Apple Inc.

Azul Systems, Inc.

Adrian E Sun

Gil Tene

Michael A Wolf

Sivakumar Annamalai

Anirban Sengupta

Asif Hussain

Alexei Elias Kosut

Manisha P Pandya

Jingdong Chen

Brandon R Garbus

Joseph W Colosimo

Cortland S Tolva

Antonio R De Lima Fernandes

Gregory H Nayman

Jun Qi

Mingxia Gu

ByoungSuk Kim

Meng Chi Lee

Bharat K Patel

Mark K Sin

Asif Iqbal

Paul S Michelsen

Yanming Li

Craig Harvey Prouse

Kerry J Kopp

Kevin J Ryan

Siji Menokki Kandiyil

Steven Ichung Kuo

Chad O Simpson

Maciej Maciesowicz

Collin L Pieper

Jason P Marini

Eugene I Chen

Erik A Gutfeldt

Steve Xing-Fu Zhou

Thomas A LaPerre, Jr

Matthew W Cooper

Shmuel G Link

Kim Phuong T Truong

Lee M Schaff

Derrick C Lau

A wireless power system includes a wireless power transmitting device such as a wireless charging mat for charging devices such as a cellular telephone and an earbuds battery case. The earbuds battery case receives earbuds and charges the earbuds from a battery. The wireless charging mat supports bidirectional in-band communications between the cellular telephone and the earbuds battery case. The earbuds battery case provides the cellular telephone with information on the battery charge level associated with the battery in the earbuds battery case and a battery charge level associated with each earbud in the earbuds battery case. The cellular telephone receives battery charge level information through the wireless charging mat and displays corresponding indicators. The earbuds battery case has a visual output device such as a light-emitting diode that is illuminated to indicate that the earbuds battery case is being charged.

Wireless power system with battery charge indicators

An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The housing may have a stand that supports the housing on a support surface or may have other shapes. The display may have pixels that display an image. The display may also have a two-dimensional array of light-emitting devices such as light-emitting diodes that supply backlight illumination for the pixels. An array of temperature sensors may be overlapped by the pixels. Control circuitry may maintain historical backlight aging information during operation of the display. The aging information may include information on output brightness levels of the light-emitting diodes and light-emitting diode operating temperatures.

Electronic devices with backlit displays

The embodiments discussed herein relate to systems, methods, and apparatus for controlling power consumption of a computing device in a standby or sleep mode. During the standby or sleep mode an external device can be plugged into the computing device. The external device can be provided power from a standby power supply until a determination is made as to whether a main power supply is operating. The determination can be based on comparing the output of the main power supply to an output of the standby power supply. If the main power supply is operating, a switch in the computing device can close to allow the main power supply to provide power to the external device. Moreover, in some embodiments, the switch can close based exclusively on a current demand of the external device from the standby power supply.

Reduced energy consumption in a computer system through software and hardware coordinated control of multiple power supplies

A backlight driver chip for an electronic device includes an input that receives data corresponding to a brightness of a backlight device. The backlight driver chip also includes correction circuitry that determines an amplitude correction factor based at least in part on the data and the brightness of the backlight device. The correction circuitry also determines a corrected brightness based at least in part on the amplitude correction factor. The backlight driver chip further includes an output that provides a current signal that drives the backlight device, wherein the current signal is based at least in part on the corrected brightness.

Devices and methods for controlling brightness of a display backlight

Devices and methods for controlling brightness of a display backlight are provided. A display backlight controller may control the brightness of the display backlight by changing a duty cycle of a PWM signal that drives the LED current. However, because of LED efficacy and response time, the final output brightness (NITS) may not be linear between 0% to 100%. The disclosed methods may be used to correct the brightness using a predetermined correction factor. Further, the minimum and maximum duty cycle of the output dimming duty cycle may be limited or corrected. In one example, a backlight controller receives an input duty cycle and determines a product of the input duty cycle and a maximum duty cycle to produce a reduced duty cycle. Moreover, the backlight driver may determine a corrected duty cycle using the correction factor. The final output duty cycle and LED current may then be determined.

The disclosed embodiments provide a system that drives a display from a computer system. The system includes a first hardware path for controlling a backlight of a display of the computer system. The system also includes a second hardware path for controlling the backlight. Finally, the system includes a backlight controller that enables use of the first and second hardware paths in controlling the backlight from the computer system.

Multiple hardware paths for backlight control in computer systems

The disclosed embodiments provide a system that drives an integrated display on a computer system from an electronic device. The system includes a circuit, a processor, and an application executing on the processor. The circuit may receive a display command sent from the electronic device to the computer system. The application may obtain the display command from a memory on the computer system and process the display command to control a capability of the integrated display.

Enabling display commands from an electronic device to an integrated display on a computer system

Providing data to an application running on a segmented virtual machine (VM) is disclosed. Providing data includes opening an interface between the segmented VM and an external data source, transferring data from the external data source to an interface buffer, transferring a first selected amount of data from the interface buffer to a shell VM buffer, transferring a second selected amount of data from the shell VM buffer to a core VM buffer, and providing portions of the data from the core VM buffer to the application in response to read requests from the application.

Reducing latency in a segmented virtual machine

Segmented virtual machine transport mechanism

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Adrian E Sun