Apple inc. (20240427155). Optical System for Head-Mounted Display

Optical System for Head-Mounted Display

Organization Name

apple inc.

Inventor(s)

Ran He of Cupertino CA (US)

Zuoqian Wang of Fremont CA (US)

Brent J. Bollman of Alameda CA (US)

Francois R. Jacob of Sunnyvale CA (US)

Guanjun Tan of Santa Clara CA (US)

John N. Border of Campbell CA (US)

Serhan O. Isikman of Redwood City CA (US)

Wei-Liang Hsu of San Jose CA (US)

Di Liu of San Jose CA (US)

Optical System for Head-Mounted Display

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20240427155 titled 'Optical System for Head-Mounted Display

Original Abstract Submitted

a head-mounted display may include a display system and an optical system that are supported by a housing. the optical system may be a catadioptric optical system having one or more lens elements. in one example, the optical system includes a single lens element and a retarder that is coated on a curved surface of the lens element. the retarder may be coated on an aspheric concave surface of the lens element. in another example the retarder may be coated on an aspheric convex surface of the lens element. one or more components of the optical system may be formed using a direct printing technique. this may allow for one or more adhesive layers and one or more hard coatings to be omitted from the optical system. a lens element may be directly printed on the display system to improve alignment between the optical system and the display system.