US 12,298,519 B2
Display system with interchangeable lens
Jeremy C. Franklin, San Francisco, CA (US); Wey-Jiun Lin, Los Altos Hills, CA (US); Brandon R. Neale, Fremont, CA (US); Heidi Williamson, San Francisco, CA (US); Andreas G. Weber, Los Altos, CA (US); Forrest C. Wang, Petaluma, CA (US); and Phil M. Hobson, Menlo Park, CA (US)
Assigned to APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 21, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/448,501.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/735,488, filed on Sep. 24, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0096775 A1, Mar. 26, 2020
Int. Cl. G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G02B 7/14 (2021.01)
CPC G02B 27/0176 (2013.01) [G02B 7/14 (2013.01); G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0138 (2013.01); G02B 2027/014 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0156 (2013.01)] 33 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display system comprising:
a display including a screen configured to show information to a user;
a removable lens removably coupleable to the display, the removable lens including a lens tag;
a lens detection sensor that detects whether the removable lens is coupled to the display and that communicates with the lens tag; and
a controller that:
determines lens information based upon the lens detection sensor communicating with the lens tag and receiving the lens information, wherein the lens information includes prescription information,
determines an identity of the user, wherein the identity of the user includes eye characteristic information,
determines whether the removable lens is compatible with the user or incompatible with the user based on a comparison of the lens information from the lens tag with the eye characteristic information, and
outputs a first indication to the display for presentation to the user in response to a determination that the removable lens is compatible with the user, or outputs a second indication to the display for presentation to the user in response to a determination that the removable lens is incompatible with the user.