MUMBAI, India, June 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202618066330 A) filed by Apple Inc. on May 26, 2026, for Electronic Device With A Tunable Lens.
Inventors include Pedder, James, E.; Stamenov, Igor; Chen, Cheng; Dorjgotov, Enkhamgalan; Myhre, Graham, B.; Chan, Victoria, C.; Wen, Xiaonan; Lv, Peng Filed On; Li, Yuan; Horie, Yu; and Hazra, Siddharth, S..
The application for the patent was published on June 19, 2026, under issue no. 25/2026.
Abstract: A lens module in a head-mounted device may include a fluid-filled chamber, a semi-rigid lens element that at least partially defines the fluid-filled chamber, and at least one actuator configured to selectively bend the semi-rigid 5 lens element. The semi-rigid lens element may become rigid along a first axis when the lens element is curved along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis. Six actuators that are evenly distributed around the periphery of the semi-rigid lens element may be used to control the curvature of the semi-rigid lens element. The semi-rigid lens element may initially be planar or non-planar. For example, 10 the semi-rigid lens element may initially have a spherically convex surface and a spherically concave surface. A tunable spherical lens may be incorporated into the lens module to offset a parasitic spherical lens power from the semi-rigid lens element.
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