公开(公告)号：US10694607B1

公开(公告)日：2020-06-23

申请号：US16450813

申请日：2019-06-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tingjun Xu ,  Guocheng Shao ,  Lei Yu ,  Ove Lyngnes ,  Sunggu Kang ,  Tianbo Sun ,  Xianwei Zhao ,  Xiaoyong Fu ,  Xingxing Cai

IPC: H05B37/02 ,  H05B47/11 ,  F21V8/00 ,  G02B5/28

Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing with a display. A transparent portion of the housing may serve as a display cover layer and may overlap an array of pixels in the display. The array of pixels may form an active area of the display for displaying images for a user. An ambient light sensor window may be formed in an inactive area of the display that does not overlap pixels. An ambient light sensor may be mounted in an interior region of the housing. A metal-coated light guide may have a first end aligned with the ambient light sensor window to receive ambient light from an exterior region surrounding the device and may have a second end at which the ambient light is provided to the ambient light sensor.

公开(公告)号：US10670786B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-02

申请号：US15953281

申请日：2018-04-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Dong Zheng ,  Ove Lyngnes ,  Prashanth S. Holenarsipur ,  Serhan O. Isikman ,  Tianbo Sun ,  Tingjun Xu ,  Xianwei Zhao ,  Xingxing Cai

IPC: G02B5/28 ,  G02B26/00 ,  G02B27/30 ,  G09G3/20 ,  H01L31/02 ,  H01L31/103 ,  G01J3/51 ,  H01L31/0216

Abstract: 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.

公开(公告)号：US10446112B2

公开(公告)日：2019-10-15

申请号：US15710657

申请日：2017-09-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tingjun Xu ,  Ove Lyngnes ,  Avery P. Yuen ,  Xianwei Zhao ,  Sunggu Kang ,  John Z. Zhong

IPC: G09G5/02 ,  G09G5/28 ,  G02B5/28 ,  F21V8/00

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display mounted in a housing. The display may have an array of pixels that form an active area and may have an inactive area that runs along an edge of the active area. An opaque layer may be formed on an inner surface of a display cover layer in the inactive area of the display or may be formed on another transparent layer in the electronic device. An ambient light sensor window may be formed from the opening and may be aligned with color ambient light sensor. The ambient light sensor may have an integrated circuit with an array of photodetectors and may have a color filter layer forming a corresponding array of thin-film interference color filters with different respective pass bands. The color filter layer may have a shared dielectric stack and multiple color-filter-specific dielectric stacks on the shared dielectric stack.

公开(公告)号：US20190094069A1

公开(公告)日：2019-03-28

申请号：US16038916

申请日：2018-07-18

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tingjun Xu ,  Avery P. Yuen ,  James W. Hillendahl ,  Ligang Wang ,  Ove Lyngnes ,  Sunggu Kang ,  Xianwei Zhao ,  Xingxing Cai

IPC: G01J1/16 ,  G01J1/04 ,  G09G3/34 ,  H05B37/02 ,  G02B6/02

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display. An opaque layer may be formed on an inner surface of a display cover layer in an inactive area of the display. An optical component window may be formed from the opening. A light guide may be aligned with the optical component window and may be used to guide light from the optical component window to an optical component such as an ambient light sensor. The light guide may have a core surrounded by a cladding. The core may be formed from a material such as blue glass that absorbs infrared light and that transmits visible light. Particles of titanium dioxide or other high-refractive-index material may be incorporated into the core to enhance the refractive index of the core. Thin-film interference filters may be formed on the light guide to enhance infrared light blocking.

公开(公告)号：US20190088234A1

公开(公告)日：2019-03-21

申请号：US15710657

申请日：2017-09-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tingjun Xu ,  Ove Lyngnes ,  Avery P. Yuen ,  Xianwei Zhao ,  Sunggu Kang ,  John Z. Zhong

IPC: G09G5/02 ,  G02B5/28

CPC classification number: G09G5/024 ,  G02B5/285 ,  G02B6/0018 ,  G02B6/002 ,  G02B6/0028 ,  G02B6/005 ,  G02B6/0053 ,  G02B6/0065 ,  G02B6/0076 ,  G02B6/0088

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display mounted in a housing. The display may have an array of pixels that form an active area and may have an inactive area that runs along an edge of the active area. An opaque layer may be formed on an inner surface of a display cover layer in the inactive area of the display or may be formed on another transparent layer in the electronic device. An ambient light sensor window may be formed from the opening and may be aligned with color ambient light sensor. The ambient light sensor may have an integrated circuit with an array of photodetectors and may have a color filter layer forming a corresponding array of thin-film interference color filters with different respective pass bands. The color filter layer may have a shared dielectric stack and multiple color-filter-specific dielectric stacks on the shared dielectric stack.

公开(公告)号：US09832868B1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-28

申请号：US15071041

申请日：2016-03-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Derek W. Wright ,  James E. Pedder ,  Soyoung Kim ,  Stephen R. McClure ,  Elmar Gehlen ,  Sudirukkuge T. Jinasundera ,  Tingjun Xu ,  Michael Vosgueritchian ,  Xiaonan Wen ,  Wei Lin ,  Prithu Sharma

IPC: H05K1/09 ,  H05K1/03 ,  H05K1/11 ,  H05K3/00 ,  H05K3/40 ,  G06F3/041 ,  C25D7/12

CPC classification number: H05K1/0306 ,  C23C18/1653 ,  C25D7/00 ,  C25D7/123 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F2203/04103 ,  H05K1/09 ,  H05K1/115 ,  H05K1/147 ,  H05K3/002 ,  H05K3/0044 ,  H05K3/4038 ,  H05K3/4061 ,  H05K2201/0108 ,  H05K2201/10128 ,  H05K2203/107

Abstract: An electronic device may have layers of glass for forming components such as a display. A display cover glass layer may overlap an array of pixels. A touch sensor may be formed under the display cover glass layer. Conductive structures such as transparent conductive electrodes or other conductive layers of material may be formed on the outer surface of the display cover glass layer. The electrodes on the outer surface of the display cover glass layer may be coupled to metal contacts and other circuitry on the inner surface of the display cover glass layer using conductive vias. Vias may be provided with barrier layers, opaque coatings, tapers, and other structures and may be formed using techniques that enhance compatibility with chemical strengthening processes.

公开(公告)号：US09759984B1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-12

申请号：US15169497

申请日：2016-05-31

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tingjun Xu ,  Jeffrey Nathan Gleason ,  Zhenbin Ge ,  Linsen Bie ,  Ligang Wang ,  Wookyung Bae ,  Sunggu Kang

IPC: H04N5/238 ,  G03B9/02 ,  G02B13/00 ,  G02F1/153 ,  H04N5/225

CPC classification number: G03B9/02 ,  G02B5/005 ,  G02B13/0075 ,  G02F1/153 ,  G02F1/155 ,  H04N5/2254

Abstract: A portable electronic device has a device housing, and an electronic camera module in the device housing. The module has a focusing lens to focus light from a scene, an imaging sensor to receive the focused light, and an electro-optic variable aperture to allow different amounts of the light from the scene to reach the imaging sensor. The electro-optic variable aperture may include a first aperture stack placed on a transparent substrate and a second aperture stack placed on the first aperture stack. The first aperture stack defines a first aperture and the second aperture stack defines a second aperture that is larger than the first aperture. Each aperture stack includes a transparent conductive oxide layer that is common with the adjacent aperture stack. Alternatively the electro-optic variable aperture may include an aperture stack that has two transparent conductive oxide layer layers, where one layer is in the form of concentric annuli.

公开(公告)号：US09612170B2

公开(公告)日：2017-04-04

申请号：US14823910

申请日：2015-08-11

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Michael Vosgueritchian ,  John Stephen Smith ,  Sinan Filiz ,  James E. Pedder ,  Tingjun Xu ,  Xiaonan Wen

IPC: G01L1/22 ,  G06F3/045 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/041

CPC classification number: G01L1/225 ,  G01L1/22 ,  G01L1/2287 ,  G06F3/0414 ,  G06F3/045 ,  G06F3/0488

Abstract: One or more strain sensors can be included in an electronic device. Each strain sensor includes a strain sensitive element and one or more strain signal lines connected directly to the strain sensitive element. The strain sensor(s) are used to detect a force that is applied to the electronic device, to a component in the electronic device, and/or to an input region or surface of the electronic device. A strain sensitive element is formed or processed to have a first gauge factor and the strain signal line(s) is formed or processed to have a different second gauge factor. Additionally or alternatively, a strain sensitive element is formed or processed to have a first conductance and the strain signal line(s) is formed or processed to have a different second conductance.