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- Patent Title: Systems and methods for adjusting movable lenses in directional free-space optical communication systems for portable electronic devices
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Application No.: US16399925Application Date: 2019-04-30
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Publication No.: US10700780B2Publication Date: 2020-06-30
- Inventor: Omid Momtahan , Tong Chen
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
- Main IPC: H04B10/112
- IPC: H04B10/112 ; H04B10/50 ; G02B26/08 ; H04B10/079 ; G02B26/10 ; H04B10/69

Abstract:
A directional free-space optical communication system includes a source device including a laser diode and an endpoint device including a photodiode. The endpoint device and the source device also include an adjustable optics subsystem that increases both angular and positional offset tolerance between the source device and the endpoint device.
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