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Jeremy C Franklin

Benjamin M Rappoport

John Patrick Ternus

Scott A Myers

Stephen Brian Lynch

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Kevin David Gibbs

Richard P Howarth

Christopher J Stringer

Julian Hoenig

John Raff

Sean S Corbin

Stephen Robert McClure

Amy Qian

Phil M Hobson

Jonathan P Ive

Derek William Wright

Ivan S Maric

Justin Richard Wodrich

Wey-Jiun Lin

Erik Andrew Uttermann

Stephen E Dey

Forrest C Wang

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Jody R Akana

Jeremy D Bataillou

Carl R Peterson

Eugene Antony Whang

Daniel J Coster

Paul Stephen Drzaic

Jiang Ai

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Daniele De Iuliis

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Martha Evans Hankey

Shin Nishibori

Julian Jaede

Jason C Sauers

Samuel Gilkison Smith

Elvis Mwenda Kibiti

Wei Chen

Trevor J Ness

Florence W Ow

Andreas G Weber

Edward S Huo

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Daniel D Sunshine

Anthony Sagala Montevirgen

Qingxiang Li

Aidan N Zimmerman

Rodney Andres Gomez Angulo

Michael Kane Pilliod

Shota Aoyagi

Anthony Michael Ashcroft

Alan C Dye

Stephen Olivier Lemay

Molly J Anderson

Markus Peter Diebel

Clement Tissandier

Marine C Bataille

Marc A Newson

Abidur Rahman Chowdhury

Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne

Jonathan Gomez Garcia

M Evans Hankey

Paul Xiaopeng Wang

Cheng Kai Chen

Nicolas Pedro Lylyk

Moises Hernandez Hernandez

Joe Sung-Ho Tan

Kainoa Kwon-Perez

William A Sorrentino, Iii

Alexandre B Girard

Anne-Marie Heck

Phillip Michael Hobson

Nicholas Zambetti

Christopher T Eubank

Matthew Irvine Brown

Onur I Ilkorur

James Alexander Stryker

Kristina A Babiarz

Robert Denton Silfvast

Neal D Evans

Mikael M Silvanto

David A Pakula

Jun Qi

Daniel William Jarvis

Teodor Dabov

Seung Wook Kim

Arthur Yasheng Zhang

Geoffrey Grant Stahl

Ray Ling Chang

Graham Butler Myhre

Hao Zhu

Frank Faqiu Liang

Brian G Bentrim

Michael J Rockwell

Alex Chun Lap Yeung

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

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

An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The display may have layers such as polarizer layers, a color filter layer, and a thin-film transistor layer. Display layers such as color filter layers and thin-film-transistor layers may have glass substrates. Notches or other openings may be formed in the layers of a display. For example, a notch with a curved chamfered edge may be formed in a lower end of a thin-film-transistor layer. A component such as a button may overlap the notch. Structures such as sensors, cameras, acoustic components, and other electronic components, buttons, communications path structures such as flexible printed circuit cables and wire bonding wires, and housing structures may be received within a display layer notch.

Notched display layers

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Jeremy C Franklin