公开(公告)号：US11822165B1

公开(公告)日：2023-11-21

申请号：US16875891

申请日：2020-05-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Cihan Yilmaz ,  Supriya Goyal ,  Shih-Chyuan Fan Jiang ,  Paul V. Johnson ,  Se Hyun Ahn ,  Cheng Chen ,  Yuan Chen ,  Hyungryul Choi ,  Zhibing Ge ,  Christiaan A. Ligtenberg ,  Dinesh C. Mathew ,  Hyunmin A. Song ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Jiaying Wu

IPC: G02F1/13 ,  G02F1/163 ,  G02F1/1523 ,  G02F1/1343 ,  G02F1/1524 ,  G02F1/155

CPC classification number: G02F1/1323 ,  G02F1/13439 ,  G02F1/155 ,  G02F1/1524 ,  G02F1/1525 ,  G02F1/163

Abstract: A display may have display layers that form an array of pixels. An angle-of-view adjustment layer may overlap the display layers. The angle-of-view adjustment layer may include an array of adjustable light blocking structures formed from electrochromic material. The electrochromic material may be interposed between first and second electrode layers. When it is desired to operate the display in a private viewing mode, control circuitry may apply a current to the first and second electrodes that causes the electrochromic material to become more opaque, thereby restricting the angle of view of the display. When it is desired to operate the display in a public viewing mode, control circuitry may apply a current to the first and second electrodes that causes the electrochromic material to become more transparent, thereby opening up the angle of view of the display.

公开(公告)号：US11064387B1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-13

申请号：US16411302

申请日：2019-05-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Aleksandr M. Movshovich ,  Arthur Y. Zhang ,  Hao Pan ,  Holly E. Gerhard ,  Jim C. Chou ,  Moinul H. Khan ,  Paul V. Johnson ,  Sorin C. Cismas ,  Sreeraman Anantharaman ,  William W. Sprague

IPC: H04W28/06 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04N13/398 ,  H04N13/344 ,  H04N13/194

Abstract: One exemplary implementation involves performing operations at an electronic device with one or more processors and a computer-readable storage medium. The device establishes a wireless communication link with a host device. The device receives, from the host device, a left eye frame and a right eye frame via a sequence of left eye frame transmissions and right eye frame transmissions. The device switches data transmissions schemes according to wireless commination link quality or eye gaze tracking. Adjusting transmission format based on transmission quality of the wireless communication link allows the devices to take advantage of greater bandwidth when available to save power. An additional transmission format is based on alternately transmitting left eye and right eye frames for very low bandwidth.

公开(公告)号：US11599322B1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-07

申请号：US17006677

申请日：2020-08-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Paul V. Johnson ,  Aaron Wang ,  Dinesh C. Mathew ,  Jiaying Wu ,  Paul X. Wang

IPC: G06F3/14 ,  G06F3/04883 ,  G06F3/0486 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/0346 ,  G06F3/16 ,  G06V20/10

Abstract: A system may include electronic devices that communicate wirelessly. When positioned so that a pair of devices overlap or are near to one another, the devices may operate in a linked mode. During linked operations, devices may communicate wirelessly while input gathering and content displaying operations are shared among the devices. One or both of a pair of devices may have sensors. An orientation sensor, motion sensor, optical sensor, and/or other sensors may be used in identifying conditions in which to enter the linked mode and to identify a region where displays in the pair of devices overlap.

公开(公告)号：US20220351704A1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-03

申请号：US17731755

申请日：2022-04-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Amanda K. Yung ,  Paul V. Johnson ,  Daniel P. Kumar ,  Jiaying Wu

IPC: G09G5/10

Abstract: An electronic device such as a cellular telephone or other device may have a housing with front and rear faces joined by a sidewall. A display may be mounted on the front face. The electronic device may include multiple ambient light sensors such as a front ambient light sensor on the front face and one or more supplemental ambient light sensors on the rear face and/or on the sidewall. The front ambient light sensor gathers a front ambient light intensity measurement and the supplemental ambient light sensor gathers a supplemental ambient light intensity measurement. During operation, control circuitry in the electronic device adjusts the display brightness based on data from the ambient light sensors. The control circuitry may implement power saving restrictions that limit when the supplemental ambient light intensity measurement is taken into account and/or that impose a brightness cap on the display brightness.

公开(公告)号：US10586482B1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-10

申请号：US16292080

申请日：2019-03-04

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Amanda K. Yung ,  Paul V. Johnson ,  Di Bai ,  Jiaying Wu

IPC: G09G3/20

Abstract: An electronic device such as a desktop computer or other device may have an electronic device housing with front and rear faces. A display may be mounted on the front face. The electronic device may include multiple ambient light sensors such as a front color ambient light sensor on the front face and a rear color ambient light sensor on the rear face. The front ambient light sensor gathers a front ambient light intensity measurement and a front ambient light color measurement. The rear ambient light sensor gathers a rear ambient light intensity measurement and a rear ambient light color measurement. During operation, control circuitry in the electronic device takes action based on data from the ambient light sensors. The control circuitry may adjust a white point of the display using a combined color value that is produced using a combining function.

公开(公告)号：US20190051267A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-14

申请号：US15979315

申请日：2018-05-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Paul V. Johnson ,  Lu Zhang ,  Jiaying Wu

IPC: G09G5/02 ,  G06F3/02 ,  G06F1/16

Abstract: An electronic device may have a main display and an ancillary display that forms a dynamic function row. The device may also have a backlit keyboard with glyphs. The keyboard may have light-emitting diodes that emit backlight illumination. The backlight illumination has a backlight illumination color and intensity. A color ambient light sensor may measure ambient light color and intensity. Control circuitry in the laptop computer may make white point adjustments to the main and ancillary displays. White point adjustments may be made based on factors such as the backlight illumination intensity, information on the nominal white point of a display (which may be comparable to the color of the backlight illumination), information on the ambient light color and intensity, and a white point adaptation scaling factor.

公开(公告)号：US12289534B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-29

申请号：US18615982

申请日：2024-03-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Angelo M Alaimo ,  Shahrooz Shahparnia ,  Paul V. Johnson

IPC: H04N23/74 ,  G01J1/42 ,  G01J1/44 ,  G06F1/16

Abstract: Various embodiments include a light source module with one or more light emitters and one or more light sensors that share an aperture via which light passes. One of the light sensors may measure illuminance received through the aperture (not illuminance from the light emitters) and send a signal indicating a measurement of the illuminance. The light source module may be integrated into a portable computing device having a controller. The controller may include logic to perform one or more device operations based on the measurement of illuminance, such as, but not limited to, controlling a device display brightness and/or controlling an auto exposure feature of the device camera. Calibration parameters for interpreting the signal may be determined via a calibration process.

公开(公告)号：US11874530B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-16

申请号：US16612336

申请日：2018-05-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Victoria C. Chan ,  Christina G. Gambacorta ,  Graham B. Myhre ,  Hyungryul Choi ,  Nan Zhu ,  Phil M. Hobson ,  William W. Sprague ,  Edward A. Valko ,  Qiong Huang ,  Branko Petljanski ,  Paul V. Johnson ,  Brandon E. Clarke ,  Elijah H. Kleeman

IPC: G02C7/08 ,  A61B3/00 ,  A61B3/032 ,  A61B3/036 ,  G02B6/42 ,  G02B7/02 ,  G02B7/09 ,  G02F1/133 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G02F1/1343

CPC classification number: G02C7/083 ,  A61B3/0008 ,  A61B3/032 ,  A61B3/036 ,  G02B6/4204 ,  G02B7/023 ,  G02B7/09 ,  G02F1/13306 ,  G06F1/163 ,  G02F1/13439

Abstract: A head-mounted display may include a display system and an optical system in a housing. The display system may have displays that produce images. Positioners may be used to move the displays relative to the eye positions of a user's eyes. An adjustable optical system may include tunable lenses such as tunable cylindrical liquid crystal lenses. The displays may be viewed through the lenses when the user's eyes are at the eye positions. A sensor may be incorporated into the head-mounted display to measure refractive errors in the user's eyes. The sensor may include waveguides and volume holograms, and a camera for gathering light that has reflected from the retinas of the user's eyes. Viewing comfort may be enhanced by adjusting display positions relative to the eye positions and/or by adjusting lens settings based on the content being presented on the display and/or measured refractive errors.

公开(公告)号：US11119624B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-14

申请号：US16366503

申请日：2019-03-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Paul V. Johnson ,  Ahmad Rahmati ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Cheng Chen ,  Graham B. Myhre ,  Jiaying Wu ,  Paolo Sacchetto ,  Sheng Zhang ,  Yunhui Hou ,  Xiaokai Li ,  Tim H. Cornelissen

IPC: G06F3/0485 ,  G06F3/0481 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  G06F3/01

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display for displaying image content to a user and dynamic image stabilization circuitry for dynamically compensating the image content if the device is moving unpredictably to help keep the image content aligned with the user's gaze. The electronic device may include sensors for detecting the displacement of the device. The dynamic image stabilization circuitry may include a usage scenario detection circuit and a content displacement compensation calculation circuit. The usage scenario detection circuit receives data from the sensors and infers a usage scenario based on the sensor data. The content displacement compensation calculation circuit uses the inferred usage scenario to compute a displacement amount by which to adjust image content. When motion stops, the image content may gradually drift back to the center of the display.

公开(公告)号：US20190317659A1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-17

申请号：US16366503

申请日：2019-03-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Paul V. Johnson ,  Ahmad Rahmati ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Cheng Chen ,  Graham B. Myhre ,  Jiaying Wu ,  Paolo Sacchetto ,  Sheng Zhang ,  Yunhui Hou ,  Xiaokai Li ,  Tim H. Cornelissen

IPC: G06F3/0484 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/0481

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display for displaying image content to a user and dynamic image stabilization circuitry for dynamically compensating the image content if the device is moving unpredictably to help keep the image content aligned with the user's gaze. The electronic device may include sensors for detecting the displacement of the device. The dynamic image stabilization circuitry may include a usage scenario detection circuit and a content displacement compensation calculation circuit. The usage scenario detection circuit receives data from the sensors and infers a usage scenario based on the sensor data. The content displacement compensation calculation circuit uses the inferred usage scenario to compute a displacement amount by which to adjust image content. When motion stops, the image content may gradually drift back to the center of the display.