Apple Inc.

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Steven Porter Hotelling

Marduke Yousefpor

Martin Paul Grunthaner

Christoph Horst Krah

Duncan Robert Kerr

John Z Zhong

Brian Quentin Huppi

Brian Richards Land

Shih Chang Chang

John Greer Elias

Wayne Carl Westerman

Nicholas V King

Benjamin B Lyon

Lynn Richard Youngs

Wei Chen

Peter W Richards

Lex N Bayer

Chris A Ligtenberg

Kapil Vinod Sakariya

Bas Ording

Michael Benjamin Wittenberg

Sawyer Isaac Cohen

Jonah Alexander Harley

Steven James Martisauskas

Joshua A Strickon

Kuo-Hua Sung

Bartley K Andre

Imran A Chaudhri

Gregory N Christie

Tang Yew Tan

David T Amm

Omar Sze Leung

Brian Michael King

Myra Mary Haggerty

Sean Erik O'Connor

Richard Hung Minh Dinh

David A Pakula

Wei Hsin Yao

Jerrold Von Hauck

Cheng Kai Chen

Daniel William Jarvis

Benjamin J Pope

William C Athas

Thomas James Wilson

Moshe Laifenfeld

Shih-Chang Chang

Ivan Krstic

Joshua G Wurzel

Christopher Tenzin Mullens

Tyler B Cater

Anup K Sharma

Lili Huang

Jonathan Pokrass

Marcel Van Os

Scott A Myers

Stephen Brian Lynch

Terry L Gilton

Marcelo M Lamego

John Patrick Ternus

Erik G De Jong

Hopil Bae

Shahrooz Shahparnia

Storrs Townsend Hoen

Ian A Spraggs

Sunggu Kang

Byron Bay Han

Lee E Hooton

Dhaval N Shah

Andrea Mucignat

Nicholas George Merz

David I Simon

Enkhamgalan Dorjgotov

Wonjae Choi

Andrew Nelthropp Lauder

Ari Y Benbasat

Miguel C Christophy

Richard P Howarth

Martha Evans Hankey

M Evans Hankey

Christopher D Prest

Stephen Paul Zadesky

Giovanni Gozzini

Scott M Herz

Dale R Setlak

Jean-Pierre Simon Guillou

Sumant Ranganathan

Debanjan Mukherjee

Joshua H Shaffer

Hung A Pham

Jiaying Wu

Arman Hajati

Cheng-Ho Yu

Marwan Rammah

Scott P Porter

Tyler Robin Kakuda

Kelvin Kwong

James H Foster

Michael J Brown

Vivek Pant

Richard Hung Dinh

An electronic device may include a display. The display may be formed by an array of light-emitting diodes mounted to the surface of a substrate. The substrate may be a silicon substrate. Circuitry may be located in spaces between the light-emitting diodes. Circuitry may also be located on the rear surface of the silicon substrate and may be coupled to the array of light-emitting diodes using through-silicon vias. The circuitry may include integrated circuits and other components that are attached to the substrate and may include transistors and other circuitry formed within the silicon substrate. Touch sensor electrodes, light sensors, and other components may be located in the spaces between the light-emitting diodes. The substrate may be formed from a transparent material that allows image light to reach a lens and image sensor mounted below the substrate.

Electronic device display with array of discrete light-emitting diodes

Devices, methods and graphical user interfaces for manipulating user interfaces based on fingerprint sensor inputs are provided. While a display of an electronic device with a fingerprint sensor displays a first user interface, the device may detect movement of a fingerprint on the fingerprint sensor. In accordance with a determination that the movement of the fingerprint is in a first direction, the device allows navigating through the first user interface, and in accordance with a determination that the movement of the fingerprint is in a second direction different from the first direction, the device allows displaying a second user interface different from the first user interface on the display.

Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating user interfaces based on fingerprint sensor inputs

Techniques are disclosed relating to biometric authentication, e.g., facial recognition. In some embodiments, a device is configured to verify that image data from a camera unit exhibits a pseudo-random sequence of image capture modes and/or a probing pattern of illumination points (e.g., from lasers in a depth capture mode) before authenticating a user based on recognizing a face in the image data. In some embodiments, a secure circuit may control verification of the sequence and/or the probing pattern. In some embodiments, the secure circuit may verify frame numbers, signatures, and/or nonce values for captured image information. In some embodiments, a device may implement one or more lockout procedures in response to biometric authentication failures. The disclosed techniques may reduce or eliminate the effectiveness of spoofing and/or replay attacks, in some embodiments.

Biometric authentication techniques

A multipoint touch surface controller is disclosed herein. The controller includes an integrated circuit including output circuitry for driving a capacitive multi-touch sensor and input circuitry for reading the sensor. Also disclosed herein are various noise rejection and dynamic range enhancement techniques that permit the controller to be used with various sensors in various conditions without reconfiguring hardware.

Multipoint touch surface controller

The use of multiple stimulation signals having one or more frequencies and one or more phases to generate an image of touch on a touch sensor panel is disclosed. Each of a plurality of sense channels can be coupled to a column in a touch sensor panel and can have one or more mixers. Each mixer in the sense channel can utilize a circuit capable generating a demodulation frequency of a particular frequency. At each of multiple steps, various phases of one or more selected frequencies can be used to simultaneously stimulate the rows of the touch sensor panel, and the one or more mixers in each sense channel can be configured to demodulate the signal received from the column connected to each sense channel using the one or more selected frequencies. After all steps have been completed, the demodulated signals from the one or more mixers can be used in calculations to determine an image of touch for the touch sensor panel at each of the one or more frequencies.

Touch detection using multiple simultaneous stimulation signals

A device configured to determine the location and magnitude of a touch on a surface of the device. The device includes a transparent touch sensor that is configured to detect a location of a touch on the transparent touch sensor. The device also includes a force-sensing structure disposed at the periphery of the transparent touch sensor. The force sensor includes an upper capacitive plate and a compressible element disposed on one side of the upper capacitive plate. The force sensor also includes a lower capacitive plate disposed on a side of the compressible element that is opposite the upper capacitive plate.

Force determination based on capacitive sensing

Multi-touch touch-sensing devices and methods are described herein. The touch sensing devices can include multiple sense points, each located at a crossing of a drive line and a sense line. In some embodiments, multiple drive lines may be simultaneously or nearly simultaneously stimulated with drive signals having unique characteristics, such as phase or frequency. A sense signal can occur on each sense line that can be related to the drive signals by an amount of touch present at sense points corresponding to the stimulated drive lines and the sense line. By using processing techniques based on the unique drive signals, an amount of touch corresponding to each sense point can be extracted from the sense signal. The touch sensing methods and devices can be incorporated into interfaces for a variety of electronic devices such as a desktop, tablet, notebook, and handheld computers, personal digital assistants, media players, and mobile telephones.

Simultaneous sensing arrangement

In one exemplary embodiment, a portable computer having a display assembly coupled to a base assembly to alternate between a closed position and an open position. Palm rest areas are formed by a touchpad disposed on the surface of the base assembly. In an alternative embodiment, a touchpad disposed on the base assembly has a width that extends substantially into the palm rests areas of the base assembly.

Wide touchpad on a portable computer

An electronic device has a display and has a touch sensitive bezel surrounding the display. Areas on the bezel are designated for controls used to operate the electronic device. Visual guides corresponding to the controls are displayed on the display adjacent the areas of the bezel designated for the controls. Touch data is generated by the bezel when a user touches an area of the bezel. The device determines which of the controls has been selected based on which designated area is associated with the touch data from the bezel. The device then initiates the determined control. The device can have a sensor for determining the orientation of the device. Based on the orientation, the device can alter the areas designated on the bezel for the controls and can alter the location of the visual guides for the display so that they match the altered areas on the bezel.

Electronic device having display and surrounding touch sensitive surfaces for user interface and control

An electronic device may have a display overlapped by a cover layer. Portions of the surface of the display and cover layer may have curved profiles. The display may include a flexible substrate and may have bent edge portions protruding from a central region. Gaps may be formed between regions of pixels on a common substrate or between separate display panels. An image transport layer formed from a coherent fiber bundle or a layer of Anderson localization material configured to exhibit two-dimensional transverse Anderson localization of light may have an input surface that receives an image from adjacent display pixels and an output surface on which the image is displayed. The output surface may have a curved profile and may exhibit compound curvature. The input surface may have a profile with curved portions or other shapes. Image transport layers can be used to cover gaps between sets of pixels.

Electronic devices having displays with curved surfaces and image transport layers

Disclosed herein is a multi-functional hand-held device capable of configuring user inputs based on how the device is to be used. Preferably, the multi-functional hand-held device has at most only a few physical buttons, keys, or switches so that its display size can be substantially increased. The multi-functional hand-held device also incorporates a variety of input mechanisms, including touch sensitive screens, touch sensitive housings, display actuators, audio input, etc. The device also incorporates a user-configurable GUI for each of the multiple functions of the devices.

Multi-functional hand-held device

A multi-touch capacitive touch sensor panel can be created using a substrate with column and row traces formed on either side of the substrate. To shield the column (sense) traces from the effects of capacitive coupling from a modulated Vcom layer in an adjacent liquid crystal display (LCD) or any source of capacitive coupling, the row traces can be widened to shield the column traces, and the row traces can be placed closer to the LCD. In particular, the rows can be widened so that there is spacing of about 30 microns between adjacent row traces. In this manner, the row traces can serve the dual functions of driving the touch sensor panel, and also the function of shielding the more sensitive column (sense) traces from the effects of capacitive coupling.

Double-sided touch-sensitive panel with shield and drive combined layer

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Steven Porter Hotelling