Displays with non-periodic opaque structures

    公开(公告)号:US11908846B1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-20

    申请号:US17009158

    申请日:2020-09-01

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H01L25/167

    Abstract: 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.

    Electronic device with stacked metasurface lenses

    公开(公告)号:US12153233B1

    公开(公告)日:2024-11-26

    申请号:US17465458

    申请日:2021-09-02

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Optical components such as components that emit light and components that detect light may be provided. Optical components that emit light may include displays having arrays of display pixels with respective light-emitting devices such as crystalline semiconductor light-emitting diodes. Optical components that detect light may include image sensors or other components with arrays of photodetectors. The light-emitting devices and photodetectors in the optical components may be overlapped by metalenses such as multielement metalenses. A multielement metalens may have a first metalens element formed from a first layer of nanostructures arranged and an overlapping second metalens element formed from a second layer of nanostructures. Light sources may be provided on a semiconductor and metalens nanostructures may be formed on an opposing surface of the semiconductor.

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