公开(公告)号：US20250110560A1

公开(公告)日：2025-04-03

申请号：US18896814

申请日：2024-09-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Lei Zhang ,  Shingo Yoneoka

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  B06B1/04 ,  G08B6/00

Abstract: A user input component for an electronic device includes a haptic engine, a pressing surface, and a force sensor. The force sensor detects force applied by a user to the pressing surface and from this value and a spring constant of a supporting structure, an approximate displacement distance can be determined. The displacement distance can be used either directly or indirectly to select a drive current for a coil configured to provide haptic effect along the same direction of the user pressing force.

公开(公告)号：US20240097087A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-21

申请号：US18450664

申请日：2023-08-16

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Justin S. Brockman ,  Fang Ou ,  Lina He ,  Dmitry S. Sizov ,  Lei Zhang

IPC: H01L33/62 ,  H01L25/075 ,  H01L25/16 ,  H01L33/00 ,  H01L33/10

CPC classification number: H01L33/62 ,  H01L25/0753 ,  H01L25/167 ,  H01L33/0093 ,  H01L33/10 ,  H01L2933/0066

Abstract: Optoelectronic structures and methods of formation are described. In an embodiment, an optoelectronic structure includes a backplane with a driving circuitry and an array of contact pads, and a device layer bonded to the backplane. The device layer may include an array of micro-sized diodes and landing pads, and a reconstituted wiring layer including an array of via contacts connected to the array of landing pads. The reconstituted wiring layer can be directly bonded with the array of contacts with metal-metal bonds. A placement distribution of the array of landing can be decoupled from a position distribution of the array of via contacts.

公开(公告)号：US20220278255A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-01

申请号：US17648101

申请日：2022-01-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yuewei Zhang ,  Fang Ou ,  Lei Zhang ,  Lina He ,  Paul S. Drzaic ,  Xiaobin Xin

IPC: H01L33/38 ,  H01L33/62 ,  G09G3/32

Abstract: Display structures and methods of operation with micro light emitting diode (LED) sidewall gating are described. In an embodiment, a display structure includes a vertically oriented micro LED mounted on a display substrate, in which the micro LED includes a p-n diode with top and bottom electrode sides, and a sidewall gate electrode spanning a sidewall of the p-n diode where the active layer is included. In various embodiments, a bias may be applied to the sidewall gate electrode while driving the micro LED to deplete a minority carrier concentration from the sidewall of the p-n diode.

公开(公告)号：US12153233B1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-26

申请号：US17465458

申请日：2021-09-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Xiaobin Xin ,  Dmitry S. Sizov ,  Fang Ou ,  Lei Zhang ,  Lina He ,  Nathaniel T. Lawrence ,  Paul S. Drzaic ,  Ranojoy Bose ,  Yuewei Zhang

IPC: G02B5/18 ,  H01L27/15 ,  H01L31/0232 ,  H01L33/58

Abstract: Optical components such as components that emit light and components that detect light may be provided. Optical components that emit light may include displays having arrays of display pixels with respective light-emitting devices such as crystalline semiconductor light-emitting diodes. Optical components that detect light may include image sensors or other components with arrays of photodetectors. The light-emitting devices and photodetectors in the optical components may be overlapped by metalenses such as multielement metalenses. A multielement metalens may have a first metalens element formed from a first layer of nanostructures arranged and an overlapping second metalens element formed from a second layer of nanostructures. Light sources may be provided on a semiconductor and metalens nanostructures may be formed on an opposing surface of the semiconductor.

公开(公告)号：US20220285577A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-08

申请号：US17649018

申请日：2022-01-26

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Lei Zhang ,  Fang Ou ,  Lina He ,  Paul S. Drzaic ,  Dmitry S. Sizov ,  Ranojoy Bose ,  Yuewei Zhang ,  Xiaobin Xin ,  Nathaniel T. Lawrence ,  Wei H. Yao

IPC: H01L33/00 ,  H01L25/16

Abstract: Methods and structures are described to facilitate the transfer of device layer coupons with controlled vertical position. In an embodiment, a plurality of device layer coupons is bonded to a receiving substrate with an adhesive layer, where distance between front surfaces of the plurality of device layer coupons and a bulk layer of the receiving substrate is controlled by a plurality of rigid mechanical spacers.

公开(公告)号：US10218983B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-26

申请号：US14870925

申请日：2015-09-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Lei Zhang

IPC: H04N19/147 ,  H04N19/156 ,  H04N19/107

Abstract: System and method for improving operational efficiency of a video encoding pipeline used to encode image data. In embodiments, the video encoding pipeline includes mode decision circuitry that determines a frame prediction mode. The mode decision circuitry includes distortion measurement circuitry, which selects a distortion measurement calculation based at least in part on operational parameters of a display device and the image data. Further, the video encoding pipeline includes mode selection circuitry that determines rate distortion cost metrics associated with an inter-frame prediction mode and an intra-frame prediction mode using the distortion measurement calculation. Additionally, the mode selection circuitry selects between the inter-frame prediction mode and the intra-frame prediction mode based at least in part on the rate distortion cost metrics.

公开(公告)号：US20170094283A1

公开(公告)日：2017-03-30

申请号：US14870925

申请日：2015-09-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Lei Zhang

IPC: H04N19/147 ,  H04N19/156 ,  H04N19/107

CPC classification number: H04N19/147 ,  H04N19/107 ,  H04N19/154 ,  H04N19/156 ,  H04N19/172

Abstract: System and method for improving operational efficiency of a video encoding pipeline used to encode image data. In embodiments, the video encoding pipeline includes mode decision circuitry that determines a frame prediction mode. The mode decision circuitry includes distortion measurement circuitry, which selects a distortion measurement calculation based at least in part on operational parameters of a display device and the image data. Further, the video encoding pipeline includes mode selection circuitry that determines rate distortion cost metrics associated with an inter-frame prediction mode and an intra-frame prediction mode using the distortion measurement calculation. Additionally, the mode selection circuitry selects between the inter-frame prediction mode and the intra-frame prediction mode based at least in part on the rate distortion cost metrics.