公开(公告)号：US11734407B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-22

申请号：US17806465

申请日：2022-06-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： David C. Andrus ,  Philip F. Kearney ,  Christopher B. Zimmermann ,  Jeremy C. Franklin ,  Nathaniel S. Sharpe

IPC: G06F21/00 ,  G06F21/36 ,  H04W12/50 ,  H04W76/14 ,  H04W12/037 ,  G06F3/01 ,  H04L9/08 ,  H04L9/40 ,  H04W12/04 ,  H04L9/32 ,  H04W84/18 ,  H04W12/65 ,  H04W12/68

CPC classification number: G06F21/36 ,  G06F3/017 ,  H04L9/0844 ,  H04L9/0866 ,  H04L63/08 ,  H04W12/037 ,  H04W12/04 ,  H04W12/50 ,  H04W76/14 ,  H04L9/0838 ,  H04L9/0861 ,  H04L9/3297 ,  H04L2209/805 ,  H04L2463/061 ,  H04W12/65 ,  H04W12/68 ,  H04W84/18

Abstract: Methods, systems and devices for generating an authentication key are provided. Two or more communications devices can generate an authentication key by monitoring a physical stimulus that is experienced by both devices (e.g., a common physical stimulus). Each device can then use an identical, predetermined algorithm to generate a common authentication key based on the stimulus. The devices can use the common authentication key to establish a secure network.

公开(公告)号：US11726338B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-15

申请号：US17379187

申请日：2021-07-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jeremy C. Franklin ,  Jia Tao ,  Phil M. Hobson ,  Stephen E. Dey

IPC: G02B27/01 ,  G02B27/09 ,  G02B7/02 ,  H05K1/18 ,  H04N13/383 ,  H05K1/02 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06F1/16

CPC classification number: G02B27/0176 ,  G02B7/021 ,  G02B27/0179 ,  G02B27/0955 ,  G06F1/163 ,  G06F3/011 ,  G06F3/013 ,  H04N13/383 ,  H05K1/0274 ,  H05K1/189 ,  G02B2027/0154

Abstract: A head-mounted device may have a display with first and second pixel arrays that display content for a user. A head-mounted support structure in the device supports the pixel arrays on the head of the user. A left positioner may be used to position a left lens module that includes a left lens and the first pixel array. A right positioner may be used to position a right lens module that includes a right lens and the second pixel array. Sensing circuitry such as proximity sensing circuitry may be used to detect relative positions between the left and right lens modules and facing surfaces of a user's nose while the user is wearing the head-mounted support structure. Control circuitry may adjust the positions of the left and right lens modules using interpupillary distance information for the user and using information from the sensing circuitry.

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：US11340653B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-24

申请号：US16886532

申请日：2020-05-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: G06F1/16

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：US20210343235A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-04

申请号：US17377198

申请日：2021-07-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: G09G3/3225 ,  G06F3/0481

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.

公开(公告)号：US20210063804A1

公开(公告)日：2021-03-04

申请号：US17080705

申请日：2020-10-26

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Paul S. Drzaic ,  Jeremy C. Franklin ,  Stephen Brian Lynch ,  Scott A. Myers ,  Benjamin M. Rappoport ,  Fletcher R. Rothkopf ,  John P. Ternus

IPC: G02F1/1345

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display having a thin-film transistor layer. One or more holes in the thin-film transistor layer may be used to form pathways from display circuitry to other circuitry underneath the display. One or more conductive bridges may pass through holes in the thin-film transistor layer and may have one end that couples to the display circuitry and a second end that couples to a printed circuit underneath the display. These conductive bridges may be formed from wire bonding. Wire bond connections may be encapsulated with potting material to improve the reliability of the wire bond and increase the resiliency of the display. Display signal lines may be routed through holes in a thin-film transistor layer to run along a backside of the display thereby reducing the need for space in the border region for display circuitry.

公开(公告)号：US20210018758A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-21

申请号：US17064829

申请日：2020-10-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Robert D. Silfvast ,  James W. VanDyke ,  Jeremy C. Franklin ,  Neal D. Evans ,  Christopher T. Eubank

IPC: G02B27/01 ,  G06T19/00 ,  H04R1/02

Abstract: An audio component for a head-mounted display system includes a first port through which sound is projected to a user during operation in a first audio mode, a second port through which sound is projected to a user during operation in a second audio mode, an insulator positioned along an acoustic path between the first port and the second port, wherein the insulator is configured to inhibit sound projection along the acoustic path by isolating the first port from the second port, and an earpiece configured to engage the audio component to an ear of the a user, to deliver sound from the audio component to the user, and to reduce ambient noise from a surrounding environment during operation of the audio component in the second audio mode.

公开(公告)号：US10739908B2

公开(公告)日：2020-08-11

申请号：US16421886

申请日：2019-05-24

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 ,  H01M2/16 ,  H01M2/18 ,  H01M10/04 ,  G06F1/16 ,  H01M2/10 ,  H04M1/02 ,  G06F1/3234 ,  G09G3/20 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G09G3/3208 ,  H01L27/32 ,  H01L51/00 ,  H01M2/02

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.

公开(公告)号：US10658744B2

公开(公告)日：2020-05-19

申请号：US15263022

申请日：2016-09-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Erik A. Uttermann ,  Jeremy C. Franklin ,  Stephen C. McClure ,  Sean S. Corbin ,  Qingxiang Li ,  Rodney A. Gomez Angulo

IPC: H01Q1/22 ,  H01Q1/52 ,  H01Q1/24

Abstract: A portable computing device is disclosed. The portable computing device can take many forms such as a laptop computer, a tablet computer, and no on. The portable computing device can include a single piece housing formed from a radio opaque material with a cover formed from a radio transparent material. To implement a wireless interface, an antenna stack-up can be provided that allows an antenna to be mounted to a bottom of the cover. Methods and apparatus are provided for improving wireless performance. For instance, in one embodiment, a metal housing can be thinned to improve antenna performance. As another example, a faraday cage can be formed around speaker drivers to improve antenna performance.

公开(公告)号：US10299553B1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-28

申请号：US15623212

申请日：2017-06-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Joshua A. Hoover ,  Jeremy C. Franklin ,  Chad J. Miller ,  Candace A. Marbury ,  Heidi Williamson ,  Kristine S. Tom ,  Michael B. Velez

IPC: A45C11/00 ,  A45C11/38 ,  A45C13/00

Abstract: An accessory case that can be used for protecting a separate portable electronic device may include a structural shell configured to contain the electronic device, a camera opening to align with a camera on the electronic device, and a button cover that can be used for actuating a button on the electronic device. The structural shell can include an outer layer, an internal layer, and a microfiber lining. The camera opening can include a chamfered or angled edge that reduces the effects of camera flash on the camera. The button cover can include an outer button cover component that is coupled to the outer layer. The outer button cover component, which may be anodized aluminum, can be a different material than the outer layer, which may include leather.