US 11,294,422 B1 · US 11,592,864 · US 11,853,117 · US 12,124,291
Electronic device including a camera disposed behind a display
Apple Inc. · Granted 2022–2024 · Priority September 27, 2018
First-listed inventor
The disappearing camera. The 0-to-1 architecture — apertured display, behind-display sensor, computational restoration. In the fall of 2026, flagships shipped the disappearing camera: the iPhone Duo’s hidden FaceTime camera, the iPhone 18 Pro Max’s under-display Face ID camera — the physical arrangement this patent family has claimed since 2018. Cited as prior art by 27 later publications across the industry.
US 2018/0082482 A1 · EP 3,488,315 B1 (granted 2021)
Display system having world and user sensors
Apple Inc. · Published March 22, 2018 · with Ricardo Motta, Brett Miller, Tobias Rick
The sensing behind passthrough AR. World-facing and user-facing sensors unified in one display system — the architecture that lets a headset see the room and the wearer at once.
US 2019/0221044 A1
Display system having sensors
Apple Inc. · Published July 18, 2019
Sensors living inside the screen. Integrating cameras and sensors into the display stack itself — the display stops being just an output and becomes an input.
US 10,817,594 B2
Wearable electronic device having a light field camera usable to perform bioauthentication from a dorsal side of a forearm near a wrist
Apple Inc. · Granted October 27, 2020 · 51 Scholar citations
Your wrist is the password. A light-field camera on a wearable that authenticates from the dorsal forearm — biometrics with no fingerprint sensor and nothing to touch.
US 10,657,957 B2
Light field capture
Apple Inc. · Granted May 19, 2020
The whole light field, in one shot. Captures ray direction as well as intensity — the raw material for refocus-after-capture and single-shot depth.
US 11,550,408 B1
Electronic device with optical sensor for sampling surfaces
Apple Inc. · Granted January 10, 2023
A stylus that truly sees color. Multi-channel optical sensing samples real-world surfaces — point at anything and capture its exact color, not an approximation.
WO 2024/238704 A1 · US 2024/0385454 A1
Head mountable display
Apple Inc. · Published November 21, 2024 · Vision Products Group era
Building the headset, piece by piece. Head-mounted display systems from the founding years of the Vision Products Group.
US 2025/0181155 A1
Camera-less eye tracking system
Apple Inc. · Published June 5, 2025
Gaze tracking with no camera. The sensor disappears entirely — eye tracking that leaves only the signal.
WO 2026/072497 A1
Efficient eye imaging system for near-eye displays with integrated photodiodes
Apple Inc. · Published April 2, 2026
The display becomes the sensor. Photodiodes woven into the screen image the eye from inside it — sensing without a visible sensor.
WO 2016/097470 A1 · US 2016/0173869 A1
Multi-camera system consisting of variably calibrated cameras
Nokia Technologies Oy · Priority December 15, 2014 · with Ting-Chun Wang
Bokeh before Portrait mode. A main high-quality camera paired with auxiliary stereo cameras producing depth for defocus effects — filed two years before the iPhone 7 Plus made computational bokeh mainstream.
US 10,574,905 B2 · US 10,089,740 · WO 2015/134996 A1
System and methods for depth regularization and semiautomatic interactive matting using RGB-D images
Pelican Imaging / Fotonation · US granted 2018 & 2020
First-listed inventor
Making light-field depth trustworthy. Depth regularization that cleaned up noisy light-field depth — the foundation of the startup’s product demos (shown to Apple and Amazon, in Manohar’s account).
US 9,898,856 (2018) · US 10,540,806 B2 · WO 2015/048694 A2
Systems and methods for depth-assisted perspective distortion correction
Pelican Imaging / Fotonation · US granted 2018 & 2020 · 183 Scholar citations
His most-cited work. Uses depth to undo wide-angle perspective distortion — the reason faces stop looking warped at the edge of the frame.
US 9,170,580 B2
Determining trajectories of redundant actuators jointly tracking reference trajectory
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories · Granted October 27, 2015
The control theory under the drones. Optimal trajectories for redundant actuators — from his Mitsubishi research-lab years, feeding the aerial-robotics work.
US 2012/0068927 A1 · GB 2,434,227 B (granted 2010)
Computer input device enabling three degrees of freedom and related input and feedback methods
With T. Poston · US filed 2007 · UK granted December 15, 2010 · 162 Scholar citations
His earliest invention on record. Three degrees of freedom in a single input device — and his second most-cited invention.