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公开(公告)号:US20220091308A1
公开(公告)日:2022-03-24
申请号:US17031625
申请日:2020-09-24
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Tingjun Xu , Guocheng Shao , Rui L. Peterson , Serhan O. Isikman , Sunggu Kang , Tianbo Sun , Xianwei Zhao , Xingxing Cai
摘要: An electronic device may have a housing. Input-output devices may be mounted in the housing. The input-output devices may include a display with an array of pixels configured to display images for a user. The electronic device may have an optical component formed under a transparent region in the housing. The transparent region may be associated with an opening in an opaque masking layer in an inactive area of the display or other portion of the electronic device. A diffuser may be formed between the optical component and the transparent region. The diffuser may have a polymer layer with embedded thin-film interference filter flakes configured to scatter light and to exhibit desired reflection and transmission spectral.
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公开(公告)号:US20190317258A1
公开(公告)日:2019-10-17
申请号:US15953281
申请日:2018-04-13
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Dong Zheng , Ove Lyngnes , Prashanth S. Holenarsipur , Serhan O. Isikman , Tianbo Sun , Tingjun Xu , Xianwei Zhao , Xingxing Cai
IPC分类号: G02B5/28 , G02B26/00 , G02B27/30 , G09G3/20 , H01L31/02 , H01L31/0216 , H01L31/103 , G01J3/51
摘要: An electronic device may be provided with a color ambient light sensor. The color ambient light sensor may be used to measure an ambient light spectrum over a wavelength range of interest. Control circuitry in the electronic device can take actions based on the measured ambient light spectrum such as adjusting the brightness and color cast of content on a display. A display may have a display cover layer. The color ambient light sensor can be mounted under the display cover layer and may receive ambient light through the display cover layer. The color ambient light sensor may have a tunable wavelength filter such as an electrically adjustable Fabry-Perot resonator. A light collimator may be interposed between the display cover layer and the Fabry-Perot resonator to collimate ambient light that is passed to the Fabry-Perot resonator. A light detector measures the light passing through the Fabry-Perot resonator.
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公开(公告)号:US20180081085A1
公开(公告)日:2018-03-22
申请号:US15484888
申请日:2017-04-11
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Zhenbin Ge , Xianwei Zhao , Wookyung Bae , Sunggu Kang , Ligang Wang , Avery P. Yuen , Stephen C. Cool , John Z. Zhong
摘要: An electronic device may have transparent members such as display cover layers and camera windows. A transparent member such as a sapphire member may be provided with an antireflection coating. The antireflection coating may have a stack of dielectric thin-film interference filter layers that form a thin-film interference filter that suppresses visible light reflections. The stack of dielectric thin-film interference filter layers may have thicknesses and materials that provide the thin-film interference filter and coating with low light reflection properties while enhancing scratch resistance. An adhesion layer may be used to help adhere the stack of thin-film interference filter layer to the transparent member. An antismudge coating such as a fluoropolymer coating may be used to reduce smudging. Graded layers and layers with elevated hardness values may be used in the coating.
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公开(公告)号:US09843014B2
公开(公告)日:2017-12-12
申请号:US15042453
申请日:2016-02-12
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Tingjun Xu , Xianwei Zhao , Wookyung Bae , Sunggu Kang , John Z. Zhong
IPC分类号: B05D5/12 , H01L51/52 , C23C14/08 , C23C14/58 , G02F1/1333
CPC分类号: H01L51/524 , C23C14/081 , C23C14/5813 , G02F1/133308 , G02F2001/133331
摘要: An electronic device may have a display that is protected by a transparent cover layer. The transparent cover layer may include a laser-annealed sapphire coating on the outer surface of a glass substrate or other transparent substrate. The sapphire coating may provide the display with a hard, scratch-resistant outer surface. The sapphire coating may be formed by coating a glass substrate with a thin film of amorphous aluminum oxide. The aluminum oxide thin film may be locally heated to transform the amorphous aluminum oxide into alpha-phase aluminum oxide (sapphire). Local heating may be achieved by laser annealing the aluminum oxide coating with a carbon dioxide laser. The laser may produce laser light having a wavelength that is absorbed in the aluminum oxide coating without being absorbed by the glass substrate so that the glass substrate is not damaged during the laser annealing process.
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公开(公告)号:US20240353684A1
公开(公告)日:2024-10-24
申请号:US18756771
申请日:2024-06-27
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Runyu Zhang , Vikrant Bhakta , Hyungryul Choi , Cameron A. Harder , Xiaonan Wen , Zhenbin Ge , Xianwei Zhao
IPC分类号: G02B27/01
CPC分类号: G02B27/0172 , G02B2027/0118 , G02B2027/0174
摘要: A display system may include a waveguide with an output coupler that couples image light out of the waveguide and towards an eye box. The output coupler may also transmit world light from real-world objects towards the eye box. A bias lens may pass the world light to the output coupler. An adjustable tint layer having multiple states that involve transmission of different amounts of the world light may be disposed between the bias lens and the output coupler. Different states may impart different colors and/or may impart a gradient transmission characteristic to the world light. The bias lens itself may form the adjustable tint layer. The adjustable tint layer may have a transparent electrode layer that is provided with one or more AC voltages that heat the adjustable tint layer. The adjustable tint layer may be a self-switching electrochromic device that includes a transparent solar cell.
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公开(公告)号:US11754759B2
公开(公告)日:2023-09-12
申请号:US17031625
申请日:2020-09-24
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Tingjun Xu , Guocheng Shao , Rui L. Peterson , Serhan O. Isikman , Sunggu Kang , Tianbo Sun , Xianwei Zhao , Xingxing Cai
CPC分类号: G02B5/0294 , G01J1/4204 , G02B5/0278 , G02B5/206 , G02B5/281 , G02B5/285
摘要: An electronic device may have a housing. Input-output devices may be mounted in the housing. The input-output devices may include a display with an array of pixels configured to display images for a user. The electronic device may have an optical component formed under a transparent region in the housing. The transparent region may be associated with an opening in an opaque masking layer in an inactive area of the display or other portion of the electronic device. A diffuser may be formed between the optical component and the transparent region. The diffuser may have a polymer layer with embedded thin-film interference filter flakes configured to scatter light and to exhibit desired reflection and transmission spectral.
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公开(公告)号:US20200310569A1
公开(公告)日:2020-10-01
申请号:US16901933
申请日:2020-06-15
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Alan Kleiman-Schwarsctein , Senem E. Emgin , Terrence L. Van Ausdall , Xianwei Zhao , Yuxi Zhao , Soyoung Kim
摘要: A transparent high-conductivity layer for providing electrostatic feedback to a user of an electronic device. The transparent high-conductivity layer is positioned over a capacitive input sensor and has a resistivity sufficiently high to prevent interference with the capacitive input sensor. As one example, the transparent high-conductivity layer can be formed from a layer of geometrically-separated regions of high-conductivity material. The average distance between geometrically-separated regions can substantially define the resistivity of the transparent high-conductivity layer.
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公开(公告)号:US10684734B2
公开(公告)日:2020-06-16
申请号:US16143382
申请日:2018-09-26
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Alan Kleiman-Schwarsctein , Senem E. Emgin , Terrence L. Van Ausdall , Xianwei Zhao , Yuxi Zhao , Soyoung Kim
摘要: A transparent high-conductivity layer for providing electrostatic feedback to a user of an electronic device. The transparent high-conductivity layer is positioned over a capacitive input sensor and has a resistivity sufficiently high to prevent interference with the capacitive input sensor. As one example, the transparent high-conductivity layer can be formed from a layer of geometrically-separated regions of high-conductivity material. The average distance between geometrically-separated regions can substantially define the resistivity of the transparent high-conductivity layer.
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公开(公告)号:US10094963B2
公开(公告)日:2018-10-09
申请号:US15483974
申请日:2017-04-10
申请人: Apple Inc.
IPC分类号: G02B5/28 , G02B1/11 , H01L27/146 , G02B1/115 , H01S5/40
摘要: An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may have a display cover layer. The display may have an active area with pixels and an inactive area without pixels. An opaque masking layer such as a layer of black ink may be formed on the underside of the display cover layer in the inactive area. Windows may be formed from openings in the opaque masking layer. Optical components such as infrared-light-based optical components may be aligned with the windows. The windows may include coatings in the openings that block visible light while transmitting infrared light. The window coatings may be formed from polymer layers containing pigments, polymer layers containing dyes that are coated with antireflection layers, thin-film interference filters formed from stacks of thin-film layers, or other coating structures.
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公开(公告)号:US20210096660A1
公开(公告)日:2021-04-01
申请号:US16834888
申请日:2020-03-30
申请人: Apple Inc.
发明人: Jun Xie , Xianwei Zhao
摘要: Finger-wearable input assemblies for controlling an electronic device and methods for using finger-wearable input assemblies for controlling an electronic device are provided.
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