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公开(公告)号：US20210152789A1
公开(公告)日：2021-05-20
申请号：US17163104
申请日：2021-01-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Neil MacKinnon
IPC: H04N7/22 , H04B10/80 , H04N5/225 , H04N5/232 , H01S5/02 , H01S5/343 , H01S5/42 , H04N5/369 , H04N7/015
Abstract: A mobile device includes an image sensor separated from a processing component by an open space. The image sensor includes one or more light source modules and the processing component includes one or more light sensors aligned with the one or more light source modules. Image data from the image sensor may be transmitted to the processing component via light signals exchanged between the one or more light source modules and the one or more light sensors. In some embodiments, light signals transmitted between one or more light source modules of an image sensor and one or more light sensors of the processing component are used to determine positional and angular data about the image sensor.
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公开(公告)号：US20170370554A1
公开(公告)日：2017-12-28
申请号：US15190211
申请日：2016-06-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Neil MacKinnon , Weiping Li , Xiaofeng Fan
IPC: F21V3/04 , H01S5/00 , H01S5/42 , F21Y2115/30
CPC classification number: F21V3/049 , F21Y2115/30 , H01S5/005 , H01S5/18386 , H01S5/18388 , H01S5/18391 , H01S5/423
Abstract: A radiation source includes a semiconductor substrate, an array of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) formed on the substrate, which are configured to emit optical radiation, and a transparent crystalline layer formed over the array of VCSELs. The transparent crystalline layer has an outer surface configured to diffuse the radiation emitted by the VCSELs.
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公开(公告)号：US09568604B2
公开(公告)日：2017-02-14
申请号：US14296340
申请日：2014-06-04
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Scott T Smith , Iain A. McAllister , Jeffrey N. Gleason , Neil MacKinnon
Abstract: A camera includes a pulse transmitter for transmitting at a transmit time through an aperture and along an optical path to a target a coherent electromagnetic ranging pulse at a first wavelength range outside the visible spectrum. In some embodiments, the camera includes a reflected pulse detector for receiving a reflected electromagnetic pulse reflected by the target back along the optical path and through the aperture at a detect time subsequent to the transmit time. In some embodiments, the camera includes a shutter positioned for shielding the pulse detector from at least transmit time to an intermediate time between the transmit time and the detect time. In some embodiments, the shutter includes a layer of semiconductor material placed in the optical path at a point between the target and the detector.
Abstract translation: 相机包括脉冲发射器，用于在发射时通过孔径并沿着光路向目标物发射在可见光谱外的第一波长范围的相干电磁测距脉冲。 在一些实施例中，照相机包括反射脉冲检测器，用于在发射时间之后的检测时间沿着光路接收由目标背反射的反射的电磁脉冲并通过孔径。 在一些实施例中，照相机包括一个快门，定位成将脉冲检测器从至少传输时间屏蔽到发送时间与检测时间之间的中间时间。 在一些实施例中，快门包括位于目标和检测器之间的点处的光路中的半导体材料层。
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公开(公告)号：US20230020619A1
公开(公告)日：2023-01-19
申请号：US17954397
申请日：2022-09-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： David S. Gere , Brad V. Johnson , Neil MacKinnon , Scott T. Smith , Seyedeh Nasim Habibi
Abstract: Optical apparatus includes a projector, which is configured to direct a pattern of one or more stripes, extending along a longitudinal dimension across a target. A receiver includes an array of optical sensors, and objective optics, which are configured to image the target onto the array, and which have a non-circular aperture, which is elongated in a direction dependent upon the longitudinal dimension of the stripes.
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公开(公告)号：US20190302467A1
公开(公告)日：2019-10-03
申请号：US16242019
申请日：2019-01-08
Applicant: APPLE INC.
Inventor： Neil MacKinnon
Abstract: An optoelectronic apparatus includes an enclosure including a front face and a rear face. An array of emitters is contained in the enclosure and configured to generate first beams of optical radiation at a first wavelength and second beams of radiation at a second wavelength different from the first wavelength. Projection optics contained in the enclosure have an entrance face and an exit face and are configured to receive the beams of optical radiation through the entrance face and to project the beams through the exit face. A wavelength-based spatial multiplexer is contained in the enclosure and positioned to intercept the projected beams and configured to direct the first beams through the front face and the second beams through the rear face. A controller is coupled to selectively drive the array so as to control relative proportions of the optical radiation that are emitted through the front and rear faces.
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公开(公告)号：US20190222346A1
公开(公告)日：2019-07-18
申请号：US16179951
申请日：2018-11-04
Applicant: APPLE INC.
Inventor： Neil MacKinnon
CPC classification number: H04J14/06 , F21V9/14 , G02B27/283 , G02B27/285 , H04B10/2504 , H04B10/505 , H04J14/04
Abstract: An optoelectronic apparatus includes an enclosure having mutually-opposing first and second faces. An array of emitters contained in the enclosure is configured to emit beams of optical radiation. Projection optics contained in the enclosure have an entrance face and an exit face and are configured to receive the beams of optical radiation through the entrance face and to project the beams through the exit face. A polarization-based spatial multiplexer is contained in the enclosure and positioned to intercept and direct the projected beams such that the optical radiation having a first polarization is transmitted through the first face, while the optical radiation having a second polarization, orthogonal to the first polarization, is emitted through the second face. A controller is coupled to control a polarization of the optical radiation and thereby control a direction in which the optical radiation is emitted from the enclosure.
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公开(公告)号：US20180367767A1
公开(公告)日：2018-12-20
申请号：US16009079
申请日：2018-06-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Neil MacKinnon
Abstract: A mobile device includes an image sensor separated from a processing component by an open space. The image sensor includes one or more light source modules and the processing component includes one or more light sensors aligned with the one or more light source modules. Image data from the image sensor may be transmitted to the processing component via light signals exchanged between the one or more light source modules and the one or more light sensors. In some embodiments, light signals transmitted between one or more light source modules of an image sensor and one or more light sensors of the processing component are used to determine positional and angular data about the image sensor.
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公开(公告)号：US20180081093A1
公开(公告)日：2018-03-22
申请号：US15268116
申请日：2016-09-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Ligang Wang , Miodrag Scepanovic , Neil MacKinnon , Zhenbin Ge
CPC classification number: H04N5/33 , G02B5/0231 , G02B5/0294
Abstract: An electronic device may have an optical system that includes one or more light-based components. The light-based components may include light-emitting components such as light-emitting diodes or lasers and may include light-detecting components such as photodiodes or digital image sensors. The optical system may include a light diffuser. The light diffuser may diffuse light that is being detected by a light-detecting component or may diffuse light that is being emitted by a light-emitting component. Light diffusers in optical systems may be formed from patterned light diffuser layers on transparent substrates. Layers of sealant, thin glass layers, antireflection coatings, and other layers may be incorporated into the light diffusers. The light diffuser layers may operate at visible wavelengths and infrared wavelengths. An infrared light diffuser layer may be formed from a patterned silicon layer such as a patterned layer of hydrogenated amorphous silicon.
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公开(公告)号：US10911727B2
公开(公告)日：2021-02-02
申请号：US16009079
申请日：2018-06-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Neil MacKinnon
IPC: H04N7/22 , H04B10/80 , H01S5/42 , H04N5/225 , H04N5/232 , H01S5/02 , H01S5/343 , H04N5/369 , H04N7/015 , H04B10/112 , H04B10/25
Abstract: A mobile device includes an image sensor separated from a processing component by an open space. The image sensor includes one or more light source modules and the processing component includes one or more light sensors aligned with the one or more light source modules. Image data from the image sensor may be transmitted to the processing component via light signals exchanged between the one or more light source modules and the one or more light sensors. In some embodiments, light signals transmitted between one or more light source modules of an image sensor and one or more light sensors of the processing component are used to determine positional and angular data about the image sensor.
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公开(公告)号：US20190017678A1
公开(公告)日：2019-01-17
申请号：US16055104
申请日：2018-08-05
Applicant: APPLE INC.
Inventor： Neil MacKinnon , Weiping Li , Xiaofeng Fan
Abstract: A radiation source includes a semiconductor substrate, an array of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) formed on the substrate, which are configured to emit optical radiation, and a transparent crystalline layer formed over the array of VCSELs. The transparent crystalline layer has an outer surface configured to diffuse the radiation emitted by the VCSELs.
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