Apple Inc.

Pufferfish Limited

Benjamin Shane Bustle

Scott A Myers

Benjamin J Pope

Derek C Krass

Matthew D Hill

Ashutosh Yugesh Shukla

Michael Benjamin Wittenberg

Lucy Elizabeth Browning

Tyler B Cater

James B Smith

Michael W Firka

Lee E Hooton

Ashley E Fletcher

Blake M Coughenour

Garam Young

Richard Hung Minh Dinh

Sawyer Isaac Cohen

Rasamy Phouthavong

Mattia Pascolini

David A Pakula

Enrique Ayala Vazquez

Hongfei Hu

Nanbo Jin

Erdinc Irci

Benjamin J Kallman

Salih Yarga

Yaocheng Zhang

Erica J Tong

Kodiak D Burke

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Richard P Howarth

Eugene Antony Whang

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Martha Evans Hankey

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Jody R Akana

Jeremy D Bataillou

Julian Hoenig

Shota Aoyagi

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Anthony Michael Ashcroft

Mikael M Silvanto

Molly J Anderson

Markus Peter Diebel

Clement Tissandier

Julian Jaede

Marine C Bataille

Sung-Ho Tan

Ruben Caballero

Matthew A Mow

Christopher D Jones

Ming-Ju Tsai

Liang Han

Marwan Rammah

Dhaval N Shah

Edward S Huo

Zhipeng Zhang

Kevin M Froese

Vivek Katiyar

Amin M Younes

Griffin L Schmitt

Daniel William Jarvis

Tyler S Bushnell

James R Wilson

Ian A Spraggs

Duy P Le

Shayan Malek

Simon Christopher Helmore

John J Baker

Nicholas George Merz

Gregory N Stephens

Miguel C Christophy

Michael D Quinones

Richard H Koch

Christopher T Cheng

Eric N Nyland

Boon Wai Shiu

Paul U Leutheuser

Tseng-Mau Yang

Stoyan P Hristov

Melissa A Wah

Katherine E Tong

Anand Lakshmanan

Eric W Bates

David J Dunsmoor

Matthew P Rao

Trent J Canales

Thomas Johannessen

Jun Sik Ham

Christopher R Xydis

Jaden A Barney

Hugh J Jay

Jonathan M Lee

Xiao Ying Zhao

Donald J Parr

Andrew J Meschke

Luman Zhang

Jason M Gillier

An electronic device display may have an inner layer with a pixel array for displaying images and an outer layer with an array of light modulator cells operable in transparent and light-blocking modes. Force sensor and touch sensor circuitry may be used to gather user input such as information on finger pressure or stylus input applied to a location on the display. A block of the cells may be placed into a transparent mode to form a transparent window based on information from the sensor circuitry. Images on the pixel array may be viewed through the window. In another mode of operation, images can be displayed by adjusting the cells of the light modulator layer and backlight illumination may be provided by the pixel array. A camera and a flash or other optical components may be overlapped by an adjustable shutter.

Electronic devices with two-stage displays

An enclosure and a method for forming an enclosure are disclosed. The enclosure may be formed from metal, such as aluminum, and further include a non-metal portion allowing for transmission and receipt of electromagnetic waves. The non-metal portion may be interlocked to the enclosure and in particular, to a region within the enclosure including a first material having a relatively high strength and stiffness compared to the non-metal portion. Interlocking means may include forming dovetail cuts into the enclosure to receive the non-metal portion, a hole or cavity drilled into the enclosure which includes internal threads, and a rod inserted into the first material to provide a tension to the non-metal portion. Methods of assembling internal components using anodization are also disclosed.

Housing features of an electronic device

A portable electronic device may include a housing having a wall defining an opening in the housing and at least a portion of four side surfaces of the portable electronic device. The portable electronic device may further include a display at least partially within the housing, a front cover positioned in the opening in the housing and over the display, the front cover defining a front surface, a peripheral side surface extending from the front surface and at least partially surrounded by the wall of the housing, and a notch that, together with a portion of the wall of the housing, defines an acoustic port of the portable electronic device. The electronic device may further include an acoustic port cover positioned at least partially in the acoustic port and a speaker at least partially within the housing and configured to direct sound through the acoustic port cover.

Handheld electronic device

An electronic device has an electrically adjustable shutter. The shutter may be placed in a transparent state or a nontransparent state. The shutter may overlap a portion of a display, may overlap a liquid contact indictor or a structure with text in a device, or may overlap an optical component such as an optical proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, visible light-emitting diode or laser, infrared light-emitting diode or laser, visible light image sensor, or infrared light image sensor. Control circuitry in the electronic device may place the shutter in an opaque state to hide an overlapped component from view or may place the shutter in a transparent state to allow the overlapped component to transmit or receive light. The adjustable shutter may exhibit changes in its transmission spectrum in different modes of operation and may be used as a camera filter or neutral density filter.

Electronic devices having electrically adjustable optical shutters

Display for an electronic device

A portable electronic device includes a housing member defining a first portion of an exterior front surface of the portable electronic device, a first portion of an exterior rear surface of the portable electronic device, at least a portion of an exterior side surface of the portable electronic device, a recess along an interior side of the housing member, and a ledge feature along the interior side of the housing member. The device also includes a top module coupled to the housing member and including a front cover defining a second portion of the exterior front surface of the portable electronic device, a display stack attached to the front cover, and a frame member extending at least partially around a periphery of the display stack and set apart from a surface of the recess by a gap.

Hand-held scoop

A disclosed display device assembly includes a panel substrate, multiple light transmitting pixels disposed over the panel substrate, a backlight unit disposed under the panel substrate, a flexible substrate attached to the panel substrate, and a display integrated circuit mounted to the flexible substrate and disposed under the backlight unit.

Display device assembly having a spacer layer surrounding the integrated circuit

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Benjamin Shane Bustle