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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2026

Filed:

Oct. 17, 2023
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Scott M. Delapp, San Diego, CA (US);

Vikrant Bhakta, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Hyungryul Choi, San Jose, CA (US);

Guolin Peng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Di Hu, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/01 (2006.01); F21V 8/00 (2006.01); G02B 26/08 (2006.01); G02B 27/09 (2006.01); G02B 27/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G02B 6/0016 (2013.01); G02B 6/0036 (2013.01); G02B 26/0875 (2013.01); G02B 27/0176 (2013.01); G02B 27/0179 (2013.01); G02B 27/0955 (2013.01); G02B 27/0977 (2013.01); G02B 27/144 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0138 (2013.01); G02B 2027/014 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0163 (2013.01);
Abstract

A display device may include first and second display modules that provide image light to first and second waveguides. The waveguides may direct the image light to first and second eye boxes. Each display module may include optics mounted to a housing and mechanical alignment structures that mechanically adjust the position of an optical axis of the optics. The alignment structures may rotate the entire housing, may mechanically translate the optics, may adjust the position of a spatial light modulator within the module, and/or control circuitry may change a subset of pixels used by the modulator to compensate for optical misalignment between the first and second eye boxes. The device may include optical misalignment sensors that detect the optical misalignment. The control circuitry may compensate for the optical misalignment as detected by the optical misalignment sensors.


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