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公开(公告)号：US11205548B2
公开(公告)日：2021-12-21
申请号：US16371301
申请日：2019-04-01
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Pierre M. Teplitxky , Colin M. Ely , Fletcher R. Rothkopf , Anna-Katrina Shedletsky , Samuel B. Weiss
Abstract: A waterproof button assembly. The waterproof button assembly may include a housing including an opening and a button. The button may be positioned at least partially within the housing via the opening. The assembly may also include a plurality of engagement components positioned on opposite-distal ends of the button. The plurality of engagement components may be configured to retain the button within the housing. The engagement components may extend distally from the button, such that a portion of the engagement components may be positioned within apertures formed in the sidewall of the housing. The assembly may also include a plurality of supports, a tactile dome in contact with the button and at least one of the plurality of supports. A sensing component of the assembly may be positioned adjacent the housing and in alignment with the button and/or tactile dome for sensing actuation of the button within the assembly.
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公开(公告)号：US20210365116A1
公开(公告)日：2021-11-25
申请号：US17395587
申请日：2021-08-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Avi Bar-Zeev , Devin W. Chalmers , Fletcher R. Rothkopf , Grant H. Mulliken , Holly E. Gerhard , Lilli I. Jonsson
Abstract: One exemplary implementation provides an improved user experience on a device by using physiological data to initiate a user interaction for the user experience based on an identified interest or intention of a user. For example, a sensor may obtain physiological data (e.g., pupil diameter) of a user during a user experience in which content is displayed on a display. The physiological data varies over time during the user experience and a pattern is detected. The detected pattern is used to identify an interest of the user in the content or an intention of the user regarding the content. The user interaction is then initiated based on the identified interest or the identified intention.
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公开(公告)号：US20210320281A1
公开(公告)日：2021-10-14
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
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：US11050044B2
公开(公告)日：2021-06-29
申请号：US16599039
申请日：2019-10-10
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Anna-Katrina Shedletsky , Paul S. Drzaic , Erik G. de Jong , Fletcher R. Rothkopf
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：US20210181692A1
公开(公告)日：2021-06-17
申请号：US17188995
申请日：2021-03-01
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Fletcher R. Rothkopf , Jonathan Ive , Julian Hoenig , Rico Zorkendorfer
IPC: G04G17/02 , A61B5/00 , A61B5/1455 , A61B5/0205 , G06F1/16 , A61B5/026 , G06F3/01 , G04G21/02 , G04B39/02 , A61B5/0295
Abstract: A consumer product that is a portable and, in some cases, a wearable electronic device. The wearable electronic device may have functionalities including: keeping time; monitoring a user's physiological signals and providing health-related information based on those signals; communicating with other electronic devices or services; visually depicting data on a display; gather data form one or more sensors that may be used to initiate, control, or modify operations of the device; determine a location of a touch on a surface of the device and/or an amount of force exerted on the device, and use either or both as input.
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公开(公告)号：US10976817B2
公开(公告)日：2021-04-13
申请号：US16941908
申请日：2020-07-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Jae Hwang Lee , Avi Bar-Zeev , Fletcher R. Rothkopf
Abstract: In one implementation, a method includes: synthesizing an AR/VR content stream by embedding a plurality of glints provided for eye tracking into one or more content frames of the AR/VR content stream; displaying, via the one or more AR/VR displays, the AR/VR content stream to a user of the HMD; obtaining, via the image sensor, light intensity data corresponding to the one or more content frames of the AR/VR content stream that include the plurality of glints, wherein the light intensity data includes a projection of an eye of the user of the HMD having projected thereon the plurality of glints; and determining an orientation of the eye of the user of the HMD based on the light intensity data.
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公开(公告)号：US20210105614A1
公开(公告)日：2021-04-08
申请号：US17123501
申请日：2020-12-16
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Fletcher R. Rothkopf , Arlen M. Hartounian , Grant H. Mulliken , James W. VanDyke
Abstract: A system for user authentication includes an authenticated device with a restricted-access function that a user is able to access in response to verification of an identity of the user by the authenticated device and a proximate device with a restricted-access function that the user is able to access in response to the proximate device receiving authentication data that includes the identity of the user from the authenticated device. The authenticated device is operable to identify an absence of intent of the user to access the restricted-access function of the proximate device, and in response to identifying the absence of intent to access the restricted-access function of the proximate device, emit a locking signal such that, in response to detecting the locking signal, the proximate device enters a locked state and the restricted-access function of the proximate device is inaccessible to the user.
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公开(公告)号：US10956177B2
公开(公告)日：2021-03-23
申请号：US16535358
申请日：2019-08-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Fletcher R. Rothkopf
IPC: H01H47/00 , G06F9/445 , G06F1/3231 , G06F1/3234 , G06F1/16 , H01H35/00 , H01H9/00 , G06F3/0346 , G06N5/02
Abstract: An automatic hold switch is disclosed. The automatic hold switch provides a means for automatically switching a hold feature on and off. When the hold feature is on, one or more input devices of a portable electronic device are disabled or prevented from providing input signals. When the hold feature is off, one or more input devices of a portable electronic device are enabled or allowed to provide input signals. Because the user no longer has to manually control the hold feature, the number of actions that need to be taken by the user is reduced. In one example, the automatic hold switch is embodied with light sensors that detect when the device is in a dark environment and when the device is in a light environment. A dark environment indicates to the portable electronic device that the user wishes not to input and therefore the hold feature is turned on. A lighted environment indicates to the portable electronic device that the user wishes to input and therefore the hold feature is turned off.
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公开(公告)号：US10930219B2
公开(公告)日：2021-02-23
申请号：US16323751
申请日：2017-08-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Cheng Chen , Jason C. Sauers , Fletcher R. Rothkopf , David W. Lum , Chun-Yao Huang , Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov , Graham B. Myhre , Bennett S. Wilburn , Paolo Sacchetto , Shih Chang Chang , Wonjae Choi , Cheuk Chi Lo
IPC: G09G3/3225 , G09G3/3266 , G09G3/3275 , G09G3/20 , G09G3/36
Abstract: An electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have displays. The display may have regions of lower (L) and higher (M, H) resolution to reduce data bandwidth and power consumption for the display while preserving satisfactory image quality. Data lines may be shared by lower and higher resolution portions of a display or different portions of a display with different resolutions may be supplied with different numbers of data lines. Data line length may be varied in transition regions between lower resolution and higher resolution portions of a display to reduce visible discontinuities between the lower and higher resolution portions. The lower and higher resolution portions of the display may be dynamically adjusted using dynamically adjustable gate driver circuitry and dynamically adjustable data line driver circuitry.
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公开(公告)号：US20200380916A1
公开(公告)日：2020-12-03
申请号：US16994384
申请日：2020-08-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Benjamin Mark Rappoport , Fletcher R. Rothkopf , John Patrick Ternus , Paul Stephen Drzaic , Scott Andrew Myers , Stephen Brian Lynch
IPC: G09G3/3225 , G09G3/20 , H01L27/32 , G09G3/30
Abstract: A system and methods to extending the overall display area for a device. At or near the borders of a device, pixel pitch between adjacent pixels may be increased such that overall pixel placement may be provided closer to a border of a display of a device. In one embodiment, pixel drive circuitry may be located in the spacing between adjacent pixels. Additionally, various optical systems and techniques may be utilized to provide an appearance of a lack of a border around the display such as decreasing the size of border pixels, overdriving the border pixels, or utilizing a light pipe on a surface above the border pixels.
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