Apple Inc.

Brent J Bollman

John N Border

Graham Butler Myhre

Sajjad Ali Khan

Tyler Anderson

Nan Zhu

Weibo Cheng

Di Liu

Francois R Jacob

Wei-Liang Hsu

Ran He

Serhan O Isikman

Guanjun Tan

Zuoqian Wang

Xia Li

Wei Lin

Nathan K Gupta

Tore Nauta

Young Cheol Yang

Kian Kerman

Jin Yan

Hjalmar Edzer Ayco Huitema

Jonathan P Mar

Arnoldus Alvin Barlian

Dongwoo Shin

Gilbert Huppert

Ruize Xu

Display structures and methods of manufacture of display structure including a display panel with a curved three-dimensional film contour are described. In an embodiment, a display panel includes display area with a main body area and a plurality of petals extending from the main body area. The petals are folded into a curved three-dimensional (3D) film contour, and are separated by corresponding trenches between petals. The trenches may be filled with various seam hiding materials to visually obscure the trenches.

Display structure for electronic devices

A head-mounted display may include a display system and an optical system in a housing. The display system may have a pixel array that produces light associated with images. The display system may also have a linear polarizer through which light from the pixel array passes and a quarter wave plate through which the light passes after passing through the quarter wave plate. The optical system may be a catadioptric optical system having one or more lens elements. The lens elements may include a plano-convex lens and a plano-concave lens. A partially reflective mirror may be formed on a convex surface of the plano-convex lens. A reflective polarizer may be formed on the planar surface of the plano-convex lens or the concave surface of the plano-concave lens. An additional quarter wave plate may be located between the reflective polarizer and the partially reflective mirror.

Optical system for head-mounted display

A head-mounted display may include a display system and an optical system that are supported by a housing. The optical system may be a catadioptric optical system having one or more lens elements. In one example, the optical system includes a single lens element and a retarder that is coated on a curved surface of the lens element. The retarder may be coated on an aspheric concave surface of the lens element. In another example the retarder may be coated on an aspheric convex surface of the lens element. One or more components of the optical system may be formed using a direct printing technique. This may allow for one or more adhesive layers and one or more hard coatings to be omitted from the optical system. A lens element may be directly printed on the display system to improve alignment between the optical system and the display system.

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Brent J Bollman