Apple Inc.

Ray Ling Chang

Paul Xiaopeng Wang

Arthur Yasheng Zhang

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Avi Bar-Zeev

Aaron Leiba

Amit K Vyas

Paul James Wehrenberg

David R Falkenburg

Louis G Gerbarg

Richard Charles Williams

Daniel Ben Pollack

Seung Wook Kim

Guy Cote

Jim Chen Chou

Justin N Wood

Hao Pan

Alex Joseph Lehmann

Sheng Zhang

Geoffrey Grant Stahl

Gurjeet S Saund

Timothy Robert Oriol

Madeleine S Cordier

Michael J Rockwell

Tobias Eble

David H Bloom

Justin A Hensley

Matthew Scott Klahn

Kyle J Nekimken

Michael Y Cheung

Ling Su

Scott G Johnston

Hongcheng Sun

Steven Douglas Parker

Ian M Bullock

Zheng Gao

Madhusudan Chaudhary

Aleksandr M Movshovich

John Joseph Iarocci

Chang Zhang

Jae Hwang Lee

David A Kalinowski

Joshua V Graessley

Grant H Mulliken

Reza Nasiri Mahalati

Matthew William Massicotte

Cherif Jazra

Darren S Litzinger

David Ferguson

Dayu Qu

Paul Meade

Tushar Gupta

Nathanael D Parkhill

Tong Liu

Andrew C Lam

Jonathan P Ive

Alan C Dye

Stephen Olivier Lemay

Julian Jaede

Jeremy C Franklin

John Greer Elias

William A Sorrentino, Iii

Anthony Sagala Montevirgen

Trevor J Ness

Jason C Sauers

Phil M Hobson

Edward S Huo

Golnaz Abdollahian

Vivek Pant

Forrest C Wang

John Schooley Camp

Yoonhoo Jo

Jeffrey C Olson

Moshe H Malkin

Divakar Singamsetty

Timothy Y Chang

Julian Hoenig

Jason L Slupeiks

Dennis A Yarak

Justin Mcleod North Wood

Steve Parker

Yami George

John Buckmaster

Robert M Proie, Jr

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 system includes a head-mounted display unit and a wake control system. The head-mounted display unit provides content to a user and is operable in a low-power state and a high-power state that consumes more power to provide the content to the user than the low-power state. The wake control system determines when to operate in the high-power state. The wake control system may assess a first wake criterion with low power, assess a second wake criterion with higher power than the first wake criterion upon satisfaction of the first wake criterion, and cause the head-mounted display unit to operate in the high-power state upon satisfaction of the second wake criterion.

Display system

Fiducial patterns that produce 2D Barker code-like diffraction patterns at a camera sensor are etched or otherwise provided on a cover glass in front of a camera. 2D Barker code kernels, when cross-correlated with the diffraction patterns captured in images by the camera, provide sharp cross-correlation peaks. Misalignment of the cover glass with respect to the camera can be derived by detecting shifts in the location of the detected peaks with respect to calibrated locations. Devices that include multiple cameras behind a cover glass with one or more fiducials on the cover glass in front of each camera are also described. The diffraction patterns caused by the fiducials at the various cameras may be analyzed to detect movement or distortion of the cover glass in multiple degrees of freedom.

Object localization system

A mixed reality system that includes a device and a base station that communicate via a wireless connection The device may include sensors that collect information about the user's environment and about the user. The information collected by the sensors may be transmitted to the base station via the wireless connection. The base station renders frames or slices based at least in part on the sensor information received from the device, encodes the frames or slices, and transmits the compressed frames or slices to the device for decoding and display. The base station may provide more computing power than conventional stand-alone systems, and the wireless connection does not tether the device to the base station as in conventional tethered systems. The system may implement methods and apparatus to maintain a target frame rate through the wireless link and to minimize latency in frame rendering, transmittal, and display.

Video pipeline

A system may include an electronic device such as a head-mounted device and a handheld input device for controlling the electronic device. The handheld input device may include a stylus and a removable sleeve on the stylus. The input-output capabilities of the handheld input device may be shared between the stylus and the removable sleeve. The stylus may include touch sensor circuitry, a force-sensitive tip, and a motion sensor. The sleeve may include conductors for translating touch input on the sleeve to the touch sensor circuitry on the stylus, a deformable member for translating forces on the sleeve to the force-sensitive tip of the stylus, and visual markers that can be detected by an external camera and used with motion sensor data from the stylus to track the handheld input device. The removable sleeve may include haptic output devices and a battery and may be attached to an item without electronics.

Handheld input devices with sleeves

A finger-mounted device may include finger-mounted units. The finger-mounted units may each have a body that serves as a support structure for components such as force sensors, accelerometers, and other sensors and for haptic output devices. The body may have sidewall portions coupled by a portion that rests adjacent to a user's fingernail. The body may be formed from deformable material such as metal or may be formed from adjustable structures such as sliding body portions that are coupled to each other using magnetic attraction, springs, or other structures. The body of each finger-mounted unit may have a U-shaped cross-sectional profile that leaves the finger pad of each finger exposed when the body is coupled to a fingertip of a user's finger. Control circuitry may gather finger press input, lateral finger movement input, and finger tap input using the sensors and may provide haptic output using the haptic output device.

Finger-mounted device with sensors and haptics

Embodiments are directed to a user input device and methods related to the use thereto. In one aspect, an embodiment includes a flexible fabric attachable to a user having a first portion and a second portion. The first portion may be moveable in relation to the second portion. The embodiment may further include a controller configured to identify an input configuration based on a position of the first portion relative to a position of the second portion within a three-dimensional space. The embodiment may further include a haptic feedback structure disposed adjacent the flexible fabric and configured to provide haptic feedback based on the input configuration.

Wearable interactive user interface

A wearable electronic device comprises a multi-segment force sensor and a signal aggregator. The sensor comprises at least a first segment and a second segment connected to a flexible substrate material. A first portion of the substrate material (to which the first segment is attached) and a second portion of the substrate material (to which the second segment is attached) collectively wrap at least partially around a portion of an individual's body. The signal aggregator receives respective signals indicative of forces applied by an individual to the segments, and causes a representation of the respective signals to be transmitted to an application processing engine.

Segmented force sensors for wearable devices

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Ray Ling Chang