Apple Inc.

Jason Bakhshi

Patrick Kessler

Erik Andrew Uttermann

Wenyong Zhu

Lee B Hamstra

Wei Lv

Thomas O Henry

Trevor M Cardiff

Katherine Spriggs

Sayooj R Pillai

Jason A U De Souza

Daniel J Hoff

Akhil Suri

A portable electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture and a display positioned in the aperture. The portable electronic device can include a number of components that can provide desired functionalities and levels of performance. For example, the device can include one or more couplers that interconnect various portions of the housing together. Additionally or alternatively, the portable electronic device can include one or more millimeter-wave antennas. Additionally, or alternatively, the electronic device can include one or more grounding elements or layers that reliably and electrically ground the display to the housing.

Electronic device

This application relates to determining uniformity of a housing for a computing device based on characteristics of a reflected pattern of light incident upon the housing. The reflected pattern of light can include an array of shapes such as dots whose orientation and location can provide indications of uniformity for the housing. The array of shapes are analyzed to determine certain geometric properties such as area for each shape in the array of shapes. The geometric properties can thereafter be compared to a predetermined geometric, threshold, or tolerance value, and each shape can be assigned a rank of uniformity. Once a rank of uniformity is defined for each shape, a compilation of uniformity values can be generated and used to find portions on the housing where the housing is not uniform or flat.

Distortion quantifier for analyzing surfaces

Growing community of inventors

San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Jason Bakhshi