Apple Inc.

Google Inc.

Other

Justin Richard Wodrich

Christopher J Stringer

Daniel J Coster

Benjamin M Rappoport

John Patrick Ternus

Scott A Myers

Stephen Brian Lynch

Maj Isabelle Olsson

John Raff

Jeremy C Franklin

Carl R Peterson

Derek William Wright

Kevin David Gibbs

Sung Kyun Bai

Dongkyu Lee

Jung Geun Tak

Samuel Gilkison Smith

Jared Sartee

Stephen Robert McClure

William Raeming Dong

Andrew William Goldenson

Erik Andrew Uttermann

Richard Francis Lyon

Sean S Corbin

Qingxiang Li

Elvis Mwenda Kibiti

Shayan Malek

Kristen Mangum

Alex Chun Lap Yeung

Santhana Krishnan Balaji

Max A Maloney

Timothy Michael Vanderet

Ming Yu

Daniel David Sachs

Laurie Kwan

Ranhee Chung

Christen Cameron Bilger

Prathik Muppidi

Wen Pin Chou

Nicholas Matarese

Rasmus Munk Larsen

Jules B Henry

Conor P Lenahan

Eyal Ron

Sathya Kurcharlapati

Piotr S Trzaskos

Gabriel Fisher Slotnick

Jared A Sartee

Liana Kong

David Kim

Michael Smedegaard

Benjamin Louis Shaya

Sheba Devan

Leslie Greene

Erik D Gillow

Erik A Utterman

Michael B Montvelishsky

Brianna C Wilson

Rolando Esparza Palacios

Che-Yu Kuo

Stephen R Mcclure

Jermey C Franklin

Chuan You Su

Iii Donald Q Ross

Gomez Rodney A Angulo

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 compact electronic device has a touch sensor and/or a microphone that are concealed within a housing at least partially wrapped by an acoustically porous cover. In some implementations, the touch sensor includes a sensing portion and a contact portion extending from the sensing portion. While the sensing portion is placed in proximity to an interior surface of the housing to detect a touch on the housing, the contact portion is bent to electrically couple the sensing portion to a circuit board via two distinct electrical paths. In some implementations, an exterior surface of the housing includes a sealing area surrounding an aperture on the housing, and the acoustically porous cover is affixed to the sealing area via an adhesive. The adhesive covers the sealing area and permeates a thickness of the acoustically porous cover, thereby enabling formation of a controlled sound path to access the microphone via the aperture.

Compact home assistant having a controlled sound path

Various arrangements of electronic devices, such as assistant devices, are detailed herein. Such a device can include a housing and a microphone. A microphone aperture can be defined by the housing that directs sound from outside the housing to the microphone. A cover, which can be fabric, can be attached with the outside of the housing. An adhesive ring on the housing around the microphone aperture can be used to attach the cover to the housing.

Compact home assistant device

Thermostat

Various embodiments of smart thermostats are presented herein. A smart thermostat can include a thermostat housing defining a rounded front aperture and having a sidewall. The smart thermostat can include a capacitive touch strip that senses a plurality of gestures. The smart thermostat can include an electronic display. The electronic display may be caused to display icons arranged in a graphical arc. The smart thermostat may include a reflective cover positioned such that the electronic display is viewed through the reflective cover.

Thermostat control using touch sensor gesture based input

Thermostat back plate

Techniques and apparatuses are described that implement touch sensors and electronic devices including touch sensors. In some implementations, the touch sensor includes a sensing portion and a contact portion extending from the sensing portion. While the sensing portion is configured to be placed in proximity to an interior surface of a housing of an electronic device to detect a touch on the housing, the contact portion is bent to electrically couple the sensing portion to a circuit board via two distinct electrical paths.

Compact home assistant having touch sensitive housing

Transparent structures for portions of electronic device housings are disclosed. The transparent structures are formed from multiple layers of transparent (optically clear) materials. The multiple layers can include at least an outer glass layer and one or more other transparent layers that can be either glass or polymer layers. The multiple layers can be bonded together with one or more lamination layers. Accordingly, multi-layer transparent structures that are formed from multiple layers bonded together are able to be not only thin but also sufficiently strong and resistant to damage. The multi-layer transparent structures are well suited for use in consumer products, such as consumer electronic devices (e.g., portable electronic devices).

Multi-layer transparent structures for electronic device housings

Various embodiments of smart devices are determined herein. A smart device can include a housing and an electronic display. The smart device can further include a cover, housed by the housing, through which the electronic display is visible. The cover can include a glass layer, wherein the glass layer is the outermost layer of the cover that is adjacent an ambient environment of the smart home device. The cover can further include an optical coating layer, deposited directly onto a surface of the glass layer, that comprises a plurality of sublayers. The optical coating layer can include alternating non-metallic oxide layers having different refractive indexes. The sublayers can vary in thickness such that the optical coating layer reflects light from the ambient environment through the glass layer.

Partially-reflective cover for a smart home device

The various implementations described herein include methods, devices, and systems for automatic audio equalization. In one aspect, a method is performed at an audio device having one or more processors, memory, and a plurality of device interface elements, including one or more speakers and a plurality of microphones. The method includes: (1) detecting a change in orientation of the audio device from a first orientation to a second orientation; and (2) in response to detecting the change in orientation, configuring operation of two or more of the plurality of device interface elements.

Orientation-based device interface

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Justin Richard Wodrich