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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2021
Clarisse Mazuir, San Jose, CA (US);
Matthew E. Last, San Jose, CA (US);
Ryan J. Garrone, San Francisco, CA (US);
Budhadipta Dan, San Jose, CA (US);
Khadijeh Bayat, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Gregory A. Cohoon, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jack E. Graves, Cupertino, CA (US);
Clarisse Mazuir, San Jose, CA (US);
Matthew E. Last, San Jose, CA (US);
Ryan J. Garrone, San Francisco, CA (US);
Budhadipta Dan, San Jose, CA (US);
Khadijeh Bayat, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Gregory A. Cohoon, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jack E. Graves, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a transparent structure. The structure may include at least one light source, a transparent light-carrying guide layer optically coupled with the at least one light source. The structure may include refractive layers where a light absorbing feature is operably associated with the light-carrying guide layer to absorb any light not internally reflected in the light guide layer, at least adjacent the light source.