Display systems with geometrical phase lenses

    公开(公告)号:US11762197B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-19

    申请号:US16935083

    申请日:2020-07-21

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: An electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have a display that produces a display image. The head-mounted device may have an optical system that merges real-world images from real-world objects with display images. The optical system provides the real-world images and display images to an eye box for viewing by a user. The optical system may use time interleaving techniques and/or polarization effects to merge real-world and display images. Switchable devices such as polarization switches and tunable lenses may be controlled in synchronization with frames of display images. Geometrical phase lenses may be used that exhibit different lens powers to different polarizations of light.

    Display Systems With Geometrical Phase Lenses

    公开(公告)号:US20210048674A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-18

    申请号:US16935083

    申请日:2020-07-21

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: An electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have a display that produces a display image. The head-mounted device may have an optical system that merges real-world images from real-world objects with display images. The optical system provides the real-world images and display images to an eye box for viewing by a user. The optical system may use time interleaving techniques and/or polarization effects to merge real-world and display images. Switchable devices such as polarization switches and tunable lenses may be controlled in synchronization with frames of display images. Geometrical phase lenses may be used that exhibit different lens powers to different polarizations of light.

    Display Having Column Spacer Structures with Minimized Plastic Deformation

    公开(公告)号:US20170242286A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-24

    申请号:US15237489

    申请日:2016-08-15

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: G02F1/13394 G02F2001/13396 G02F2001/13398

    Abstract: A display may have a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. A liquid crystal layer may be interposed between the color filter layer and the thin-film transistor layer. Column spacer structures may be used to maintain a desired gap for the liquid crystal layer between the color filter layer and the thin-film transistor layer. The column spacer structures may include column spacers having bases and opposing tips. The tips may penetrate into the liquid crystal layer and may bear against the thin-film transistor layer or aligned column spacer pads on the thin-film transistor layer. The color filter layer may have a glass substrate, a black matrix on the substrate, a color filter element layer on the black matrix, and an overcoat on the color filter element layer. Some or all of the column spacers may have bases that contact the black matrix layer.

    Dual Display Equipment With Enhanced Visibility and Suppressed Reflections
    5.
    发明申请
    Dual Display Equipment With Enhanced Visibility and Suppressed Reflections 有权
    双显示设备增强可见性和抑制反射

    公开(公告)号:US20170039018A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-02-09

    申请号:US14862012

    申请日:2015-09-22

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Electronic equipment with displays may be provided. A first display may be mounted in a first housing and a second display may be mounted in a second housing that is adjacent to the first housing. The first housing may rotate relative to the second housing about a hinge axis. The first housing may be a lid and the second housing may be a base housing that is coupled to the lid by a hinge. A first display may be mounted in the first housing and a second display may be mounted in the second housing. Polarizer layers and other optical layers in the displays may be configured to provide a viewer with the ability to view images on the displays while wearing vertically polarized sunglasses and to suppress reflections of light emitted by the first display off of the second display.

    Abstract translation: 可提供具有显示器的电子设备。 第一显示器可以安装在第一壳体中,并且第二显示器可以安装在与第一壳体相邻的第二壳体中。 第一壳体可绕铰链轴线相对于第二壳体旋转。 第一壳体可以是盖子,并且第二壳体可以是通过铰链联接到盖子的基座壳体。 第一显示器可以安装在第一壳体中,并且第二显示器可以安装在第二壳体中。 显示器中的偏振器层和其它光学层可以被配置为向观看者提供在佩戴垂直偏振太阳镜的同时在显示器上观看图像并且抑制由第一显示器发射的光的反射离开第二显示器的能力的能力。

    Display with Spacer Ring
    6.
    发明申请
    Display with Spacer Ring 审中-公开
    显示间隔环

    公开(公告)号:US20160170247A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-06-16

    申请号:US14862004

    申请日:2015-09-22

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A display may have a layer of liquid crystal material interposed between a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. A ring of adhesive sealant may surround the liquid crystal layer. Columns spacers may extend between the color filter and thin-film transistor layers through the liquid crystal layer to help ensure that the color filter and thin-film transistor layers are appropriately spaced apart from each other. A ring-shaped polymer spacer may surround the ring of adhesive sealant and may help protect display structures form exposure to etchant that is used to treat the edges of glass layers in the display. The spacer may be formed from the same layer of material that forms the column spacers. A black masking layer may be formed on the underside of the color filter layer using techniques that prevent the formation of protruding edge portions.

    Abstract translation: 显示器可以具有介于滤色器层和薄膜晶体管层之间的液晶材料层。 粘合密封剂环可以围绕液晶层。 色谱柱间隔物可以通过液晶层在滤色器和薄膜晶体管层之间延伸,以帮助确保滤色器和薄膜晶体管层彼此适当间隔开。 环形聚合物间隔物可以围绕粘合剂密封剂的环,并且可以帮助保护显示结构,从而暴露于用于处理显示器中的玻璃层的边缘的蚀刻剂。 间隔物可以由形成柱间隔物的相同的材料层形成。 可以使用防止形成突出边缘部分的技术在滤色器层的下侧上形成黑色掩蔽层。

    Display system with time interleaving

    公开(公告)号:US11822083B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-21

    申请号:US16935080

    申请日:2020-07-21

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: G02B27/0172 G02B3/12 G02F1/137 G02F1/133528

    Abstract: An electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have a display that produces a display image. The head-mounted device may have an optical system that merges real-world images from real-world objects with display images. The optical system provides the real-world images and display images to an eye box for viewing by a user. The optical system may use time interleaving techniques and/or polarization effects to merge real-world and display images. Switchable devices such as polarization switches and tunable lenses may be controlled in synchronization with frames of display images. Geometrical phase lenses may be used that exhibit different lens powers to different polarizations of light.

    Optical films for electronic device displays

    公开(公告)号:US10281630B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-07

    申请号:US15351212

    申请日:2016-11-14

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A display may include an optical film to promote sunglass-friendly viewing of the display. Displays may include linear polarizers. For example, a liquid crystal display may have a linear polarizer above a liquid crystal layer, whereas an organic light-emitting diode display may have a linear polarizer that forms a portion of a circular polarizer to reduce reflections in the display. Displays that emit linearly polarized light may not be compatible with polarized sunglasses. To ensure an optimal user experience for users wearing sunglasses, displays may include sunglass-friendly optical films. A sunglass-friendly optical film may be a film formed from a birefringent material such as a polymer or liquid crystal. The sunglass-friendly optical film may have an optical axis that is at a 45° angle relative to the optical axis of the underlying linear polarizer. The sunglass-friendly optical film may be patterned to have reduced thickness regions.

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