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Teodor Dabov

John B Ardisana, Ii

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Stephen Brian Lynch

Anthony Sagala Montevirgen

Emery Artemus Sanford

Kyle H Yeates

Yoav Ben-Haim

Ashutosh Yugesh Shukla

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Richard P Howarth

Eugene Antony Whang

Martha Evans Hankey

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Jeremy D Bataillou

Christopher Matthew Werner

Tyson Benner Manullang

Douglas Wayne Moskowitz

Christopher J Stringer

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Daniele De Iuliis

Jody R Akana

Daniel J Coster

Shin Nishibori

Mathias Andreas Hintermann

Varun Sehrawat

Douglas Joseph Weber

Wey-Jiun Lin

Andrew J M Janis

Julian Hoenig

Phillip Michael Hobson

Mikael M Silvanto

David Glenn Havskjold

Scott A Myers

Russell Douglas Patton

Dhaval N Shah

Ugur Olgun

Patrick Timothy McSweeney Simons

David Glen Havskjold

Erik Geddes Pieter De Jong

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Paul Stephen Drzaic

Robert W Schlub

Erik G De Jong

Robert J Hill

Derek William Wright

Qingxiang Li

Edward Siahaan

Lijun Zhang

Darshan R Kasar

Jinwoo Kim

Dean F Darnell

Jun Lin

Yaocheng Zhang

Emily Lauren Clopp

Shota Aoyagi

Anthony Michael Ashcroft

Molly J Anderson

Markus Peter Diebel

Clement Tissandier

Julian Jaede

Marine C Bataille

Marc A Newson

Abidur Rahman Chowdhury

Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne

Jonathan Gomez Garcia

Christopher D Prest

Richard Hung Minh Dinh

David A Pakula

Nicolas Pedro Lylyk

Ruben Caballero

Eric Steven Jol

Moises Hernandez Hernandez

John Benjamin Filson

Kainoa Kwon-Perez

Jeremy C Franklin

Alexandre B Girard

Anne-Marie Heck

Benjamin J Pope

Michael Nathaniel Rosenblatt

Naoto Matsuyuki

Philipe Roget Manoux

Michael J Webb

Edward S Huo

Richard Hung Dinh

Hsiang Hung Chen

Kevin M Froese

David Samuel Kumka

Jeffrey C Olson

Casey J Feinstein

Patrick Timothy Mcsweeney Simons

Ritu Shah

Yoji Hamada

Zhijun Zhang

Felix J Alvarez

Michael Brickner

Timothy Y Chang

An eyewear device has a lens retention mechanism that establishes electrical contact between onboard electronics and a lens ring by a resiliently compressible electrical contact member, such as a spring washer, located within a housing defined by a body of the eyewear device. The retention mechanism can further include a lock screw that is selectively engageable with the lens ring to allow disposal between retention and release of a lens by the lens ring, the lock ring being captured in the housing such as to resist removal of the lock screw from the housing when the lens ring is released for lens removal.

Eyewear device lens retention mechanism

Head-mounted display

An electronic assembly including eyewear and/or an eyewear case having a support structure and a conductive contact surface supported by the support structure. The eyewear case includes electronic components, an electrical contact surface adapted to engage the conductive contact surface of the eyewear, a first magnet attached to the electrical contact surface, and a second magnet that is positioned to attract or repel the first magnet.

Magnetic force electrical contacts

Eyewear that includes a frame supporting an optical element. The frame has a first side and a second side. The eyewear also includes a temple adjacent the first side of the frame. The temple includes a first portion adjacent the frame and a second portion releasably connected to the first portion. The eyewear also includes an electrical connector embedded within the first portion of the temple. The second portion conceals the electrical connector from an exterior of the eyewear when the second portion connects to the first portion in a concealed state, and exposes the electrical connector from the exterior of the eyewear when disconnected from the first portion in an exposed state.

Electrical connector in eyewear

An antenna system comprises a combination of a loop antenna and a non-loop antenna. The loop antenna and the non-loop antenna is connected in common to a transceiver mechanism or signal feed mechanism. The non-loop antenna is in some embodiments provided by a dipole conductor. An eyewear device incorporates the antenna system, a loop conductor and a dipole conductor of the antenna system being integrated in a body of the eyewear device. The loop conductor may be provided by a lens ring that extends around a lens held by the body. The lens ring may serve both as loop conductor and as a lens retention mechanism.

Hybrid antenna system for wearable devices

A battery pack comprises a pair of physically separate battery cells share a single protection circuit module (PCM). Each further saw comprises a respective pair of electrodes, with both pairs of electrodes being connected to a single, common protection circuit board (PCB) of the PCM. The common PCM may be located in a spacing between adjacent ends of the batteries such that a widthwise dimension of the PCB has an upright orientation between the two batteries.

Method for assembly of battery pack with compact shared PCM

Eyewear devices including a tether and methods for identifying proper installation of the tether are disclosed. An eyewear device includes transmission lines extending through the temples to electrical and electronic components positioned adjacent to edges of a frame. A tether is attached to the temples to enable power and communication flow between the electrical and electronic components rather than through the frame. Proper installation is identified based on communications passing between the electrical and electronic components via the tether.

Eyewear tether

Eyewear that includes a frame supporting an optical element. The frame has a first side and a second side. The eyewear also includes a temple adjacent the first side of the frame. The temple includes a first portion adjacent the frame and a second portion releasably connected to the first portion. An electronic device is provided in the releasable second portion. The electronic device may be passive or active, such as a battery configured to power the eyewear. The electronic device may communicate with an electronic component in the first portion, and may also operate independently when the second portion is removed.

Modular eyewear temple

Electronic devices may be provided that contain multiple housing portions. The housing portions may be coupled together using hinges. The hinges may include hinges based on a three-bar linkage, hinges based on a four-bar linkage, hinges with slotted members, hinges formed from flexible support structures, and hinges based on flexible housing structures. Flexible displays may be mounted to the housing portions overlapping the hinges. When the housing portions in a device are rotated relative to each other, the flexible display may bend. The hinge may be configured to allow the flexible display to be placed in a front-to-front configuration in which an active side of the display faces itself or a back-to-back configuration. Engagement structures may be used to help the housing grip external objects and to hold the housing portions together. The hinges may be provided with rotational detents to help hold the flexible display in desired positions.

Flexible display devices

An electronic device having a housing structure that is configured to receive at least one glass cover is disclosed. The glass cover serves to cover a display assembly provided within the electronic device. The glass cover can be secured to the housing structure so as to facilitate providing a narrow border between an active display area and an outer edge of the housing structure. The enclosure for the electronic device can be thin yet be sufficiently strong to be suitable for use in electronic devices, such as portable electronic devices.

Housing for portable electronic device with reduced border region

Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for capturing and sharing visual content, especially three-dimensional video, with a plurality of users with compatible devices. The methods in some implementations include transmitting the visual content to a portable projector, generating a unique invite and broadcasting it to a plurality of eyewear devices, and projecting the visual content onto a screen for viewers who accepted the invite and are wearing a compatible eyewear device. For projection in 3D format, the eyewear devices include an active shutter mode. The portable projector may be housed in the interior of a case. In some configurations, the case interior is sized and shaped to support the projector and an eyewear device. The system may include multiple projectors at remote locations directed to project the visual content simultaneously.

Portable 3D projector with sharing to multiple viewers

A case for an eyewear device includes a body defining an opening leading to a storage chamber that is sized for retaining the eyewear device. A cover depends from the body and is movable between an open position, in which the opening is exposed, and a closed position, in which the opening is covered by the cover. A battery is mounted to the body for charging the eyewear device. A detector is positioned on either the body or the cover for detecting when the cover is in the open position or the closed position. A display displays a charge state of the battery when the cover is in the open position.

Eyewear device charging case

An antenna system comprises a combination of a loop antenna and a non-loop antenna. The loop antenna and the non-loop antenna is connected in common to a transceiver mechanism or signal feed mechanism. The non-loop antenna is in some embodiments provided by a dipole conductor. An eye-wear device incorporates the antenna system, a loop conductor and a dipole conductor of the antenna system being integrated in a body of the eyewear device. The loop conductor may be provided by a lens ring that extends around a lens held by the body. The lens ring may serve both as loop conductor and as a lens retention mechanism.

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Teodor Dabov