公开(公告)号：US11740465B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-29

申请号：US17171864

申请日：2021-02-09

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Christopher M. Dodson ,  Jonathan B. Pfeiffer

IPC分类号： G06V20/00 ,  G02B27/01 ,  G03H1/02 ,  H04N5/33 ,  F21V8/00 ,  G06V20/10 ,  G06V10/143 ,  G06V20/20 ,  G06V40/16

CPC分类号： G02B27/0172 ,  G02B6/0036 ,  G03H1/0248 ,  G06V10/143 ,  G06V20/10 ,  G06V20/20 ,  G06V40/172 ,  H04N5/33 ,  G02B2027/014 ,  G02B2027/0138 ,  G02B2027/0174

摘要： A head-mounted electronic device may include a display with an optical combiner. The combiner may include a waveguide with first and second output couplers. The first output coupler may couple a first portion of image light at visible wavelengths out of the waveguide and towards an eye box. The second output coupler may couple a second portion of the image light at near-infrared wavelengths out of the waveguide and towards the surrounding environment. The second portion of the image light may include an authentication code that is used by a secondary device to authenticate the head-mounted device and/or may include a pattern that serves to prevent camera equipment in the surrounding environment from capturing accurate facial recognition information from a user while wearing the head-mounted device.

公开(公告)号：US11740460B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-29

申请号：US16688831

申请日：2019-11-19

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Matthew D. Hollands ,  Michael D. Simmonds ,  Richard J. Topliss ,  Thomas M. Gregory

IPC分类号： G02B27/01

CPC分类号： G02B27/0172 ,  G02B27/0103 ,  G02B2027/013 ,  G02B2027/0105 ,  G02B2027/0123 ,  G02B2027/0174 ,  G02B2027/0178

摘要： An electronic device may include a display module that generates image light and an optical system that redirects the light towards an eye box. The optical system may have first hologram structures that replicate the light over multiple output angles onto second hologram structures. The second hologram structures may focus the replicated light onto the eye box. If desired, the device may include an image sensor. The first and second hologram structures may include transmission and/or reflection holograms. The optical system may redirect a first portion of the light to the eye box and a second portion of the light to the sensor. The sensor may generate image data based on the second portion of the light. Control circuitry may compensate for distortions in the first portion of the light by performing feedback adjustments to the display module based on distortions in the image data.

公开(公告)号：US11739425B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-29

申请号：US16932621

申请日：2020-07-17

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Brian S. Tryon ,  Lijie Bao ,  Martin Melcher ,  Sonja R. Postak

IPC分类号： G02B5/28 ,  H05K5/02 ,  C23C28/00 ,  H05K5/04

CPC分类号： C23C28/34 ,  C23C28/32 ,  G02B5/285 ,  H05K5/02 ,  H05K5/04 ,  Y10T428/12583

摘要： An electronic device may include conductive structures having a visible-light-reflecting coating. The coating may include a seed layer, transition layers, a neutral-color base layer, and an uppermost layer that forms a single-layer interference film. The neutral-color base layer may be opaque to visible light. The interference film may include silicon and may have an absorption coefficient between 0 and 1. The interference film may include, for example, CrSiN or CrSiCN. The composition of the interference film, the thickness of the interference film, and/or the composition of the base layer may be selected to provide the coating with a desired color near the middle of the visible spectrum (e.g., at green wavelengths). The color may be relatively stable even if the thickness of the coating varies across its area.

公开(公告)号：US11735821B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-22

申请号：US17112191

申请日：2020-12-04

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Bilgehan Avser ,  Harish Rajagopalan ,  Simone Paulotto ,  Jennifer M. Edwards ,  Mattia Pascolini

IPC分类号： H01Q9/04 ,  H01Q5/40 ,  H01Q1/24 ,  H01Q3/26

CPC分类号： H01Q9/0407 ,  H01Q1/241 ,  H01Q3/267 ,  H01Q3/2658 ,  H01Q5/40

摘要： An electronic device may be provided with a phased antenna array and a display cover layer. The phased antenna array may include a probe-fed dielectric resonator antenna. The antenna may include a dielectric resonating element mounted to a flexible printed circuit. A feed probe may be formed from a patch of conductive traces on a sidewall of the resonating element. The feed probe may excite resonant modes of the resonating element. The resonating element may convey corresponding radio-frequency signals through the display cover layer. An additional feed probe may be mounted to an orthogonal sidewall of the resonating element for covering additional polarizations. Probe-fed dielectric resonator antennas for covering different polarizations and frequencies may be interleaved across the phased antenna array.

公开(公告)号：US11728691B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-15

申请号：US16953960

申请日：2020-11-20

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Zaid A. AbuKhalaf ,  Alexei E. Kosut

IPC分类号： H02J7/00 ,  H02J50/80 ,  H02J50/10 ,  H02J50/12 ,  H02J50/40 ,  H02J50/60 ,  H02J7/02 ,  H04B5/00 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L41/12 ,  H04W40/00 ,  H04L61/50 ,  H04W88/04 ,  H04W40/24 ,  H04W88/02

CPC分类号： H02J50/80 ,  H02J7/00032 ,  H02J7/02 ,  H02J50/10 ,  H02J50/12 ,  H02J50/40 ,  H02J50/60 ,  H04B5/0037 ,  H04B5/0075 ,  H04L5/0044 ,  H04L41/12 ,  H04L61/50 ,  H04W40/00 ,  H04W40/246 ,  H04W88/04 ,  H04W88/02

摘要： A wireless power system may include wireless power transmitting devices, wireless power receiving devices, and wireless power transmitting and receiving devices. The devices in the wireless power system may exchange packets in order to transfer various types of data. The data may be transmitted using in-band communication (e.g., amplitude-shift keying modulation or frequency-shift keying modulation). The devices may use locally assigned addresses to communicate with any other device in the wireless power system. Even if a first device is not inductively coupled to a second device, the locally assigned addresses may identify an inductive coupling path from the first device to the second device that includes at least one intervening device. The first device may therefore communicate with the second device using in-band communication packets that are relayed by at least one intervening device.

公开(公告)号：US11723097B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-08

申请号：US17481214

申请日：2021-09-21

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Jan K. Ellenbeck ,  Biljana Badic ,  Christian Drewes

IPC分类号： H04W4/00 ,  H04B7/14 ,  H04W76/15 ,  H04W36/22 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W4/70

CPC分类号： H04W76/15 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W28/0263 ,  H04W36/22

摘要： A communications network may include a relay device that receives device-to-device (D2D) signals. In an ad hoc mode, the relay may consume relatively little power while receiving relatively few messages from relatively few transmitting devices in the D2D signals. In an organized mode, the device may consume relatively high power while receiving many messages from many transmitting devices in the D2D signals. A receiver on the device may transition from the ad hoc mode to the organized mode in response to a first criterion and may transition from the organized mode to the ad hoc mode in response to a second switching criterion. This may allow the device to balance communications load and power consumption while relaying messages such as emergency messages received over D2D signals given that the signals may arrive rarely or in clusters due to an unforeseen event.

公开(公告)号：US11703698B1

公开(公告)日：2023-07-18

申请号：US16554136

申请日：2019-08-28

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Miikka M. Kangas ,  Eric G. Smith ,  Qing Liu ,  Jeffrey G. Koller

IPC分类号： G02F1/01 ,  G02F1/133 ,  G02C7/08 ,  G01C3/06

CPC分类号： G02F1/0123 ,  G01C3/06 ,  G02C7/083 ,  G02F1/13306

摘要： Eyeglasses may include one or more lenses and control circuitry that adjusts an optical power of the lenses. The control circuitry may be configured to determine a user's prescription and accommodation range during a vision characterization process. The vision characterization process may include adjusting the optical power of the lens until the user indicates that an object viewed through the lens is in focus. A distance sensor may measure the distance to the in-focus object. The control circuitry may calculate the user's prescription based on the optical power of the lens and the distance to the in-focus object. The control circuitry may adjust the optical power automatically or in response to user input. The object viewed through the lens may be an electronic device. The user may control the optical power of the lens and/or indicate when objects are in focus by providing input to the electronic device.

公开(公告)号：US11697615B2

公开(公告)日：2023-07-11

申请号：US17531389

申请日：2021-11-19

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Matthew S. Rogers ,  Que Anh S. Nguyen

IPC分类号： B32B3/00 ,  C03C17/36 ,  C03C17/38 ,  B32B17/06

CPC分类号： C03C17/3639 ,  B32B17/06 ,  C03C17/36 ,  C03C17/3615 ,  C03C17/3636 ,  C03C17/3649 ,  C03C17/3652 ,  C03C17/3684 ,  C03C17/38 ,  C03C2217/212 ,  C03C2217/218 ,  C03C2217/253 ,  C03C2217/258 ,  C03C2217/28 ,  C03C2217/445 ,  C03C2217/478 ,  C03C2217/485 ,  C03C2217/72 ,  C03C2217/78 ,  C03C2217/90 ,  C03C2218/36

摘要： An electronic device may include electrical components and other components mounted within a housing. The device may have a display on a front face of the device and may have a glass layer that forms part of the housing on a rear face of the device. The glass layer and other glass structures in the electronic device may be provided with coatings. An interior coating on a glass layer may include multiple layers of material such as an adhesion promotion layer, thin-film layers of materials such as silicon, niobium oxide and other metal oxides, and metals to help adjust the appearance of the coating. A metal layer may be formed on top of the coating to serve as an environmental protection layer and opacity enhancement layer. In some configurations, the coating may include four layers.

公开(公告)号：US11693279B1

公开(公告)日：2023-07-04

申请号：US17683731

申请日：2022-03-01

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Yunseok Lee ,  Haiqing Xianyu ,  Junhwan Lim ,  Peter F Masschelein ,  Sang Un Choi ,  Xiaokai Li ,  Yuan Chen ,  Zhibing Ge

IPC分类号： G02F1/1339 ,  B60J3/04 ,  G02F1/137 ,  G02F1/1343

CPC分类号： G02F1/1339 ,  B60J3/04 ,  G02F1/13725 ,  G02F1/134309

摘要： A system may have windows. The window may have first and second window layers and a layer of material such as guest-host liquid crystal material between the first and second window layers. Electrodes on the window layers may be used to apply electric fields to the guest-host liquid crystal material to adjust the light transmission properties of the window. To ensure that a desired gap between the first and second window layers is maintained, spacers may be formed between the first and second window layers. The spacers may include key-and-lock spacers that have interlocking portions located, respectively, on the first and second window layers. Spacers such as photoresist posts can be attached using adhesive. Hybrid arrangements may also be used in which key-and-lock spacer structures are attached using adhesive bonds.

公开(公告)号：US11683063B2

公开(公告)日：2023-06-20

申请号：US17897003

申请日：2022-08-26

申请人： Apple Inc. ,  BJ Watrous

发明人： Erik L. Wang ,  Phillip Michael Hobson ,  Kenneth A. Jenks ,  Adam D. Mittleman ,  Bartley K. Andre ,  Daniel J. Coster ,  Daniele De Iuliis ,  Richard P. Howarth ,  Jonathan P. Ive ,  Steven P. Jobs ,  Duncan Robert Kerr ,  Shin Nishibori ,  Matthew Dean Rohrbach ,  Douglas B. Satzger ,  Calvin Q. Seid ,  Christopher J. Stringer ,  Eugene Anthony Whang ,  Rico L. Zorkendorfer

IPC分类号： G06F1/16 ,  H05K5/00 ,  H05K7/00 ,  H04B1/3888 ,  H04M1/02

CPC分类号： H04B1/3888 ,  G06F1/1626 ,  G06F1/1637 ,  G06F1/1656 ,  G06F1/1658 ,  H04M1/026 ,  H04M1/0252 ,  H04M1/0266 ,  H04M1/0274 ,  H04M1/0277 ,  H04M2250/22 ,  Y10T29/49002

摘要： Portable electronic devices are provided. Each device may be formed from two parts. A first part may be provided with components such as a display, a touch screen, a cover glass, and a frame. A second part may be provided with a plastic housing, circuit boards containing electrical components, and a bezel. Engagement members may be connected to the first and second parts. The engagement members may be formed from metal clips with holes and springs with flexible spring prongs that mate with the holes in the clips. The metal clips may be welded to frame struts on the frame and the springs may be welded to the bezel. During assembly, the first part may be rotated into place within the second part. Retention clips attached to the frame may be used to secure the two parts together. Assembly instructions and associated connector numbers may be provided within the devices.