Apple Inc.

Matthew J Schwendeman

Tsung-Ting Tsai

Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari

Timothy Michael Johnson

Warren S Rieutort-Louis

Christophe Blondin

Yuchi Che

Chuang Qian

Ashray Vinayak Gogte

Eric S Winokur

Tyler S Atura Bushnell

Ricardo A Peterson

Andreas Johannes Koeberl

Michael H Lim

Yurii Morozov

Sebastian Knitter

Matthew Dominic Hollands

Kenny Kim

Yue Qu

An electronic device can include a housing, a back cover, a structural member, and a sensing circuit. The housing can at least partially define an internal volume of the electronic device and the back cover can define at least a portion of the internal volume and be connected to the housing. The structural member can be disposed against the back cover and at least partially within the internal volume, the structural member including an electronic component. The sensing circuit can be disposed in the internal volume and electrically coupled to the electronic component. The sensing circuit can detect an amount of charge of the electronic component as part of a user proximity sensor of the electronic device.

Using a structural internal element as a capacitive element to sense proximity

A display may have both a full pixel density region and a pixel removal region with a plurality of high-transmittance areas that overlap an optical sensor. Each high-transmittance area may be devoid of thin-film transistors and other display components. To improve transmission while maintaining satisfactory touch sensing performance, one or more segments of the touch sensor metal in the pixel removal region may have a reduced width relative to the touch sensor metal in the full pixel density region and/or one or more segments of the touch sensor metal in the pixel removal region may be omitted relative to the touch sensor metal in the full pixel density region. To mitigate a different appearance between the pixel removal region and the full pixel density region at off-axis viewing angles, the position of the touch sensor metal in the pixel removal region may be tuned.

Devices with displays having transparent openings and touch sensor metal

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Matthew J Schwendeman