Apple Inc.

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Levelite Technology, Inc.

Q.r. Spex, Inc.

Iii Holdings 4, LLC

Christiaan A Ligtenberg

Brett W Degner

Dinesh C Mathew

Ron Alan Hopkinson

Bartley K Andre

Mikael M Silvanto

Keith J Hendren

Matthew Phillip Casebolt

Charles A Schwalbach

Robert Y Cao

William Francis Leggett

Bryan W Posner

Asif Hussain

Victor H Yin

Adam T Garelli

Bradley Joseph Hamel

Simon R Lancaster-Larocque

Jay S Nigen

Jeremy D Bataillou

Zheng Gao

Jun Qi

John M Brock

Chang Zhang

Patrick Kessler

Joseph F Rando

Alex Joseph Lehmann

Nicholas Alan Rundle

Christopher J Stringer

Paul Xiaopeng Wang

Frank Faqiu Liang

Brandon S Smith

Molly J Anderson

Cheng Kai Chen

Robert Sean Murphy

ByoungSuk Kim

Eric Andrew Knopf

James E Malackowski

Mikal B Greaves

Joss Nathan Giddings

Eric Lee Benson

Erik A Zweigle

Gregory Swab

Rolf Milesi

Thomas Meier

Duncan Robert Kerr

Daniel J Coster

Chaohao Wang

Daniel D Sunshine

Zhibing Ge

Mahmoud R Amini

David H Narajowski

Thomas W Wilson, Jr

John C Difonzo

Jiaying Wu

Yuan Chen

Peteris K Augenbergs

Shih-Chyuan Fan Jiang

Gavin J Reid

Matthew Theobald

Hyungryul J Choi

Cina Hazegh

Gary S Thomason

Paul V Johnson

Peter M Arnold

Karan S Jain

Matthew C Waldon

Supratik Datta

Tomas E Ponce

Se Hyun Ahn

Tom Tate

Hyunmin A Song

John Z Zhong

Wei Chen

Ihab A Ali

Shih-Chang Chang

George Tziviskos

Jean-Marc Gery

Michael E Leclerc

Wey-Jiun Lin

Ryan P Brooks

Edward J Cooper

Eric R Prather

Ari P Miller

Kathleen A Bergeron

Derek Yap

Kristopher P Laurent

Robert L Coish

Kevin M Kenney

Jason N Gomez

Timothy John Litvin

Steven J Sfarzo

Laura M Campo

David M Rockford

Nicholas Mancini

Eric Monsef

Supriya Goyal

Anton Talalayev

Victor Hao-En Yin

Thomas W Wilson

Valerie S Chang

An electronic device may include a glass housing member that includes an upper portion defining a display area, a lower portion defining an input area, and a transition portion joining the upper portion and the lower portion and defining a continuous, curved surface between the upper portion and the lower portion. The electronic device may include a display coupled to the glass housing member and configured to provide a visual output at the display area. The electronic device may include an input device coupled to the glass housing member and configured to detect inputs at the input area. The electronic device may include a support structure coupled to the glass housing member and configured to support the computing device.

Electronic device with glass housing member

A portable computer includes a display portion comprising a display and a base portion pivotally coupled to the display portion. The base portion may include a bottom case and a top case, formed from a dielectric material, coupled to the bottom case. The top case may include a top member defining a top surface of the base portion and a sidewall integrally formed with the top member and defining a side surface of the base portion. The portable computer may also include a sensing system including a first sensing system configured to determine a location of a touch input applied to the top surface of the base portion and a second sensing system configured to determine a force of the touch input.

Device having integrated interface system

A display may have display layers that form an array of pixels. An angle-of-view adjustment layer may overlap the display layers. The angle-of-view adjustment layer may include an array of adjustable light blocking structures formed from electrochromic material. The electrochromic material may be interposed between first and second electrode layers. When it is desired to operate the display in a private viewing mode, control circuitry may apply a current to the first and second electrodes that causes the electrochromic material to become more opaque, thereby restricting the angle of view of the display. When it is desired to operate the display in a public viewing mode, control circuitry may apply a current to the first and second electrodes that causes the electrochromic material to become more transparent, thereby opening up the angle of view of the display.

Displays with adjustable angles of view

A display may have display layers that form an array of pixels. An angle-of-view adjustment layer may overlap the display layers. The angle-of-view adjustment layer may include an array of adjustable louvers that move from a first position in which the angle of view of the display is restricted for a private viewing mode and a second position in which the angle of view of the display is not restricted for a normal viewing mode. The louvers may contain electrophoretic particles. The louvers may be tapered and may have a width at one end that is less than ten microns. The electrophoretic particles may form isolated clusters on a lower substrate in normal viewing mode to increase the transmittance of the display in normal viewing mode. The angle-of-view adjustment layer may be a second liquid crystal display layer that is used to block off-axis light.

An electronic device includes an enclosure, a substrate within the enclosure, a keycap support mechanism, and a keycap supported by the keycap support mechanism and movable relative to the substrate. The keycap includes a body, a mask layer defining a glyph opening, and a semitransparent mirror layer positioned within the glyph opening. The electronic device also includes a light source configured to direct light through the semitransparent mirror layer.

Input devices with glyphs having a semitransparent mirror layer

A device includes a display portion that includes a display housing and a display within the display housing. The device also includes a base portion flexibly coupled to the display portion and comprising a glass member defining a keyboard region configured to receive user input, a first haptic actuator configured to produce a first haptic output at a first area of the keyboard region, and a second haptic actuator configured to produce a second haptic output at a second area of the keyboard region that is different from the first area.

Embodiments related to an electronic device having an adaptive input row. The adaptive input row may be positioned within an opening of a device and include a cover for receiving a touch and a display that is configured to present an adaptable set of indicia. The adaptive input row may also include one or more sensors for detecting the location of a touch and/or the magnitude of a force of the touch. The adaptive input row may be positioned adjacent or proximate to a keyboard of the electronic device.

Keyboard with adaptive input row

A dynamic input surface for an electronic device and a method of reconfiguring the same is disclosed. The input surface has a partially-flexible metal contact portion defining an input area, and a group of indicators. The indicators may be group of holes extending through the contact portion. The group of holes may be selectively illuminated based on a gesture performed on the contact portion. A size of the input area may be dynamically varied based on the gesture. Additionally, the group of indicators indicates a boundary of the input area.

Dynamic input surface for electronic devices

The disclosed embodiments related to a component for use in a portable electronic device. The component includes a wall of the portable electronic device, containing an intake zone that includes a set of intake vents. The wall also includes an exhaust zone containing a set of exhaust vents.

Optimized vent walls in electronic devices

Components associated with receiving user touch input, receiving user force input, and providing haptic output interface are integrated into a unified input/output interface that includes a transducer substrate formed with a monolithic or multi-layer body having a number of electrodes disposed on surfaces thereof. Electrodes are selected by a controller to provide touch input sensing, force input sensing, and haptic output.

Unified input/output interface for electronic device

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San Carlos, CA, United States of America

Christiaan A Ligtenberg