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公开(公告)号:US20200053729A1
公开(公告)日:2020-02-13
申请号:US16532995
申请日:2019-08-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Daniel R. Borges , Oren Shani , Christiaan A. Hartman , Yong Liu , Charles F. Dominguez , Karthik R. Mekala , Tashbeeb Haque , Lawrie Kurian , Mete Fikirlier , Guoqing Li , Rajneesh Kumar , Ka Ho P. Poon , Brian B. Whitaker , Joseph Hakim , John A. Wilson , Tony Chi Wang Ng , Roopkumar Parthasarathy Rao , Curtis J. Schmidek , Shishir Gupta , Tushar R. Shah , Jacob H. Power , Bryan J. Follis , Anand Rajagopalan
Abstract: An interface circuit in an electronic device may contend for access to a shared communication channel on behalf of the electronic device and a recipient electronic device, where the access has a duration. Then, the electronic device may provide a schedule frame intended for the recipient electronic device that includes information that specifies one or more time slots during the duration that are associated with the recipient electronic device and one or more communication functions of the recipient electronic device in the one or more time slots. Moreover, the electronic device may provide a data frame with data intended for the recipient electronic device. In response, the electronic device may receive a response frame associated with the recipient electronic device, where the response frame is received during at least one of the one or more time slots.
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公开(公告)号:US11184890B2
公开(公告)日:2021-11-23
申请号:US16532995
申请日:2019-08-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Daniel R. Borges , Oren Shani , Christiaan A. Hartman , Yong Liu , Charles F. Dominguez , Karthik R. Mekala , Tashbeeb Haque , Lawrie Kurian , Mete Fikirlier , Guoqing Li , Rajneesh Kumar , Ka Ho P. Poon , Brian B. Whitaker , Joseph Hakim , John A. Wilson , Tony Chi Wang Ng , Roopkumar Parthasarathy Rao , Curtis J. Schmidek , Shishir Gupta , Tushar R. Shah , Jacob H. Power , Bryan J. Follis , Anand Rajagopalan
Abstract: An interface circuit in an electronic device may contend for access to a shared communication channel on behalf of the electronic device and a recipient electronic device, where the access has a duration. Then, the electronic device may provide a schedule frame intended for the recipient electronic device that includes information that specifies one or more time slots during the duration that are associated with the recipient electronic device and one or more communication functions of the recipient electronic device in the one or more time slots. Moreover, the electronic device may provide a data frame with data intended for the recipient electronic device. In response, the electronic device may receive a response frame associated with the recipient electronic device, where the response frame is received during at least one of the one or more time slots.
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公开(公告)号:US11536446B2
公开(公告)日:2022-12-27
申请号:US17349787
申请日:2021-06-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Rong Liu , Andrew Baek , Ethan W. Juhnke , Eugene A. Whang , Gemma A. Roper , Glenn K. Trainer , Jia Chen Pang , Jun Qi , Ka Ho P. Poon , Michael C. Sulkis , Pedro Mari , Syed F. Mohiuddin , Victor H. Yin , Yu P. Sun
IPC: F21V33/00 , F21V14/02 , F21V3/04 , G06F3/16 , F21Y115/10
Abstract: An electronic device such as a voice-controlled speaker device may have a housing. A speaker and other input-output components and control circuitry may be mounted within the housing. Light-emitting components may emit light that passes through a curved upper top cap portion or other housing structure. The light-emitting components may be interconnected using a flex circuit on a curved substrate or may be mounted on a planar circuit board. A subset of the light-emitting components may be rotated to improve color balance. Optical structures such as light guides, lens, microlenses, and/or a diffuser layer may be disposed over the light-emitting components to promote light mixing, to reduce hotspots, and to improve contrast on the top cap. The diffuser layer may be suspended using a support structure having baffle members to constraint the angular spread of the emitted light. Illuminated or persistently visible glyphs may be displayed in or near the top cap portion.
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公开(公告)号:US11460622B1
公开(公告)日:2022-10-04
申请号:US17351099
申请日:2021-06-17
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Rong Liu , Andrew Baek , Ethan W. Juhnke , Eugene A. Whang , Gemma A. Roper , Glenn K. Trainer , Jia Chen Pang , Jun Qi , Ka Ho P. Poon , Michael C. Sulkis , Pedro Mari , Syed F. Mohiuddin , Victor H. Yin , Yu P. Sun
Abstract: An electronic device such as a voice-controlled speaker device may have a housing. A speaker and other input-output components and control circuitry may be mounted within the housing. Light-emitting components may emit light that passes through a curved upper top cap portion or other housing structure. The light-emitting components may be interconnected using a flex circuit on a curved substrate or may be mounted on a planar circuit board. A subset of the light-emitting components may be rotated to improve color balance. Optical structures such as light guides, lens, microlenses, and/or a diffuser layer may be disposed over the light-emitting components to promote light mixing, to reduce hotspots, and to improve contrast on the top cap. The diffuser layer may be suspended using a support structure having baffle members to constraint the angular spread of the emitted light. Illuminated or persistently visible glyphs may be displayed in or near the top cap portion.
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公开(公告)号:US20240250077A1
公开(公告)日:2024-07-25
申请号:US18177593
申请日:2023-03-02
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Yu P. Sun , Caijie Yan , Jared M. Kole , Jia Chen Pang , Jun Qi , Ka Ho P. Poon , Lindsay M. Epstein , Pulkit Verma , Rong Liu , Syed F. Mohiuddin , Victor H. Yin , Zhongnan Hu
CPC classification number: H01L25/167 , H01L33/483 , H01L33/64
Abstract: An electronic device such as a voice-controlled speaker device may have a cylindrical shape. The electronic device may include a housing, a speaker in the housing configured to emit sound, and a display in the housing. The display may include a substrate, light-emitting components mounted on the substrate, an opaque support structure mounted on the substrate, a diffuser that is mounted to the opaque support structure and that overlaps the light-emitting components, a display cover layer that overlaps the diffuser, and foam that is interposed between the opaque support structure and the display cover layer. The light-emitting components may be arranged in groups that have the same layout and orientations that vary as a function of angular position relative to the center of the display. The foam and/or an adhesive layer may be formed from two or more discrete pieces that have footprints with complementary protrusions.
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公开(公告)号:US11346542B2
公开(公告)日:2022-05-31
申请号:US16882307
申请日:2020-05-22
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Janos C. Keresztes , Yu P. Sun , Rong Liu , Chungjae Lee , Ka Ho P. Poon , Brian P. Graves , Jun Qi , Victor H. Yin , Joel C. Yamasaki , Pedro Mari
Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing, a speaker, control circuitry, a plurality of light-emitting components configured to emit light through an upper housing wall or other housing structure. A lens diffuser layer having lenses overlapping respective light-emitting components, a textured diffuser layer formed from textured coatings on a substrate, and a volume diffuser layer having light-scattering structures in a polymer layer might be included to project light from the light-emitting components. A light-guiding portion of the lens diffuser layer may guide light to a circular peripheral edge to form an illuminated ring visible through the upper housing wall.
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