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公开(公告)号:US20240079784A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-07
申请号:US18458710
申请日:2023-08-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Han Wang , Victor C. Lee , Jingni Zhong , Ming Chen , Bhaskara R. Rupakula , Yiren Wang , Yuan Tao , Christopher Q. Ma , Zhiheng Zhou , Sherry Cao , Kevin M. Froese , Hao Xu , Hongfei Hu , Mattia Pascolini
CPC classification number: H01Q9/0414 , H01Q9/0442 , H01Q9/40
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an antenna having a resonating element and a light source module mounted to a flexible printed circuit and a metal cowling. The module may emit light through a rear housing wall. The printed circuit may be interposed between the metal cowling and a conductive support plate in the rear housing wall. The printed circuit may include a ground trace coupled to the resonating element. A dimpled pad may couple the ground trace to the support plate. Compressive foam may be used to exert a force against the flexible printed circuit that presses the dimpled pad against the conductive support plate. The ground trace and the dimpled pad may form a return path to ground for the resonating element. The dimpled pad may occupy less height within the device than other structures such as metal springs.
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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.
Inventor: Alden T. Rush , Han Wang , Jingni Zhong , Ming Chen , Yiren Wang , Yuan Tao , Hao Xu , Hongfei Hu , Mattia Pascolini
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.
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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.
Inventor: Jingni Zhong , Ming Chen , Han Wang , Alden T Rush , Behnam Ghassemiparvin , Bhaskara R Rupakula , Yiren Wang , Yuan Tao , Hao Xu , Jennifer M Edwards , Hongfei Hu , Mattia Pascolini
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.
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公开(公告)号:US20230291125A1
公开(公告)日:2023-09-14
申请号:US17832427
申请日:2022-06-03
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Xu Han , Hongfei Hu , Ming Chen , Jingni Zhong , Erdinc Irci , Salih Yarga , Mohsen Salehi , Carlo Di Nallo , Ming-Ju Tsai , Mattia Pascolini
Abstract: An electronic device may include first and second antennas formed from respective first and second segments of a housing. The first antenna may have a first feed coupled to the first segment by a first switch and coupled to the first segment by a first conductive trace. The second antenna may have a second feed coupled to the second segment by a second switch and coupled to the second segment by a second conductive trace. The first segment may be separated from the second segment by a single gap, a data connector may pass through the second segment, and the antennas may selectively cover a low band. Alternatively, the first segment may be separated from the second segment by a third segment and two gaps, the data connector may pass through the third segment, and the first and second antennas may concurrently cover the low band.
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公开(公告)号:US11627343B2
公开(公告)日:2023-04-11
申请号:US17188473
申请日:2021-03-01
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Xiaohua Yang , Alexandros Tourapis , Dazhong Zhang , Hang Yuan , Hsi-Jung Wu , Jae Hoon Kim , Jiefu Zhai , Ming Chen , Xiaosong Zhou
IPC: H04N19/52 , H04N19/90 , H04N19/597 , H04N21/2343 , G06F3/01
Abstract: In communication applications, aggregate source image data at a transmitter exceeds the data that is needed to display a rendering of a viewport at a receiver. Improved streaming techniques that include estimating a location of a viewport at a future time. According to such techniques, the viewport may represent a portion of an image from a multi-directional video to be displayed at the future time, and tile(s) of the image may be identified in which the viewport is estimated to be located. In these techniques, the image data of tile(s) in which the viewport is estimated to be located may be requested at a first service tier, and the other tile in which the viewport is not estimated to be located may be requested at a second service tier, lower than the first service tier.
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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.
Inventor: Aobo Li , Erdinc Irci , Carlo Di Nallo , Enrique Ayala Vazquez , Haozhan Tian , Hongfei Hu , Liang Han , Ming Chen , Ming-Ju Tsai , Salih Yarga , Tiejun Yu , Victor C Lee , Xu Han
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.
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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.
Inventor: Alexandros Tourapis , Dazhong Zhang , Hang Yuan , Hsi-Jung Wu , Jae Hoon Kim , Jiefu Zhai , Ming Chen , Xiaosong Zhou
IPC: H04N19/29 , H04N19/103 , G09G5/14 , H04N21/44
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.
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公开(公告)号:US10939139B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-02
申请号:US16204792
申请日:2018-11-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Xiaohua Yang , Alexandros Tourapis , Dazhong Zhang , Hang Yuan , Hsi-Jung Wu , Jae Hoon Kim , Jiefu Zhai , Ming Chen , Xiaosong Zhou
IPC: H04N19/52 , H04N19/90 , H04N19/597 , H04N21/2343 , G06F3/01
Abstract: In communication applications, aggregate source image data at a transmitter exceeds the data that is needed to display a rendering of a viewport at a receiver. Improved streaming techniques that include estimating a location of a viewport at a future time. According to such techniques, the viewport may represent a portion of an image from a multi-directional video to be displayed at the future time, and tile(s) of the image may be identified in which the viewport is estimated to be located. In these techniques, the image data of tile(s) in which the viewport is estimated to be located may be requested at a first service tier, and the other tile in which the viewport is not estimated to be located may be requested at a second service tier, lower than the first service tier.
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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.
Inventor: Alexandros Tourapis , Dazhong Zhang , Hang Yuan , Hsi-Jung Wu , Jae Hoon Kim , Jiefu Zhai , Ming Chen , Xiaosong Zhou
IPC: H04N19/29 , H04N21/44 , G09G5/14 , H04N19/103
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.
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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.
Inventor: Jae Hoon Kim , Ming Chen , Hang Yuan , Jiefu Zhai , Dazhong Zhang , Xiaosong Zhou , Chris Chung , Hsi-Jung Wu
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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