公开(公告)号：US20210405378A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-30

申请号：US17474349

申请日：2021-09-14

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Hyungryul Choi ,  Bradley C. Steele ,  Brian S. Lau ,  Cameron A. Harder ,  David A. Kalinowski ,  Eric J. Hansotte ,  Guolin Peng ,  Scott M. DeLapp ,  Vikrant Bhakta ,  Jonathan C. Moisant-Thompson

IPC分类号： G02B27/01 ,  F21V8/00 ,  G02B5/32 ,  G03H1/02 ,  G02F1/137

摘要： An electronic device may include an optical combiner with a waveguide. The waveguide may have an output coupler that directs high resolution light towards an eye box within a field of view. Peripheral light sources may provide low resolution peripheral light to the eye box about a periphery of the field of view. The peripheral light sources may be mounted to a frame for the waveguide, to an additional substrate mounted to the frame and overlapping the waveguide, in a low resolution projector that projects the peripheral light towards reflective structures in the additional substrate, or in a display module that produces the high resolution light. The optical combiner may overlay real world light with the high resolution light and the low resolution peripheral light.

公开(公告)号：US11907420B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-20

申请号：US17397719

申请日：2021-08-09

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Devin W. Chalmers ,  Gregory L. Lutter ,  Jonathan C. Moisant-Thompson ,  Rahul Nair

IPC分类号： G06F3/01 ,  G02B27/00 ,  G02B27/01 ,  G06T5/00 ,  G06T19/00

CPC分类号： G06F3/013 ,  G02B27/0093 ,  G02B27/0172 ,  G02B27/0179 ,  G06T5/002 ,  G06T19/006 ,  G02B2027/0185 ,  G02B2027/0187

摘要： One or more techniques for managing virtual objects between one or more displays are described. In accordance with some embodiments, exemplary techniques for displaying a virtual object are described.

公开(公告)号：US11838495B1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-05

申请号：US16993168

申请日：2020-08-13

申请人： Apple Inc.

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

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

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

摘要： 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：US11908846B1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-20

申请号：US17009158

申请日：2020-09-01

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Yung-Yu Hsu ,  Chaohao Wang ,  Jonathan C. Moisant-Thompson ,  Kuan H. Lu ,  Mingjing Ha ,  Paul S. Drzaic ,  Yang Li ,  Yi-Pai Huang ,  Nathaniel T. Lawrence

IPC分类号： H01L25/16

CPC分类号： H01L25/167

摘要： A display may include light-emitting components such as light-emitting diodes on a transparent substrate. Conductive signal paths between the light-emitting components, driver integrated circuits for controlling the light-emitting components, and the light-emitting components themselves may be opaque. To mitigate diffraction artifacts caused by the opaque components, the opaque footprint of the display may be selected to include non-periodic portions. The non-periodic portions increase randomness and reduce periodicity within the opaque footprint, which mitigates perceptible diffraction artifacts when viewing the display. One or both of the component mounting portions and interconnect portions of the opaque footprint may be non-periodic. The component mounting portions may have random shapes. The interconnect portions may follow random paths between the component mounting portions.

公开(公告)号：US11735126B1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-22

申请号：US17379386

申请日：2021-07-19

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Jackson K. Roland ,  Nicolas P. Bonnier ,  Alexandre Chapiro ,  David A. Doyle ,  Guillaume Lestoquoy ,  Jonathan C. Moisant-Thompson

IPC分类号： G09G3/34 ,  G09G3/3233 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06V10/56

CPC分类号： G09G3/3413 ,  G06F1/163 ,  G06V10/56 ,  G09G3/3233 ,  G09G3/342 ,  G09G2320/0666 ,  G09G2340/06

摘要： An electronic device such as a watch may include a display and a light sensor located behind the display. The light sensor may be used to measure the color of external objects. During color sampling operations, the display may emit light towards the external object in front of the display while the light sensor gathers color measurements. The display may emit light of different colors and the light sensor may detect an amount of reflected light for each color, which in turn may be used to determine the color of the external object. The control circuitry may use a watch-band-specific algorithm to determine the color of watch bands and may use a clothing-specific algorithm to determine the color of clothing. The control circuitry may display the color on the display so that the face of the watch matches the user's clothing or matches the user's watch band.

公开(公告)号：US11803060B1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-31

申请号：US17223495

申请日：2021-04-06

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Bennett S. Wilburn ,  Jonathan C. Moisant-Thompson ,  Alexandre Chapiro ,  Seth E. Hunter ,  Ove Lyngnes ,  Nicolas P. Bonnier

IPC分类号： G02B27/01 ,  G02C7/12 ,  G02C11/00

CPC分类号： G02B27/0172 ,  G02C7/12 ,  G02C11/10 ,  G02B2027/0178 ,  G02B2027/0187

摘要： Eyewear such as sunglasses may include display-optimized lenses. The lenses may be optimized for viewing an external display and/or for viewing a display in the head-mounted device while also providing sun protection for the user's eyes. The lenses may include a polarizer and a color filter that are designed for a given target display. Lenses that are optimized for a display that emits linearly polarized light may include a linear polarizer. Lenses that are optimized for a display that emits circularly polarized light may include a circular polarizer. The circular polarizer may include a quarter wave plate and a linear polarizer. The color filter may have a transmission spectrum curve with peaks corresponding to the primary colors of the target display so that the color and brightness of display light is preserved while the brightness of sunlight is reduced.