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Jeremy C Franklin

John Patrick Ternus

Scott A Myers

Stephen Brian Lynch

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Richard P Howarth

Christopher J Stringer

Julian Hoenig

John Raff

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Martha Evans Hankey

Jody R Akana

Jeremy D Bataillou

Eugene Antony Whang

Daniel J Coster

Paul Stephen Drzaic

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Daniele De Iuliis

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Shin Nishibori

Julian Jaede

Wei Chen

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Shota Aoyagi

Anthony Michael Ashcroft

Alan C Dye

Molly J Anderson

Markus Peter Diebel

Clement Tissandier

Marine C Bataille

Marc A Newson

Abidur Rahman Chowdhury

Jonathan Gomez Garcia

Paul Xiaopeng Wang

Joe Sung-Ho Tan

Alexandre B Girard

Mikael M Silvanto

Imran A Chaudhri

Stephen Olivier Lemay

Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne

Jeffrey Traer Bernstein

Benjamin M Rappoport

Kevin David Gibbs

Sean S Corbin

Stephen Robert McClure

Amy Qian

Phil M Hobson

Derek William Wright

Ivan S Maric

Justin Richard Wodrich

Wey-Jiun Lin

Stephen E Dey

Erik Andrew Uttermann

Forrest C Wang

Carl R Peterson

Jiang Ai

Jason C Sauers

Samuel Gilkison Smith

Elvis Mwenda Kibiti

Trevor J Ness

Florence W Ow

Andreas G Weber

Edward S Huo

Daniel D Sunshine

Anthony Sagala Montevirgen

Qingxiang Li

Aidan N Zimmerman

Rodney Andres Gomez Angulo

Michael Kane Pilliod

Nicolas Pedro Lylyk

Cheng Kai Chen

Moises Hernandez Hernandez

Kainoa Kwon-Perez

Anne-Marie Heck

William A Sorrentino, Iii

Phillip Michael Hobson

Nicholas Zambetti

Christopher T Eubank

Matthew Irvine Brown

James Alexander Stryker

Kristina A Babiarz

Robert Denton Silfvast

Neal D Evans

Teodor Dabov

Seung Wook Kim

May-Li Khoe

Onur I Ilkorur

Michael J Rockwell

David A Pakula

Jun Qi

Daniel William Jarvis

Geoffrey Grant Stahl

Arthur Yasheng Zhang

Ray Ling Chang

Hao Zhu

Graham Butler Myhre

Brian G Bentrim

A head-mountable device can include exchangeable components that can be selected by a user. Such components can include face and head engaging components to secure the head-mountable device on the face and head of the user. Liners can be provided to isolate the components from external and/or environmental influences until removed by a user upon selection of a given set of components. The liners can provide a contact surface that is similar to a contact surface of the component itself. As such, the user can try the component with an authentic experience prior to selection.

Head-mountable device with protective liner

Flexible electronic devices may be provided. A flexible electronic device may include a flexible display, a flexible housing and one or more flexible internal components configured to allow the flexible electronic device to be deformed. Flexible displays may include flexible display layers, flexible touch-sensitive layers, and flexible display cover layers. The flexible housing may be a multi-stable flexible housing having one or more stable positions. The flexible housing may include a configurable support structure that, when engaged, provides a rigid support structure for the flexible housing. The flexible internal components may include flexible batteries, flexible printed circuits or other flexible components. A flexible battery may include flexible and rigid portions or may include a lubricious separator layer that provides flexibility for the flexible battery. A flexible printed circuit may include flexible and rigid portions or openings that allow some rigid portions to flex with respect to other rigid portions.

Flexible electronic devices

A head-mounted device may have a display with first and second pixel arrays that display content for a user. A head-mounted support structure in the device supports the pixel arrays on the head of the user. A left positioner may be used to position a left lens module that includes a left lens and the first pixel array. A right positioner may be used to position a right lens module that includes a right lens and the second pixel array. Sensing circuitry such as proximity sensing circuitry may be used to detect relative positions between the left and right lens modules and facing surfaces of a user's nose while the user is wearing the head-mounted support structure. Control circuitry may adjust the positions of the left and right lens modules using interpupillary distance information for the user and using information from the sensing circuitry.

Head-mounted electronic display device with lens position sensing

A head-mounted device includes an external facing sensor configured to generate a signal corresponding to a characteristic of an external environment. A controller is configured to determine that a quality of the signal is below a threshold value and take an action in response. Another embodiment includes a case for storing a head-mounted device that includes a cleaner coupled with a base or a lid of case. The cleaner is configured to clean a portion of the head-mounted device when the head-mounted device is inserted into and/or removed from the case.

Panel cleaning system

Front cover for head-mounted display

A head-mountable display device includes a housing defining a front opening and a rear opening, a display screen disposed in the front opening, a display assembly disposed in the rear opening, a first securement strap coupled to the housing, the first securement strap including a first electronic component, a second securement strap coupled to the housing, the second securement strap including a second electronic component, and a securement band extending between and coupled to the first securement strap and the second securement strap.

Head mountable display

A display and vision correction system includes a head-mounted display unit, a glasses frame, and a removable lens assembly. The head-mounted display unit is configured to be worn on a head of a user and includes a display for providing graphical content to the user. The glasses frame is configured to be worn on the head of the user. The removable lens assembly is removably coupleable to the head-mounted display unit and to the glasses frame. The removable lens assembly includes a corrective lens element.

Display and vision correction system with removable lens

A head-mounted device may have left and right optical modules that present images to a user's eyes. Each optical module may have an optical module support structure and a lens and display coupled to the optical module support structure. The head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing that supports the optical modules. A cover on a rear face of the head-mounted housing may have a pair of openings configured to receive the left and right optical modules. The cover may have a cover layer and left and right cover layer mounting rings respectively configured to engage with the optical module support structures of the left and right optical modules. Sets of magnets in the left and right optical modules may be configured to attract corresponding left and right vision correction lenses. Gaskets may surround the lenses in the optical modules and may prevent environmental contaminant intrusion.

Electronic devices with optical modules

Head-mounted display

A display system includes a display, a removable lens assembly, and a lens detection sensor. The removable lens is removably coupleable to the display. The lens detection sensor detects the removable lens assembly coupled to the display. The display system may further include a head-mounted display unit that includes the display and the lens detection sensor. The display system may lens information from the removable lens with the lens detection sensor, and may provide an indicator of the removable lens according to the lens information.

Display system with interchangeable lens

An optical module for a head-mounted device is configured to present content to a user. The optical module includes an optical module housing assembly, a display assembly, and an eye camera. The optical module housing assembly has a first end and a second end. The lens is connected to the optical module housing assembly and positioned at the first end of the optical module housing assembly. The display assembly is connected to the optical module housing assembly and is positioned at the second end of the optical module housing assembly. The display assembly is configured to cause the content to be displayed to the user through the lens. The eye camera is connected to the optical module housing assembly and is positioned at the second end of the optical module housing assembly. The eye camera is configured to obtain images through the lens.

Optical module for head-mounted device

A system can include head-mounted devices that collaborate to process views from cameras of the respective head-mounted devices and identify objects from different perspectives and/or objects that are within the view of only one of the head-mounted devices. Sharing sensory input between multiple head-mounted devices can complement and enhance individual units by interpreting and reconstructing objects, surfaces, and/or an external environment with perceptive data from multiple angles and positions, which also reduces occlusions and inaccuracies. As more detailed information is available at a specific moment in time, the speed and accuracy of object recognition, hand and body tracking, surface mapping, and/or digital reconstruction can be improved. Such collaboration can provide more effective and efficient mapping of space, surfaces, objects, gestures and users.

Shared data and collaboration for head-mounted devices

A head-mountable device can operate in concert with one or more optical assemblies thereof to provide multiple users with shared experiences and content enjoyment. Such operations can be facilitated by a connection between the head-mountable device and one or both of its optical assemblies to allow different users to receive content. Such a connection can be made possible by a communication link that directly and/or physically connects the head-mountable device and one or both of its optical assemblies when the one or both of the optical assemblies is removed from the head-mountable device for operation by a separate user. The ability to provide multiple outputs on separate components allows separate users to participate in a shared experience.

Optical assemblies for shared experience

Electronic devices may be provided having internal components mounted to a structural glass support member. The structural glass support member may have a planar front surface that forms a front surface of the device. The structural glass support member may have bent portions that form sidewall surfaces of the device. Portions of the structural glass support member may form a transparent display cover layer. A rigid or flexible display may be mounted to the structural glass support member. Additional internal device components may be mounted to the display. A thin enclosure for enclosing the internal components in the device may be mounted to the structural glass support member. The thin enclosure may be mounted to the structural glass support member using a peripheral member. The thin enclosure may be free from attachments to internal components or may be adhesively bonded to one or more internal components.

Electronic devices with structural glass members

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Jeremy C Franklin