Apple Inc.

Wey-Jiun Lin

Emery Artemus Sanford

Richard P Howarth

Jeremy C Franklin

Forrest C Wang

Jonathan P Ive

Bartley K Andre

Julian Hoenig

Mikael M Silvanto

Anthony Sagala Montevirgen

Ivan S Maric

Phil M Hobson

Duncan Robert Kerr

Eugene Antony Whang

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Christopher J Stringer

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Daniele De Iuliis

Daniel J Coster

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Jeremy D Bataillou

Martha Evans Hankey

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Teodor Dabov

Jody R Akana

Kurt R Stiehl

Cameron P Frazier

Kyle H Yeates

Victor Manuel Tiscareno

Shin Nishibori

Christopher D Prest

Jeffrey Y Hayashida

Bryan W Posner

Edward Siahaan

Andreas G Weber

Tyson Benner Manullang

Anna V Mirabella

David Glenn Havskjold

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Stephen Brian Lynch

Aidan N Zimmerman

Jason C Sauers

Kevin M Robinson

Yoonhoo Jo

Erik Geddes Pieter De Jong

Marinus Meursing

Brian Lynch

Shota Aoyagi

Anthony Michael Ashcroft

Julian Jaede

Dinesh C Mathew

John Benjamin Filson

Yi Jiang

Felix Jose Alvarez Rivera

Houtan R Farahani

Robert Y Cao

Qingxiang Li

Sang Young Youn

Lijun Zhang

Stephen E Dey

Jia Tao

Jan K Quijalvo

Sang Ha Kim

Blake N Trekell

Alan C Dye

Stephen Olivier Lemay

John N Border

Stephen Paul Zadesky

Cheng Kai Chen

Jesse Lee Dorogusker

Jeffrey J Terlizzi

Victor H Yin

Jun Qi

Erik G De Jong

Shawn Robert Gettemy

William A Sorrentino, Iii

Donald Joseph Novotney

Christiaan A Ligtenberg

Scott Peter Krueger

Geoffrey Grant Stahl

Arthur Yasheng Zhang

Graham Butler Myhre

Joshua G Wurzel

David Andrew Doyle

Michael J Rockwell

Muhammad F Hossain

Kristi E Bauerly

Yanghai Tsin

Eric Lee Benson

Bertrand Nepveu

Steven M Scardato

Kathrin Berkner Cieslicki

Jason N Gomez

William W Sprague

Heidi Williamson

Tom Sengelaub

Jason L Slupeiks

Andrew Gallaher

A display and vision correction system includes a head-mounted display unit, a glasses frame, and a removable lens assembly. The head-mounted display unit is configured to be worn on a head of a user and includes a display for providing graphical content to the user. The glasses frame is configured to be worn on the head of the user. The removable lens assembly is removably coupleable to the head-mounted display unit and to the glasses frame. The removable lens assembly includes a corrective lens element.

Display and vision correction system with removable lens

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 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 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

An optical module for a head-mounted device is configured to present content to a user. The optical module includes an optical module housing assembly, a display assembly, and an eye camera. The optical module housing assembly has a first end and a second end. The lens is connected to the optical module housing assembly and positioned at the first end of the optical module housing assembly. The display assembly is connected to the optical module housing assembly and is positioned at the second end of the optical module housing assembly. The display assembly is configured to cause the content to be displayed to the user through the lens. The eye camera is connected to the optical module housing assembly and is positioned at the second end of the optical module housing assembly. The eye camera is configured to obtain images through the lens.

Optical module for head-mounted device

A head-mounted device may have optical modules that present images to the user's left and right eyes. The optical modules may move with respect to each other to accommodate different user interpupillary distances. Each optical module may have a lens barrel, a display coupled to the lens barrel that generates an image, and a lens mounted to the lens barrel through which the image is viewable from an eye box. The lens may be a multi-element lens formed from molded lens elements such as molded polymer lens elements. A lens element may be provided with protrusions that form lens tabs. The lens tabs may have coplanar lens tab surfaces that mate with corresponding coplanar mounting surfaces in the lens barrel. Alignment marks may be formed on the protrusions and/or other portions of the lens.

Lens mounting structures for head-mounted devices

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

An electronic device such as a head mounted device may have a display that displays an image for a user. Head-mounted support structures may be used to support the display and to support lenses. The image on the display is visible through the lenses from eye boxes. The presence of the user's nose and the presence of opaque lens holder structures presents a risk that some of the image will be obscured by undesired black regions. To reduce or eliminate these black regions, facial illumination may be generated using a light source in the electronic device. The facial illumination may be provided by a light source such as a light-emitting diode die or laser or may be provided by a corner region of the display that contains pixels that do not supply any part of the image.

Display system with facial illumination

A head-mounted display may include a display system and a lens system in a housing. The head-mounted display may include control circuitry that operates the head-mounted display in an active use mode and a protected mode. In the protected mode, the display system may be protected from collisions with the lens system. Placing the head-mounted display in the protected mode may include using an actuator to increase the distance between the display system and the lens system, may include injecting fluid between the display system and the lens system, and/or may include deploying a protective layer between the display system and the lens system. The control circuitry may determine whether to operate the head-mounted display in protected mode or active use mode based on sensor data, on/off status information, location information, and/or other information.

Optical system for head-mounted display

Display for an electronic device

Housing for an electronic device

An electronic device may be provided with a display such as an organic light-emitting diode display. The display may include an array of display pixels formed on a polymer substrate layer. The polymer substrate layer may include an contiguous layer of polyimide that forms a substrate layer in additional structures such as a polymer film and a flexible printed circuit. A first transition region may be interposed between the display and the polymer film, and a second transition region may be interposed between the polymer film and the flexible printed circuit. Metal traces may be formed on the polymer film and on the flexible printed circuit. A display driver integrated circuit may be mounted to the traces on the polymer film. The polymer film may form a U-shaped bend. The flexible printed circuit may be coupled to a printed circuit board in the device using hot bar solder connections.

Displays with shared flexible substrates

A removable component for use with an earphone is disclosed. As an example, the removable component can be an ear tip. According to one aspect, an improved ear tip can be provided for use with a headphone. The ear tip is suitable for in-ear operation and can have a cosmetic deformable outer member. The deformable outer member can enable the ear tip to readily conform to a user's ear. The ear tip can also include an inner member to structurally support the outer member and to facilitate attachment to a headphone. Methods for forming such ear tips are also disclosed.

Deformable ear tip for earphone and method therefor

A cover plate for a portable electronic device is disclosed. The cover plate can be used as a cosmetic feature disposed on a display or cover glass of the portable computing device. For instance, the cover plate may include one or may layers disposed on a surface of the cover plate. In some cases, the layers are formed on a rear surface of the cover plate. In addition to enhancing the appearance of the portable electronic device, the cover plate provides additional a protective layer to internal components positioned behind the cover plate. Moreover, the cover plate may formed from an electromagnetically transparent material such as glass to allow receipt and/or transmission of electromagnetic waves in the form of radio frequencies. Also, the cover plate offers protection to the display and cover glass when the portable electronic device is in a closed configuration.

Chin plate for a portable computing device

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Wey-Jiun Lin