CROWN FOR AN ELECTRONIC WATCH
    1.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240152100A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-09

    申请号:US18412156

    申请日:2024-01-12

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    发明人: Michael J. Beyhs

    IPC分类号: G04G21/08 G04G9/00 G06F3/042

    摘要: An electronic watch includes a housing defining a side surface of the electronic watch, a transparent cover coupled to the housing and defining a front surface of the electronic watch, an image-sensing element, and a crown extending from the side of the housing and defining an imaging surface. The crown may include a light-directing feature configured to direct, onto the image-sensing element, an image of an object in contact with the imaging surface.

    Electronic devices having adjustable fabric

    公开(公告)号:US10561367B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-18

    申请号:US15985538

    申请日:2018-05-21

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    摘要: Strands of material may be intertwined to form fabric for a strap or other structure in an electronic device. Conductive strands in the fabric may have middle-of-strand knots. When current is applied to a conductive strand, the knot in that strand may produce magnetic fields that cause the knot to adjust tension in the fabric. Conductive strands may intersect at nodes. Each node may have a knot formed from one or more conductive strands at the node. An electronic device or other item may have a magnetic field source that applies a fixed or time-varying magnetic field to the fabric. Each node in the fabric may include magnetic material. The magnetic material may be magnetized by applying current through the conductive strands. After magnetization, each node may interact with the magnetic field from the source of magnetic field to thereby adjust fabric tension, shape, movement, etc.

    Skin-to-skin contact detection
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11941175B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-26

    申请号:US18194514

    申请日:2023-03-31

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    发明人: Michael J. Beyhs

    IPC分类号: G06F3/01

    CPC分类号: G06F3/014 G06F3/017

    摘要: Contact or movement gestures between a first body part and a second body part can be detected. Sense circuitry can be configured to sense a signal at the sense electrode (e.g., configured to contact the second body part) in response to a drive signal applied to the drive electrode (e.g., configured to contact the first body part). Processing circuitry can be configured to detect contact in accordance with a determination that one or more criteria are met (e.g., an amplitude criterion and a non-distortion criterion). Additionally or alternatively, processing circuitry can be configured to detect a movement gesture in accordance with a determination that one or more criteria are met (e.g., a contact criterion and a movement criterion).

    Skin-to-skin contact detection
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11625098B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-11

    申请号:US17814826

    申请日:2022-07-25

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    发明人: Michael J. Beyhs

    IPC分类号: G06F3/01

    摘要: Contact or movement gestures between a first body part and a second body part can be detected. Sense circuitry can be configured to sense a signal at the sense electrode (e.g., configured to contact the second body part) in response to a drive signal applied to the drive electrode (e.g., configured to contact the first body part). Processing circuitry can be configured to detect contact in accordance with a determination that one or more criteria are met (e.g., an amplitude criterion and a non-distortion criterion). Additionally or alternatively, processing circuitry can be configured to detect a movement gesture in accordance with a determination that one or more criteria are met (e.g., a contact criterion and a movement criterion).

    Crown for an electronic watch
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11906937B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-20

    申请号:US18094930

    申请日:2023-01-09

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    发明人: Michael J. Beyhs

    IPC分类号: G04G21/08 G04G9/00 G06F3/042

    摘要: An electronic watch includes a housing defining a side surface of the electronic watch, a transparent cover coupled to the housing and defining a front surface of the electronic watch, an image-sensing element, and a crown extending from the side of the housing and defining an imaging surface. The crown may include a light-directing feature configured to direct, onto the image-sensing element, an image of an object in contact with the imaging surface.