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公开(公告)号：US11521579B2
公开(公告)日：2022-12-06
申请号：US17710687
申请日：2022-03-31
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Mikael M. Silvanto , Dinesh C. Mathew , Victor H. Yin
IPC: G06F1/16 , G09G5/14 , G09G3/3208 , G09G3/36
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may be formed from liquid crystal display pixels, organic light-emitting diode pixels, or other pixels. The display may have an active area that is bordered along at least one edge by an inactive area. The active area contains pixels and displays images. The inactive area does not contain any pixels and does not display images. The inactive area may have a layer of black ink or other masking material to block internal components from view. The active area may have an opening that contains an isolated portion of the inactive area or may contain a recess into which a portion of the inactive area protrudes. An electrical component such as a speaker, camera, light-emitting diode, light sensor, or other electrical device may be mounted in the inactive area in the recess or opening of the active area.
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公开(公告)号：US11460622B1
公开(公告)日：2022-10-04
申请号：US17351099
申请日：2021-06-17
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Rong Liu , Andrew Baek , Ethan W. Juhnke , Eugene A. Whang , Gemma A. Roper , Glenn K. Trainer , Jia Chen Pang , Jun Qi , Ka Ho P. Poon , Michael C. Sulkis , Pedro Mari , Syed F. Mohiuddin , Victor H. Yin , Yu P. Sun
Abstract: An electronic device such as a voice-controlled speaker device may have a housing. A speaker and other input-output components and control circuitry may be mounted within the housing. Light-emitting components may emit light that passes through a curved upper top cap portion or other housing structure. The light-emitting components may be interconnected using a flex circuit on a curved substrate or may be mounted on a planar circuit board. A subset of the light-emitting components may be rotated to improve color balance. Optical structures such as light guides, lens, microlenses, and/or a diffuser layer may be disposed over the light-emitting components to promote light mixing, to reduce hotspots, and to improve contrast on the top cap. The diffuser layer may be suspended using a support structure having baffle members to constraint the angular spread of the emitted light. Illuminated or persistently visible glyphs may be displayed in or near the top cap portion.
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公开(公告)号：US11073954B2
公开(公告)日：2021-07-27
申请号：US15261847
申请日：2016-09-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Mikael M. Silvanto , Erik A. Zweigle , Jun Qi , Christiaan A. Ligtenberg , Robert Y. Cao , Bartley K. Andre , Molly J. Anderson , ByoungSuk Kim , Dinesh C. Mathew , Victor H. Yin
IPC: G06F3/023 , G06F3/02 , G06F3/041 , G06F3/044 , G06F3/0488 , G06F3/0354
Abstract: Embodiments related to an electronic device having an adaptive input row. The adaptive input row may be positioned within an opening of a device and include a cover for receiving a touch and a display that is configured to present an adaptable set of indicia. The adaptive input row may also include one or more sensors for detecting the location of a touch and/or the magnitude of a force of the touch. The adaptive input row may be positioned adjacent or proximate to a keyboard of the electronic device.
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公开(公告)号：US11054696B2
公开(公告)日：2021-07-06
申请号：US16629537
申请日：2018-08-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Rong Liu , Jun Qi , Victor H. Yin , Zhenyue Luo
IPC: F21V21/00 , G02F1/13357 , G02F1/1335
Abstract: An array of pixels in a display may be illuminated by a backlight having an array of light sources such as light-emitting diodes. The light-emitting diodes may be mounted on a printed circuit. A reflector may be formed on the printed circuit to help reflect light from the light-emitting diodes upwards through the pixels. The reflector may include two white ink layers. Multifunctional layers and other optical films may be incorporated into the backlight. These layers may include diffusers, microlens array layers, thin-film interference filters, phosphor layers, light-collimating layers, and reflective polarizers.
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公开(公告)号：US11022840B2
公开(公告)日：2021-06-01
申请号：US16409567
申请日：2019-05-10
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Rong Liu , Yu P. Sun , Abdeslam Hafidi , Erik A. Zweigle , Jun Qi , Mingxia Gu , Victor H. Yin , Xiangtong Li , Yanming Li , Yi Huang , Ziruo Hong
IPC: G02F1/1335 , G02F1/13357
Abstract: An array of pixels in a display may be illuminated by a backlight having an array of light-emitting diodes in an array of respective cells. A reflector is used to reflect light from the light-emitting diodes through the array of pixels. Within the cells, the reflector has cross-sectional profiles that help distribute light emitted from the light-emitting diodes toward edges of the cells. A light diffuser layer for the backlight may have a partially reflective layer such as a thin-film interference filter with an angularly dependent transmission. Within each cell, the reflector may have cross-sectional profiles with portions that are parabolic or elliptical.
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公开(公告)号：US20210072555A1
公开(公告)日：2021-03-11
申请号：US17005199
申请日：2020-08-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： ByoungSuk Kim , Yi Huang , Jun Qi , Victor H. Yin , Seung Wook Kim , Nicolas V. Scapel , Yi-Pai Huang
Abstract: A lenticular display may be formed with convex curvature. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film with lenticular lenses that extend across the length of the display. The lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display. To enable more curvature in the display while ensuring satisfactory stereoscopic display performance, the display may have stereoscopic zones and non-stereoscopic zones. A central stereoscopic zone may be interposed between first and second non-stereoscopic zones. The non-stereoscopic zones may have more curvature than the stereoscopic zone. To prevent crosstalk within the lenticular display, a louver film may be incorporated into the display. The louver film may have a plurality of transparent portions separated by opaque walls. The opaque walls may control the emission angle of light from the display, reducing crosstalk. The louver film may be interposed between the lenticular lens film and the display panel.
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公开(公告)号：US10739638B2
公开(公告)日：2020-08-11
申请号：US16409688
申请日：2019-05-10
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Rong Liu , Yu P. Sun , Erik A. Zweigle , Jun Qi , Victor H. Yin , Ziruo Hong , Sungwon Bae
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with a backlight. The backlight provides backlight illumination for an array of pixels that is displaying images. The backlight may include an array of cells. Each cell may contain a light source with one or more light-emitting diodes and a cavity reflector that reflects light from the light source outwardly through a diffuser for use in forming the backlight illumination. The light sources may be mounted to a printed circuit. Support posts on the printed circuit may be used to maintain the diffuser at a fixed distance from the printed circuit. Sensors on the printed circuit may be used to measure separation distances between the printed circuit and diffuser. Adjustments to pixel gain profiles can be made based on the measured separation distances.
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公开(公告)号：US10571957B2
公开(公告)日：2020-02-25
申请号：US15076464
申请日：2016-03-21
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Dinesh C. Mathew , Keith J. Hendren , Jun Qi , Victor H. Yin , Thomas Wilson, Jr. , Adam T. Garelli
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. Inactive portions of the display such as peripheral portions of the display may be masked using an opaque masking layer. An opening may be provided in the opaque masking layer to allow light to pass. For example, a logo may be viewed through an opening in the opaque masking layer and a camera may receive light through an opening in the opaque masking layer. The display may include upper and lower polarizers, a color filter layer, and a thin-film transistor layer. The opaque masking layer may be formed on the upper polarizer, may be interposed between the upper polarizer and the color filter layer, or may be interposed between the color filter layer and the thin-film transistor layer. The upper polarizer may have unpolarized windows for cameras, logos, or other internal structures.
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19.发明申请公开(公告)号：US20190285950A1
公开(公告)日：2019-09-19
申请号：US16294723
申请日：2019-03-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Rong Liu , Daming Xu , Joshua A. Spechler , Jun Qi , Victor H. Yin , Ling Han , Juan He , Ziruo Hong , Mookyung Son , Heesang Suh , Xinyu Zhu
IPC: G02F1/1335
Abstract: A display may have a pixel array such as a liquid crystal pixel array. The pixel array may be illuminated with backlight illumination from a backlight unit. The backlight unit may include a printed circuit board, a plurality of light-emitting diodes mounted on the printed circuit board, at least one light spreading layer formed over the printed circuit board that spreads light received from the plurality of light-emitting diodes, a partially reflective layer formed over the at least one light spreading layer, a color conversion layer formed over the partially reflective layer, a collimating layer formed over the color conversion layer, a brightness enhancement film formed over the collimating layer, and a diffuser formed over the brightness enhancement film. The at least one light spreading layer may include two light spreading layers with elongated protrusions that are rotated relative to each other.
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公开(公告)号：US10310167B2
公开(公告)日：2019-06-04
申请号：US15261972
申请日：2016-09-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Robert Y. Cao , Craig C. Leong , Bradford J. Zercoe , Dinesh C. Mathew , Mahesh Krishnamurthi , Jun Qi , Rong Liu , Victor H. Yin
Abstract: Described is an illumination structure for a key of a keyboard. The illumination structure is used to uniformly illuminate the key and any glyphs that are present on the key. The illumination structure includes a light guide having various features that increase total internal reflection and also illuminate the glyphs of the key.
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