公开(公告)号：US12017518B1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-25

申请号：US17073740

申请日：2020-10-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Clarisse Mazuir ,  Budhadipta Dan ,  Khadijeh Bayat ,  Matthew E. Last ,  Ryan J. Garrone

IPC: B60J3/04 ,  E06B3/67 ,  E06B9/24 ,  G02F1/137

CPC classification number: B60J3/04 ,  E06B3/6722 ,  E06B9/24 ,  G02F1/13725 ,  E06B2009/2464

Abstract: A processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium store instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including receiving a location; in response to determining that the location is known, setting a first tinting level of a surface; and in response to determining that the location is unknown, setting a second tinting level of the surface that differs from the first tinting level.

公开(公告)号：US11822191B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-21

申请号：US16849164

申请日：2020-04-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Khadijeh Bayat ,  Avery P. Yuen ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Runyu Zhang ,  Xianwei Zhao ,  Xiaokai Li ,  Yang Li ,  Zhibing Ge ,  Alex H. Pai

IPC: G02F1/1343 ,  G02B27/01 ,  G02F1/137 ,  G02F1/29

CPC classification number: G02F1/13439 ,  G02B27/0172 ,  G02F1/1343 ,  G02F1/13725 ,  G02F1/29 ,  G02B2027/0118

Abstract: An electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have a display that displays computer-generated content for a user. The head-mounted device may have an optical system that directs the computer-generated content towards eye boxes for viewing by a user. The optical system may include a spatially addressable adjustable optical component. The adjustable optical component may have first and second electrodes and an electrically adjustable material between the first and second electrodes. The electrically adjustable material may include a transparent conductive material such as indium tin oxide that includes a pattern of segmented trenches configured to provide the transparent conductive material with electrical anisotropy. Contacts may be coupled to the transparent conductive material. Control circuitry can adjust the electrically adjustable material to form a spatially addressable light modulator or adjustable lens.

公开(公告)号：US20220312614A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-29

申请号：US17840484

申请日：2022-06-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Khadijeh Bayat ,  Yoshitaka Matsui ,  Naomi Sugawara ,  Daisuke Nozu ,  Xianwei Zhao ,  Avery P. Yuen ,  Martin Melcher ,  James R. Wilson ,  Di Fan

IPC: H05K5/06 ,  C03C17/36 ,  H05K5/02 ,  H05K9/00 ,  B32B1/02

Abstract: An electronic device may have transparent housing structures such as walls formed of glass or sapphire. Housing structures such as transparent housing structures may have a colored coating. The colored coating may include an absorptive layer and a metal layer. The coating may exhibit a color that can be adjusted by adjusting the thickness of the thin absorptive layer. A colored layer such as a layer of colored polymer may be incorporated into the colored coating to further adjust the color of the coating. The colored coating may be formed on an inner or outer housing structure surface. The surface may have a texture to provide the coating with a matte appearance. When formed on an outer surface, a diamond-like carbon layer may protect the colored coating. When formed on an inner surface, a passivation layer may be used to prevent oxidation of the metal layer.

公开(公告)号：US10725228B2

公开(公告)日：2020-07-28

申请号：US16280925

申请日：2019-02-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Hyungryul J. Choi ,  Zhibing Ge ,  Cheng Chen ,  Hossein Nemati ,  Wei Chen ,  Jun Qi ,  Khadijeh Bayat ,  David A. Doyle ,  John Z. Zhong

IPC: G02F1/13 ,  F21V8/00 ,  G02F1/13357 ,  G02F1/1334 ,  G02F1/29 ,  G02F1/1333 ,  G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/1343 ,  G02F1/139 ,  G02F1/137

Abstract: An electronic device may generate content that is to be displayed on a display. The display may have an array of liquid crystal display pixels for displaying image frames of the content. The display may be operated in at least a normal viewing mode, a privacy mode, an outdoor viewing mode, and a power saving mode. The different view modes may exhibit different viewing angles. In one configuration, the display may include a backlight unit that generates a collimated light source and that includes a switchable diffuser film for selectively scattering the collimated light source depending on the current viewing mode of the display. In another configuration, the display may include a backlight unit that generates a scattered light source that includes a switchable microarray structure such as a switchable mirror structure or a tunable microlens array for selectively collimating the scattered light source depending on the current viewing mode.