Apple Inc.

Sperry Corporation

Charles A Bates, Iii

Taylor Harrison Gilbert

Eric Shyr

Kristine S Atom

Elvis Mwenda Kibiti

Zhengyu Li

George V Jacoby

Thomas R Matzinger

Martin Cohn

Jaime G Chavez Ruiz Garza

Johan E Lyon

Kristine S Tom

Shih-Hsiang Hsiao

An accessory device with a cover and keyboard section is described. The keyboard section includes a keyboard and a touchpad, while the cover section includes multiple segments. The cover section orients the electronic device such that a user can access the electronic device, the keyboard, and the touchpad. The cover section is rotationally coupled to the keyboard section by one or more hinge assemblies (including clutches and springs), allowing the cover section and the electronic device to rotate relative to the keyboard section. The cover section includes a first and second segment rotationally coupled together. To further adjust the electronic device, the first segment remains coupled to the electronic device, allowing the first segment and the electronic device to rotate relative to the second segment. The cover section can then suspend the electronic device over the keyboard section, and the electronic device does not contact the keyboard section.

Accessory devices for electronic devices

An accessory device for an electronic device is described. The accessory device may include a cover section and a keyboard section. The cover section may include a receiving surface that engages the electronic device. The cover section may include electrical contacts designed to electrically couple with contacts on the electronic device. The cover section may include several magnets designed to magnetically couple with magnets within the electronic device. The keyboard section may include a keyboard and one or more channels designed to receive and position the electronic device in a usable configuration with the keyboard. Several magnets may surround each channel, and may magnetically couple with magnets within (and along an edge of) the electronic device. The magnetic circuits formed between the channel magnets and the device magnets may counter, or offset, forces that otherwise remove the electronic device from the channel in an undesired manner.

Keyboard accessory for a portable electronic device

A method and apparatus for encoding binary data in a data stream so as to increase the number of data bits represented by one transition, such as a transition recorded on a magnetic medium, and thereby increase the storage density. The data stream is converted into words each having m bits. Two of the data words are stored so as to be simultaneously accessible to a converting system that converts the data words into code words wherein each code word has n bits. In the invention, m/n=2/3. In order to increase the space between adjacent transitions, the conversion is carried out according to a scheme wherein all code words have at least one binary ONE and lack successive binary ONEs except certain cases in which a code word is converted to all ZEROs to avoid ONEs in the nth bit of a given code word and the first bit of the code word following the given code word. Also described is a decoding method and apparatus for recovering the encoded data and decoding it to the original binary data.

Data encoding method and system employing two-thirds code rate with full

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Charles A Bates, Iii