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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Felipe Bacim de Araujo e Silva, San Jose, CA (US);
Stuart J. Wood, Cupertino, CA (US);
Noah D. Bedard, Cupertino, CA (US);
Bosheng Zhang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Dana F. Segler, Jr., Cupertino, CA (US);
Blake M. Coughenour, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rong Liu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yung-Yu Hsu, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A spatial light system that may, for example, be used to project image content onto surfaces of a room. The system may include two or more projection units for emitting light onto surfaces within a room. The system may include a controller and two or more projection units, each module including an LED array, an array of light pipes, and a condenser lens. Two or more projection units may be connected to a flexible strip that provides power and data (e.g., serial data) to the projection units. Two or more flex strips may be connected together. The flex strips provide a serially-connected, flexible modular architecture for spatial light systems that allow the projection units to be conformed to a variety of configurations and shapes.