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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Khadijeh Bayat, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Avery P. Yuen, San Jose, CA (US);
Chaohao Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Runyu Zhang, Urbana, IL (US);
Xianwei Zhao, Fremont, CA (US);
Xiaokai Li, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yang Li, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Zhibing Ge, Los Altos, CA (US);
Alex H. Pai, Milpitas, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have a display that displays computer-generated content for a user. The head-mounted device may have an optical system that directs the computer-generated content towards eye boxes for viewing by a user. The optical system may include a spatially addressable adjustable optical component. The adjustable optical component may have first and second electrodes and an electrically adjustable material between the first and second electrodes. The electrically adjustable material may include a transparent conductive material such as indium tin oxide that includes a pattern of segmented trenches configured to provide the transparent conductive material with electrical anisotropy. Contacts may be coupled to the transparent conductive material. Control circuitry can adjust the electrically adjustable material to form a spatially addressable light modulator or adjustable lens.