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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Hyungryul Choi, San Jose, CA (US);
Bradley C. Steele, La Jolla, CA (US);
Brian S. Lau, Sacramento, CA (US);
Cameron A. Harder, San Francisco, CA (US);
David A. Kalinowski, Davis, CA (US);
Eric J. Hansotte, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Guolin Peng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Scott M. DeLapp, San Diego, CA (US);
Vikrant Bhakta, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jonathan C. Moisant-Thompson, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device may include an optical combiner with a waveguide. The waveguide may have an output coupler that directs high resolution light towards an eye box within a field of view. Peripheral light sources may provide low resolution peripheral light to the eye box about a periphery of the field of view. The peripheral light sources may be mounted to a frame for the waveguide, to an additional substrate mounted to the frame and overlapping the waveguide, in a low resolution projector that projects the peripheral light towards reflective structures in the additional substrate, or in a display module that produces the high resolution light. The optical combiner may overlay real world light with the high resolution light and the low resolution peripheral light.