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

IPC: G06V40/13 ,  B06B1/02 ,  B06B1/06 ,  G06F3/043

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.

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

IPC: G01S7/52 ,  G01S15/89 ,  G10K11/34

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.

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

IPC: G06V40/13 ,  G06F3/042 ,  H10K30/80 ,  H10K50/30

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.

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.

公开(公告)号：US11176346B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-16

申请号：US15931492

申请日：2020-05-13

Applicant: Apple inc.

Inventor： Dale Setlak ,  Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost ,  Giovanni Gozzini

IPC: G06K9/00 ,  G06F3/042

Abstract: An apparatus for fingerprint sensing includes a light-emitting layer, an optical layer, a filter layer and a pixelated image sensor. The light-emitting layer is covered by a transparent layer, and can illuminate a surface touching the transparent layer and allows transmission of reflected light from the surface to the optical layer. The optical layer includes a plurality of optical elements. The filter layer includes a number of apertures and spatially processes the reflected light. The pixelated image sensor can sense the spatially processed light. At least one of the optical layer or the filter layer enables an angle-focused FOV filtering of the reflected light.

公开(公告)号：US20210312153A1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-07

申请号：US17020564

申请日：2020-09-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Stephanie Y. Su ,  Brittany Judoprasetijo ,  Andrew Deng ,  Dale Setlak ,  Carli E. Oster ,  Melody L. Kuna ,  Andrew W. Joyce ,  Ran Xu

IPC: G06K9/00

Abstract: A portable electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture and a display positioned in the aperture. The display and the housing can define an internal volume and a speaker assembly can be positioned in the internal volume. The speaker assembly can include a speaker enclosure sealed to the housing within the internal volume, the speaker enclosure and the housing defining a speaker volume, and a speaker module in fluid communication with the speaker volume, the speaker module including a diaphragm positioned at an aperture defined by the speaker volume, the diaphragm defining multiple ridges.

公开(公告)号：US20210004444A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-07

申请号：US17024574

申请日：2020-09-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Dale Setlak ,  Giovanni Gozzini ,  Manohar B. Srikanth ,  Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost

IPC: G06F21/32 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G06K9/20

Abstract: A method of authenticating a user of a wearable electronic device includes emitting light into a dorsal side of a forearm near a wrist of the user; receiving, using a light field camera, remissions of the light from the dorsal side of the forearm near the wrist of the user; generating a light field image from the remissions of the light; performing a synthetic focusing operation on the light field image to construct at least one image of at least one layer of the forearm near the wrist; extracting a set of features from the at least one image; determining whether the set of features matches a reference set of features; and authenticating the user based on the matching. In some embodiments, the method may further include compensating for a tilt of the light field camera prior to or while performing the synthetic focusing operation.

公开(公告)号：US09436863B2

公开(公告)日：2016-09-06

申请号：US15056785

申请日：2016-02-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Dale Setlak

IPC: G06K9/00

CPC classification number: G06K9/00013 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G06K9/0002

Abstract: A biometric sensing device is operatively connected to a processing channel. The processing channel can include one or more variable gain amplifiers and/or one or more variable offset circuits. The signal levels associated with a section of a biometric image can be reconstructed using a digitized section of the biometric image and a particular gain and/or a particular offset value used in the processing channel to process the digitized section of the biometric image. The reconstructed sections of the biometric image can be combined to form a reconstructed biometric image. Additional processing operations can be performed on the reconstructed biometric image.

Abstract translation: 生物识别装置可操作地连接到处理通道。 处理通道可以包括一个或多个可变增益放大器和/或一个或多个可变失调电路。 可以使用生物统计图像的数字化部分和在处理通道中使用的特定增益和/或特定偏移值来重建与生物图像的部分相关联的信号电平，以处理生物统计图像的数字化部分。 生物图像的重建部分可以组合以形成重建的生物统计图像。 可以对重建的生物统计图像执行附加的处理操作。