公开(公告)号：US20240385453A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-21

申请号：US18662410

申请日：2024-05-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Trevor J. Ness ,  Jason C. Sauers ,  Jeffrey C. Olson ,  Edward S. Huo ,  Samuel G. Smith ,  James W. Vandyke ,  Claire E. Dalke ,  Jeremy C. Franklin ,  Muhammad F. Hossain ,  Jia Tao ,  Wey-Jiun Lin ,  Jan K. Quijalvo ,  Ivan S. Maric ,  Fletcher R. Rothkopf ,  Stephen E. Dey ,  Phil M. Hobson ,  Anthony S. Montevirgen ,  Ritu Shah ,  Marinus Meursing ,  Matthew A. Mayer ,  Julian Hoenig ,  Julian Jaede ,  Yoonhoo Jo ,  Forrest C. Wang ,  Michael J. Rockwell ,  Neal D. Evans ,  Paul Meade

IPC: G02B27/01 ,  G02B7/00 ,  G02B27/00 ,  G06V40/16

Abstract: A head-mountable display device includes a housing defining a front opening and a rear opening, a display screen disposed in the front opening, a display assembly disposed in the rear opening, a first securement strap coupled to the housing, the first securement strap including a first electronic component, a second securement strap coupled to the housing, the second securement strap including a second electronic component, and a securement band extending between and coupled to the first securement strap and the second securement strap.

公开(公告)号：US12079032B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-03

申请号：US18200502

申请日：2023-05-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Christopher M. Werner ,  Emery A. Sanford ,  Stephen Brian Lynch ,  Teodor Dabov ,  Fletcher R. Rothkopf

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/041 ,  H04M1/02

CPC classification number: G06F1/1626 ,  G06F1/1637 ,  G06F1/1656 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F2203/04103 ,  H04M1/0266 ,  Y10T29/49002 ,  Y10T29/49004

Abstract: An electronic device having a housing structure that is configured to receive at least one glass cover is disclosed. The glass cover serves to cover a display assembly provided within the electronic device. The glass cover can be secured to the housing structure so as to facilitate providing a narrow border between an active display area and an outer edge of the housing structure. The enclosure for the electronic device can be thin yet be sufficiently strong to be suitable for use in electronic devices, such as portable electronic devices.

公开(公告)号：US11924055B2

公开(公告)日：2024-03-05

申请号：US17096769

申请日：2020-11-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Colin M. Ely ,  Erik G. de Jong ,  Stephen Brian Lynch ,  Fletcher R. Rothkopf

IPC: H04L41/22 ,  G02B27/01 ,  G06F3/04817 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06T19/00 ,  H04W16/20 ,  H04W76/14

CPC classification number: H04L41/22 ,  G02B27/0172 ,  G06F3/04817 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06T19/006 ,  H04W16/20 ,  H04W76/14

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display system and control circuitry. The user's environment may be presented on the display system. The environment on the display system may be a captured image of the environment, may be the actual real world viewed through an optical combiner, or may be a completely virtual image representing the environment. The control circuitry may gather information about external electronic devices in the user's environment, including determining a type and location of each external electronic device and a status of wireless communications links between external electronic devices. The display system may overlay computer-generated display elements onto the user's environment to indicate the status of wireless communications links between the external electronic devices. In response to touch or gesture input, the control circuitry may send control signals to the external electronic devices to establish or break wireless communications links between external electronic devices.

公开(公告)号：US11907465B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-20

申请号：US18085772

申请日：2022-12-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Isaac W. Chan ,  Chun-Hao Tung ,  Fletcher R. Rothkopf ,  Sunggu Kang ,  John Z. Zhong

IPC: G09G5/00 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/044 ,  H10K50/84 ,  H10K59/40 ,  H10K71/00 ,  H10K102/00

CPC classification number: G06F3/0416 ,  G06F1/1626 ,  G06F1/1643 ,  G06F1/1652 ,  G06F3/0412 ,  G06F3/0445 ,  G06F3/0446 ,  H10K50/841 ,  H10K59/40 ,  G06F2203/04102 ,  G06F2203/04103 ,  H10K71/00 ,  H10K2102/311

Abstract: Display layers and touch sensor layers may be overlapped by enclosure walls in an electronic device. The electronic device may have a front wall and opposing rear wall and curved sidewalls. The front wall and the curved sidewalls may be formed from a glass layer or other transparent member. A touch sensor layer and display layer may extend under the glass layer with curved sidewalls. A touch sensor layer may also extend under the opposing rear wall. A foldable electronic device may have a flexible transparent wall portion that joins planar transparent walls. Components may be interposed between the transparent planar walls and opaque walls. Display and touch layers may be overlapped by the transparent walls and the transparent flexible wall portion. Touch sensor structures may also be overlapped by the opaque walls.

公开(公告)号：US11810516B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-07

申请号：US17150818

申请日：2021-01-15

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: G09G3/3266 ,  G09G3/3275 ,  G09G3/3225 ,  G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/36

CPC classification number: G09G3/3266 ,  G09G3/20 ,  G09G3/3225 ,  G09G3/3275 ,  G09G3/3677 ,  G09G3/3688 ,  G09G2300/0426 ,  G09G2300/0452 ,  G09G2310/0205 ,  G09G2310/027 ,  G09G2310/0218 ,  G09G2310/0221 ,  G09G2310/0267 ,  G09G2310/0286 ,  G09G2310/0297 ,  G09G2310/08 ,  G09G2330/021 ,  G09G2340/0407

Abstract: An electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have displays. The display may have regions of lower and higher 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.

公开(公告)号：US20230341819A1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-26

申请号：US18217944

申请日：2023-07-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Colin M. Ely ,  Erik G. de Jong ,  Fletcher R. Rothkopf

IPC: G04C3/00 ,  G01D5/241 ,  G04G21/00 ,  H03K17/975 ,  G06F3/0362 ,  G06F3/0346

CPC classification number: G04C3/007 ,  G01D5/2412 ,  G04G21/00 ,  H03K17/975 ,  G06F3/0362 ,  G06F3/0346 ,  H03K2217/960755

Abstract: An input mechanism, such as a crown, detects amounts of applied force. In various examples, an assembly including an input mechanism has an enclosure; a stem coupled to the enclosure such that the stem is rotatable, translatable, and transversely moveable with respect to the enclosure; a sensor, coupled between the stem and the housing, to which force is transferred when the stem moves with respect to the housing; and a processing unit coupled to the sensor. The processing unit is operable to determine a measurement of the force, based on a signal from the sensor.

公开(公告)号：US11768517B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-26

申请号：US17748958

申请日：2022-05-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jeremy C. Franklin ,  Fletcher R. Rothkopf ,  John P. Ternus ,  Kevin D. Gibbs

IPC: G06F1/16

CPC classification number: G06F1/1626

Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided having internal components mounted to a structural glass support member. The structural glass support member may have a planar front surface that forms a front surface of the device. The structural glass support member may have bent portions that form sidewall surfaces of the device. Portions of the structural glass support member may form a transparent display cover layer. A rigid or flexible display may be mounted to the structural glass support member. Additional internal device components may be mounted to the display. A thin enclosure for enclosing the internal components in the device may be mounted to the structural glass support member. The thin enclosure may be mounted to the structural glass support member using a peripheral member. The thin enclosure may be free from attachments to internal components or may be adhesively bonded to one or more internal components.

公开(公告)号：US11700760B2

公开(公告)日：2023-07-11

申请号：US17115547

申请日：2020-12-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Benjamin M. Rappoport ,  Jeremy C. Franklin ,  Fletcher R. Rothkopf ,  Scott A. Myers ,  Richard P. Howarth ,  Julian Hoenig ,  Christopher Stringer ,  John P. Ternus ,  Stephen Brian Lynch

IPC: G06F1/16 ,  H10K59/60 ,  G06F3/01 ,  H10K59/40 ,  H10K77/10 ,  G02B27/01 ,  G06F3/042 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G09G3/3208 ,  H04R1/02 ,  G02B5/20

CPC classification number: H10K59/60 ,  G02B5/208 ,  G02B27/01 ,  G06F1/169 ,  G06F1/1626 ,  G06F1/1637 ,  G06F1/1641 ,  G06F1/1686 ,  G06F1/1688 ,  G06F1/1698 ,  G06F3/011 ,  G06F3/042 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G09G3/3208 ,  H04R1/028 ,  H05K999/99 ,  H10K59/40 ,  H10K77/111 ,  G02B2027/014 ,  G02B2027/0138 ,  G06F2203/04101 ,  G06F2203/04108 ,  G09G2320/0626 ,  G09G2360/144 ,  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.

公开(公告)号：US20230097827A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-30

申请号：US18075253

申请日：2022-12-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Fletcher R. Rothkopf ,  Jonathan Ive ,  Julian Hoenig ,  Rico Zorkendorfer

IPC: G04G17/02 ,  G04G21/02 ,  A61B5/00 ,  G06F3/01 ,  A61B5/026 ,  G06F1/16 ,  A61B5/0295 ,  A61B5/0205 ,  G04B39/02 ,  A61B5/1455

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.

公开(公告)号：US11360587B1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-14

申请号：US17183210

申请日：2021-02-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Paul X. Wang ,  Alex J. Lehmann ,  Bradley J. Hamel ,  Dinesh C. Mathew ,  Fletcher R. Rothkopf ,  John C. DiFonzo ,  Keith J. Hendren ,  Navpreet S. Kaloty ,  Nicholas L. Qu ,  Scott J. Krahn ,  Aidan N. Zimmerman

IPC: G06F3/038 ,  G06F3/0338 ,  G06F3/02 ,  H02J50/10

Abstract: A system may include a finger device that is worn on a user's finger. The finger device may serve as a controller for a head-mounted device or other devices in the system. The finger device may have a foldable housing with hinge structures that allow portions of the housing to fold with respect to each other. Magnets or other bistability structures may be used to provide the folding housing with folding bistability. This allows the housing to be placed in a stable unfolded state that releases the finger or a stable folded state in which the housing snaps over the finger and holds the finger device in place. A base may be used to store the finger device for charging. The base may have deployment structures that help place the finger device on the user's finger for use.