Apple Inc.

Kathrin Berkner Cieslicki

Noah Denis Bedard

Branko Petljanski

Bosheng Zhang

Ricardo Jansson Motta

Brett D Miller

Ting Sun

Paul M Hubel

Emanuele Mandelli

Angelo M Alaimo

Manohar B Srikanth

Daniel R Hennigan

Kenichi Saito

Bryan Dang

Jean Hsiang-Chun Lu

Jonathan P Ive

Alan C Dye

Stephen Olivier Lemay

Julian Jaede

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Cheng Kai Chen

Jeremy C Franklin

Marduke Yousefpor

William A Sorrentino, Iii

Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost

Jason C Sauers

Geoffrey Grant Stahl

Wey-Jiun Lin

Arthur Yasheng Zhang

Farhan A Baqai

Ivan S Maric

Andrew Kenneth John McMahon

Phil M Hobson

Nicolas P Bonnier

Graham Butler Myhre

Michael J Rockwell

Forrest C Wang

Yoonhoo Jo

Muhammad F Hossain

Yanghai Tsin

Jia Tao

Marinus Meursing

Frederic Cao

Bertrand Nepveu

Jan K Quijalvo

Tom Sengelaub

Julian Hoenig

Jason L Slupeiks

Tongbo Chen

Peter Kaufmann

Thibaut Weise

James W Vandyke

Hesam Najafi

A light source module includes an array of illumination elements and an optional projecting lens. The light source module is configured to receive or generate a control signal for adjusting different ones of the illumination elements to control a light field emitted from the light source module. In some embodiments, the light source module is also configured to adjust the projecting lens responsive to objects in an illuminated scene and a field of view of an imaging device. A controller for a light source module may determine a light field pattern based on various parameters including a field of view of an imaging device, an illumination sensitivity model of the imaging device, depth, ambient illumination and reflectivity of objects, configured illumination priorities including ambient preservation, background illumination and direct/indirect lighting balance, and so forth.

Adaptive-flash photography, videography, and/or flashlight using camera, scene, or user input parameters

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

Frame capture techniques may include obtaining, from at least one sensor, sensor data indicating a motion rate of the system in the environment, receiving a request for the image data of the environment, and selecting, by the controller, a frame rate based on one or more requesting client applications and the sensor data. In addition, the frame tracking techniques may include detecting, based on a motion parameter in the sensor data and by the controller, that a motion of the system falls below a predetermined threshold; and triggering frame capture by the camera in accordance with the sensor data and the selected frame rate, the frame capture being triggered in accordance with the request and the detection.

Systems and methods for triggering a frame capture in a wearable device

A device such as a stylus may have a color sensor. The color sensor may have a color sensing light detector having a plurality of photodetectors each of which measures light for a different respective color channel. The color sensor may also have a light emitter. The light emitter may have an adjustable light spectrum. The light spectrum may be adjusted during color sensing measurements using information such as ambient light color measurements made with a color ambient light sensor that has a plurality of photodetectors each of which measures light for a different respective color channel. An inertial measurement unit may be used to measure the angular orientation between the stylus and an external object during color measurements. Arrangements in which the light emitter is modulated during color sensing may also be used. Measurements from the stylus may be transmitted wirelessly to external equipment.

Electronic device with optical sensor for sampling surfaces

This disclosure describes a novel lens system having an entrance pupil at a location matching, or nearly matching, the eye's optical system entrance pupil. The described lens system is significantly thinner than a single-aperture lens with matched entrance pupil and is achieved by using an array of camera elements. Each camera element contains camera optics called 'lenslets' and a sensor (e.g., an image or depth sensor), where a lenslet can include one or more lens elements (e.g., a compound lens). Individual camera elements can be arranged such that THEIR optical axes intersect at, or near, the eye's entrance pupil location. In addition, each camera element's field-of-view (FOV) corresponds to a small sector of a large FOV. The FOVs of adjacent camera elements can be non- or slightly-overlapping so that a wide-angle image can be formed by concatenation of the individual camera element images.

Lens array for shifting perspective of an imaging system

A device for MR/VR systems that includes a two-dimensional array of cameras that capture images of respective portions of a scene. The cameras are positioned along a spherical surface so that the cameras have adjacent fields of view. The entrance pupils of the cameras are positioned at or near the user's eye while the cameras also form optimized images at the sensor. Methods for reducing the number of cameras in an array, as well as methods for reducing the number of pixels read from the array and processed by the pipeline, are also described.

Camera system

An apparatus for touch-sensing includes a light-emitting layer covered by a transparent layer and configured to illuminate a surface touching the transparent layer and to allow transmission of reflected light rays from the surface to underlying layers. The underlying layers include an optical coupling layer, a collimator layer and a pixelated image sensor. The optical coupling layer bends the reflected light rays to create oblique light rays. The collimator layer includes a number of apertures to collimate the received light rays. The pixelated image sensor senses the collimated oblique light rays.

Under-display fingerprint sensing based on off-axis angular light

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Kathrin Berkner Cieslicki