Apple Inc.

Symbol Technologies, LLC

Jeffrey J Terlizzi

Wendell B Sander

Albert John Golko

Eric Steven Jol

Jahan C Minoo

Mathias W Schmidt

Jesse Lee Dorogusker

Alexei Elias Kosut

Nicholas Ainsley Sims

Brian Sander

Scott P Mullins

Timothy Michael Johnson

Stanley Rabu

Scott Peter Krueger

Nicholas Robert Kalayjian

Douglas M Farrar

Victor Manuel Tiscareno

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Jonathan Sarjeant Aase

Ian A Spraggs

Cameron P Frazier

Brian Jonathan Conner

Todd K Moyer

Barry J Corlett

Steven G Herbst

Jeffrey M Alves

Zachary C Rich

Terry L Tikalsky

Christopher D McKillop

Daniel J Fritchman

Michael M Lee

Anup K Sharma

James Hollabaugh

Chad A Bossetti

David Tupman

Kathleen A Bergeron

Tony Chi Wang Ng

Emery Artemus Sanford

Brijesh Tripathi

Donald Joseph Novotney

John Gee Tang

Roberto G Yepez

Christopher Todd Beauchamp

Daniele De Iuliis

Martha Evans Hankey

Keith Alan Cox

Christopher S Graham

Edward Siahaan

Robert D Watson

Ethan Larry Huwe

John Meron Ananny

Darshan R Kasar

David W Ritter

Daniel Ray Bloom

Jonathan Jay Andrews

Andrew P Bright

Dustin A Hatfield

Frank Faqiu Liang

Jason Joseph LeBlanc

Edwin W Foo

Amaury J Heresztyn

Jim C Hwang

Nagarajan Kalyanasundaram

Nathan P Bosscher

Michael B Minerbi

James L McPeak

Robert D Zupke

Robert S Parnell

Ali N Ergun

Greg Nayman

Prathamesh R Bhagwat

Todd P Marco

Debra A Sillman

Wendel Sander

Richard P Howarth

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Gregory N Christie

John Benjamin Filson

Mitchell David Adler

Anthony Sagala Montevirgen

Charles A Schwalbach

Wey-Jiun Lin

Phil M Hobson

Tyson Benner Manullang

David Glen Havskjold

Mushtaq A Sarwar

Paul M Thompson

Robert W DiGiovanna

Brian C Menzel

Peter Russell-Clark

Jeffrey Allan Hammerstrom

Jose Natividad Martinez

Peter Musteric

Yash Rohit Modi

Jahan Minoc

Ida Yum Yum Lo

Eric B Greene

Rizwan Ahmad Alladin

Tong-Hsiao Chang

John Joseph Fioriglio

Systems and methods are provided for reducing unwanted noise in an electronic audio signal, wherein a computing device having a microphone is configured to receive signals from a sensor on an external device such as a camera, second microphone, or movement sensor. The signals from the sensor are used to identify sound information or characteristics of sounds made by a source of noise, and the audio signal of the microphone is modified to reduce unwanted sounds based on that sound information or based on sounds identified a second audio signal obtained by the second microphone, thereby improving teleconference and video conference audio quality and removing distracting noises from transmitted audio output.

Audio modification using interconnected electronic devices

A personal audio device (e.g., headphones, earphones) can have an earpiece (e.g., an ear cup or earbud) with a removable cushioning member (e.g., headphone cushions or ear tips for earbuds). The cushioning member can include an identification tag that encodes identification data for the cushioning member. When the cushioning member is attached to the earpiece, the identification tag is brought into proximity with a tag sensor in the earpiece and the earpiece can read the identification tag to determine identification data for the cushioning member. The identification data can be used to modify a behavior of the earpiece and/or of a host device communicably coupled to the earpiece.

Identification of cushioning members in personal audio devices

An electronic device may contain an input-output device such as a speaker, vibrator, or near field communications antenna. The input-output device may include an inductor. The inductor in the input-output device may be shared by wireless charging circuitry in the electronic device so that wireless charging signals can be converted into power to charge a battery in the electronic device. A separate inductor may also be provided within an input-output device to support wireless charging. A drive circuit may supply drive signals to the input-output device such as audio signals, vibrator control signals, or near field communications output signals for external near field communications equipment. An input amplifier that is coupled across the inductor in the input-output device may be used in receiving near field communications signals.

Wirelessly charged electronic device with shared inductor circuitry

An inductive charging system can include a transmitter device and a receiver device. The transmitter device may be adapted to detect when a receiver coil in the receiver device is coupled to a transmitter coil in the transmitter device. For example, the current input into a DC-to-AC converter in the transmitter device can be measured and coil coupling detected when the current equals or exceeds a threshold value.

Detection of coil coupling in an inductive charging system

Various techniques for temperature management during inductive energy transfer are disclosed. A transmitter device and/or a receiver device can be turned off during energy transfer based on the temperature of the transmitter device and/or of the receiver device.

Temperature management in a wireless energy transfer system

An alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) power converter may have a connector with a pair of power supply contacts and a pair of data contacts. An electronic device may be connected to the connector of the power converter. The power converter may supply DC power to the electronic device using the power supply contacts. The power converter may include control circuitry that has a resistor coupled across the data contacts. When the electronic device and the power converter are connected to each other, each may advertise to the other that capabilities are present that exceed industry standards. At the same time, standard-compliant discovery operations may be performed to probe the value of the resistance of the resistor that is coupled across the data contacts. When extended capabilities are discovered, extended functions may be performed including accelerated charging functions and data communications functions.

Charging systems with direct charging port support and extended capabilities

A dual orientation connector having a connector tab with first and second major opposing sides and a plurality of electrical contacts carried by the connector tab. The plurality of contacts includes a first set of external contacts formed at the first major side and a second set of external contacts formed at the second major side. The first plurality of contacts are symmetrically spaced with the second plurality of contacts and the connector tab is shaped to have 180 degree symmetry so that it can be inserted and operatively coupled to a corresponding receptacle connector in either of two insertion orientations.

Dual orientation connector with external contacts

Methods and systems for improved efficiency when an inductive power transmitter associated with an inductive power transfer system experiences a low-load or no-load condition. More particularly, methods and systems for detecting when an inductive power receiver is absent or poorly connected to an inductive power transmitter. The inductive power transmitter includes, in one example, a current peak monitor coupled to an inductive power transmit coil. The current peak monitor waits for a current peak resulting from spatial displacement of a magnetic field source within the inductive power receiver, indicating to the inductive power transmitter that the inductive power receiver is moving, or has moved, toward the inductive power transmitter. Other examples include one or more Hall effect sensors within the inductive power transmitter to monitor for the magnetic field source of the inductive power receiver.

Methods for detecting mated coils

An electronic device that includes a plug connector having a tab adapted to be inserted into a receptacle connector of a second device during a mating event, the tab including first and second opposing surfaces and a contact region formed at the first surface of the tab, the contact region including a plurality of contacts spaced apart along a first row, the plurality of contacts including a first contact, a power contact and a ground contact; a computer-readable memory having identification, configuration and authentication information relevant to the electronic device that can be communicated to the second device during a mating event stored therein; circuitry coupled to the first contact and configured to, after a mating event in which the plug connector is inserted into the receptacle connector, participate in a handshaking algorithm that includes receiving a command over the first contact from the second device and sending a response to the command that includes contact configuration information for the electronic device over the first contact to the second device; and power circuitry, coupled to the power contact, configured to deliver power to charge a device coupled to the electronic device via the plug connectors.

Dual orientation electronic connector

Methods, systems, and apparatus for enabling a power path between a power source and a host device via an accessory. A host device may send, to an accessory arranged within the power path, via a first data pin arranged in the host device, a request for an accessory identifier. The accessory identifier identifies the accessory. The host device may then determine whether the accessory identifier is received from the accessory within a specified period of time or whether a received accessory identifier is valid. If the accessory identifier is not received from the accessory within the specified period of time, or a received accessory identifier is not valid, the host device sends a new request for the accessory identifier to the accessory via a second data pin different than the first data pin.

Methods, systems and apparatus for enabling an accessory for use with a host device

A retail electronic product demonstration fixture for demonstrating portable electronic devices. The product demonstration fixture may include an exhibition portion and a base portion. A portable electronic device offered for sale may be affixed to the exhibition portion. The base portion may include an electronic display, an auxiliary battery, and an auxiliary controller. The auxiliary controller may direct power from the auxiliary battery to the electronic display upon determining that a battery within the electronic display has fallen below a particular selected level. Similarly the auxiliary controller may direct power from the auxiliary battery to the portable electronic device offered for sale upon determining that a battery within the portable electronic device has fallen below a selected level.

Product demonstration fixture for a portable electronic device

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Jeffrey J Terlizzi