US 12,140,767 B2
Head-mounted device with optical module illumination systems
Marinus Meursing, Poway, CA (US); Keenan Molner, San Francisco, CA (US); Chengyi Yang, San Jose, CA (US); Florian R. Fournier, Cupertino, CA (US); Ivan S. Maric, Campbell, CA (US); and Jason C. Sauers, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/488,901.
Application 18/488,901 is a continuation of application No. 17/174,168, filed on Feb. 11, 2021, granted, now 11,828,944.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/007,572, filed on Apr. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0061252 A1, Feb. 22, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01); G09G 3/00 (2006.01); G09G 3/32 (2016.01)
CPC G02B 27/0172 (2013.01) [G02B 27/0093 (2013.01); G09G 3/32 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0138 (2013.01); G09G 2320/0626 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A head-mounted device, comprising:
a head-mounted housing;
a lens barrel in the head-mounted housing;
a display coupled to the lens barrel;
a lens in the lens barrel that provides an image from the display to a corresponding eye box;
an illumination system configured to gather at least one of biometric information and gaze tracking information, wherein the illumination system comprises an array of light-emitting diodes in the lens barrel that extends around a periphery of the display.