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Phil M Hobson

Jeremy C Franklin

Ivan S Maric

Jia Tao

Jason C Sauers

Aidan N Zimmerman

Wey-Jiun Lin

Stephen E Dey

Sivesh Selvakumar

John Raff

Albert John Golko

Donald R Monroe

Trevor J Ness

Ibuki Kamei

Forrest C Wang

Yoonhoo Jo

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Stephen Brian Lynch

Christopher D Prest

Dale N Memering

Anthony Sagala Montevirgen

Christopher D Jones

David E Kingman

Edward S Huo

Jesse T Dybenko

James A Yurko

Derek C Scott

Jeffrey C Olson

Laura M Campo

Ivan S Marić

Juan A Lazaro

Evan D Christensen

Jonathan P Ive

Richard P Howarth

Alan C Dye

Stephen Olivier Lemay

Julian Jaede

William A Sorrentino, Iii

Tyler S Bushnell

Christopher Matthew Werner

Andreas G Weber

Ryan C Perkins

Onur I Ilkorur

Graham Butler Myhre

Guocheng Shao

Tobias J Harrison-Noonan

Arash Naghib Lahouti

David J Donohue

Jan K Quijalvo

Anna V Mirabella

Kuldeep P Lonkar

Jason L Slupeiks

Julian Hoenig

Jonathan C Atler

Matthew L Brown

William H Greenbaum

Guanyi Gao

Cheng Kai Chen

Jesse Lee Dorogusker

John Benjamin Filson

Jeffrey J Terlizzi

Yi Jiang

Donald Joseph Novotney

Scott Peter Krueger

Seung Wook Kim

Lijun Zhang

Arthur Yasheng Zhang

Geoffrey Grant Stahl

Ray Ling Chang

Hyungryul J Choi

Victor Manuel Tiscareno

Michael J Rockwell

Qiong Huang

Paul V Johnson

Muhammad F Hossain

Yanghai Tsin

Marinus Meursing

Samuel A Resnick

Branko Petljanski

Cheng Ping Tan

Bertrand Nepveu

Enoch Mylabathula

Kathrin Berkner Cieslicki

Victoria C Chan

Nan Zhu

Tom Sengelaub

Timothy Y Chang

Divakar Singamsetty

Christina G Gambacorta

William W Sprague

Heidi Williamson

Eric N Vergo

Edward Allen Valko

Elijah H Kleeman

Andrew Gallaher

Brandon E Clarke

Jeffrey Allan Hammerstrom

Jose Natividad Martinez

Brandon R Neale

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-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 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

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

A head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing. The housing may include a chassis with left and right openings that overlap respective left and right optical modules that present images eye boxes. Each optical module may have a lens and display that presents an image through the lens. The chassis may have an inner frame and outer frame. A middle portion of the chassis may form a stiffened nose bridge structure. Components in the housing such as a display, a fan housing, a heat sink layer, optical module guide rods, and a rear cover may span the width of the housing and may be attached to edge portions of the chassis, thereby forming a box-shaped structure that provides rigidity and helps prevent housing deformation.

Head-mounted electronic 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

A head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing. The housing may include a frame with left and right openings that receive respective left and right optical modules that present images to a user's eyes. Each optical module may have a lens and display that presents an image through the lens. Camera support members may be coupled to respective left and right peripheral portions of the frame. Each camera support member may have openings configured to receive cameras. Antennas may be formed on a camera support member. The antennas may have metal traces on a surface of the camera support member, may have conductive structures embedded within the camera support member, and/or may have patterned metal traces on printed circuits attached to or embedded in the camera support member. The cameras may operate through portions of a display cover layer that covers an outwardly-facing display on the head-mounted housing.

Electronic devices with antennas and optical components

A head-mounted display may include a display system and an optical system in a housing. The display system may have displays that produce images. Positioners may be used to move the displays relative to the eye positions of a user's eyes. An adjustable optical system may include tunable lenses such as tunable cylindrical liquid crystal lenses. The displays may be viewed through the lenses when the user's eyes are at the eye positions. A sensor may be incorporated into the head-mounted display to measure refractive errors in the user's eyes. The sensor may include waveguides and volume holograms, and a camera for gathering light that has reflected from the retinas of the user's eyes. Viewing comfort may be enhanced by adjusting display positions relative to the eye positions and/or by adjusting lens settings based on the content being presented on the display and/or measured refractive errors.

Head-mounted display device with vision correction

A head-mounted device includes a first device portion and a second device portion. A first coupler portion of the first device portion is connectable to a second coupler portion of the second device portion to define a connected position in which the first device portion is connected to the second device portion and a disconnected position in which the first device portion is disconnected from the second device portion. A second adjuster portion of the second device portion causes a first adjuster portion of the first device portion to move a first optical module and a second optical module in response to movement of the first device portion and the second device portion from the disconnected position to the connected position.

Head-mounted device with adjustment mechanism

A head-mounted display to be worn by a user includes a housing, a compressible material, and a support member. The compressible material is connected to the housing and is configured for contact with the user. The support member is disposed in the compressible material. The support member is movably connected to the housing.

Face seal for head-mounted display

A glass fastening system includes a glass portion, a support structure defining a recess, a first adhesive layer disposed on an exterior surface of the glass portion facing the recess in the support structure, a second adhesive layer disposed within the recess of the support structure, and a fastener having a first portion secured to the first adhesive layer and a second portion extending away from the first portion and into the second adhesive layer to secure the glass portion to the support structure.

Glass fastening and sealing systems

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