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公开(公告)号：US20230252928A1
公开(公告)日：2023-08-10
申请号：US18299487
申请日：2023-04-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Ying-Chih Wang , Michael J. Brown , Michael B. Wittenberg , Paul C. Kelley , Rasamy Phouthavong , Tyler R. Kakuda , Jean-Pierre S. Guillou , Marwan Rammah
CPC classification number: G09G3/20 , G02B6/0006 , G02B6/0008 , G02B2006/12111
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with pixels configured to display an image. The pixels may be overlapped by a cover layer. The display may have peripheral edges with curved cross-sectional profiles. An inactive area in the display may be formed along a peripheral edge of the display or may be surrounded by the pixels. Electrical components such as optical components may be located in the inactive area. An image transport layer may be formed from a coherent fiber bundle or Anderson localization material. The image transport layer may overlap the pixels, may have an opening that overlaps portions of the inactive area, may have an output surface that overlap portions of the inactive area, and/or may convey light associated with optical components in the electronic device.
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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：US20240304128A1
公开(公告)日：2024-09-12
申请号：US18667315
申请日：2024-05-17
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Ying-Chih Wang , Michael J. Brown , Michael B. Wittenberg , Paul C. Kelley , Rasamy Phouthavong , Tyler R. Kakuda , Jean-Pierre S. Guillou , Marwan Rammah
CPC classification number: G09G3/20 , G02B6/0006 , G02B6/0008 , G02B2006/12111 , G09F9/301
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with pixels configured to display an image. The pixels may be overlapped by a cover layer. The display may have peripheral edges with curved cross-sectional profiles. An inactive area in the display may be formed along a peripheral edge of the display or may be surrounded by the pixels. Electrical components such as optical components may be located in the inactive area. An image transport layer may be formed from a coherent fiber bundle or Anderson localization material. The image transport layer may overlap the pixels, may have an opening that overlaps portions of the inactive area, may have an output surface that overlap portions of the inactive area, and/or may convey light associated with optical components in the electronic device.
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公开(公告)号：US11516908B1
公开(公告)日：2022-11-29
申请号：US16682146
申请日：2019-11-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Ying-Chih Wang , Michael J. Brown , Michael B. Wittenberg , Paul C. Kelley , Rasamy Phouthavong , Tyler R. Kakuda , Jean-Pierre S. Guillou , Marwan Rammah
IPC: H05K1/02 , H01L51/52 , H05K5/00 , H05K5/03 , H05K1/18 , G02B6/06 , G06F3/044 , G06F3/041 , H01Q1/40
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with pixels configured to display an image. The pixels may be overlapped by a cover layer. 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 through the cover layer. Circuitry may be embedded within the image transport layer. The circuitry that is embedded within the image transport layer may include capacitive touch sensor circuitry, antenna resonating element structures, input-output components, signal lines, and other circuitry.
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公开(公告)号：US11364697B1
公开(公告)日：2022-06-21
申请号：US16803161
申请日：2020-02-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Paul C. Kelley
Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing with a display. A protective display cover layer for the display may have an image transport layer such as a fiber optic plate. The fiber optic plate may be formed from a bundle of fibers. The fibers may be formed using fiber extruding equipment. Each fiber may have a core covered with a cladding, a stray light absorbing layer, and binder material. The fibers may be deformed in a heated chamber by pressing inwardly with a die that has a recess, causing the fibers to bulge into the recess. A cutter can be used to cut off a layer of the deformed fibers. This layer may be machined and polished to form the fiber optic plate.
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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：US11747553B1
公开(公告)日：2023-09-05
申请号：US17026063
申请日：2020-09-18
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Tyler R. Kakuda , Elizabeth C. Porter , Jean-Pierre S. Guillou , Michael J. Brown , Paul C. Kelley , Salman Karbasi , Shubhaditya Majumdar , Yi Qiao
CPC classification number: G02B6/06 , G02B6/02052
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display 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. During fabrication of the image transport layer, molding techniques, grinding and polishing techniques, and other processes may be used to deform the image transport layer and the shape of the output surface. To accommodate differences in material deformation and other factors that vary as a function of position across the image transport layer, the image transport layer may be formed from canes of fibers or other material with one or more properties that vary as a function of position.
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公开(公告)号：US11436964B1
公开(公告)日：2022-09-06
申请号：US17225520
申请日：2021-04-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Ying-Chih Wang , Michael J. Brown , Michael B. Wittenberg , Paul C. Kelley , Rasamy Phouthavong , Tyler R. Kakuda , Jean-Pierre S. Guillou , Marwan Rammah
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with pixels configured to display an image. The pixels may be overlapped by a cover layer. The display may have peripheral edges with curved cross-sectional profiles. An inactive area in the display may be formed along a peripheral edge of the display or may be surrounded by the pixels. Electrical components such as optical components may be located in the inactive area. An image transport layer may be formed from a coherent fiber bundle or Anderson localization material. The image transport layer may overlap the pixels, may have an opening that overlaps portions of the inactive area, may have an output surface that overlap portions of the inactive area, and/or may convey light associated with optical components in the electronic device.
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公开(公告)号：US11860394B1
公开(公告)日：2024-01-02
申请号：US16935021
申请日：2020-07-21
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yi Qiao , Jean-Pierre S. Guillou , Michael J. Brown , Paul C. Kelley , Tyler R. Kakuda , Ying-Chih Wang , Salman Karbasi
CPC classification number: G02B6/0008 , G02B1/14 , G02B5/003 , G02B6/4202
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display 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. During fabrication of the image transport layer, molding techniques, grinding and polishing techniques, and other processes may be used to deform the image transport layer and the shape of the output surface. To help reduce ambient light reflections and stray light, light-absorbing structures may be incorporated into the image transport layer and other structures overlapping the display.
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公开(公告)号：US11670210B2
公开(公告)日：2023-06-06
申请号：US17840890
申请日：2022-06-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Ying-Chih Wang , Michael J. Brown , Michael B. Wittenberg , Paul C. Kelley , Rasamy Phouthavong , Tyler R. Kakuda , Jean-Pierre S. Guillou , Marwan Rammah
CPC classification number: G09G3/20 , G02B6/0006 , G02B6/0008 , G02B2006/12111 , G09F9/301
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with pixels configured to display an image. The pixels may be overlapped by a cover layer. The display may have peripheral edges with curved cross-sectional profiles. An inactive area in the display may be formed along a peripheral edge of the display or may be surrounded by the pixels. Electrical components such as optical components may be located in the inactive area. An image transport layer may be formed from a coherent fiber bundle or Anderson localization material. The image transport layer may overlap the pixels, may have an opening that overlaps portions of the inactive area, may have an output surface that overlap portions of the inactive area, and/or may convey light associated with optical components in the electronic device.
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