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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Itai Afek, Ramat Gan, IL;
Ariel Lipson, Tel Aviv, IL;
Daniel Ott, Boulder, CO (US);
Maria I Campana, Boulder, CO (US);
Roei Remez, Tel Aviv, IL;
Lionel E Edwin, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Young, Broomfield, CO (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A display may use a waveguide to provide image light to an eye box. An emitter may emit infrared light collimated at different angles relative to a collimated axis and divergent along an orthogonal axis. The waveguide may propagate the infrared light and may include overlapping one-dimensional diffractive gratings with parallel periodic structures. Each grating may diffract, towards the eye box, a respective portion of the infrared light from a respective incident angle onto a respective output angle relative to the collimated axis. A camera may capture glints of the infrared light as reflected off a user's eye at the eye box for performing gaze tracking. The emitter and the gratings may effectively form a one-dimensional line of infrared emitters overlapping the eye box while allowing the optical emitter to remain invisible to a user.