Apple Inc.

Dji Technology, Inc.

Robert W Schlub

Ruben Caballero

Mattia Pascolini

Robert J Hill

Qingxiang Li

Matthew A Mow

Enrique Ayala Vazquez

Nanbo Jin

Yuehui Ouyang

Tang Yew Tan

Richard Hung Minh Dinh

Yi Jiang

Rodney Andres Gomez Angulo

Jiang Zhu

Dean F Darnell

Juan Zavala

Hongfei Hu

Liang Han

Salih Yarga

Scott A Myers

Miroslav Samardzija

Adam Duckworth Mittleman

Erik L Wang

Jayesh Nath

Ming-Ju Tsai

Kenneth Arthur Jenks

Yijun Zhou

Matt A Mow

Phillip Michael Hobson

Joshua G Nickel

Hao Xu

Jerzy S Guterman

Siwen Yong

Peter I Bevelacqua

Mohit Narang

Trent Weber

Thomas E Biedka

Josh Nickel

Stephen Paul Zadesky

Erik G De Jong

Yiren Wang

Boon Wai Shiu

Zhijun Zhang

Erdinc Irci

Joseph Hakim

Gordon Michael Coutts

Anand Lakshmanan

Harish Rajagopalan

Douglas Blake Kough

Richard Hung Dinh

Eduardo Lopez Camacho

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Richard P Howarth

Eugene Antony Whang

Christopher J Stringer

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Daniele De Iuliis

Daniel J Coster

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Shin Nishibori

Steve P Jobs

Douglas B Satzger

Calvin Q Seid

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Daniel William Jarvis

Omar Sze Leung

David T Amm

Jared Mitchell Kole

Brian Michael King

Jennifer M Edwards

Lijun Zhang

David W Pratt

Erica J Tong

James G Judkins

Chun-Lung Chen

Teodor Dabov

Stephen Robert McClure

Sean S Corbin

Bing Chiang

Indranil S Sen

Gregory Allen Springer

Xu Han

Umar Azad

Nicholas G L Merz

Taylor Harrison Gilbert

Michael DiVincent

Jonathan M Haylock

Philip Michael Hobson

John Raff

Edward Siahaan

Robert Sean Murphy

Erik Andrew Uttermann

Nicholas George Merz

Ke Wei Sun

Miguel C Christophy

Huan-Chu Huang

Victor C Lee

Digvijay Arjunrao Jadhav

This is directed to connecting two or more elements using an intermediate element constructed from a material that changes between states. An electronic device can include one or more components constructed by connecting several elements. To provide a connection having a reduced or small size or cross-section and construct a component having high tolerances, a material can be provided in a first state in which it flows between the elements before changing to a second state in which it adheres to the elements and provides a structurally sound connection. For example, a plastic can be molded between the elements. As another example, a composite material can be brazed between the elements. In some cases, internal surfaces of the elements can include one or more features for enhancing a bond between the elements and the material providing the interface between the elements.

High tolerance connection between elements

An electronic device may have a display. A display cover layer and a transparent inner display member may overlap a display pixel layer. The display pixel layer may have an array of display pixels for displaying images for a user. A touch sensor layer may be interposed between the display pixel layer and the transparent display member. A ferromagnetic shielding layer may be mounted below the display pixel layer. A flexible printed circuit containing coils of metal signal lines that form a near-field communications loop antenna may be interposed between the ferromagnetic shielding layer and the display pixel layer. A non-near-field antenna such as an inverted-F antenna may have a resonating element mounted on an inner surface of the display cover layer. The resonating element may be interposed between the transparent display member and the display cover layer.

Electronic device with near-field antenna operating through display

A method of operating a movable object using a user terminal includes configuring, through an interface, a plurality of tasks on the user terminal for parallel execution by the movable object, and transmitting the tasks from the user terminal to the movable object for operating the movable object.

System and method for movable object control

A housing for a personal electronic device is described herein. The housing may include at least one modular subassembly configured to be arranged within an internal cavity of the housing. The at least one modular subassembly is aligned with a feature external to the housing, is affixed to an interior surface of the internal cavity, and is configured to function both as an antenna and as an internal support member of the housing. A hybrid antenna is also described herein. The hybrid antenna can include first and second flexible members capable of facilitating wireless communication, where the first and second flexible members are affixed to one another via a metal member.

Hybrid antenna for a personal electronic device

Techniques are disclosed for inspection management in a movable object environment. An inspection application can receive data from an inspection application and use this data to generate one or more inspection missions. When a user selects an inspection mission in the inspection application, the inspection application can instruct a movable object to perform the selected inspection mission. The movable object can follow one or more dynamically generated paths around a target object and capture a plurality of images. The images can be viewed in a viewing application to perform an inspection of the target object.

Aerial inspection in a movable object environment

A handheld electronic device may be provided that contains a conductive housing and other conductive elements. The conductive elements may form an antenna ground plane. One or more antennas for the handheld electronic device may be formed from the ground plane and one or more associated antenna resonating elements. Transceiver circuitry may be connected to the resonating elements by transmission lines such as coaxial cables. Ferrules may be crimped to the coaxial cables. A bracket with extending members may be crimped over the ferrules to ground the coaxial cables to the housing and other conductive elements in the ground plane. The ground plane may contain an antenna slot. A dock connector and flex circuit may overlap the slot in a way that does not affect the resonant frequency of the slot. Electrical components may be isolated from the antenna using isolation elements such as inductors and resistors.

Wireless handheld electronic device

An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry that includes a radio-frequency transceiver circuit and an antenna. The antenna may be a patch antenna formed from a patch antenna resonating element and an antenna ground. The patch antenna resonating element may be formed from a metal patch on a printed circuit board. The antenna ground may be formed from a metal housing having a planar rear wall that lies in a plane parallel to the metal patch. The radio-frequency transceiver circuit may be coupled to the metal patch through traces on the printed circuit and may be coupled to rear wall of the housing through a screw and a screw boss in the housing. Buttons and other electrical components may be mounted on the printed circuit board and may be coupled to control circuitry on the printed circuit board through the metal patch.

Electronic device with patch antenna

A handheld electronic device may be provided that contains a conductive housing and other conductive elements. Transceiver circuitry, such as radio frequency (RF) transceiver circuitry configured to transmit and receive RF signals, may be connected to the resonating elements by transmission lines such as coaxial cables. The electronic device may have an integrated touch screen display in which a user can control the device by interacting directly with the display.

Handheld electronic touch screen communication device

Electronic devices may be provided that contain wireless communications circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry and first and second antennas. An electronic device may include a housing. The first antenna may be located at an upper end of the housing and the second antenna may be located at a lower end of the housing. A peripheral conductive member may run around the edges of the housing and may be used in forming the first and second antennas. The radio-frequency transceiver circuitry may have a transmit-receive port and a receive port. Switching circuitry may connect the first antenna to the transmit-receive port and the second antenna to the receiver port or may connect the first antenna to the receive port and the second antenna to the transmit-receive port.

Antenna system with antenna swapping and antenna tuning

Electronic devices may be provided that contain wireless communications circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry and antenna structures. The antenna structures may form a dual arm inverted-F antenna. The antenna may have a resonating element formed from portions of a peripheral conductive electronic device housing member and may have an antenna ground that is separated from the antenna resonating element by a gap. A short circuit path may bridge the gap. An antenna feed may be coupled across the gap in parallel with the short circuit path. Low band tuning may be provided using an adjustable inductor that bridges the gap. The antenna may have a slot-based parasitic antenna resonating element with a slot formed between portions of the peripheral conductive electronic device housing member and the antenna ground. An adjustable capacitor may bridge the slot to provide high band tuning.

Tunable antenna with slot-based parasitic element

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Robert W Schlub