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公开(公告)号：US20250060851A1
公开(公告)日：2025-02-20
申请号：US18936372
申请日：2024-11-04
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Andrew Deng , Timothy D. Koch , Hui-Shan Chang , Andrew W. Joyce , Henry H. Yang , Ran Xu , Patrick E. O'Brien , Yu Hsuan Chao , Dale Setlak , Giovanni Gozzini
Abstract: A biometric input system for an electronic device is provided. The biometric input system may be a fingerprint sensing system. The biometric input system includes a biometric sensing component, which may be a capacitive sensing component. The biometric input system also includes a composite cover element, which may be a dielectric cap or coating, and the biometric sensing component is capable of receiving a biometric input from a user through the composite cover element. Electronic devices including the biometric input system are also provided.
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公开(公告)号：US12099683B2
公开(公告)日：2024-09-24
申请号：US18325565
申请日：2023-05-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Marduke Yousefpor , Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost , Aaron Scott Tucker , Marcus Yip , Ehsan Khajeh , Brian Michael King , Giovanni Gozzini
CPC classification number: G06F3/04166 , G06F3/043 , G06F3/0436 , G06F2203/04105 , G06F2203/04106
Abstract: Acoustic touch and/or force sensing system architectures and methods for acoustic touch and/or force sensing can be used to detect a position of an object touching a surface and an amount of force applied to the surface by the object. The position and/or an applied force can be determined using time-of-flight (TOF) techniques, for example. Acoustic touch sensing can utilize transducers (e.g., piezoelectric) to simultaneously transmit ultrasonic waves along a surface and through a thickness of a deformable material. The location of the object and the applied force can be determined based on the amount of time elapsing between the transmission of the waves and receipt of the reflected waves. In some examples, an acoustic touch sensing system can be insensitive to water contact on the device surface, and thus acoustic touch sensing can be used for touch sensing in devices that may become wet or fully submerged in water.
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公开(公告)号：US20240280676A1
公开(公告)日：2024-08-22
申请号：US18645177
申请日：2024-04-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Gordon S. Franza , Gregory T. Minteer , Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost , Dale Setlak , Marcus C. Yip , Ehsan Khajeh , Aaron S. Tucker , Andrew W. Joyce , Brian M. King , Giovanni Gozzini , Jason S. Griesbach
CPC classification number: G01S7/52033 , G01S7/52025 , G01S7/52036 , G01S15/8925 , G10K11/346 , G01S15/892 , G01S15/8927
Abstract: An acoustic imaging system coupled to an acoustic imaging medium to define an imaging surface. The acoustic imaging system includes an array of piezoelectric acoustic transducers formed at least in part from a thin-film piezoelectric material, such as PVDF. The array is coupled to the acoustic imaging medium opposite the imaging surface and formed using a thin-film manufacturing process over an application-specific integrated circuit that, in turn, is configured to leverage the array of piezoelectric actuators to generate an image of an object at least partially wetting to the imaging surface.
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94.发明授权公开(公告)号：US12039800B2
公开(公告)日：2024-07-16
申请号：US17709235
申请日：2022-03-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Gordon S. Franza , Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost , Dale Setlak , Marcus C. Yip , Ehsan Khajeh , Aaron S. Tucker , Andrew W. Joyce , Brian M. King , Giovanni Gozzini , Jason S. Griesbach , Henry H. Yang
CPC classification number: G06V40/1306 , B06B1/0215 , B06B1/0692 , G06F3/0433 , G06F3/0436 , B06B2201/70
Abstract: An acoustic imaging system coupled to an acoustic medium to define an imaging surface. The acoustic imaging system includes an array of piezoelectric acoustic transducers formed at least in part from a thin-film piezoelectric material, such as PVDF. The array is coupled to the acoustic medium opposite the imaging surface and formed using a thin-film manufacturing process over an application-specific integrated circuit that, in turn, is configured to leverage the array of piezoelectric actuators to generate an image of an object at least partially wetting to the imaging surface.
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公开(公告)号：US12000967B2
公开(公告)日：2024-06-04
申请号：US17709270
申请日：2022-03-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Gordon S. Franza , Gregory T. Minteer , Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost , Dale Setlak , Marcus C. Yip , Ehsan Khajeh , Aaron S. Tucker , Andrew W. Joyce , Brian M. King , Giovanni Gozzini , Jason S. Griesbach
CPC classification number: G01S7/52033 , G01S7/52025 , G01S7/52036 , G01S15/8925 , G10K11/346 , G01S15/892 , G01S15/8927
Abstract: An acoustic imaging system coupled to an acoustic imaging medium to define an imaging surface. The acoustic imaging system includes an array of piezoelectric acoustic transducers formed at least in part from a thin-film piezoelectric material, such as PVDF. The array is coupled to the acoustic imaging medium opposite the imaging surface and formed using a thin-film manufacturing process over an application-specific integrated circuit that, in turn, is configured to leverage the array of piezoelectric actuators to generate an image of an object at least partially wetting to the imaging surface.
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96.发明授权公开(公告)号：US11950512B2
公开(公告)日：2024-04-02
申请号：US17210023
申请日：2021-03-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Ehsan Khajeh , Aaron S. Tucker , Andrew W. Joyce , Brian M. King , Giovanni Gozzini , Jason S. Griesbach , Marcus C. Yip , Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost , Gordon S. Franza , Henry H. Yang
CPC classification number: H10N30/878 , H10N30/10516 , H10N30/2047
Abstract: An acoustic imaging system coupled to a sensing plate to define an imaging surface. The acoustic imaging system includes an array of piezoelectric acoustic transducers coupled to the sensing plate opposite the imaging surface and formed using a thin-film manufacturing process over an application-specific integrated circuit that, in turn, is configured to leverage the array of piezoelectric actuators to generate an image of an object at least partially wetting to the imaging surface.
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公开(公告)号：US11922713B2
公开(公告)日：2024-03-05
申请号：US16767887
申请日：2019-07-02
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost , Giovanni Gozzini , Dale Setlak
CPC classification number: G06V40/1318 , G06F3/0421 , H10K30/80 , H10K50/30
Abstract: An apparatus for fingerprint sensing includes a touch-display layer covered by a transparent layer. The touch-display layer can emit light to illuminate a finger surface touching the transparent layer. The touch-display layer is transparent to reflected light from the surface to underlying layers. The underlying layers include a collimator layer and a pixelated image sensor. The collimator layer can collimate the reflected light, and the pixelated image sensor can sense the collimated reflected light. The collimator can collimate the reflected light to enable a one-to-one imaging ratio between an area of the finger surface touching the transparent layer and an area of a corresponding image formed on the pixelated image sensor.
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公开(公告)号：US11669199B2
公开(公告)日：2023-06-06
申请号：US17450441
申请日：2021-10-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Marduke Yousefpor , Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost , Aaron Scott Tucker , Marcus Yip , Ehsan Khajeh , Brian Michael King , Giovanni Gozzini
CPC classification number: G06F3/04166 , G06F3/043 , G06F3/0436 , G06F2203/04105 , G06F2203/04106
Abstract: Acoustic touch and/or force sensing system architectures and methods for acoustic touch and/or force sensing can be used to detect a position of an object touching a surface and an amount of force applied to the surface by the object. The position and/or an applied force can be determined using time-of-flight (TOF) techniques, for example. Acoustic touch sensing can utilize transducers (e.g., piezoelectric) to simultaneously transmit ultrasonic waves along a surface and through a thickness of a deformable material. The location of the object and the applied force can be determined based on the amount of time elapsing between the transmission of the waves and receipt of the reflected waves. In some examples, an acoustic touch sensing system can be insensitive to water contact on the device surface, and thus acoustic touch sensing can be used for touch sensing in devices that may become wet or fully submerged in water.
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公开(公告)号：US11275920B1
公开(公告)日：2022-03-15
申请号：US16786762
申请日：2020-02-10
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Daniel B. Sargent , Dale Setlak , Giovanni Gozzini , John Raff , Michael B Wittenberg , Richard H. Koch , Ron A. Hopkinson
IPC: G06K9/00 , G06F21/32 , G06F3/044 , G06F3/04883
Abstract: An elongated biometric device provides a slim solution for capturing biometric data, and may be placed on a portion of an electronic device having limited space, such as a side of the electronic device. The elongated biometric device may include a force sensor, which may be positioned within a housing of the electronic device and actuated through posts extending from the elongated biometric device through the housing to transfer an applied force to the force sensor.
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100.发明授权公开(公告)号：US11239275B2
公开(公告)日：2022-02-01
申请号：US16098000
申请日：2016-05-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost , Giovanni Gozzini
IPC: H01L27/146 , H01L27/32 , G06K9/00
Abstract: An electronic device may include an optical image sensor that includes an array of optical image sensing pixels and a pin hole array mask layer above the optical image sensor and that includes spaced apart pin holes therein defining spaced apart image areas on the optical image sensor. The electronic device also includes a display layer above the pin hole array mask layer that includes spaced apart display pixels. The electronic device may also include processing circuitry coupled to the optical image sensor and capable of sensing images from spaced apart sub-arrays of the array of optical image sensing pixels aligned with the spaced apart image areas.
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