Apple patents AR glasses that adjust lenses to fit your eyes
Apple describes a head-mounted device with a transparent front cover and two rear-facing displays that show mixed reality content. The system includes cameras to capture the real world and an adjustment mechanism that moves the displays to match the distance between a user's pupils.
In the filing’s own words
A head mountable device includes a front cover defining an external forward facing surface and a nasal bridge, a first rearward facing display, a second rearward facing display, a first forward facing camera, a second forward facing camera, and a controller electrically coupled to the first forward facing camera, the second forward facing camera, the first rearward facing display, and the second rearward facing display. The nasal bridge is disposed between the first forward facing camera and the second forward facing camera and the controller is configured to cause mixed reality video pass-through from the first forward facing camera to the first rearward facing display including a first image and from the second forward facing camera to the second rearward facing display including a second image.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A head mountable device, comprising: a transparent front facing cover, the transparent front facing cover being curved to conform to a curvature of a face of a user; and a rearward facing display assembly configured to project light in a rearward direction opposite the front facing cover, the rearward facing display assembly comprising: a first display; a second display; and an adjustment mechanism coupled to the first display and the second display, the adjustment mechanism configured to move the first display in a first linear direction and the second display in a second linear direction non-parallel to the first direction based on an interpupillary distance of the user; a forward facing camera configured to capture an image through the transparent front facing cover; and a controller electrically coupled to the forward facing camera and the rearward facing display assembly; wherein the controller is configured to cause mixed reality video pass-through from the forward facing camera to the rearward facing display assembly including the image.
Facts
- Company
- Apple (Apple Inc.)
- Official title
- Head Mountable Display
- Publication number
- US20260279233A1
- Application number
- 19020673
- Filed
- Jan 14, 2025
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G09G 3/002 Physics & computingG06F 3/013 Physics & computingH04N 23/56 Electricity & electronicsH04N 23/90 Electricity & electronicsG09G 2354/00 Physics & computingMore from Apple in AR, VR & displays
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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