Apple Inc.

Michael W Firka

Benjamin J Pope

Richard Hung Minh Dinh

Scott A Myers

Jeremy D Bataillou

Benjamin Shane Bustle

Richard P Howarth

Shota Aoyagi

Clement Tissandier

Blake M Coughenour

Lee E Hooton

Ashley E Fletcher

Yaocheng Zhang

Garam Young

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Eugene Antony Whang

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Martha Evans Hankey

Jody R Akana

Julian Hoenig

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Anthony Michael Ashcroft

Molly J Anderson

Markus Peter Diebel

Julian Jaede

Marine C Bataille

Matthew D Hill

John J Baker

Edward S Huo

Martin J Auclair

Eric W Bates

David A Hurrell

Trent J Canales

Christopher R Xydis

Xiao Ying Zhao

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Jonathan Gomez Garcia

Tyler B Cater

Rasamy Phouthavong

Kevin M Froese

Paul U Leutheuser

Ihtesham H Chowdhury

Mikael M Silvanto

Abidur Rahman Chowdhury

Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne

Sung-Ho Tan

Tang Yew Tan

Lucy Elizabeth Browning

Benjamin J Kallman

Douglas G Fournier

Eric N Nyland

Hani Esmaeili

Matthew P Rao

Timothy S Lui

Hugh J Jay

Kurtis J Mundell

Luman Zhang

Salome Bavetta

Griffin L Schmitt

Rico Zörkendörfer

Sawyer Isaac Cohen

Gregory N Stephens

Zhipeng Zhang

James A Bertin

Angelo M Alaimo

Jun Sik Ham

Isabel Yang

Donald J Parr

Sherry Lee

Kodiak D Burke

Arun R Varma

Michael K Mondry

Matthew W Miller

Allegra Shum

Robert Hrabchak

Obinna Onyemepu

Nicholas D Rath

A portable electronic device may include an enclosure including a front cover defining a front exterior surface of the portable electronic device and a rear cover defining a rear exterior surface of the portable electronic device. The portable electronic device may further include a rear-facing camera and a rear-facing flash including a light emitting component defining a plurality of illuminable regions. The light emitting component may be configured to illuminate a first subset of the plurality of illuminable regions to illuminate a first field of view and illuminate a second subset of the plurality of illuminable regions, the second subset different from the first subset, to illuminate a second field of view different from the first field of view.

Handheld electronic device with rear-facing flash

A mobile phone may include an enclosure defining an internal volume, the enclosure including a front cover formed from a transparent material and defining a front exterior surface, a rear cover formed from a glass material and defining a rear exterior surface, and a housing component defining a side exterior surface. The mobile phone may include a circuit board assembly within the internal volume. The circuit board assembly may include a circuit board, a circuit component coupled to an exterior surface of the circuit board, and a cowling coupled to the circuit board and covering the circuit component, the cowling having a thickness less than about 0.5 mm and including a base structure formed from an aluminum alloy having a thickness less than about 0.4 mm and a thermally conductive structure positioned over the base structure and configured to dissipate heat.

Handheld electronic device

An electronic device has an electrically adjustable shutter. The shutter may be placed in a transparent state or a nontransparent state. The shutter may overlap a portion of a display, may overlap a liquid contact indictor or a structure with text in a device, or may overlap an optical component such as an optical proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, visible light-emitting diode or laser, infrared light-emitting diode or laser, visible light image sensor, or infrared light image sensor. Control circuitry in the electronic device may place the shutter in an opaque state to hide an overlapped component from view or may place the shutter in a transparent state to allow the overlapped component to transmit or receive light. The adjustable shutter may exhibit changes in its transmission spectrum in different modes of operation and may be used as a camera filter or neutral density filter.

Electronic devices having electrically adjustable optical shutters

Housing module for an electronic device

A portable electronic device includes a housing member defining a first portion of an exterior front surface of the portable electronic device, a first portion of an exterior rear surface of the portable electronic device, at least a portion of an exterior side surface of the portable electronic device, a recess along an interior side of the housing member, and a ledge feature along the interior side of the housing member. The device also includes a top module coupled to the housing member and including a front cover defining a second portion of the exterior front surface of the portable electronic device, a display stack attached to the front cover, and a frame member extending at least partially around a periphery of the display stack and set apart from a surface of the recess by a gap.

A portable electronic device includes a front cover, a rear cover, and a housing structure between and coupled to the front cover and the rear cover. The housing structure includes a first housing member defining and a first interlock feature formed along a first end surface. The portable electronic device also includes a second housing member defining a second interlock feature formed along a second end surface. The portable electronic device also includes a nonconductive joining element engaged with the first interlock feature and the second interlock feature, thereby structurally coupling the first housing member to the second housing member.

Display for an electronic device

A disclosed display device assembly includes a panel substrate, multiple light transmitting pixels disposed over the panel substrate, a backlight unit disposed under the panel substrate, a flexible substrate attached to the panel substrate, and a display integrated circuit mounted to the flexible substrate and disposed under the backlight unit.

Display device assembly having a spacer layer surrounding the integrated circuit

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Michael W Firka