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公开(公告)号:US20200089008A1
公开(公告)日:2020-03-19
申请号:US16381330
申请日:2019-04-11
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Robert D. Silfvast , James W. VanDyke , Jeremy C. Franklin , Neal D. Evans , Christopher T. Eubank
Abstract: A head-mounted display system is disclosed that includes a housing; a visual system associated with the housing to facilitate image and/or video display; a wearable support connectable to the housing; and an audio component pivotably connected to the support such that the audio component is movable between a first position in which the audio component is in general alignment with the support, and a second position in which the audio component is out of general alignment with the support. Movement from the first position to the second position transitions the audio component from a first mode (i.e., an extra-aural mode) in which sound is projected through a first port in communication with a driver to a user to a second mode (i.e., an intra-aural mode) in which sound is projected through a second port in communication with the driver to the user.
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公开(公告)号:US20200026079A1
公开(公告)日:2020-01-23
申请号:US16269336
申请日:2019-02-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Jeremy C. Franklin , Trevor J. Ness
Abstract: A head-mounted device may have a display for displaying image content. Head-mounted support structures in the device may be used to support the display. The head-mounted device or external equipment may include a three-dimensional image sensor. The three-dimensional image sensor may capture a three-dimensional image of a user's face. Control circuitry may analyze the three-dimensional image to identify which of multiple versions of a customizing face-fit module should be used in the electronic device to fit the device to the user's face. An appropriate face-fit module may be identified based on facial features such as facial size and the shapes of a user's forehead, nose, and cheeks. After identifying which version of the face-fit module is to be used by the user, that version of the face-fit module may be coupled to a non-custom portion of a main unit for the head-mounted device using magnets or other coupling structures.
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公开(公告)号:US10474193B2
公开(公告)日:2019-11-12
申请号:US15648982
申请日:2017-07-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Stephen R. McClure , Sean S. Corbin , John P. Ternus , Kevin D. Gibbs , Jeremy C. Franklin , Elvis M. Kibiti , John Raff , Jules B. Henry , Benjamin Rappoport , Derek W. Wright , Erik A. Uttermann , Ming Yu , Carl R. Peterson
Abstract: A portable computing device is disclosed. The portable computing device can take many forms such as a laptop computer, a tablet computer, and so on. The portable computing device can include at least a single piece housing. The single piece housing can be machined from a single billet of material, such as a billet of aluminum. The single piece housing can include ledges with a surface receiving a trim bead and a cover. Corner brackets can be attached to the single piece housing to improve the damage resistance of the housing.
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公开(公告)号:US20190281708A1
公开(公告)日:2019-09-12
申请号:US16421098
申请日:2019-05-23
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Jeremy C. Franklin , Benjamin M. Rappoport , John P. Ternus , Sean Corbin , Stephen R. McClure
IPC: H05K5/00 , H05K1/02 , G02F1/1333 , G02F1/1345 , G06F1/16 , H01L29/786 , H04M1/02
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The display may have layers such as polarizer layers, a color filter layer, and a thin-film transistor layer. Display layers such as color filter layers and thin-film-transistor layers may have glass substrates. Notches or other openings may be formed in the layers of a display. For example, a notch with a curved chamfered edge may be formed in a lower end of a thin-film-transistor layer. A component such as a button may overlap the notch. Structures such as sensors, cameras, acoustic components, and other electronic components, buttons, communications path structures such as flexible printed circuit cables and wire bonding wires, and housing structures may be received within a display layer notch.
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公开(公告)号:US20190074333A1
公开(公告)日:2019-03-07
申请号:US16179713
申请日:2018-11-02
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Benjamin M. Rappoport , Jeremy C. Franklin , Fletcher R. Rothkopf , Scott A. Myers , Richard P. Howarth , Julian Hoenig , Christopher J. Stringer , John P. Ternus , Stephen Brian Lynch
IPC: H01L27/32 , G02B27/01 , G06F1/16 , G02B5/20 , G06F3/044 , G09G3/3208 , H01L51/00 , H04R1/02 , G06F3/042 , G06F3/01
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. The display may have an active region in which display pixels are used to display images. The display may have one or more openings and may be mounted in a housing associated with the electronic device. An electronic component may be mounted in alignment with the openings in the display. The electronic component may include a camera, a light sensor, a light-based proximity sensor, status indicator lights, a light-based touch sensor array, a secondary display that has display pixels that may be viewed through the openings, antenna structures, a speaker, a microphone, or other acoustic, electromagnetic, or light-based component. One or more openings in the display may form a window through which a user of the device may view an external object. Display pixels in the window region may be used in forming a heads-up display.
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公开(公告)号:US20190033911A1
公开(公告)日:2019-01-31
申请号:US16144986
申请日:2018-09-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Benjamin M. Rappoport , Jeremy C. Franklin , Stephen Brian Lynch , Scott A. Myers , John Raff , Richard P. Howarth , Wei Chen , Christopher J. Stringer , Julian Hoenig
Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display cover layer mounted to the device using an adhesive bond with a display. The display may be a flexible display. The flexible display may include Organic Light Emitting Diode display technology. The display may be mounted to a rigid support structure. The rigid support structure may be mounted to a device housing member. Mounting the display cover layer to the display may eliminate the need to mount the display cover layer to the device housing and may allow active display pixels to be visible under the display cover layer closer to the device housing than in conventional devices. Providing the electronic device with active display pixels closer to the device housing may reduce the need for an inactive border around the display and may improve the aesthetic appeal of the electronic device.
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公开(公告)号:US20180315371A1
公开(公告)日:2018-11-01
申请号:US16029395
申请日:2018-07-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Benjamin Mark Rappoport , Christopher J. Stringer , Fletcher R. Rothkopf , Jeremy C. Franklin , John Patrick Ternus , Julian Hoeing , Richard P. Howarth , Scott Andrew Myers , Stephen Brian Lynch
IPC: G09G3/3225 , G06F3/0481 , G06F3/041 , H01L27/32
CPC classification number: G09G3/3225 , G06F3/0412 , G06F3/0416 , G06F3/0481 , G06F2203/04804 , G09G2300/0456 , G09G2300/046 , G09G2320/0626 , G09G2330/022 , G09G2354/00 , G09G2360/14 , G09G2360/144 , H01L27/323
Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for applying concealment of components of an electronic device. In one embodiment, an electronic device may include a component that is disposed behind a display (e.g., a transparent organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display) that is configured to selectively become transparent at certain transparency regions. Additionally, the electronic device includes data processing circuitry configured to determine when an event requesting that the component be exposed occurs. The data processing circuitry may control portions of the display to become transparent, to expose the component upon the occurrence of the event requesting that the component be exposed.
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公开(公告)号:US20180260072A1
公开(公告)日:2018-09-13
申请号:US15974545
申请日:2018-05-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Jeremy C. Franklin , Scott A. Myers , Benjamin M. Rappoport , Stephen Brian Lynch , John P. Ternus , Justin R. Wodrich
IPC: G06F3/041 , G06F1/16 , G09G3/20 , G06F1/32 , G06F3/044 , H01M2/10 , H01M2/16 , H01M2/18 , H01L51/00 , H01L27/32 , H04M1/02 , H01M10/04 , G09G3/3208 , H01M2/02
CPC classification number: G06F3/0416 , G06F1/1626 , G06F1/163 , G06F1/1652 , G06F1/1677 , G06F1/3265 , G06F3/0412 , G06F3/044 , G06F2203/04101 , G06F2203/04102 , G06F2203/04103 , G06F2203/04105 , G09G3/20 , G09G3/2092 , G09G3/3208 , G09G2330/027 , G09G2380/02 , H01L27/323 , H01L51/0097 , H01L2251/5338 , H01M2/1022 , H01M2/16 , H01M2/18 , H01M10/0436 , H01M2002/0205 , H01M2220/30 , H04M1/0216 , H04M1/0262 , H04M1/0268 , Y02D10/153 , Y02E10/549
Abstract: Flexible electronic devices may be provided. A flexible electronic device may include a flexible display, a flexible housing and one or more flexible internal components configured to allow the flexible electronic device to be deformed. Flexible displays may include flexible display layers, flexible touch-sensitive layers, and flexible display cover layers. The flexible housing may be a multi-stable flexible housing having one or more stable positions. The flexible housing may include a configurable support structure that, when engaged, provides a rigid support structure for the flexible housing. The flexible internal components may include flexible batteries, flexible printed circuits or other flexible components. A flexible battery may include flexible and rigid portions or may include a lubricious separator layer that provides flexibility for the flexible battery. A flexible printed circuit may include flexible and rigid portions or openings that allow some rigid portions to flex with respect to other rigid portions.
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公开(公告)号:US09928762B2
公开(公告)日:2018-03-27
申请号:US13770527
申请日:2013-02-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Jeremy C. Franklin , Kevin D. Gibbs , Amy Qian , John Raff , Carl R. Peterson
CPC classification number: G09F13/0413 , H05K1/0274 , H05K1/028 , H05K1/147 , H05K1/189 , H05K2201/10128
Abstract: Electronic devices may include displays. A display may include backlight structures that generate light and display layers that generate images using the generated light. An electronic device may include an opaque flexible printed circuit that is wrapped around one or more edges of the backlight structures. The opaque flexible printed circuit may prevent light from the backlight structures from reaching other electronic components or escaping from the device. The opaque flexible printed circuit may include signal lines that communicate signals between a printed circuit board and the display. The opaque flexible printed circuit may be a layer of the printed circuit board that extends from an edge of the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board may include an additional flexible extended printed circuit layer that wraps around a surface of the printed circuit board and forms a portion of a conductive shield over that surface.
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公开(公告)号:US09825103B2
公开(公告)日:2017-11-21
申请号:US15402009
申请日:2017-01-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Benjamin M. Rappoport , Jeremy C. Franklin , Fletcher R. Rothkopf , Scott A. Myers , Richard P. Howarth , Julian Hoenig , Christopher J. Stringer , John P. Ternus , Stephen Brian Lynch
IPC: G02F1/1345 , H01L27/32 , H01L51/00 , G09G3/3208 , G02B5/20 , G02B27/01 , G06F1/16 , G06F3/044 , G06F3/042
CPC classification number: H01L27/3227 , G02B5/208 , G02B27/01 , G02B2027/0138 , G02B2027/014 , G06F1/1626 , G06F1/1637 , G06F1/1641 , G06F1/1686 , G06F1/1688 , G06F1/169 , G06F1/1698 , G06F3/011 , G06F3/042 , G06F3/044 , G06F2203/04101 , G06F2203/04108 , G09G3/3208 , G09G2320/0626 , G09G2360/144 , H01L27/323 , H01L51/0097 , H04R1/028 , H04R2499/15
Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. The display may have an active region in which display pixels are used to display images. The display may have one or more openings and may be mounted in a housing associated with the electronic device. An electronic component may be mounted in alignment with the openings in the display. The electronic component may include a camera, a light sensor, a light-based proximity sensor, status indicator lights, a light-based touch sensor array, a secondary display that has display pixels that may be viewed through the openings, antenna structures, a speaker, a microphone, or other acoustic, electromagnetic, or light-based component. One or more openings in the display may form a window through which a user of the device may view an external object. Display pixels in the window region may be used in forming a heads-up display.
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