Apple was Granted 73 Patents Today covering another Round of Apple Vision Pro Inventions covering Lenticular Displays & more
Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) officially published a series of 73 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. In this particular report we briefly cover a series of newly granted patents that relate to Apple Vision Pro. Apple revealed during their WWDC23 Keynote that Apple's Spatial Computer was backed by 5,000 patents. For weeks now a flood of these patents have been published by USPTO and will continue to do so for many months if not years to come. Today we briefly cover one patent on Lenticular Displays while linking to an addition four that interested fans could explore.
Lenticular Display
During Apple's VP, Technology Development Group, Mike Rockwell revealed Apple's use of a lenticular display this way:
"We also thought hard about how others can interact with you while wearing Vision Pro. EyeSight utilizes a unique curved OLED panel with a lenticular lens to project the correct perspective of your eyes to each person looking at you. The result is a 3D display that makes the device look transparent."
Today's first Apple Vision Pro granted patent relates to the use of a Lenticular Display.
A Brief Granted Patent Summary: A lenticular display may be formed with convex curvature. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film with lenticular lenses that extend across the length of the display. The lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display.
To enable more curvature in the display while ensuring satisfactory stereoscopic display performance, the display may have stereoscopic zones and non-stereoscopic zones. A central stereoscopic zone may be interposed between first and second non-stereoscopic zones. The non-stereoscopic zones may have more curvature than the stereoscopic zone.
To prevent crosstalk within the lenticular display, a louver film may be incorporated into the display. The louver film may have a plurality of transparent portions separated by opaque walls. The opaque walls may control the emission angle of light from the display, reducing crosstalk. The louver film may be interposed between the lenticular lens film and the display panel.
Apple's patent FIG. 9 below is a cross-sectional side view of an illustrative curved lenticular display showing how non-stereoscopic regions may be included at the edges of the display to allow for more curvature in the display.
Apple's patent FIG. 11 above illustrates a cross-sectional side view of an illustrative curved lenticular display having a different radius of curvature in the non-stereoscopic zones than in the stereoscopic zones. For more details, review Apple's granted patent 11774642. Previous patents that we've covered on Lenticular Displays: 01 and 02.
Other Apple Vision Patents Granted Today
02: Electronic Device Displays Having Microlenses
03: Optical Module For Head-mountable Device
04: Head-mounted Device With Feedback
05: Face Seal For Head-mounted Display
Elsewhere they get laughed at - but this just shows how their out-of-the-box design thinking philosophy goes. Cannot wait to buy it.
Posted by: VR4Ever | October 07, 2023 at 02:28 AM
There is no doubt that Apple is always one step ahead of everyone else.
Posted by: Apkallworld | October 05, 2023 at 08:39 PM