Apple Inc.

Jonathan C Atler

Aidan N Zimmerman

Phil M Hobson

Jesse T Dybenko

Arash Naghib Lahouti

Ivan S Marić

Paul Xiaopeng Wang

Alex Joseph Lehmann

Jason C Sauers

Stephen E Dey

Chang Zhang

Ivan S Maric

Madeleine S Cordier

Luis R Deliz Centeno

Yoonhoo Jo

Muhammad F Hossain

Benjamin R Blachnitzky

Tianjia Sun

Ritu Shah

Nicolai Philip Georg

Jian H Li

Nicholas C Soldner

Yuhao Pan

James William Vandyke

Claire E Dalke

Syed Farhan Mohiuddin

Hongcheng Sun

Kevin Z Lo

Lilli Ing-Marie Jonsson

Sang E Lee

Ronit K Gandhi

Paul N DuMontelle

Alhad A Palkar

Minhazul Islam

Joon-Sup Han

Lilli Ing-Marie Johnsson

Hongchen Sun

Paul N Dumontelle

Luis Deliz Centeno

Nicolai Georg

Jian Li

A head-mountable device can provide adjustable size and shape for storage, transport, and/or charging. A head-mountable device can provide a bistable adjustment mechanism, such as a bistable hinge, that biases a component of the head-mountable device to either of two configurations. Such adjustability can be provided by a light seal module of the head-mountable device and can facilitate collapse of a head securement element, such as arms for engaging the head of the user.

Collapsible head-mountable device

A head-mounted device can effectively manage heat while also managing noise output in a manner that reduces the user's perception thereof. For example, a support member extending across a flow channel can provide multiple sections with different profiles and/or cross-sectional dimensions within the flow channel. Each of the profiles and/or cross-sectional dimensions can generate tonal noises at different frequencies, so that the tonal noises generated are distributed across multiple frequencies to mask such tonal noises among broadband noises that are generated by the head-mounted device. Such a support member can be moveably positioned within the flow channel and rigidly coupled to other components of the head-mounted device. Such a support member can also be used to draw heat away from other components of the head-mounted device to be dissipated by the flow of air within the flow channel.

Noise mitigation for head-mounted device

An electronic device may have a display with an array of pixels for displaying images. The electronic device may also have a lens through which the images are viewable on the display. The display may have a display panel that is mounted to a printed circuit stack. The printed circuit stack may include multiple printed circuit layers to which components are mounted. The components may include an orientation sensor overlapped by the display panel. A camera may be mounted to a printed circuit stack and may overlap one or more electrical components such as an orientation sensor. The printed circuit stacks may include rigid and flexible printed circuits coupled together using solder and other conductive connections. Air gaps may be created between stacked printed circuit layers.

Electronic devices with stacked circuitry

A system may include finger devices. A touch sensor may be mounted in a finger device housing to gather input from an external object as the object moves along an exterior surface of the housing. The touch sensor may include capacitive sensor electrodes. Sensors such as force sensors, ultrasonic sensors, inertial measurement units, optical sensors, and other components may be used in gathering finger input from a user. Finger input from a user may be used to manipulate virtual objects in a mixed reality or virtual reality environment while a haptic output device in a finger device provides associated haptic output. A user may interact with real-world objects while computer-generated content is overlaid over some or all of the objects. Object rotations and other movements may be converted into input for a mixed reality or virtual reality system using force measurements or other sensors measurements made with the finger devices.

Computer systems with finger devices

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Jonathan C Atler