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    Handheld Controllers with Surface Marking Capabilities
    12.
    发明申请
    Handheld Controllers with Surface Marking Capabilities 有权

    公开(公告)号：US20250093968A1

    公开(公告)日：2025-03-20

    申请号：US18812916

    申请日：2024-08-22

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Inventor： Ian P Colahan ,  Christopher K Ewy ,  Yuhao Pan ,  Tong Chen ,  David D Dashevsky

    IPC: G06F3/03 ,  G06F3/0354 ,  G06F3/038

    Abstract: A system may include an electronic device such as a head-mounted device and a handheld controller for controlling the electronic device. The handheld controller may have a housing with an elongated shaft extending between first and second tip portions. A removable tip member may be coupled to the first tip portion. A position sensor may be located in the removable tip member and may be used to track surface markings made with the handheld controller on a surface. The position sensor may be an optical flow sensor, a visual inertial odometry camera, an interferometer, or other sensor. A force sensor at the first tip portion may be used to detect when the tip contacts a surface. The position sensor may switch from air input mode to surface marking mode in response to detecting contact with the surface.

    Finger Devices with Self-Mixing Interferometric Proximity Sensors
    14.
    发明申请
    Finger Devices with Self-Mixing Interferometric Proximity Sensors 有权

    公开(公告)号：US20230073039A1

    公开(公告)日：2023-03-09

    申请号：US17465594

    申请日：2021-09-02

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Inventor： Mengshu Huang ,  Ahmet Fatih Cihan ,  Adrian Z. Harb ,  Stephen E. Dey ,  Yuhao Pan ,  Mehmet Mutlu

    IPC: G01C3/08 ,  G06F3/01

    Abstract: A system may include one or more finger devices that gather input from a user's fingers. A finger device may include one or more self-mixing interferometric proximity sensors that measure a distance to the user's finger. The proximity sensor may measure changes in distance between the proximity sensor and a flexible membrane that rests against a side portion of the user's finger. The self-mixing interferometric proximity sensor may include a laser and a photodiode. In some arrangements, a single laser driver may drive the lasers of multiple self-mixing proximity sensors using time-multiplexing. The self-mixing proximity sensor may operate according to a duty cycle. Interpolation and stitching may be used to determine the total displacement of the user's finger including both the on periods and off periods of the self-mixing proximity sensor.

    Input Devices that Use Self-Mixing Interferometry to Determine Movement Within an Enclosure
    15.
    发明申请
    Input Devices that Use Self-Mixing Interferometry to Determine Movement Within an Enclosure 有权

    公开(公告)号：US20210011559A1

    公开(公告)日：2021-01-14

    申请号：US16883390

    申请日：2020-05-26

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Inventor： Mehmet Mutlu ,  Yuhao Pan ,  Stephen E. Dey

    IPC: G06F3/03 ,  G01L1/24 ,  G01P13/00

    Abstract: An input device includes an enclosure defining a three-dimensional input space and one or more self-mixing interferometry sensors coupled to the enclosure and configured to produce a self-mixing interferometry signal resulting from reflection of backscatter of emitted light by a body part in the three-dimensional input space. In various examples, movement of the body part may be determined using the self-mixing interferometry signal, which may in turn be used to determine an input. In some examples, a body part displacement or a body part speed and an absolute distance to the body part may be determined using the self-mixing interferometry signal and used to determine an input. In a number of examples, multiple self-mixing interferometry sensors may be used and the movement may be determined by analyzing differences between the respective produced self-mixing interferometry signals.

    Devices With Detachable Headbands
    16.
    发明申请
    Devices With Detachable Headbands 有权

    公开(公告)号：US20240402760A1

    公开(公告)日：2024-12-05

    申请号：US18638537

    申请日：2024-04-17

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Inventor： Ryan M David ,  Yuhao Pan ,  Evan A Cernokus ,  Erin M Bosch ,  Benjamin A Stevenson ,  Paul J Biestek ,  Paul X Wang ,  Katherine E Christensen ,  Michael Wu ,  James T Smith ,  Jered Singleton ,  Venkata Narayana Murthy Arelekatti ,  Chad J Miller

    IPC: G06F1/16

    Abstract: A head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing containing rear-facing displays that display images for a user when the head-mounted housing is worn by the user. The head-mounted device housing may have housing structures such as elongated housing members with protruding posts. Multiple headbands may be removably coupled to the head-mounted device housing at the protruding posts. A first headband may have a strap with openings configured to receive the posts. Releasable latches may be provided to allow selective engagement and disengagement between the headband and the housing. A second headband may be coupled to the posts between the housing members and the first headband. Alternatively, the first headband may surround the post, and the second headband may be coupled to the post through the opening in the first headband. One or more hair guards and/or one or more keeper loops may be incorporated between the headbands.

    Computer Systems with Handheld Controllers
    17.
    发明公开
    Computer Systems with Handheld Controllers 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号：US20240012496A1

    公开(公告)日：2024-01-11

    申请号：US18348943

    申请日：2023-07-07

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Inventor： Stephen E Dey ,  Erin M Bosch ,  Yuhao Pan ,  Ian P Colahan ,  Christopher K Ewy

    IPC: G06F3/038 ,  G06F3/0354 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/0485

    CPC classification number: G06F3/038 ,  G06F3/03545 ,  G06F1/1694 ,  G06F3/016 ,  G06F3/0485

    Abstract: A system may include an electronic device such as a head-mounted device and a handheld controller for controlling the electronic device. The handheld controller may have a housing with an elongated shaft extending between first and second tip portions. The handheld controller may include a touch sensor for gathering touch input, a button, rotating scroll wheel, or other input device for gathering other user input, a force sensor for gathering force input, an inertial measurement unit for gathering motion data, a camera for capturing images of the environment, and/or one or more haptic output devices such as an actuator for providing haptic output. The control circuitry may send control signals to the head-mounted device based on the sensor data and user input (e.g., force input, touch input, motion input, voice input, etc.) gathered with the handheld controller.

    Finger devices with adjustable housing structures
    18.
    发明授权
    Finger devices with adjustable housing structures 有权

    公开(公告)号：US11714495B2

    公开(公告)日：2023-08-01

    申请号：US17901765

    申请日：2022-09-01

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Inventor： Erin M. Bosch ,  Stephen E. Dey ,  Jeffrey A. Griffis ,  Alex J. Lehmann ,  Yuhao Pan ,  Paul X. Wang

    IPC: G06F3/033

    CPC classification number: G06F3/033 ,  G06F2203/0331

    Abstract: A finger device may be worn on a user's finger and may serve as a controller for a head-mounted device or other electronic device. The finger device may have a housing having an upper housing portion that extends across a top of the finger and first and second side housing portions that extend down respective first and second sides of the finger. Sensors in the side housing portions may measure movements of the sides of the finger as the finger contacts an external surface. To ensure that the sensors are appropriately positioned relative to the sides of the finger, the housing may include one or more adjustable structures such as an elastomeric band, a drawstring, a ratchet mechanism, a scissor mechanism, and/or other adjustable structures for adjusting the position of the first and second side housing portions and associated sensors relative to the upper housing portion.

    Finger devices with adjustable housing structures
    19.
    发明授权
    Finger devices with adjustable housing structures 有权

    公开(公告)号：US11709554B1

    公开(公告)日：2023-07-25

    申请号：US17465579

    申请日：2021-09-02

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Inventor： Erin M. Bosch ,  Stephen E. Dey ,  Jeffrey A. Griffis ,  Alex J. Lehmann ,  Yuhao Pan ,  Paul X. Wang

    IPC: G06F3/033

    CPC classification number: G06F3/033 ,  G06F2203/0331

    Abstract: A finger device may be worn on a user's finger and may serve as a controller for a head-mounted device or other electronic device. The finger device may have a housing having an upper housing portion that extends across a top of the finger and first and second side housing portions that extend down respective first and second sides of the finger. Sensors in the side housing portions may measure movements of the sides of the finger as the finger contacts an external surface. To ensure that the sensors are appropriately positioned relative to the sides of the finger, the housing may include one or more adjustable structures such as an elastomeric band, a drawstring, a ratchet mechanism, a scissor mechanism, and/or other adjustable structures for adjusting the position of the first and second side housing portions and associated sensors relative to the upper housing portion.

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