Patent ID: 11899214
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An electronic device, comprising:
a housing;
head-mounted support structures coupled to the housing;
a lens in the housing;
a display in the housing, wherein the display comprises an array of pixels and is configured to present an image to an eye box through the lens;
a camera in the housing that has a camera viewpoint; and
an optical system in the housing that overlaps the camera, wherein the optical system has a double-folded light path that virtually shifts the camera viewpoint to a position that coincides with the eye box, wherein the array of pixels is interposed between the virtually shifted camera viewpoint and the camera, wherein at least a portion of the array of pixels is within a field of view of the virtually shifted camera viewpoint, and wherein the camera is a forward-facing camera that is configured to capture images through the optical system.