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公开(公告)号：US20210306014A1
公开(公告)日：2021-09-30
申请号：US17211710
申请日：2021-03-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yuehui Ouyang , Yi Jiang , Matthew A. Mow , Basim Noori , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas. The antennas may include phased antenna arrays each of which includes multiple antenna elements. Phased antenna arrays may be mounted along edges of a housing for the electronic device, behind a dielectric window such as a dielectric logo window in the housing, in alignment with dielectric housing portions at corners of the housing, or elsewhere in the electronic device. A phased antenna array may include arrays of patch antenna elements on dielectric layers separated by a ground layer. A baseband processor may distribute wireless signals to the phased antenna arrays at intermediate frequencies over intermediate frequency signal paths. Transceiver circuits at the phased antenna arrays may include upconverters and downconverters coupled to the intermediate frequency signal paths.
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公开(公告)号：US20210083367A1
公开(公告)日：2021-03-18
申请号：US17108762
申请日：2020-12-01
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yuehui Ouyang , Yi Jiang , Matthew A. Mow , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero , Basim Noori
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas. The antennas may include millimeter wave antenna arrays. Non-millimeter-wave antennas such as cellular telephone antennas may have conductive structures separated by a dielectric gap. In a device with a metal housing, a plastic-filled slot may form the dielectric gap. The conductive structures may be slot antenna structures, inverted-F antenna structures such as an inverted-F antenna resonating element and a ground, or other antenna structures. The plastic-filled slot may serve as a millimeter wave antenna window. A millimeter wave antenna array may be mounted in alignment with the millimeter wave antenna window to transmit and receive signals through the window. Millimeter wave antenna windows may also be formed from air-filled openings in a metal housing such as audio port openings.
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公开(公告)号：US10854954B2
公开(公告)日：2020-12-01
申请号：US15994853
申请日：2018-05-31
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Richard Hung Minh Dinh , Hao Xu , Jayesh Nath , Peter I. Bevelacqua , Jennifer M. Edwards , Daniel W. Jarvis , Jared M. Kole , Mattia Pascolini , Robert W. Schlub , Ruben Caballero
Abstract: A housing for a personal electronic device is described herein. The housing may include at least one modular subassembly configured to be arranged within an internal cavity of the housing. The at least one modular subassembly is aligned with a feature external to the housing, is affixed to an interior surface of the internal cavity, and is configured to function both as an antenna and as an internal support member of the housing. A hybrid antenna is also described herein. The hybrid antenna can include first and second flexible members capable of facilitating wireless communication, where the first and second flexible members are affixed to one another via a metal member.
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公开(公告)号：US10680663B2
公开(公告)日：2020-06-09
申请号：US16138881
申请日：2018-09-21
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Yuehui Ouyang , Yi Jiang , Matthew A. Mow , Basim Noori , Mattia Pascolini , Ruben Caballero
IPC: H04M1/00 , H04B1/04 , H01Q1/22 , H01Q1/24 , H01Q21/00 , H01Q21/06 , H01Q21/28 , H04B1/10 , H04B1/03
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas. The antennas may include phased antenna arrays each of which includes multiple antenna elements. Phased antenna arrays may be mounted along edges of a housing for the electronic device, behind a dielectric window such as a dielectric logo window in the housing, in alignment with dielectric housing portions at corners of the housing, or elsewhere in the electronic device. A phased antenna array may include arrays of patch antenna elements on dielectric layers separated by a ground layer. A baseband processor may distribute wireless signals to the phased antenna arrays at intermediate frequencies over intermediate frequency signal paths. Transceiver circuits at the phased antenna arrays may include upconverters and downconverters coupled to the intermediate frequency signal paths.
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公开(公告)号：US10511084B2
公开(公告)日：2019-12-17
申请号：US16030726
申请日：2018-07-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Ruben Caballero , Mattia Pascolini , Mohit Narang , Matt A. Mow , Robert W. Schlub
Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided that contain wireless communications circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry and first and second antennas. An electronic device may include a housing. The first antenna may be located at an upper end of the housing and the second antenna may be located at a lower end of the housing. A peripheral conductive member may run around the edges of the housing and may be used in forming the first and second antennas. The radio-frequency transceiver circuitry may have a transmit-receive port and a receive port. Switching circuitry may connect the first antenna to the transmit-receive port and the second antenna to the receiver port or may connect the first antenna to the receive port and the second antenna to the transmit-receive port.
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公开(公告)号：US10390313B2
公开(公告)日：2019-08-20
申请号：US15014506
申请日：2016-02-03
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Mohit Narang , Peter Agboh , Vusthla Sunil Reddy , Chia Yiaw Chong , Indranil S. Sen , Ruben Caballero , Manjit S. Walia , Xi Yang
Abstract: In order to improve communication with another electronic device, during an advertising mode an electronic device (such as a smartphone) may transmit a packet with advertising information using a default transmit power level. Then, based on feedback about a performance metric associated with the communication from the other electronic device, the electronic device may selectively increase the transmit power level for a subsequent packet. Because this selective increase in the transmit power level may increase the overall power consumption, the change in the transmit power level also may depend on one or more factors, such as a battery power level of the electronic device. However, the selective increase in the transmit power level may, in some instances, decrease the overall power consumption by reducing or eliminating retries.
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公开(公告)号：US10263753B2
公开(公告)日：2019-04-16
申请号：US14850834
申请日：2015-09-10
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Lei Li , Xiaojun Chen , Vusthla Sunil Reddy , Diego C. Hernandez , Peter M. Agboh , Mohit Narang , Ruben Caballero , Indranil S. Sen
Abstract: In order to improve the quality of communication between electronic devices, one or more sub-channels used during communication between the electronic devices are dynamically modified based on one or more performance metrics and allowed transmit powers of the sub-channels. In particular, when the one or more performance metrics indicate that a distance between the electronic devices falls within a mid-range of distances, the one or more performance metrics may be used to guide selective changes to the sub-channels used during the communication based on the allowed transmit powers. The changes to the sub-channels used during the communication may increase, decrease or leave the total bandwidth unchanged. Moreover, by changing the sub-channels used during the communication, the allowed transmit power(s) of the sub-channel(s) used may be increased, which may improve the performance during the communication.
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公开(公告)号：US20190013570A1
公开(公告)日：2019-01-10
申请号：US16030726
申请日：2018-07-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Ruben Caballero , Mattia Pascolini , Mohit Narang , Matt A. Mow , Robert W. Schlub
CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 , H01Q7/00 , H01Q9/0421 , H01Q9/42 , H01Q21/28 , H04B1/401 , H04B7/0602 , H04B7/0689 , H04M1/0202
Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided that contain wireless communications circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry and first and second antennas. An electronic device may include a housing. The first antenna may be located at an upper end of the housing and the second antenna may be located at a lower end of the housing. A peripheral conductive member may run around the edges of the housing and may be used in forming the first and second antennas. The radio-frequency transceiver circuitry may have a transmit-receive port and a receive port. Switching circuitry may connect the first antenna to the transmit-receive port and the second antenna to the receiver port or may connect the first antenna to the receive port and the second antenna to the transmit-receive port.
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109.发明授权公开(公告)号：US10014705B2
公开(公告)日：2018-07-03
申请号：US15085955
申请日：2016-03-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Kiavash Baratzadeh , Ruben Caballero , Jaydeep V. Ranade , Matthew C. Robbins , Orbay Tuncay
IPC: H02J7/00
CPC classification number: H02J7/0052 , H02J2007/0096
Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems, methods, and apparatus for limiting or throttling an activity of an accessory device communicatively coupled to a computing device. The activity of the accessory device is limited or throttled in order to reduce electromagnetic interference and improve signal quality of a wireless communication in which the computing device is participating. In some embodiments, a decision to throttle can be based on battery charge level of the computing device. For example, in some embodiments, the accessory device is an accessory battery charger configured to provide power to the computing device when a power outlet is not immediately available. If the signal quality of a phone call from the computing device is diminished or the user is in an area of low signal coverage, the accessory battery charger can be limited or throttled in order to prevent interference between the accessory battery charger and computing device.
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公开(公告)号：US09953152B2
公开(公告)日：2018-04-24
申请号：US15357873
申请日：2016-11-21
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Anthony M. Fadell , Andrew Bert Hodge , Stephan V. Schell , Ruben Caballero , Jesse Lee Dorogusker , Stephen Paul Zadesky , Emery Sanford
IPC: G06F7/04 , G06F21/32 , G06F21/36 , G06K9/00 , G06F3/0481
CPC classification number: G06F21/32 , G06F3/0412 , G06F3/0416 , G06F3/04817 , G06F3/0488 , G06F3/04883 , G06F21/316 , G06F21/36 , G06K9/00013 , G06K9/0002 , G06K9/00033 , G06K9/00087 , G06K9/00248 , G06K9/00255 , G06K9/00912 , G06K9/3241 , H04L9/3231 , H04L63/08 , H04L63/0861 , H04L63/104 , H04W12/06 , H04W88/02
Abstract: This invention is directed to an electronic device with an embedded authentication system for restricting access to device resources. The authentication system may include one or more sensors operative to detect biometric information of a user. The sensors may be positioned in the device such that the sensors may detect appropriate biometric information as the user operates the device, without requiring the user to perform a step for providing the biometric information (e.g., embedding a fingerprint sensor in an input mechanism instead of providing a fingerprint sensor in a separate part of the device housing). In some embodiments, the authentication system may be operative to detect a visual or temporal pattern of inputs to authenticate a user. In response to authenticating, a user may access restricted files, applications (e.g., applications purchased by the user), or settings (e.g., application settings such as contacts or saved game profile).
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