Position sensor architecture for cameras

    公开(公告)号:US11700441B1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-11

    申请号:US17237896

    申请日:2021-04-22

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04N23/55 G01R33/07 G01R33/072 G01R33/098 H04N23/685

    Abstract: A camera system may include circuitry for measuring the positions of an optics assembly (e.g., one or more lenses) and/or an image sensor of the camera system. The circuitry may include analog circuits comprising a first and a second position sensors to produce a first and a second sensor signals based on a first magnetic field and a second magnetic field respectively. The magnetic fields may have the same or different polarities detectable by the position sensors. The position sensors may be coupled in parallel in the same or reverse directions to produce a combined sensor output. The circuitry may determine position information for the optics assembly and/or the image sensor based on the combined sensor output. The camera system may use the position information as a feedback signal to control the position of the optics assembly (e.g., for autofocus) and/or the position of the image sensor (e.g., for optical image stabilization (OIS)).

    Vital Signs Monitoring System
    2.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220330893A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-20

    申请号:US17855440

    申请日:2022-06-30

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: This relates to a monitoring system capable of measuring a plurality of vital signs. The monitoring system can include a plurality of sensors including, but not limited to, electrodes, piezoelectric sensors, temperature sensors, and accelerometers. The monitoring system can be capable of operating in one or more operation modes such as, for example: capacitance measurement mode, electrical measurement mode, piezoelectric measurement mode, temperature measurement mode, acceleration measurement mode, impedance measurement mode, and standby mode. Based on the measured values, the monitoring system can analyze the user's sleep, provide feedback and suggestions to the user, and/or can adjust or control the environmental conditions to improve the user's sleep. The monitoring system can further be capable of analyzing the sleep of the user(s) without directly contacting or attaching uncomfortable probes to the user(s) and without having to analyze the sleep in an unknown environment (e.g., a medical facility).

    Vital signs monitoring system
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10512432B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-12-24

    申请号:US15675478

    申请日:2017-08-11

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: This relates to a monitoring system capable of measuring a plurality of vital signs. The monitoring system can include a plurality of sensors including, but not limited to, electrodes, piezoelectric sensors, temperature sensors, and accelerometers. The monitoring system can be capable of operating in one or more operation modes such as, for example: capacitance measurement mode, electrical measurement mode, piezoelectric measurement mode, temperature measurement mode, acceleration measurement mode, impedance measurement mode, and standby mode. Based on the measured values, the monitoring system can analyze the user's sleep, provide feedback and suggestions to the user, and/or can adjust or control the environmental conditions to improve the user's sleep. The monitoring system can further be capable of analyzing the sleep of the user(s) without directly contacting or attaching uncomfortable probes to the user(s) and without having to analyze the sleep in an unknown environment (e.g., a medical facility).

    Mitigating active stylus/touch cross-coupling

    公开(公告)号:US10452212B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-22

    申请号:US15485698

    申请日:2017-04-12

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method including determining which sense lines are potentially corrupted based on touch image information, measuring a sense signal on each sense line, and applying a trained best compensation factor to the measured sense signal on potentially corrupted sense lines in order to produce a corrected sense signal. The corrected sense signal eliminates active stylus signal that has cross-coupled to a touch contact (e.g., a finger or conductive stylus) and thereby mitigates errors in stylus location due to cross-coupled signal.

    Dynamic adjustment of demodulation waveform

    公开(公告)号:US10209827B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-19

    申请号:US15191614

    申请日:2016-06-24

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A touch sensing system can demodulate sensor data using a dynamically adjusted demodulation waveform and/or demodulation window. The demodulation waveform and/or demodulation window can be dynamically adjusted to account for dynamically changing noise in a touch sensing system. The system can dynamically adjust the demodulation window based on noise measured by the touch sensing system to generate an optimized or otherwise noise-tailored window to suppress detected noise. In some examples, the noise measured by the touch sensing system can be sampled from sense channels localized to a detected touch.

    Common pixel correction for sensor panels

    公开(公告)号:US09880664B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-01-30

    申请号:US14864351

    申请日:2015-09-24

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: G06F3/0418 G06F3/0414 G06F3/044 G06F2203/04106

    Abstract: Noise in sensor panel measurements can be reduced using a common pixel correction algorithm. Noise can be introduced into touch or force sensor panel measurements, for example, by circuitry of a transmit (Tx) section or a receive (Rx) section coupled to one or more sensing nodes of a sensor panel. For example, a digital-to-analog converter in the transmit section or an analog-to-digital converter in the receive section can introduce low-frequency correlated noise. Additionally, transmit and receive sections can introduce uncorrelated noise into the system. Reference nodes, coupled between Tx and Rx sections, can sense correlated and uncorrelated noise from the Tx and Rx sections. The noise measured at reference nodes can be subtract from signals measured at other sensing nodes coupled to the same Rx channel. The measurement at the reference node can be scaled using a scaling parameter to account for differences between reference nodes and sensing nodes.

    Input device for touch sensitive devices
    9.
    发明授权
    Input device for touch sensitive devices 有权
    触敏设备输入设备

    公开(公告)号:US09582105B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-02-28

    申请号:US15057035

    申请日:2016-02-29

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A method for receiving data from an input device to a computing device through a touch interface. The method includes detecting an input device, synchronizing with the input device by receiving a position signal and activating an input device scan of the touch interface, receiving a data signal from the input device through at least one of a sense line or a drive line of the touch interface, and scanning the touch interface for a touch input by applying a stimulation signal to the at least one drive line and analyzing the at least one sense line.

    Abstract translation: 一种通过触摸界面从输入设备接收数据到计算设备的方法。 该方法包括检测输入设备,通过接收位置信号和激活触摸界面的输入设备扫描与输入设备同步,通过至少一个感测线或驱动线从输入设备接收数据信号 触摸界面,以及通过将刺激信号施加到所述至少一个驱动线并分析所述至少一个感测线,来扫描触摸界面以进行触摸输入。

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