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John Patrick Ternus

Christopher J Stringer

Benjamin M Rappoport

Jeremy C Franklin

Scott A Myers

Stephen Brian Lynch

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Stephen Robert McClure

Jonathan P Ive

Daniel J Coster

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Kevin David Gibbs

Florence W Ow

Joshua D Banko

Richard P Howarth

Paul Stephen Drzaic

Shin Nishibori

Sean S Corbin

Michael D McBroom

Daniel Lynn McBroom

Julian Hoenig

Derek William Wright

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Brett W Degner

John Raff

Martha Evans Hankey

Daniele De Iuliis

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Eugene Antony Whang

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Jody R Akana

Jeremy D Bataillou

Steve P Jobs

Tang Yew Tan

Richard Hung Minh Dinh

Erik L Wang

Phillip Michael Hobson

Marcel Van Os

Steven Porter Hotelling

Paul Xiaopeng Wang

Terry L Gilton

Daniel William Jarvis

Benjamin J Pope

Brian Richards Land

John B Morrell

Ronald Keryuan Huang

Wei Chen

Chris A Ligtenberg

Christopher D Moore

Qingxiang Li

Elvis Mwenda Kibiti

Jiang Ai

Sean D Lubner

Andrew Nelthropp Lauder

Justin Richard Wodrich

Brian Thomas Sudderth

Andrew David Lauder

Todd F Gotham

Ming Yu

Carl R Peterson

Erik Andrew Uttermann

Jules B Henry

Eric Andrew Knopf

Amy A Han

Michael D Hillman

Martin B Adamcyk

Peter M Thompson

Matthew B Morris

Arthur J Lucchesi

Brian Scott Carpenter

Timothy G Van Vorhis

Byron Bay Han

Nicholas George Merz

Chang Zhang

Myra Mary Haggerty

John Andrew Wright

Michael A Cretella

Michael Eng

Tianjia Sun

Mushtaq A Sarwar

Paul M Thompson

Piotr S Trzaskos

Paul Meade

Conor P Lenahan

Eric Shyr

Dominic P McCarthy

Amy Qian

Gavin J Reid

James H Foster

Christopher Tenzin Mullens

Philip J Houdek, Ii

Alex Chun Lap Yeung

Venu Madhav Duggineni

Carlo Catalano

Max A Maloney

Steven G Siefert

Napthaneal Yuen Tan

David Kim

Flexible electronic devices may be provided. A flexible electronic device may include a flexible display, a flexible housing and one or more flexible internal components configured to allow the flexible electronic device to be deformed. Flexible displays may include flexible display layers, flexible touch-sensitive layers, and flexible display cover layers. The flexible housing may be a multi-stable flexible housing having one or more stable positions. The flexible housing may include a configurable support structure that, when engaged, provides a rigid support structure for the flexible housing. The flexible internal components may include flexible batteries, flexible printed circuits or other flexible components. A flexible battery may include flexible and rigid portions or may include a lubricious separator layer that provides flexibility for the flexible battery. A flexible printed circuit may include flexible and rigid portions or openings that allow some rigid portions to flex with respect to other rigid portions.

Flexible electronic devices

A system may include electronic devices that communicate wirelessly. When positioned so that a pair of devices overlap or are adjacent to one another, the devices may operate in a linked mode. During linked operations, devices may communicate wirelessly while input gathering and content displaying operations are shared among the devices. One or both of a pair of devices may have sensors. A capacitive sensor or other sensor may be used to measure the relative position between two devices when the two devices overlap each other. Content displaying operations and other linked mode operations may be performed based on the measured relative position between the two devices and other information.

Position sensors for system with overlapped displays

Systems, methods, and devices are provided in which photodetectors disposed throughout a display are used to control the display brightness. The photodetectors are to be used for ambient light sensing, proximity sensing, or to compensate for aging OLEDs. In some embodiments, photodiodes are fabricated with OLEDs during the TFT fabrication process. In some embodiments, the photodetectors may be disposed throughout the display in zones containing OLEDs. The photodetectors are used to control the display brightness and color for the OLEDs in areas around each photodetector based on ambient light, aging, and/or nearby objects. A controller makes driving strength adjustments to the OLEDs in each zone independent of other zones. Photodetectors disposed throughout the display may improve proximity sensing and provide additional functionality to the device.

Organic light emitting diode display having photodiodes

Electronic devices may be provided having internal components mounted to a structural glass support member. The structural glass support member may have a planar front surface that forms a front surface of the device. The structural glass support member may have bent portions that form sidewall surfaces of the device. Portions of the structural glass support member may form a transparent display cover layer. A rigid or flexible display may be mounted to the structural glass support member. Additional internal device components may be mounted to the display. A thin enclosure for enclosing the internal components in the device may be mounted to the structural glass support member. The thin enclosure may be mounted to the structural glass support member using a peripheral member. The thin enclosure may be free from attachments to internal components or may be adhesively bonded to one or more internal components.

Electronic devices with structural glass members

An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The display may have layers such as polarizer layers, a color filter layer, and a thin-film transistor layer. Display layers such as color filter layers and thin-film-transistor layers may have glass substrates. Notches or other openings may be formed in the layers of a display. For example, a notch with a curved chamfered edge may be formed in a lower end of a thin-film-transistor layer. A component such as a button may overlap the notch. Structures such as sensors, cameras, acoustic components, and other electronic components, buttons, communications path structures such as flexible printed circuit cables and wire bonding wires, and housing structures may be received within a display layer notch.

Notched display layers

Devices, methods and graphical user interfaces for manipulating user interfaces based on fingerprint sensor inputs are provided. While a display of an electronic device with a fingerprint sensor displays a first user interface, the device may detect movement of a fingerprint on the fingerprint sensor. In accordance with a determination that the movement of the fingerprint is in a first direction, the device allows navigating through the first user interface, and in accordance with a determination that the movement of the fingerprint is in a second direction different from the first direction, the device allows displaying a second user interface different from the first user interface on the display.

Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating user interfaces based on fingerprint sensor inputs

An electronic device may have a display. The display may have an active region in which display pixels are used to display images. The display may have one or more openings and may be mounted in a housing associated with the electronic device. An electronic component may be mounted in alignment with the openings in the display. The electronic component may include a camera, a light sensor, a light-based proximity sensor, status indicator lights, a light-based touch sensor array, a secondary display that has display pixels that may be viewed through the openings, antenna structures, a speaker, a microphone, or other acoustic, electromagnetic, or light-based component. One or more openings in the display may form a window through which a user of the device may view an external object. Display pixels in the window region may be used in forming a heads-up display.

Electronic devices having displays with openings

A display cover to housing interface system includes a display screen fronted by a display cover having front and obverse faces and a distal edge between the faces around a circumference thereof (i.e., edge thickness), and also an outer housing that provides support for the display cover. A portion of the display cover distal edge or thickness is fully exposed to outside, such that the display cover is exposed and substantially visible when viewed directly from the front and at least one side while installed. The display cover can be glass, while the housing is metal. A protective layer located between the housing and display cover protects the display cover from the housing. Various support components hold the display cover in place, and can include magnets and/or a stabilizer assembly affixed along a bottom edge of the display cover and adapted to couple to a bottom chin of the housing.

Cover glass to housing interface system

A portable computing device is disclosed. The portable computing device can take many forms such as a laptop computer, a tablet computer, and so on. The portable computing device can include at least a single piece housing. The single piece housing can be machined from a single billet of material, such as a billet of aluminum. The single piece housing can include ledges with a surface receiving a trim bead and a cover. Corner brackets can be attached to the single piece housing to improve the damage resistance of the housing.

Handheld portable device

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John Patrick Ternus