Ultra-wideband Antenna Assembly
    22.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240079782A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-07

    申请号:US18458916

    申请日:2023-08-30

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H01Q7/00 H01Q1/38 H01Q1/48

    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a housing and an antenna. The antenna may be on a first substrate mounted to a second substrate. The housing may include a dielectric cover, a conductive plate on the dielectric cover, and a mid-chassis. The second substrate may be mounted to the mid-chassis. The antenna may include a conductive patch extending from a segment of a conductive ring on the first substrate. The conductive plate may have an opening aligned with the conductive patch. The first substrate may be separated from the dielectric cover by an air gap. A conductive gasket may couple the conductive ring to the conductive plate and may laterally surround the air gap and the opening. The antenna may convey ultra-wideband (UWB) signals through the air gap, the opening, and the dielectric cover layer.

    Impedance Transitions Between Boards for Antennas

    公开(公告)号:US20240079761A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-07

    申请号:US18458835

    申请日:2023-08-30

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H01Q1/243 H01Q1/48 H01Q9/0407

    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a flexible printed circuit and a rigid printed circuit mounted to the flexible printed circuit using a board-to-board (B2B) connector. The flexible printed circuit may include signal conductors coupled to one or more antennas on the rigid printed circuit through the B2B connector. A given one of the signal conductors may include a phase shifter segment on the flexible printed circuit and/or a thick impedance matching segment on the rigid printed circuit that help to form a smooth impedance transition from the flexible printed circuit to the rigid printed circuit and the antenna(s). The B2B connector may include signal contacts interleaved with a ground contacts. The B2B connector may include ground bars laterally surrounding the signal and ground contacts to maximize the strength of mechanical coupling between the flexible printed circuit and the rigid printed circuit.

    Electronic Devices with Distributed Slot Antenna Structures

    公开(公告)号:US20230083466A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-16

    申请号:US17728737

    申请日:2022-04-25

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: An electronic device may have peripheral conductive housing structures, a display frame, a support plate, a logic board, and an antenna. The antenna may have a resonating element that includes a first slot between the logic board and a segment of the peripheral conductive housing structures, a second slot between the display frame and the segment, and optionally a third slot between the between the support plate and the segment. The slots may be at least partially overlapping, may have respective lengths, may be located at respective distances from a cover layer for the display, and may collectively receive radio-frequency signals in a frequency band such as the L5 GPS band. Switching circuitry and filter circuitry may be coupled to the antenna feed and/or to the antenna feed(s) of one or more adjacent antennas in the electronic device to help to isolate the antennas from each other.

    SCALABILITY OF MULTI-DIRECTIONAL VIDEO STREAMING

    公开(公告)号:US20210227236A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-22

    申请号:US17221299

    申请日:2021-04-02

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for reducing latency and improving image quality of a viewport extracted from multi-directional video communications. According to such techniques, first streams of coded video data are received from a source. The first streams include coded data for each of a plurality of tiles representing a multi-directional video, where each tile corresponding to a predetermined spatial region of the multi-directional video, and at least one tile of the plurality of tiles in the first streams contains a current viewport location at a receiver. The techniques include decoding the first streams and displaying the tile containing the current viewport location. When the viewport location at the receiver changes to include a new tile of the plurality of tiles, retrieving and decoding first streams for the new tile, displaying the decoded content for the changed viewport location, and transmitting the changed viewport location to the source.

    SCALABILITY OF MULTI-DIRECTIONAL VIDEO STREAMING

    公开(公告)号:US20200092571A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-19

    申请号:US16132219

    申请日:2018-09-14

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for reducing latency and improving image quality of a viewport extracted from multi-directional video communications. According to such techniques, first streams of coded video data are received from a source. The first streams include coded data for each of a plurality of tiles representing a multi-directional video, where each tile corresponding to a predetermined spatial region of the multi-directional video, and at least one tile of the plurality of tiles in the first streams contains a current viewport location at a receiver. The techniques include decoding the first streams and displaying the tile containing the current viewport location. When the viewport location at the receiver changes to include a new tile of the plurality of tiles, retrieving and decoding first streams for the new tile, displaying the decoded content for the changed viewport location, and transmitting the changed viewport location to the source.

    Object Tracking in Multi-View Video
    30.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180349705A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-06

    申请号:US15613130

    申请日:2017-06-02

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for managing display of content from multi-view video data. According to these techniques, an object may be identified from content of the multi-view video. The object's location may be tracked across a sequence of multi-view video. The technique may extract a sub-set of video that is contained within a view window that is shifted in an image space of the multi-view video in correspondence to the tracked object's location. These techniques may be implemented either in an image source device or an image sink device.

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