公开(公告)号：US20240303768A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-12

申请号：US18590893

申请日：2024-02-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yang Li ,  ByoungSuk Kim ,  Fu-Chung Huang ,  Jun Qi ,  Sheng Zhang ,  Victor H. Yin ,  Wei H. Yao ,  Yi Huang ,  Yi-Pai Huang ,  Ping-Yen Chou

IPC: G06T3/40 ,  G06T15/00 ,  G06V20/70

CPC classification number: G06T3/40 ,  G06T15/00 ,  G06V20/70

Abstract: An electronic device uses a multidimensional (e.g., 3D) scaler to process multiple-viewing-angle (e.g., 3D-aware) images by resampling each view image and processing image data of each view image according to a view map to change resolution or improve perceived image quality. After being processed, each view image of the multiple-viewing-angle image is used to rebuild a final processed multiple-viewing-angle (e.g., 3D-aware image) with all views for displaying on the electronic device.

公开(公告)号：US20240031554A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-25

申请号：US18478701

申请日：2023-09-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yi-Pai Huang ,  Yang Li ,  Yi Huang ,  Pretesh A Mascarenhas ,  Menelik Baye Yimam ,  Guru Moorthy Ravi ,  Yunhui Hou ,  Fu-Chung Huang ,  Sheng Zhang

IPC: H04N13/383 ,  H04N13/305 ,  H04N13/38

CPC classification number: H04N13/383 ,  H04N13/305 ,  H04N13/38

Abstract: An electronic device may include a stereoscopic display with a plurality of lenticular lenses that extend across the length of the display. The lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display such that a viewer perceives three-dimensional images. The display may have different viewing zones that account for horizontal parallax as a viewer moves horizontally relative to the display. The display may be dimmed globally based on the detected vertical position of the viewer. The magnitude of dimming applied to the display may increase with increasing deviation of the viewer from a baseline viewing angle. The display may render content that compensates for the real-time vertical position of the viewer. Another option for the stereoscopic display is to include a lens film that has an array of lenses. Each lens in the array of lenses spreads light in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction.

公开(公告)号：US11838495B1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-05

申请号：US16993168

申请日：2020-08-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Bennett S. Wilburn ,  Eric J. Hansotte ,  Fu-Chung Huang ,  Jonathan C. Moisant-Thompson

IPC: H04N13/366 ,  G02B30/20 ,  F21V8/00 ,  A44C5/00 ,  G04G17/08 ,  H04N9/31 ,  H04N13/111 ,  G03H1/26

CPC classification number: H04N13/366 ,  A44C5/0007 ,  G02B6/003 ,  G02B6/0035 ,  G02B30/20 ,  G03H1/268 ,  G04G17/08 ,  H04N9/312 ,  H04N13/111

Abstract: An electronic device may provide visual content at a virtual image distance that is farther from a user than the physical distance of the device from the user. A display in the device may have a transmissive spatial light modulator and beam steering device that are illuminated by a plane wave illumination system to provide computer-generated hologram images, may have a waveguide-based system that ensures that image content is presented at a desired virtual image distance, or may be a light-field display. The display may be used to display a left image in a left eye box and a right image in a right eye box. When viewed from the eye boxes, the left and right images fuse and are visible at a virtual image distance that is farther from the user than the distance physically separating the eye boxes from the display.

公开(公告)号：US20240348767A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-17

申请号：US18432303

申请日：2024-02-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ping-Yen Chou ,  ByoungSuk Kim ,  Cheng-Ho Yu ,  Fu-Chung Huang ,  Hao Chen ,  Juan He ,  Jun Qi ,  Manjap Singh ,  Xiaofeng Wang ,  Yang Li ,  Yi Huang ,  Yi-Pai Huang

IPC: H04N13/305 ,  H04N13/324 ,  H04N13/351

CPC classification number: H04N13/305 ,  H04N13/324 ,  H04N13/351

Abstract: A display may include an array of pixels covered by lenticular lenses. The lenticular lenses may cause expansion of light primarily in a horizontal direction. To improve the perceived resolution of the display, the horizontal resolution of the pixels on the display may be increased. In one possible layout, each pixel includes one red sub-pixel, one blue sub-pixel, and one green sub-pixel. The sub-pixels may be non-square rectangular. The sub-pixels may be the same size or may have the same widths and different heights. Each pixel may be asymmetric about a horizontal axis. In a given row, the pixels may alternate between first and second layouts. The second layout may be a vertically flipped version of the first layout.

公开(公告)号：US20240112628A1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-04

申请号：US18540602

申请日：2023-12-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yunhui Hou ,  Yi-Pai Huang ,  Fu-Chung Huang ,  Sheng Zhang ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Ping-Yen Chou ,  Yi Huang ,  Juan He ,  Alfred B. Huergo Wagner ,  Seung Wook Kim

IPC: G09G3/3208

CPC classification number: G09G3/3208 ,  G09G2320/0209 ,  G09G2320/0626

Abstract: An electronic device may include a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. A plurality of lenticular lenses may extend across the length of the display. The lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display such that a viewer perceives three-dimensional images. The display may have a number of independently controllable viewing zones. The viewer may be particularly susceptible to artifacts caused by crosstalk at the edge viewing zones within the primary field of view of the display. Certain types of content may also be more vulnerable to crosstalk than other types of content. Therefore, to mitigate crosstalk artifacts, the pixel value for each pixel may be adjusted based on the viewing zone of the respective pixel and content information (such as texture information or brightness information) associated with the respective pixel.

公开(公告)号：US20250020941A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-16

申请号：US18737653

申请日：2024-06-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hao Chen ,  ByoungSuk Kim ,  Fu-Chung Huang ,  Juan He ,  Jun Qi ,  Ping-Yen Chou ,  Yi Huang ,  Yi-Pai Huang

IPC: G02B30/29 ,  G02B3/00 ,  G02B3/08 ,  G02B5/20 ,  H01L27/15

Abstract: An electronic device may include a stereoscopic display that is configured to display three-dimensional content for a viewer. The stereoscopic display may include a lenticular lens film with lenticular lenses that extend across the length of the display and may be referred to as a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have convex curvature. The lenticular display may include a color filter layer with color filters and an opaque masking layer. The color filter layer may be interposed between the lenticular lens film and an array of display pixels for the display. The color filter layer may mitigate ghost image artifacts and reflections of ambient light. Microlenses may be included between the lenticular lens film and the array of display pixels to improve the efficiency of the display. The display may include a Fresnel lens layer. The lenticular lens film may include lenticular lenses having different shapes.

公开(公告)号：US20240428502A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-26

申请号：US18653567

申请日：2024-05-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Fu-Chung Huang ,  ByoungSuk Kim ,  Felipe Bacim De Araujo E Silva ,  Hao Chen ,  Igor Kozintsev ,  Pavel V Dudrenov ,  Ping-Yen Chou ,  Seung Wook Kim ,  Sheng Zhang ,  Victor H Yin ,  Wei H Yao ,  Wei Xiong ,  Yang Li ,  Yi Huang ,  Yi-Pai Huang ,  Justin A Meiners

IPC: G06T15/06 ,  H04N13/133 ,  H04N13/305

Abstract: An electronic device may include a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. The lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display such that a viewer perceives three-dimensional images. The display may render different content layers that present different classes of content. The different classes of content may have different characteristics. As an example, a first class of content may be static content whereas a second class of content may be dynamic content. The different characteristics of each class of content may be leveraged to use a hybrid approach for content processing. The hybrid content processing may take advantage of different layers needing to be updated at different frequencies and may take advantage of sparse content in some of the layers.

公开(公告)号：US11955038B1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-09

申请号：US17346063

申请日：2021-06-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sheng Zhang ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Yi-Pai Huang ,  Yue Ma ,  Ping-Yen Chou ,  Fu-Chung Huang

IPC: G09G3/00 ,  G02B30/29

CPC classification number: G09G3/001 ,  G02B30/29 ,  G09G2320/0693

Abstract: An electronic device may include a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. The display may have a number of independently controllable viewing zones. Each viewing zone displays a respective two-dimensional image. Each eye of the viewer may receive a different one of the two-dimensional images, resulting in a perceived three-dimensional image. The electronic device may include display pipeline circuitry that generates and processes content to be displayed on the lenticular display. Content generating circuitry may generate content that includes a plurality of two-dimensional images, each two-dimensional image corresponding to a respective viewing zone. Pixel mapping circuitry may be used to map the two-dimensional images to the array of pixels in the lenticular display. The array of pixels may have a diagonal layout. An offset map may be used by the pixel mapping circuitry to account for the diagonal layout.