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公开(公告)号：US11868542B2
公开(公告)日：2024-01-09
申请号：US17806118
申请日：2022-06-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Michelle R. Goldberg , Kathleen A. Bergeron , Paul X. Wang , Alex J. Lehmann , William P. Yarak, III , Kevin C. Armendariz , Zheng Gao
IPC: H01H13/14 , G06F3/02 , H01H13/83 , H01H13/705 , H01H11/00 , H01H3/12 , H01H13/7065 , H01H13/88
CPC classification number: G06F3/0202 , H01H3/122 , H01H11/00 , H01H13/14 , H01H13/705 , H01H13/7065 , H01H13/83 , H01H3/12 , H01H13/88 , H01H2203/02 , H01H2219/044 , H01H2219/056 , H01H2219/062 , H01H2229/048
Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a low profile key for a keyboard having an overmolded support structure. In one aspect, an embodiment includes a key cap having an illuminable symbol. A support structure having a pair of overmolded wings may pivotally couple to the key cap. A switch housing may surround the support structure and connect each of the first and second wings. A tactile dome may be at least partially positioned within the switch housing and configured to bias the key cap upward. A sensing membrane may be positioned along an underside surface of the tactile dome and configured to trigger a switch event in response to a collapsing of the tactile dome caused by a depression of the key cap. A feature plate may be positioned below the sensing membrane. A light guide panel may define at least one light extraction feature that may be configured to propagate light toward the key cap and cause illumination of the illuminable symbol.
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公开(公告)号：US10564724B1
公开(公告)日：2020-02-18
申请号：US15691545
申请日：2017-08-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Kathleen A. Bergeron , Alex J. Lehmann , Qiliang Xu , Zheng Gao , Paul X. Wang
IPC: G06F3/038 , G06F3/01 , G06F3/0354
Abstract: An input device, such as a stylus, can include a piezoelectric device for providing haptic feedback and/or detecting user input. The piezoelectric device can be coupled to an inner surface of a housing of the stylus. The piezoelectric device can provide haptic feedback with a force to the housing when an electric voltage is applied to the piezoelectric device. The haptic feedback can provide information to the user relating operation of the stylus with an external device. The piezoelectric device can also produce an electric voltage when an input force is applied to an outer surface of the housing and transmitted to the piezoelectric device. The electric voltage can be used to detect tactile input from a user.
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公开(公告)号：US11776555B2
公开(公告)日：2023-10-03
申请号：US17222717
申请日：2021-04-05
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Kathleen A. Bergeron , Edward Siahaan , Jeffrey J. Terlizzi
IPC: G10L21/0208
CPC classification number: G10L21/0208
Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for reducing unwanted noise in an electronic audio signal, wherein a computing device having a microphone is configured to receive signals from a sensor on an external device such as a camera, second microphone, or movement sensor. The signals from the sensor are used to identify sound information or characteristics of sounds made by a source of noise, and the audio signal of the microphone is modified to reduce unwanted sounds based on that sound information or based on sounds identified a second audio signal obtained by the second microphone, thereby improving teleconference and video conference audio quality and removing distracting noises from transmitted audio output.
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公开(公告)号：US20230239602A1
公开(公告)日：2023-07-27
申请号：US18295620
申请日：2023-04-04
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Daniel D. Sunshine , Kathryn P. Crews , Tirshathah A. Hunter , Kathleen A. Bergeron , Mingjing Ha , Shubham A. Gandhi , Paul S. Drzaic , Yung-Yu Hsu , David W. Lum
CPC classification number: H04R1/023 , G06F1/181 , G06F1/1605 , G10L15/20 , H04R5/02
Abstract: An electronic device such as a voice-controlled speaker device may have a housing characterized by a vertical longitudinal axis. A flexible substrate such as a flexible mesh substrate with component support regions coupled by flexible segments may be wrapped around the housing and the vertical axis. The housing may have surface regions with compound curvature. The flexible substrate may conform to the regions with compound curvature. A fabric spacer layer may be interposed between the flexible substrate and the housing. Electrical components such as input-output devices may be mounted to the component support regions. A display may be formed from an array of light-emitting devices that are mounted on respective component support regions. Light from the light-emitting devices may pass through the fabric spacer layer toward the housing and back out away from the housing. An outer fabric layer may cover the mesh.
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公开(公告)号：US11379049B2
公开(公告)日：2022-07-05
申请号：US16353915
申请日：2019-03-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Michelle R. Goldberg , Kathleen A. Bergeron , Paul X. Wang , Alex J. Lehmann , William P. Yarak, III , Kevin C. Armendariz , Zheng Gao
IPC: H01H3/12 , G06F3/02 , H01H13/14 , H01H13/83 , H01H13/705 , H01H11/00 , H01H13/7065 , H01H13/88
Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a low profile key for a keyboard having an overmolded support structure. In one aspect, an embodiment includes a key cap having an illuminable symbol. A support structure having a pair of overmolded wings may pivotally couple to the key cap. A switch housing may surround the support structure and connect each of the first and second wings. A tactile dome may be at least partially positioned within the switch housing and configured to bias the key cap upward. A sensing membrane may be positioned along an underside surface of the tactile dome and configured to trigger a switch event in response to a collapsing of the tactile dome caused by a depression of the key cap. A feature plate may be positioned below the sensing membrane. A light guide panel may define at least one light extraction feature that may be configured to propagate light toward the key cap and cause illumination of the illuminable symbol.
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公开(公告)号：US20190056794A1
公开(公告)日：2019-02-21
申请号：US15681322
申请日：2017-08-18
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Michelle R. Goldberg , Kathleen A. Bergeron , Paul X. Wang , Alex J. Lehmann , William P. Yarak, III , Kevin C. Armendariz , Zheng Gao
IPC: G06F3/02 , H01H13/14 , H01H13/83 , H01H13/705 , H01H11/00
Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a low profile key for a keyboard having an overmolded support structure. In one aspect, an embodiment includes a key cap having an illuminable symbol. A support structure having a pair of overmolded wings may pivotally couple to the key cap. A switch housing may surround the support structure and connect each of the first and second wings. A tactile dome may be at least partially positioned within the switch housing and configured to bias the key cap upward. A sensing membrane may be positioned along an underside surface of the tactile dome and configured to trigger a switch event in response to a collapsing of the tactile dome caused by a depression of the key cap. A feature plate may be positioned below the sensing membrane. A light guide panel may define at least one light extraction feature that may be configured to propagate light toward the key cap and cause illumination of the illuminable symbol.
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公开(公告)号：US11943576B2
公开(公告)日：2024-03-26
申请号：US17842618
申请日：2022-06-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Kathleen A. Bergeron , Jay K. Blahnik
CPC classification number: H04R1/1041 , H04W4/029
Abstract: A contextual audio system configured to adjust audio playback in response to positional data. The contextual audio system may include a wearable audio device and, optionally, a sensing device. In some embodiments, the sensing device and the wearable audio device are the same. Generally, the contextual audio system employs different types of data to determine a user's location and/or activity (both of which are examples of “context”) and adjust audio output of the wearable audio device portion of the system.
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公开(公告)号：US20230410826A1
公开(公告)日：2023-12-21
申请号：US18458841
申请日：2023-08-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Kathleen A. Bergeron , Edward Siahaan , Jeffrey J. Terlizzi
IPC: G10L21/0208
CPC classification number: G10L21/0208
Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for reducing unwanted noise in an electronic audio signal, wherein a computing device having a microphone is configured to receive signals from a sensor on an external device such as a camera, second microphone, or movement sensor. The signals from the sensor are used to identify sound information or characteristics of sounds made by a source of noise, and the audio signal of the microphone is modified to reduce unwanted sounds based on that sound information or based on sounds identified a second audio signal obtained by the second microphone, thereby improving teleconference and video conference audio quality and removing distracting noises from transmitted audio output.
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公开(公告)号：US11381900B2
公开(公告)日：2022-07-05
申请号：US16917726
申请日：2020-06-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Kathleen A. Bergeron , Jay K. Blahnik
Abstract: A contextual audio system configured to adjust audio playback in response to positional data. The contextual audio system may include a wearable audio device and, optionally, a sensing device. In some embodiments, the sensing device and the wearable audio device are the same. Generally, the contextual audio system employs different types of data to determine a user's location and/or activity (both of which are examples of “context”) and adjust audio output of the wearable audio device portion of the system.
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公开(公告)号：US11240585B2
公开(公告)日：2022-02-01
申请号：US17023237
申请日：2020-09-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Jeffrey J. Terlizzi , Kathleen A. Bergeron , Ali N. Ergun , Dustin A. Hatfield , Ethan L. Huwe , Todd P. Marco , Jason Joseph LeBlanc , Robert D. Zupke , Michael B. Minerbi , Prathamesh R. Bhagwat , Daniel R. Bloom
Abstract: A personal audio device (e.g., headphones, earphones) can have an earpiece (e.g., an ear cup or earbud) with a removable cushioning member (e.g., headphone cushions or ear tips for earbuds). The cushioning member can include an identification tag that encodes identification data for the cushioning member. When the cushioning member is attached to the earpiece, the identification tag is brought into proximity with a tag sensor in the earpiece and the earpiece can read the identification tag to determine identification data for the cushioning member. The identification data can be used to modify a behavior of the earpiece and/or of a host device communicably coupled to the earpiece.
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