Apple Inc.

International Business Machines Corporation

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Jae Hwang Lee

David A Kalinowski

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Zheng Gao

Mahmoud R Amini

Avi Bar-Zeev

Grant H Mulliken

Nathanael D Parkhill

Richard Hung Minh Dinh

Benjamin J Pope

Devin William Chalmers

George Tziviskos

Samuel Gilkison Smith

Chad Seguin

Shaohai Chen

Guy C Nicholson

Claire E Dalke

Terence Patrick Purcell

Christopher T Eubank

Ruchir M Dave

Jerome C Tu

Thomas Abel Beavin

Jonathan D Sheaffer

Arthur Yasheng Zhang

Ray Ling Chang

Nikolas T Vitt

Justin J Schwab

Yoshikazu Shinohara

Mengchu Cai

Neal D Evans

Nathan Nicholas Ng

Paul Joseph Hack

Rui Zhou

Yohan Rajan

Li-Mey P Lee

Paul Meade

Shengxi Suo

David A Schmuck

Eric N Vergo

Dengfeng Gao

Andrew K McMahon

Brandon R Neale

Nalaka Vidanagamachchi

Cam Harder

Rahul Nair

Hyungryul J Choi

Thayne M Miller

Cameron A Harder

Wesley William Zuber

Dominic E Dolci

Sivesh Selvakumar

Ioana Negoita

Holly Gerhard

James M Jeon

Robert Joseph Barry

Frank Angermann

David M Schattel

Killian J Poore

Phillip S Satterfield

Laura M Campo

Timothy Y Chang

Cyril Labidi

Daniel A Bergvall

Austin S Young

Dk Kalinowski

Simon E Jordan

D K Kalinowski

Holly E Gerhard

A head mounted device includes a housing and an elongate member configured to support the housing with respect to the head of a user. A controller is configured to determine a correction based on a change in position of the display enclosure relative to the elongate member.

Head mounted device with position change detection and correction

A display system includes a head-mounted display unit and a wake control system. The head-mounted display unit provides content to a user and is operable in a low-power state and a high-power state that consumes more power to provide the content to the user than the low-power state. The wake control system determines when to operate in the high-power state. The wake control system may assess a first wake criterion with low power, assess a second wake criterion with higher power than the first wake criterion upon satisfaction of the first wake criterion, and cause the head-mounted display unit to operate in the high-power state upon satisfaction of the second wake criterion.

Display system

An electronic device is described. In some embodiments, the electronic device includes instructions for: while presenting an extended reality environment, receiving, by the first electronic device, a request to present a virtual representation of a remote participant of a communication session, where the first electronic device is connected to the communication session; obtaining a capability of the remote participant of the communication session; and in response to receiving the request to present the virtual representation of the remote participant of the communication session, presenting the virtual representation of the remote participant of the communication session based on the obtained capability of the remote participant of the communication session.

Environment for remote communication

Recording indicators for devices with cameras that provide protection from tampering so that the recording indicators cannot be easily disabled or masked. Recording indicators that are external to the camera lens and that emit visible light in an encrypted pattern are described. The device may process captured frames to detect the encrypted pattern; if the encrypted pattern cannot be detected, recording is disabled. In addition, modular accessories are described that the user has to attach to the device to enable recording; the presence of the modular attachment indicates to persons in the environment that they may be being recorded.

External recording indicators

An electronic device such as a head mounted device may have a head-mounted support structure. A portion of the head-mounted support structure may form a transparent housing member through which real-world objects can be viewed from eye boxes. A display system for the head-mounted device may have a display device that provides image light to a waveguide and may have an output coupler that couples the image light out of the waveguide toward the eye box. Peripheral portions of the transparent housing member or other peripheral device structures may be provided with a peripheral display that emits diffuse light into a user's peripheral vision. The peripheral display may use light guide structures, light sources, reflective structures, and other structures that provide transparency to real-world light.

Transparent display system with peripheral illumination

A method performed by a processor of a computer system including a headset that is to be worn on a head of a user. The method drives a speaker of the headset with an input audio signal to output sound into an environment. The method determines that the speaker is at least partially covered with a cupped hand. In response to determining that the speaker is at least partially covered with the cupped hand, applying a gain to the input audio signal to reduce an output sound level of the speaker.

Privacy with extra-aural speakers

A head-mounted device includes a device housing, a support structure that is connected to the device housing to support the device housing with respect to a user, a display device that is connected to the device housing to display content, an optical system that is associated with the display device, and sensors that generate sensor output signals. The head-mounted device also includes a tension controller that determines a tensioning command based on the sensor output signals, and a tension adjuster that applies tension to the user according to the tensioning command in order to restrain motion of the device housing with respect to the user.

Head-mounted device with tension adjustment

Range finding methods and apparatus that may be implemented by VR/MR systems that include a head-mounted display (HMD) and an accessory that the user holds or wears. Range finding sensors (e.g., ultrasonic transducers) may be included on the HMD and on the accessory and used to track distances to and relative position of walls, objects, and other obstacles within constrained physical environments such as rooms, gyms, yards, or fields, or in unconstrained physical environments. Range finding information from the sensors on the HMD and accessory can be used to generate a 3D map of the user's environment that can be used for various purposes in the VR/MR system. In addition to mapping the user's environment, the range finding methods and apparatus may also be used to track the relative position of the accessory with respect to the HMD.

Range finding and accessory tracking for head-mounted display systems

A head mounted device includes a housing, lenses connected to the housing, and a lens cover that is connected to the housing and is movable between a connected position and a disconnected position with respect to the housing.

Head mounted device

A head-mounted device includes a device housing, a support structure that is connected to the device housing to support the device housing with respect to a user, a display device that is connected to the device housing to display content, an optical system that is associated with the display device, and sensors that generate sensor output signals. The head-mounted device also includes a tension controller that determines a tensioning command based on the sensor output signals, and a tension adjuster that applies tension to the user according to the tension command in order to restrain motion of the device housing with respect to the user.

Recording indicators for devices with cameras that provide protection from tampering so that the recording indicators cannot be easily disabled or masked. Recording indicators that are integrated in a device's camera and that emit visible light through the camera lens aperture are described. In addition, modular accessories are described that the user has to attach to the device to enable recording; the presence of the modular attachment indicates to persons in the environment that they may be being recorded.

Recording indicators

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