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公开(公告)号：US20220342163A1
公开(公告)日：2022-10-27
申请号：US17456614
申请日：2021-11-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Vivek Venugopal , Jacky G. Ko , Ueyn L. Block , James R. Wilson , Christopher D. Jones
IPC: G02B6/42 , G02B6/08 , H01L31/0232
Abstract: An electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture, and an electromagnetic radiation emitter and an electromagnetic radiation detector disposed in the housing. An optical component can be disposed in the aperture and can include a first region of a first material having a first index of refraction, the first region aligned with the electromagnetic radiation emitter, a second region of the first material, the second region aligned with the electromagnetic radiation detector, and a bulk region surrounding a periphery of the first region and a periphery of the second region, the bulk region including a second material having a second index of refraction that is lower than the first index of refraction.
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公开(公告)号：US20220232698A1
公开(公告)日：2022-07-21
申请号：US17716855
申请日：2022-04-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： James R. Wilson , Christopher D. Prest , Marta M. Giachino , Matthew S. Rogers , Que Anh S. Nguyen
IPC: H05K1/03 , H05K5/00 , G09F3/02 , G02B5/28 , C03C17/22 , C03C27/10 , H04M1/02 , H05K5/02 , H05K5/03
Abstract: An electronic device may include electrical components and other components mounted within an interior of 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 may be provided with regions having different appearances. The regions may be textured, may have coatings such as thin-film interference filter coatings formed from stacks of dielectric material having alternating indices of refraction, may have metal coating layers, and/or may have ink coating layers. Textured surfaces may be formed on thin glass layers and polymer films that are coupled to the glass layer. A glass layer may be formed from a pair of coupled glass layers. The coupled layers may have one or more recesses or other structures to visually distinguish different regions of the glass layer.
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公开(公告)号：US11002066B2
公开(公告)日：2021-05-11
申请号：US16403395
申请日：2019-05-03
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： James R. Wilson , Martin Melcher , Christopher D. Jones
Abstract: A system such as a vehicle system or building system may have an enclosing structure such as a wall that surrounds an interior region and separates the interior region from an exterior region. An occupant of the system may be located in the interior region. An adjustable window in the enclosing structure may be located between the interior and exterior regions. Control circuitry in the system may use an exterior sensor system in the exterior region to capture an image of the environment surrounding the system, to locate external objects such as light sources, and to make other measurements. User input can be gathered from the occupant of the system and the location of the occupant and inanimate objects in the interior region can be gathered using an interior sensor system. The control circuitry can adjust the window based on the gathered information.
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公开(公告)号：US10962783B2
公开(公告)日：2021-03-30
申请号：US16412292
申请日：2019-05-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： James R. Wilson , James W. Vandyke , Matthew S. Rogers
IPC: G02B27/01 , G06F1/16 , G02F1/1335
Abstract: An electronic device has an electrically adjustable optical layer. Displays and other optical components may be supported by a housing structure. The housing structure may form a handheld device housing, a head-mounted housing, or other housing for the electronic device. Control circuitry in the electronic device may adjust the electrically adjustable optical layer. The control circuitry may reduce light transmission for the electrically adjustable optical layer to hide the optical components, may increase light transmission to reveal the optical components while the optical components are being used to receive light or to output light, and may otherwise adjust the electrically adjustable optical layer to exhibit a desired set of optical characteristics depending on the mode of operation of the electronic device.
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公开(公告)号：US10953307B2
公开(公告)日：2021-03-23
申请号：US16556023
申请日：2019-08-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： James R. Wilson , Christopher D. Jones
Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to providing perceptual notifications containing information about a measured activity-based value of a swim characteristic. In some examples, the perceptual notifications utilize colors and haptic taps to convey measured values of the swim characteristic without requiring the swimmer to interact with the perceptual notification while the swimmer is swimming.
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公开(公告)号：US20210033757A1
公开(公告)日：2021-02-04
申请号：US16848732
申请日：2020-04-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： James R. Wilson , Matthew S. Rogers
Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing surrounding an interior in which electrical components are mounted. A display may be mounted to housing structures in the device. The housing may have a rear wall. The display cover layer and rear wall of the housing may be formed from transparent glass layers. Coatings may be formed on inwardly facing surfaces of the transparent glass layers. A coating on a transparent glass layer may be formed from a thin-film interference filter having a stack of dielectric layers. The coating may include an ink layer on the thin-film interference filter. The transparent glass layers may have one or more textured surfaces that allow light at high angles to enter the transparent layers and reflect off the coatings at high angles, thereby adjusting optical properties of the coatings.
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公开(公告)号：US10852574B2
公开(公告)日：2020-12-01
申请号：US15912317
申请日：2018-03-05
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： James R. Wilson , Matthew S. Rogers
Abstract: Substrates such as transparent glass layers or other transparent substrates may be used to form protective display cover layers, windows, housing structures, camera windows, and other structures. Coatings may be formed on the substrates, on pixel arrays such as flexible organic light-emitting diode pixel arrays, housing structures, and other structures. The coatings may have optical properties arising from the inclusion of pigment flakes in a clear polymer binder. The pigment flakes may be formed from a thin-film interference layer. The thin-film interference filter layer may have a stack of dielectric layers with a pattern of refractive index values selected to adjust the optical properties of the pigment flakes. The stack of dielectric layers may be configured to form an infrared-light-blocking-and-visible-light-transmitting optical characteristic for the coatings and/or may have other desired spectral properties.
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公开(公告)号：US10852573B2
公开(公告)日：2020-12-01
申请号：US16682221
申请日：2019-11-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Martin Melcher , James R. Wilson , Clarisse Mazuir , David E. Kingman
IPC: G02F1/133 , G02F1/137 , G02F1/1334 , B60J3/06 , B60J3/04
Abstract: A system such as a vehicle may have window that exhibit adjustable transparency. The windows may include liquid crystal devices and polymer dispersed liquid crystal devices that exhibit adjustable amounts of light transmission and haze. An optical property of a window such as window transparency may be modulated using an alternating-current modulation waveform. Modulation of the transparency of the window may be synchronized with modulated light output from a light source. The light source may be located inside the vehicle or may be located outside of the vehicle. By synchronizing the modulation of the transparency of the window with the light source output, privacy may be enhanced or glare may be reduced.
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公开(公告)号：US10734463B2
公开(公告)日：2020-08-04
申请号：US15071119
申请日：2016-03-15
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Kenichi Nakajima , James R. Wilson , Zhang Jia
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with a transparent layer such as a cover layer. An ambient light sensor may be aligned with an ambient light sensor window formed from an opening in a masking layer on the transparent layer in an inactive portion of the display. To help mask the ambient light sensor window from view, the ambient light sensor window may be provided with a black coating that matches the appearance of surrounding masking layer material while allowing light to reach the ambient light sensor. The black coating may include multiple pigments and may have a flat spectrum to enhance color ambient light measurements made with the ambient light sensor. The black coating may include a polymer binder or other binder that contains multiple pigments. The pigments may include a black pigment, a blue pigment, and an infrared-light-transparent pigment and/or other pigments.
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公开(公告)号：US10684397B2
公开(公告)日：2020-06-16
申请号：US15254826
申请日：2016-09-01
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： James R. Wilson
IPC: G02B5/02 , G02B13/20 , C09D5/33 , C09D7/40 , H05K5/00 , H05K5/03 , C03C17/00 , C01G23/047 , C09D133/04 , C09D163/00 , C09D167/00 , C08K3/22 , C08K7/22
Abstract: A refractive coating such as a white layer is disposed on a housing component of a portable electronic device. The refractive coating includes pigment particles such as titanium dioxide suspended in a carrier medium such as a polymer matrix. The pigment particles each define air pores or other voids formed by at least partially sintering the pigment particles. A difference in refractive index between the air pores and the pigment particles is greater than that between the carrier medium and the pigment particles. Incident light is refracted at interfaces between the pigment particles and the air pores, increasing light refracted by the refractive coating compared to refractive coatings including pigment particles lacking the air pores.
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