Head-mounted device with optical module illumination systems

    公开(公告)号:US12140767B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-11-12

    申请号:US18488901

    申请日:2023-10-17

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: To accommodate variations in the interpupillary distances associated with different users, a head-mounted device may have left-eye and right-eye optical modules that move with respect to each other. Each optical module may have a display that creates an image and a corresponding lens that provides the image to an associated eye box for viewing by a user. The optical modules each include a lens barrel to which the display and lens of that optical module are mounted and a head-mounted optical module illumination system. The illumination system may have light-emitting devices such as light-emitting diodes that extend along some or all of a peripheral edge of the display. The light-emitting diodes may be mounted on a flexible printed circuit with a tail that extends a lens barrel opening. A stiffener for the flexible printed circuit may have openings that receive the light-emitting diodes.

    SHARED DATA AND COLLABORATION FOR HEAD-MOUNTED DEVICES

    公开(公告)号:US20230350633A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-02

    申请号:US18214448

    申请日:2023-06-26

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06F3/147 H04N23/90 G06V20/20 G06F3/012 G06F3/017

    Abstract: A system can include head-mounted devices that collaborate to process views from cameras of the respective head-mounted devices and identify objects from different perspectives and/or objects that are within the view of only one of the head-mounted devices. Sharing sensory input between multiple head-mounted devices can complement and enhance individual units by interpreting and reconstructing objects, surfaces, and/or an external environment with perceptive data from multiple angles and positions, which also reduces occlusions and inaccuracies. As more detailed information is available at a specific moment in time, the speed and accuracy of object recognition, hand and body tracking, surface mapping, and/or digital reconstruction can be improved. Such collaboration can provide more effective and efficient mapping of space, surfaces, objects, gestures and users.

    HEAD MOUNTABLE DISPLAY
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20250036201A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-30

    申请号:US18918781

    申请日:2024-10-17

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A head-mountable display can include a structural frame defining a viewing opening, an optical module coupled to the structural frame. The optical module can include a display screen to project light through the viewing opening. The display screen can define an inner edge, an outer edge opposite the inner edge, a lower edge extending between the inner edge and the outer edge, and an upper edge opposite the lower edge. The optical module can include a first camera disposed adjacent the inner edge and closer to the lower edge than the upper edge, and a second camera disposed adjacent the lower edge and closer to the outer edge than the inner edge.

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