公开(公告)号：US20200150815A1

公开(公告)日：2020-05-14

申请号：US16738198

申请日：2020-01-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

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

IPC: G06F3/041 ,  G01D5/241 ,  G04G21/00 ,  G04C3/00 ,  H03K17/975 ,  G06F3/0362 ,  G06F3/0346 ,  G06F3/044

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：US20200073122A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-05

申请号：US16448586

申请日：2019-06-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Fletcher R. Rothkopf ,  David A. Kalinowski ,  Jae Hwang Lee ,  Avi Bar-Zeev ,  Grant H. Mulliken ,  Paul Meade ,  Nathanael D. Parkhill ,  Ray L. Chang ,  Arthur Y. Zhang

IPC: G02B27/01 ,  G09G3/20

Abstract: A display system includes a head-mounted display unit and a wake control system. The head-mounted display unit provides content to a user and is operable in a low-power state and a high-power state that consumes more power to provide the content to the user than the low-power state. The wake control system determines when to operate in the high-power state. The wake control system may assess a first wake criterion with low power, assess a second wake criterion with higher power than the first wake criterion upon satisfaction of the first wake criterion, and cause the head-mounted display unit to operate in the high-power state upon satisfaction of the second wake criterion.

公开(公告)号：US20190340196A1

公开(公告)日：2019-11-07

申请号：US16514139

申请日：2019-07-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Fletcher R. Rothkopf ,  John Benjamin Filson ,  Kyle Yeates

IPC: G06F16/438 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/47 ,  G06F3/0482 ,  G11B27/10 ,  G06F3/16 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  H04N21/432

Abstract: Management or coordination of playback of digital media assets by an electronic device (e.g., a computing device), that supports media playback is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the electronic device can be controlled such that a user is able to schedule playback of distinct digital media assets.

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.

公开(公告)号：US20190053388A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-14

申请号：US16159253

申请日：2018-10-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Fletcher R. Rothkopf ,  Andrew J. M. Janis ,  Teodor Dabov

IPC: H05K5/00 ,  H05K5/02 ,  H04M1/02 ,  G06F1/16

Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided that contain multiple housing portions. The housing portions may be coupled together using hinges. The hinges may include hinges based on a three-bar linkage, hinges based on a four-bar linkage, hinges with slotted members, hinges formed from flexible support structures, and hinges based on flexible housing structures. Flexible displays may be mounted to the housing portions overlapping the hinges. When the housing portions in a device are rotated relative to each other, the flexible display may bend. The hinge may be configured to allow the flexible display to be placed in a front-to-front configuration in which an active side of the display faces itself or a back-to-back configuration. Engagement structures may be used to help the housing grip external objects and to hold the housing portions together. The hinges may be provided with rotational detents to help hold the flexible display in desired positions.

公开(公告)号：US20190042041A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-07

申请号：US16147253

申请日：2018-09-28

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Fletcher R. Rothkopf ,  Scott A. Myers ,  Stephen Brian Lynch

IPC: G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06F1/16

Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided that contain flexible displays and internal components. An internal component may be positioned under the flexible display. The internal component may be an output device such as a speaker that transmits sound through the flexible display or an actuator that deforms the display in a way that is sensed by a user. The internal component may also be a microphone or pressure sensor that receives sound or pressure information through the flexible display. Structural components may be used to permanently or temporarily deform the flexible display to provide tactile feedback to a user of the device.

公开(公告)号：US10190891B1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-29

申请号：US14333416

申请日：2014-07-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Fletcher R. Rothkopf ,  Prashanth S. Holenarsipur ,  Colin M. Ely

IPC: G01D5/347

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an optical encoder for an electronic device. The optical encoder comprises an elongated shaft having an encoding pattern made up of axial markings and radial markings. The encoding pattern may be disposed around a circumference of the elongated shaft. The optical encoder also includes an optical sensor. In embodiments, the optical sensor includes an emitter and a photodiode array. The emitter causes light to shine on the encoding pattern. The encoding pattern reflects the light back to the photodiode array and the photodiode array determines movement of the shaft based on the reflected light.

公开(公告)号：US10164688B2

公开(公告)日：2018-12-25

申请号：US14265424

申请日：2014-04-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Fletcher R. Rothkopf ,  Haran Balaram ,  Colin M. Ely

IPC: H01H47/24 ,  H04B5/00 ,  H01F7/06 ,  G01R33/02 ,  G01R33/07 ,  H01F7/18 ,  H01F38/14

Abstract: A first electronic device is positionable between one or more contact positions and an aligned position with respect to a second electronic device. One or more actuators of the first electronic device are activated in response to one or more sensors of the first electronic device determining that the first electronic device and second electronic device are misaligned. Activation of the actuator may result in the first electronic device moving to the aligned position. In some implementations, the actuator may move the first electronic device toward the aligned position when activated. In other implementations, the actuator may overcome static friction to put the first electronic device in motion when activated and when the first electronic device is in motion one or more alignment mechanisms may overcome the kinetic friction to move the first electronic device to the aligned position.

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.

公开(公告)号：US09955244B2

公开(公告)日：2018-04-24

申请号：US14722708

申请日：2015-05-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Fletcher R. Rothkopf

IPC: H04R1/02

CPC classification number: H04R1/028 ,  H04M1/00 ,  H04M2250/12 ,  H04R2499/11

Abstract: An electronic device may have a speaker for presenting audio to a user. The speaker may have a speaker diaphragm mounted in a speaker enclosure and driven using a speaker driver. A sensor such as a gas sensor, particulate sensor, or other environmental sensor may be mounted within the speaker enclosure. Control circuitry in the electronic device may move the speaker diaphragm to draw fresh air into the speaker enclosure or to capture a sample of liquid while using the environmental sensor to make sensor measurements. The control circuitry may use a display, other visual output devices, audio output devices, and/or vibrating output components to present alerts to the user based on environmental data from the environmental sensor.