US 12,468,146 B2
Electronic device with a tunable lens
Igor Stamenov, Manteca, CA (US); Richard J. Topliss, Cambridge (GB); Ran He, San Jose, CA (US); Peng Lv, San Jose, CA (US); Yuan Li, Campbell, CA (US); James E. Pedder, Oxfordshire (GB); and Thomas M. Gregory, Cambridgeshire (GB)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/155,372.
Application 18/155,372 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2021/042929, filed on Jul. 23, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/056,316, filed on Jul. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0324676 A1, Oct. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. G02B 26/08 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 26/0875 (2013.01) [G02B 27/0176 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0154 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a head-mounted support structure;
a display that emits light; and
a lens module supported by the head-mounted support structure, wherein the lens module receives the light from the display and wherein the lens module comprises:
a transparent lens element;
a lens shaping structure that is coupled to the transparent lens element; and
a plurality of actuators that are configured to adjust a position of the lens shaping structure to adjust the transparent lens element, wherein the lens shaping structure has at least first and second portions, wherein the first portion is interposed between first and second actuators of the plurality of actuators, and wherein the first portion has a property with a different magnitude than the second portion.