Apple Inc.

Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC

Shenglin Ye

Wei Lin

Shubhaditya Majumdar

Nathan K Gupta

Prabhakar Gulgunje

Di Liu

Yu-Jen Wang

Shawn Robert Gettemy

Jean-Pierre Simon Guillou

Yun-Han Lee

Tyler Robin Kakuda

Michael J Brown

Boyi Fu

Yi Qiao

Paul C Kelley

Christopher Edward Glazowski

Linghui Rao

Elizabeth C Porter

Sudirukkuge T Jinasundera

Salman Karbasi

Ian T Clark

Xinyu Zhu

Chunchia Huang

Xiangtong Li

A liquid crystal display (LCD) system for a head mounted display includes an LCD panel and a backlight unit. The LCD panel includes a color filter on array (COA) configuration. The backlight unit includes a light adjustment layer to adjust at least one characteristic of illumination light from a light source to tune the illumination light for enlarging an emission cone of display light.

Backlight unit and color filter on array configuration for a liquid crystal display

A system may include one or more electronic devices. Fiber bundles may be provided to convey light. A fiber bundle may have a bend along its length. Fibers for the fiber bundle may be formed from polymer cores coated with polymer claddings. The fibers may have end faces coated with antireflection coatings. The antireflection coatings may be formed from amorphous fluoropolymer deposited from solution. The fluoropolymer may be applied to the end faces of the fibers by dipping, spraying, or by dispensing with a needle dispenser or other dispensing tool. An optical component such as a light-emitting device for a communications system, an illumination system, or a sensor system may provide infrared light that is guided through the fiber bundle.

Systems having fibers with antireflection coatings

An electronic device may have a housing with a display. The display may be overlapped by an image transport layer such as a coherent fiber bundle or layer of Anderson localization material. The image transport layer may have an input surface that receives an image from the display and a corresponding output surface to which the image is transported. The input surface and output surface may have different shapes. During fabrication of the image transport layer, molding techniques, grinding and polishing techniques, and other processes are used to deform the image transport layer and the shape of the output surface. The area of peripheral portions of the output surface may expand relative to central portions. Optical uniformity across the output surface can be enhanced by maintaining uniformity in fiber core diameters and other attributes of the image transport layer across deformed and undeformed portions of the output surface.

Electronic devices having displays with enhanced optical uniformity

An electronic device may have a housing with a display. A protective display cover layer for the display may have an image transport layer such as an image transport layer formed from optical fibers. Extruded filaments of binder material may be fused together to form a layer of binder for the image transport layer. Each filament may contain multiple embedded optical fibers. As a result of the extrusion process, the optical fibers may be characterized by increasing lateral deformation at increasing distances from the center of the filament in which the optical fibers are embedded. Tension variations and variations in the orientation angle of the fibers in the image transport layer can be maintained below desired limits to ensure satisfactory optical performance for the image transport layer. The optical fibers and binder may be formed from polymers or other clear materials.

Electronic devices with image transport layers

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