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公开(公告)号:US20250004426A1
公开(公告)日:2025-01-02
申请号:US18828927
申请日:2024-09-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Antonio F. Herrera , Erik G. de Jong , Jiahui Liang
Abstract: An electronic watch includes a housing and a crown assembly including a rotatable actuation member. The rotatable actuation member includes a knob external to the housing and configured to receive a rotational input and a shaft assembly coupled to the knob and positioned at least partially within the housing, the shaft assembly defining a sensing surface configured to rotate in response to the rotational input. The electronic watch further includes an optical sensing system configured to detect the rotational input, the detecting including directing light onto the sensing surface, receiving reflected light from the sensing surface, and producing a signal corresponding to a rotational motion of the sensing surface, the signal based at least in part on an interference between the light directed onto the sensing surface and the reflected light.
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公开(公告)号:US20240225548A1
公开(公告)日:2024-07-11
申请号:US18615370
申请日:2024-03-25
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Tyler S. Bushnell , Steven J. Martisauskas , Erik G. de Jong , Andrzej T. Baranski , Serhan O. Isikman , Steven J. Banaska , Todd K. Whitehurst , Ming L. Sartee
CPC classification number: A61B5/6843 , A61B5/681 , G01L1/142 , A61B5/021 , A61B5/412 , A61B5/4872 , A61B2562/0261
Abstract: A wearable electronic device includes a body, a housing component, a band operable to attach the body to a body part of a user, and a force sensor coupled to the housing component.
The force sensor is operable to produce a force signal based on a force exerted between the body part of the user and the housing component. A processing unit of the wearable electronic device receives the force signal from the force sensor and determines the force exerted on the housing component based thereon. The processing unit may use that force to determine a tightness of the band, determine health information for the user, adjust determined force exerted on a cover glass, and/or to perform various other actions.-
公开(公告)号:US20240225547A1
公开(公告)日:2024-07-11
申请号:US18444396
申请日:2024-02-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Tyler S. Bushnell , Steven J. Martisauskas , Erik G. de Jong , Andrzej T. Baranski , Serhan O. Isikman , Steven J. Banaska , Todd K. Whitehurst , Ming L. Sartee
CPC classification number: A61B5/6843 , A61B5/681 , G01L1/142 , A61B5/021 , A61B5/412 , A61B5/4872 , A61B2562/0261
Abstract: A wearable electronic device includes a body, a housing component, a band operable to attach the body to a body part of a user, and a force sensor coupled to the housing component. The force sensor is operable to produce a force signal based on a force exerted between the body part of the user and the housing component. A processing unit of the wearable electronic device receives the force signal from the force sensor and determines the force exerted on the housing component based thereon. The processing unit may use that force to determine a tightness of the band, determine health information for the user, adjust determined force exerted on a cover glass, and/or to perform various other actions.
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公开(公告)号:US12016449B2
公开(公告)日:2024-06-25
申请号:US17478262
申请日:2021-09-17
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Ryan C. Perkins , Anthony M. Ashcroft , Erik G. de Jong , Tirshathah A. Hunter , Seul Bi Kim , Erik L. Wang , Christopher M. Werner
IPC: E05B73/00 , A45F5/00 , A61B5/11 , G01S5/00 , G01S5/02 , G04G21/04 , G04G21/08 , G06F3/01 , G06F3/02 , G06F3/044 , G06F3/0485 , G06F3/04883 , G06K7/00 , G06K7/10 , G06K19/07 , G06K19/077 , G06T13/40 , H01M50/109 , H01M50/184 , H01Q1/22 , H01Q1/27 , H01Q5/25 , H01Q5/378 , H01Q7/00 , H01Q9/42 , H04B1/3888 , H04B5/79 , H04L9/08 , H04L9/30 , H04M1/02 , H04M1/21 , H04R1/02 , H04R3/00 , H04R7/02 , H04W4/029 , H04W12/02 , H04W12/03 , A63B24/00 , H01Q21/06 , H04B1/717 , H04W88/06
CPC classification number: A45F5/00 , A61B5/1116 , E05B73/0005 , G01S5/0036 , G01S5/0226 , G04G21/04 , G04G21/08 , G06F3/017 , G06F3/02 , G06F3/044 , G06F3/0485 , G06F3/04883 , G06K7/0008 , G06K7/10396 , G06K19/0701 , G06K19/0702 , G06K19/0708 , G06K19/0723 , G06K19/07711 , G06K19/07758 , G06K19/07766 , G06K19/07773 , G06K19/07779 , G06T13/40 , H01M50/109 , H01M50/184 , H01Q1/2208 , H01Q1/2225 , H01Q1/2291 , H01Q1/273 , H01Q5/25 , H01Q5/378 , H01Q7/00 , H01Q9/42 , H04B1/3888 , H04B5/79 , H04L9/0825 , H04L9/30 , H04M1/02 , H04M1/21 , H04R1/028 , H04R3/00 , H04R7/02 , H04W4/029 , H04W12/02 , H04W12/03 , A45F2005/006 , A45F2200/0508 , A63B24/0062 , G01S5/0231 , G06F3/016 , H01Q21/06 , H04B1/717 , H04R2400/03 , H04R2420/07 , H04W88/06
Abstract: A holder for a wirelessly locatable tag may be used with a wirelessly locatable tag comprising a housing member defining a region of an exterior surface of the wirelessly locatable tag configured to act as a speaker diaphragm. The holder may include a receptacle portion configured to at least partially surround the wirelessly locatable tag, the receptacle portion defining a first opening configured to allow the wirelessly locatable tag to be positioned in the receptacle portion, a second opening configured to at least partially surround an outer periphery of a battery door of the wirelessly locatable tag, and a third opening aligned with the region of the exterior surface configured to act as the speaker diaphragm. The holder may further include a fastener coupled to the receptacle portion and configured to releasably secure the first opening in a closed configuration to retain the wirelessly locatable tag in the receptacle portion.
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公开(公告)号:US20240087527A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-14
申请号:US18511335
申请日:2023-11-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Sameer Pandya , Daniel J. Barrett , Erik G. de Jong , James P. Landry , David A. Doyle , Jean-Pierre S. Guillou , Jung Yun Seuh , Yi Qiao
IPC: G09G3/3233 , F21V8/00 , G02F1/1333 , G02F1/137 , G04G17/04
CPC classification number: G09G3/3233 , G02B6/004 , G02B6/0051 , G02F1/133331 , G02F1/13737 , G04G17/045 , G02F1/133541
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The display may have a pixel array that produces images. A display cover layer may overlap the pixel array. The display cover layer may have a planar central area surrounded by a peripheral edge area with a curved cross-sectional profile. From an on-axis viewing angle, an image on the pixel array is fully viewable through the planar central area and the peripheral edge area. From an off-axis viewing angle, the image is partly viewable through the peripheral edge area and not through the central area. To avoid an undesired color cast in the partly viewable image seen through the peripheral edge area of the display cover layer, the display may be provided with color cast compensation structures such as a guest-host liquid crystal layer that exhibits an anisotropic colored light absorption characteristic, a diffuser layer, and/or other optical structures.
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公开(公告)号:US11800746B2
公开(公告)日:2023-10-24
申请号:US17357831
申请日:2021-06-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Anna-Katrina Shedletsky , Paul S. Drzaic , Erik G. de Jong , Fletcher R. Rothkopf
IPC: H10K50/86 , H10K50/11 , H10K50/818 , H10K50/828 , H10K50/844 , H10K50/856 , H10K59/13 , H10K59/60 , G06F1/16 , G02F1/133 , H10K102/00
CPC classification number: H10K50/865 , G06F1/1637 , H10K50/11 , H10K50/818 , H10K50/828 , H10K50/844 , H10K50/856 , H10K50/86 , H10K59/13 , H10K59/60 , G02F1/13312 , G02F1/13318 , H10K2102/3026
Abstract: An electronic device is provided with a display and a light sensor that receives light that passes through the display. The display includes features that increase the amount of light that passes through the display. The features may be translucency enhancement features that allow light to pass directly through the display onto a light sensor mounted behind the display or may include a light-guiding layer that guides light through the display onto a light sensor mounted along an edge of the display. The translucency enhancement features may be formed in a reflector layer or an electrode layer for the display. The translucency enhancement features may include microperforations in a reflector layer of the display, a light-filtering reflector layer of the display, or a reflector layer of the display that passes a portion of the light and reflects an additional portion of the light.
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公开(公告)号:US11630537B2
公开(公告)日:2023-04-18
申请号:US17558103
申请日:2021-12-21
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Michael B. Wittenberg , Daniel J. Barrett , Erik G. de Jong , Lucy E. Browning , Marwan Rammah , Rasamy Phouthavong , Sameer Pandya
Abstract: An electronic device may have light-emitting devices. A light-emitting device may include light-emitting diodes, a display, or other components that emit visual output. One or more image transport layers may be included in the electronic device. An image transport layer may have an input surface that receives an image and an output surface to which the image transport layer transports the image for viewing by a user. The image transport layers may have areas with compound curvature and other shapes. Deformed image transport layer structures such as deformed fibers in a coherent fiber bundle may be configured to hide gaps in displays and other structures. Displays may include light detectors that serve as a two-dimensional touch sensor. The touch sensor may detect touch input on an output surface of an image transport layer. Image transport layer material may be incorporated into buttons, elongated housings, wearable devices, and other equipment.
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公开(公告)号:US11520550B1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-06
申请号:US16843794
申请日:2020-04-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Tyler S. Bushnell , Erik G. de Jong
Abstract: Device localization (e.g., ultra-wideband device localization) may be used to provide coordinated outputs and/or receive coordinated inputs using multiple devices. Providing coordinated outputs may include providing partial outputs using multiple devices, modifying an output of a device based on its position and/or orientation relative to another device, and the like. In some cases, each device of a set of multiple devices may provide a partial output, which combines with partial outputs of the remaining devices to produce a coordinated output.
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公开(公告)号:US20220312607A1
公开(公告)日:2022-09-29
申请号:US17701516
申请日:2022-03-22
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Dakota A. Bass , Erik G. de Jong , Sameer Pandya , Shang L. Tsuei , Trent J. Canales
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The display may have a display panel with an array of pixels on a flexible substrate. A display cover layer may overlap the display panel. The flexible substrate may have a protruding portion that forms a tail. When the display is mounted in the housing, the tail may be bent back on itself to create a bend. The bend may be embedded in molded polymer. The device may have structures that help prevent the display cover layer from being compressed inwardly towards the rear of the housing such as frame structures embedded in the molded polymer and/or housing sidewall structures. Optical components and optical waveguides may be embedded within the molded polymer. Mating chamfers on the display cover layer and housing may help seat the display cover layer in the housing.
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公开(公告)号:US20220272849A1
公开(公告)日:2022-08-25
申请号:US17447561
申请日:2021-09-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Sameer Pandya , Dakota A. Bass , Daniel J. Barrett , Erik G. de Jong , Xuan Liu , Kiran S. Pillai , Mario Martinis
Abstract: A portable or wearable electronic device can include a device housing defining an internal volume, and an electronic component disposed in the internal volume. The electronic component can be an input component and can have a component housing. The electronic device can also include an antenna feed assembly disposed in the internal volume. The antenna feed assembly can include a conductive grounding component electrically connected to the component housing and the device housing, and an antenna feed component electrically connected to the grounding component and disposed adjacent to the component housing. The conductive grounding component can surround a first major surface and a second major surface of the component housing.
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