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公开(公告)号：US12101426B1
公开(公告)日：2024-09-24
申请号：US17526869
申请日：2021-11-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Tyler R. Kakuda , Hao Dong , Ian T. Clark , Jean-Pierre S. Guillou , Michael J. Brown , Paul C. Kelley , Shaorui Yang , Warren S. Rieutort-Louis , Yi Qiao , Ying-Chih Wang
IPC: H04M1/02 , G02B6/06 , H10K50/84 , H10K50/858 , H10K77/10 , H10K102/00
CPC classification number: H04M1/0269 , G02B6/06 , H10K50/841 , H10K50/858 , H10K77/111 , H10K2102/311
Abstract: An electronic device may have pixels that form an active area for a flexible display layer. An inactive area that is free of pixels may surround the active area. One or more edges of the flexible display layer may be bent around respective bend axes. The display layer may also have one or more unbent edges in which the inactive area and active area of the display have a planar shape. An image transport layer may have an input surface that receives the image and an output surface to which the image is transported. The image transport layer may be formed from a coherent fiber bundle or a layer of Anderson localization material. The coherent fiber bundle may have straight fibers that run parallel to each other in a vertical direction that is parallel to a surface normal of a central portion of the display layer.
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公开(公告)号：US11886246B2
公开(公告)日：2024-01-30
申请号：US17900266
申请日：2022-08-31
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Tyler R. Kakuda , Christopher E. Glazowski , Elizabeth C. Porter , Hao Dong , Jean-Pierre S. Guillou , Warren S. Rieutort-Louis
CPC classification number: G06F1/163 , G02B6/04 , G04G17/045 , G06F1/1637
Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing with a display. The display may be overlapped by an image transport layer such as a coherent fiber bundle or layer of Anderson localization material. The image transport layer may have an input surface that receives an image from the display and a corresponding output surface to which the image is transported. The input surface and output surface may have different shapes. A wristwatch device may, as an example, have a rectangular or hexagonal input surface and may have an output surface such as a rectangular output surface with rounded corners or a circular output surface. A region of the output surface may have compound curvature. A portion of the image transport layer may protrude laterally over an inactive portion of the display.
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公开(公告)号：US11388329B1
公开(公告)日：2022-07-12
申请号：US16376961
申请日：2019-04-05
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yi Qiao , Michael J. Brown , Jean-Pierre S. Guillou , Tyler R. Kakuda , Hao Dong , Ying-Chih Wang
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display panel for displaying images. A display cover layer having curved portions may overlap the display panel. An image transport layer having an input surface that receives light from the display panel may convey the light from the input surface to an output surface adjacent to an inner surface of the display cover layer. The image transport layer may include fibers with different lengths to form a region of the output surface with a curved profile. Each fiber in the coherent fiber bundle may have a respective output face. The output face of each fiber in the curved edge region of the image transport layer may be parallel to the display panel or may be angled towards the center of the image transport layer. Image distortion control circuitry may modify image data to control the perceived distortion of the display.
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公开(公告)号：US11619779B1
公开(公告)日：2023-04-04
申请号：US16536733
申请日：2019-08-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Jean-Pierre S. Guillou , Tyler R. Kakuda , Ying-Chih Wang , Michael J. Brown , Yi Qiao , Hao Dong , Paul C. Kelley , Shaorui Yang , Salman Karbasivalashani
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with pixels configured to display an image. An image transport layer may be formed from a coherent fiber bundle or Anderson localization material. The image transport layer may overlap the pixels and may have an input surface that receives the image from the pixels and a corresponding output surface on which the received image is viewable. The image transport layer may form an exterior surface of the electronic device or may be overlapped by a transparent cover layer. Various methods such as swelling, piping, and slumping may be used to process fibers and form image transport layers. A fiber bundle that is used to form an image transport layer may include fibers that have varying properties.
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公开(公告)号：US20220061179A1
公开(公告)日：2022-02-24
申请号：US16997665
申请日：2020-08-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Izhar Z. Ahmed , John J. Baker , Bulong Wu , Daniel W. Jarvis , Douglas G. Fournier , Eric W. Bates , Hao Dong , Isabel S. Gueble , Jason C. Law , Jingjing Xu , Kikue S. Burnham , Paul U. Leutheuser , Sarah Trabia , Sawyer I. Cohen , Shaorui Yang , Shaowei Qin , Siddharth Avachat , Yaocheng Zhang , Ying-Chih Wang , Zhen Zhang , Benjamin R. Pope
Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing that defines an aperture, and a display assembly positioned in the aperture. The display assembly can include a display layer having a first portion, and a second portion bending at least partially below the first portion. The first portion and the second portion can define a bend volume, and a potting material can be disposed in the bend volume, such that the potting material contacts the first portion and the second portion. An internal enclosure can be contoured to the display assembly.
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公开(公告)号：US11810534B1
公开(公告)日：2023-11-07
申请号：US16566530
申请日：2019-09-10
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yi Qiao , Jean-Pierre S. Guillou , Yingying Tang , Michael J. Brown , Paul C. Kelley , Tyler R. Kakuda , Hao Dong , Ying-Chih Wang , Chaohao Wang , Shaorui Yang , Wei H. Yao
CPC classification number: G09G5/37 , G06T1/20 , G06T5/006 , G06T7/70 , G09G3/3208 , G09G5/363 , G02B6/06 , G09G2320/0646
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display layer for displaying images. An optical coupling layer having an input surface that receives light from the display panel may convey the light from the input surface to an output surface. The output surface may have different dimensions than the display layer and may have any desired shape. To account for the displacement of light between the active area and the outer surface of the optical coupling layer and to ensure the output image is perceived with the desired distortion, image data may be rendered for the output surface then modified to account for the distortion and displacement that will occur later when the image is transported by the optical coupling layer from the display active area to the output surface of the optical coupling layer. Image distortion control circuitry may modify the rendered image data based on a distortion map.
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公开(公告)号：US20220413546A1
公开(公告)日：2022-12-29
申请号：US17900266
申请日：2022-08-31
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Tyler R. Kakuda , Christopher E. Glazowski , Elizabeth C. Porter , Hao Dong , Jean-Pierre S. Guillou , Warren S. Rieutort-Louis
Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing with a display. The display may be overlapped by an image transport layer such as a coherent fiber bundle or layer of Anderson localization material. The image transport layer may have an input surface that receives an image from the display and a corresponding output surface to which the image is transported. The input surface and output surface may have different shapes. A wristwatch device may, as an example, have a rectangular or hexagonal input surface and may have an output surface such as a rectangular output surface with rounded corners or a circular output surface. A region of the output surface may have compound curvature. A portion of the image transport layer may protrude laterally over an inactive portion of the display.
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公开(公告)号：US11493958B1
公开(公告)日：2022-11-08
申请号：US16921750
申请日：2020-07-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Tyler R. Kakuda , Christopher E. Glazowski , Elizabeth C. Porter , Hao Dong , Jean-Pierre S. Guillou , Warren S. Rieutort-Louis
Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing with a display. The display may be overlapped by an image transport layer such as a coherent fiber bundle or layer of Anderson localization material. The image transport layer may have an input surface that receives an image from the display and a corresponding output surface to which the image is transported. The input surface and output surface may have different shapes. A wristwatch device may, as an example, have a rectangular or hexagonal input surface and may have an output surface such as a rectangular output surface with rounded corners or a circular output surface. A region of the output surface may have compound curvature. A portion of the image transport layer may protrude laterally over an inactive portion of the display.
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公开(公告)号：US11889647B2
公开(公告)日：2024-01-30
申请号：US16997665
申请日：2020-08-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Izhar Z. Ahmed , John J. Baker , Bulong Wu , Daniel W. Jarvis , Douglas G. Fournier , Eric W. Bates , Hao Dong , Isabel S Gueble , Jason C. Law , Jingjing Xu , Kikue S. Burnham , Paul U. Leutheuser , Sarah Trabia , Sawyer I. Cohen , Shaorui Yang , Shaowei Qin , Siddharth Avachat , Yaocheng Zhang , Ying-Chih Wang , Zhen Zhang , Benjamin R. Pope
CPC classification number: H05K5/064 , G06F1/1626 , G06F1/1652 , H05K1/028 , H05K3/284
Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing that defines an aperture, and a display assembly positioned in the aperture. The display assembly can include a display layer having a first portion, and a second portion bending at least partially below the first portion. The first portion and the second portion can define a bend volume, and a potting material can be disposed in the bend volume, such that the potting material contacts the first portion and the second portion. An internal enclosure can be contoured to the display assembly.
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公开(公告)号：US11353652B1
公开(公告)日：2022-06-07
申请号：US16505553
申请日：2019-07-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Michael B. Wittenberg , Jean-Pierre S. Guillou , Tyler R. Kakuda , Christopher D. Prest , Marwan Rammah , Rasamy Phouthavong , Richard H. Dinh , Steven P. Hotelling , Yi Qiao , Michael J. Brown , Hao Dong , David A. Pakula
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display overlapped by a cover layer. Portions of the surface of the display and cover layer may have curved profiles. The display may include a flexible substrate and may have bent edge portions protruding from a central region. Gaps may be formed between regions of pixels on a common substrate or between separate display panels. An image transport layer formed from a coherent fiber bundle or a layer of Anderson localization material configured to exhibit two-dimensional transverse Anderson localization of light may have an input surface that receives an image from adjacent display pixels and an output surface on which the image is displayed. The output surface may have a curved profile and may exhibit compound curvature. The input surface may have a profile with curved portions or other shapes. Image transport layers can be used to cover gaps between sets of pixels.
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