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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Michael J. Oudenhoven, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brian S Lau, Sacramento, CA (US);
Cameron A Harder, San Francisco, CA (US);
Depeng Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Vikrant Bhakta, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A head-mounted device may have a housing with a frame that supports lenses. Each lens may have a positive bias lens element and a negative bias lens element. A waveguide may overlap the lens. During operation, images from the waveguide may be provided to an eye box through the negative bias lens element. An eye sensor such as a gaze tracking camera may operate through the negative bias lens element. The negative bias lens element may have a protruding portion through which the sensor operates, may have a surface facing the sensor that has a curved surface to provide a desired lens characteristic, may have a prism for helping to couple light from the eye box to the eye sensor, and/or may have other features to facilitate use of the eye sensor to monitor the eye of a user in the eye box.