated image. The reflective display panel may be replaced by sets of emissive display panels that concurrently display the high and low resolution regions in the foveated image. The sets of emissive display panels may be replaced by front-lit reflective display panels.

公开(公告)号：US10930219B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-23

申请号：US16323751

申请日：2017-08-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Cheng Chen ,  Jason C. Sauers ,  Fletcher R. Rothkopf ,  David W. Lum ,  Chun-Yao Huang ,  Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov ,  Graham B. Myhre ,  Bennett S. Wilburn ,  Paolo Sacchetto ,  Shih Chang Chang ,  Wonjae Choi ,  Cheuk Chi Lo

IPC: G09G3/3225 ,  G09G3/3266 ,  G09G3/3275 ,  G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/36

Abstract: An electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have displays. The display may have regions of lower (L) and higher (M, H) resolution to reduce data bandwidth and power consumption for the display while preserving satisfactory image quality. Data lines may be shared by lower and higher resolution portions of a display or different portions of a display with different resolutions may be supplied with different numbers of data lines. Data line length may be varied in transition regions between lower resolution and higher resolution portions of a display to reduce visible discontinuities between the lower and higher resolution portions. The lower and higher resolution portions of the display may be dynamically adjusted using dynamically adjustable gate driver circuitry and dynamically adjustable data line driver circuitry.

公开(公告)号：US10928613B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-23

申请号：US16776750

申请日：2020-01-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sajjad A. Khan ,  Nan Zhu ,  Graham B. Myhre ,  Brent J. Bollman ,  Tyler Anderson ,  Weibo Cheng ,  John N. Border

IPC: G02B27/01 ,  G02B17/08 ,  G02B27/28 ,  G02B27/00 ,  G09G3/00

Abstract: A head-mounted display may include a display system and an optical system in a housing. The display system may have a pixel array that produces light associated with images. The display system may also have a linear polarizer through which light from the pixel array passes and a quarter wave plate through which the light passes after passing through the quarter wave plate. The optical system may be a catadioptric optical system having one or more lens elements. The lens elements may include a plano-convex lens and a plano-concave lens. A partially reflective mirror may be formed on a convex surface of the plano-convex lens. A reflective polarizer may be formed on the planar surface of the plano-convex lens or the concave surface of the plano-concave lens. An additional quarter wave plate may be located between the reflective polarizer and the partially reflective mirror.

公开(公告)号：US20210036265A1

公开(公告)日：2021-02-04

申请号：US16915629

申请日：2020-06-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Dagny Fleischman ,  Chi-Jui Chung ,  Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov ,  Giovanni Carbone ,  Graham B. Myhre ,  Michael Slootsky

IPC: H01L51/52 ,  H01L27/32

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. The display has pixels configured to display an image. The display is mounted in a housing. The housing may include head-mounted support structures configured to support the display for viewing through lenses. The pixels of the display may be covered by a layer of thin-film encapsulation. The thin-film encapsulation may be covered with a cover layer such as a glass cover layer that is attached to the thin-film encapsulation layer by a layer of adhesive. To suppress internal light reflections, the display may include reflection suppression structures. The reflection suppression structures may include an antireflection layer and/or polarizer and waveplate layers. The reflection suppression structures may be formed on an outwardly facing surface of the cover layer and/or between the thin-film encapsulation layer and the cover layer.

公开(公告)号：US20200272022A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-27

申请号：US15931430

申请日：2020-05-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Graham B. Myhre ,  Giovanni Carbone ,  Shih-Chyuan Fan Jiang ,  Sheng Zhang ,  Chaohao Wang

IPC: G02F1/29 ,  G06F3/01

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.