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111.发明授权公开(公告)号：US11016616B2
公开(公告)日：2021-05-25
申请号：US16530938
申请日：2019-08-02
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Christian M. Sauer , Christoph H. Krah , Steven P. Hotelling , Martin Paul Grunthaner
Abstract: An electronic device can include an integrated touch and display chip that can operate in multiple power domains. For example, the integrated touch and display chip can operate in a guarded power domain during the touch operation and can operate in a system power domain during non-guarded display operations. In some examples, two power domains can include a guarded power domain and a system power domain, whose grounds can be differentiated by a guard buffer signal. In some examples, the guard buffer can be disposed between the integrated touch and display chip and a battery of the device. In some examples, the guard buffer can be disposed between the battery of the device and the chassis of the device.
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公开(公告)号：US10817096B2
公开(公告)日：2020-10-27
申请号：US14616059
申请日：2015-02-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Charley T. Ogata , Martin P. Grunthaner , Michael B. Wittenberg , Peter W. Richards , Romain A. Teil , Steven P. Hotelling
IPC: G06F3/041 , G06F1/16 , G06F3/0354 , G06F3/044
Abstract: A force-sensitive device for electronic device. The force inputs may be detected by measuring changes in capacitance, as measured by surface flex of a device having a flexible touchable surface, causing flex at a compressible gap within the device. A capacitive sensor responsive to changes in distance across the compressible gap. The sensor can be positioned above or below, or within, a display element, and above or below, or within, a backlight unit. The device can respond to bending, twisting, or other deformation, to adjust those zero force measurements. The device can use measure of surface flux that appear at positions on the surface not directly the subject of applied force, such as when the user presses on a part of the frame or a surface without capacitive sensors.
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公开(公告)号：US10658878B2
公开(公告)日：2020-05-19
申请号：US16206758
申请日：2018-11-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： J. Stephen Smith , Behrooz Shahsavari , Jacob E. Mattingley , Joseph C. Doll , Steven P. Hotelling , Siddharth Seth , Douglas J. Adams , Michael A. Cretella
Abstract: A wireless power transmitting device transmits wireless power signals to a wireless power receiving device. The wireless power receiving device has a rectifier and a wireless power receiving coil that receives wireless power signals. The wireless power transmitting device uses a layer of coils to transmit the wireless power signals. A dielectric layer in the wireless power transmitting device defines a charging surface that receives the wireless power receiving device. A layer of temperature sensors is interposed between the layer of coils and the dielectric layer. Control circuitry in the wireless power transmitting device uses temperature information from the temperature sensors to determine whether a foreign object such as a coin is present on the charging surface.
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公开(公告)号：US10474287B2
公开(公告)日：2019-11-12
申请号：US15830375
申请日：2017-12-04
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Steven P. Hotelling , Brian Richards Land
Abstract: A multi-touch capacitive touch sensor panel can be created using a substrate with column and row traces formed on either side of the substrate. To shield the column (sense) traces from the effects of capacitive coupling from a modulated Vcom layer in an adjacent liquid crystal display (LCD) or any source of capacitive coupling, the row traces can be widened to shield the column traces, and the row traces can be placed closer to the LCD. In particular, the rows can be widened so that there is spacing of about 30 microns between adjacent row traces. In this manner, the row traces can serve the dual functions of driving the touch sensor panel, and also the function of shielding the more sensitive column (sense) traces from the effects of capacitive coupling.
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公开(公告)号：US20190213377A1
公开(公告)日：2019-07-11
申请号：US16354066
申请日：2019-03-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Thayne M. Miller , Jean-Marie Bussat , Steven P. Hotelling , Sawyer I. Cohen , Tyler B. Cater
IPC: G06K9/00 , H03K17/975 , H03K17/96
CPC classification number: G06K9/0002 , H03K17/962 , H03K17/975 , H03K2217/960755
Abstract: Input members with capacitive sensors are disclosed. In one embodiment of an electronic button, a first circuit is configured to capture a fingerprint of a user's finger placed on the electronic button, and a second circuit is configured to sense a force applied to the electronic button by the user's finger. The first circuit is further configured to provide temperature information to compensate for temperature sensitivities of the second circuit, and the second circuit is further configured to provide force information to the first circuit.
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公开(公告)号：US10262179B2
公开(公告)日：2019-04-16
申请号：US15585074
申请日：2017-05-02
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Thayne M. Miller , Jean-Marie Bussat , Steven P. Hotelling , Sawyer I. Cohen , Tyler B. Cater
IPC: G06K9/00 , H03K17/96 , H03K17/975
Abstract: Input members with capacitive sensors are disclosed. In one embodiment of an electronic button, a first circuit is configured to capture a fingerprint of a user's finger placed on the electronic button, and a second circuit is configured to sense a force applied to the electronic button by the user's finger. The first circuit is further configured to provide temperature information to compensate for temperature sensitivities of the second circuit, and the second circuit is further configured to provide force information to the first circuit.
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公开(公告)号：US09984270B2
公开(公告)日：2018-05-29
申请号：US14451076
申请日：2014-08-04
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Marduke Yousefpor , Jean-Marie Bussat , Benjamin B. Lyon , Giovanni Gozzini , Steven P. Hotelling , Dale Setlak
CPC classification number: G06K9/0002 , G06K9/228 , H04M1/0266 , H04M1/67
Abstract: A fingerprint sensor is incorporated in a display stack in an electronic device. A single fingerprint can be captured at one time at a single pre-defined fixed location on a display. Alternatively, a single fingerprint can be acquired at one time at any location on a display. Alternatively, multiple touches on the display can be acquired substantially simultaneously where only one fingerprint is captured at a time or where all of the fingerprints are acquired at the same time. The fingerprint sensor can be implemented as an integrated circuit connected to a bottom surface of a cover sheet, near the bottom surface of the cover sheet, or connected to a top surface of a display. Alternatively, the fingerprint sensor can be implemented as a full panel fingerprint sensor.
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公开(公告)号：US09921696B2
公开(公告)日：2018-03-20
申请号：US14866846
申请日：2015-09-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Steven P. Hotelling , Vivek Pant , Prathit Bugnait , Isaac Chan
CPC classification number: G06F3/044 , G06F3/0418 , G06F2203/04103
Abstract: Electrode configurations for reducing wobble error for a stylus translating on a surface over and between electrodes of a touch sensor panel is disclosed. In some examples, electrodes associated with a more linear signal profile are correlated with lower wobble error. In some examples, electrodes are coupled to adjacent electrodes via diffusing resistors such that the signal profile for each electrode is spread to be more linear. In some configurations, the value of the diffusing resistors and series resistance associated with an electrode is selected based on a desired signal profile for that electrode. In some examples, the series resistance can include a trace resistance and a compensating resistance. The compensating resistance can compensate for a variance in trace resistance between electrodes, thus making series resistance substantially equal for each of the electrodes.
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公开(公告)号：US20180024687A1
公开(公告)日：2018-01-25
申请号：US15722999
申请日：2017-10-02
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Bingrui Yang , Martin P. Grunthaner , Steven P. Hotelling
CPC classification number: G06F3/0414 , G01L1/22 , G01L1/2262 , G06F3/0418 , G06F3/044 , G06F3/045 , G06F3/047 , G06F2203/04102 , G06F2203/04105 , H03K17/9625 , H04M1/0266 , H04M1/7258 , H04M1/72583
Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing in which components such as a display are mounted. A strain gauge may be mounted on a layer of the display such as a cover layer or may be mounted on a portion of the housing or other support structure. The layer of material on which the strain gauge is mounted may be configured to flex in response to pressure applied by a finger of a user. The strain gauge may serve as a button for the electronic device or may form part of other input circuitry. A differential amplifier and analog-to-digital converter circuit may be used to gather and process strain gauge signals. The strain gauge may be formed form variable resistor structures that make up part of a bridge circuit that is coupled to the differential amplifier. The bridge circuit may be configured to reduce the impact of capacitively coupled noise.
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公开(公告)号：US09870041B2
公开(公告)日：2018-01-16
申请号：US15685728
申请日：2017-08-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Wayne Carl Westerman , John Greer Elias , Steven P. Hotelling , Duncan Robert Kerr
IPC: G06F3/041 , G06F1/32 , G06F3/0488 , G06F3/044
CPC classification number: G06F1/3203 , G06F1/3262 , G06F3/044 , G06F3/04883 , G06F2203/04808
Abstract: This relates to an event sensing device that includes an event sensing panel and is able to dynamically change the granularity of the panel according to present needs. Thus, the granularity of the panel can differ at different times of operation. Furthermore, the granularity of specific areas of the panel can also be dynamically changed, so that different areas feature different granularities at a given time. This also relates to panels that feature different inherent granularities in different portions thereof. These panels can be designed, for example, by placing more stimulus and/or data lines in different portions of the panel, thus ensuring different densities of pixels in the different portions. Optionally, these embodiments can also include the dynamic granularity changing features noted above.
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