Apple Inc.

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Keith J Hendren

Dinesh C Mathew

Adam T Garelli

Craig C Leong

John M Brock

Thomas W Wilson, Jr

Paul Xiaopeng Wang

Brett W Degner

James J Niu

Bryan W Posner

Christiaan A Ligtenberg

Mikael M Silvanto

Victor H Yin

Jun Qi

Robert Y Cao

Alex Joseph Lehmann

Simon R Lancaster-Larocque

Zheng Gao

Bartley K Andre

Daniel J Coster

Ron Alan Hopkinson

Houtan R Farahani

Kevin M Robinson

Peteris K Augenbergs

Duncan Robert Kerr

Christopher J Stringer

Bradley Joseph Hamel

Asif Hussain

Nicholas Alan Rundle

Chang Zhang

Joss Nathan Giddings

Chris A Ligtenberg

Denis H Endisch

Edward J Cooper

Ari P Miller

Bruce E Berg

Matthew William Blum

Bradford J Zercoe

Jeremy D Bataillou

Abidur Rahman Chowdhury

Patrick Kessler

Bart K Andre

John Raff

Michelle Rae Goldberg

Matthew Theobald

William A Counts

Robert J Lockwood

Eric Lee Benson

Jonathan P Ive

Richard P Howarth

Eugene Antony Whang

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Martha Evans Hankey

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Daniele De Iuliis

Jody R Akana

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Julian Hoenig

Xiang Zhang

Matthew Phillip Casebolt

Christopher R Wilk

Charles A Schwalbach

William Francis Leggett

Michael Kane Pilliod

Simon S Lee

Mingxia Gu

Laura M DeForest

Gavin J Reid

Ryan P Brooks

Daniel K Boothe

Cina Hazegh

Brandon S Smith

Glenn Wheelock

Gary S Thomason

Xinyu Zhu

Matthew C Waldon

Joshua A Spechler

Feng Zhao

Shota Aoyagi

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Anthony Michael Ashcroft

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Hoon Sik Kim

Matthew S Rogers

Stephen Robert McClure

Storrs Townsend Hoen

Jonah Alexander Harley

Omar Sze Leung

Naoto Matsuyuki

Aidan N Zimmerman

Christopher D Jones

Martin Melcher

Ihab A Ali

Robert Sean Murphy

John C DiFonzo

Carl R Peterson

Robert L Coish

Eugene J Kim

Tatsuya Sano

Harold James Welch

A portable electronic device can have a housing including a wall, the wall at least partially defining an external surface, and the housing defining an aperture disposed opposite the wall. A display assembly can be positioned at the aperture and a retention component can be positioned at least partially in an internal volume defined by the housing. The portable electronic device can also have an optical component that includes an optical component housing defining a camera aperture and a camera module positioned at the camera aperture. The optical component can be configured to be removably retained against the wall by the retention component and to be removably retained against the display assembly by the retention component.

Camera integration for portable electronic devices

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

An electronic device can include a base portion and a display portion rotatably mounted to the base portion. The display portion can have a display housing including a trim that at least partially defines an orifice and a portion of the exterior surface of the electronic device. A display call can be positioned at the orifice in contact with the trim and can be secured to the display housing.

Electronic device display

A display may have a pixel array such as a liquid crystal pixel array. The pixel array may be illuminated with backlight illumination from a direct-lit backlight unit. The backlight unit may include an array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on a printed circuit board. The display may have a notch to accommodate an input-output component. Reflective layers may be included in the notch. The backlight may include a color conversion layer with a property that varies as a function of position. The light-emitting diodes may be covered by a slab of encapsulant with recesses in an upper surface.

Display modules with direct-lit backlight units

A computing device can be reconfigurable to include one or more electrical devices in various configurations. The computing device can include a base forming an input surface configured to receive user input. The base can receive one or more input devices, such as, displays or keyboards. The base can include a hinge rotatably attached to the base and configured to removably retain an electronic device, such as, a display. The computing device can include a coupling mechanism having a first retaining portion and a second retaining portion rotatably coupled to an intermediate portion. The first and second retaining portions can be configured to removably retain electrical devices to the coupling mechanism.

Modularized computing and input devices

An electronic device includes an enclosure formed of a plurality of layers cooperating to define an interior volume. The enclosure includes a first layer formed of a first material and defining a user input surface of the enclosure and a first portion of a side surface of the enclosure. The enclosure also includes a second layer, formed of a second material different from the first material, positioned below the first layer and defining a second portion of the side surface of the enclosure. The enclosure also includes a third layer, formed of a third material different from the first and second materials, positioned below the second layer and defining a bottom surface of the enclosure and a third portion of the side surface of the enclosure.

Multi-part device enclosure

A foldable display device may have housing portions coupled by a hinge. The hinge may have a series of interconnected links. The links may be formed from interdigitated fingers in a friction clutch. The fingers or other portions of the links may be provided with crescent-shaped slots that receive pins. During folding of the device, the pins may slide along the crescent-shaped slots, thereby ensuring that adjacent links rotate relative to each other about a rotation axis that lies outside of the hinge and within a flexible display panel. Links may also be formed from link members with curved mating bearing surfaces that slide relative to each other as adjacent links are rotated relative to each other. A housing rotation synchronization mechanism may be formed using a set of gears that extends between the first and second housing portions.

Hinges for folding display devices

An accessory device for a tablet computing device may include a base portion having one or more input devices (e.g., keyboards, trackpads, touchscreen displays, and the like) for providing inputs to the tablet computing device. The accessory device may include a coupling mechanism for releasably coupling the base portion of the accessory device to a tablet computing device in multiple different installation modes. The coupling mechanism may include an auxiliary display for providing a graphical output along a surface of the coupling mechanism. Additionally or alternatively, the coupling mechanism may include a recess for receiving a stylus.

Hinged keyboard accessory having multiple installation modes for a tablet computing device

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

This application relates to a laptop computer. The laptop computer includes a base portion pivotally coupled to a lid portion is described. The laptop computer includes a display assembly carried by the lid portion, where the display assembly includes a light-transmissive cover, a display layer overlaid by the light-transmissive cover, a display stack electrically coupled to and overlaid by the display layer, and a light pattern recognition module adjacent to the display stack and overlaid by the display layer. The light pattern recognition module includes (i) a light pattern projector that projects a light pattern directly through the display layer.

Light recognition module for determining a user of a computing device

An electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture and a display positioned in the aperture. The display and the housing can define an internal volume in which a speaker assembly is positioned. The speaker assembly can include a speaker module and a speaker enclosure in fluid communication, with the speaker enclosure at least partially defining a speaker volume.

Speaker assembly

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Keith J Hendren