Apple Inc.

Tyler S Bushnell

David I Nazzaro

Trevor J Ness

Erik G De Jong

Christopher Matthew Werner

Colin M Ely

Steven James Martisauskas

Adam Thomas Clavelle

Benjamin J Kallman

Jason C Sauers

Serhan O Isikman

Andrzej T Baranski

David M Pelletier

Brad G Boozer

Steven P Cardinali

James G Horiuchi

Makiko K Brzezinski

Todd K Whitehurst

Jody R Akana

Julian Hoenig

Eric Steven Jol

Michael Benjamin Wittenberg

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky

Samuel Bruce Weiss

Sameer Pandya

Jonathan P Ive

Duncan Robert Kerr

Bartley K Andre

Richard P Howarth

Eugene Antony Whang

Peter N Russell-Clarke

Christopher J Stringer

Rico L Zorkendorfer

Daniele De Iuliis

Daniel J Coster

Matthew Dean Rohrbach

Jeremy D Bataillou

Shota Aoyagi

Benjamin Andrew Shaffer

Anthony Michael Ashcroft

Mikael M Silvanto

Marc A Newson

Fletcher R Rothkopf

Stephen Paul Zadesky

Phillip Michael Hobson

Ryan C Perkins

William C Lukens

Martha Evans Hankey

Michael K McCord

Maegan K Spencer

Mario Martinis

Ibuki Kamei

Phil M Hobson

Guocheng Shao

Paul Aurelio Martinez

Katherine E Tong

Tobias J Harrison-Noonan

John N Border

M Evans Hankey

Scott A Myers

Tang Yew Tan

John Raff

Emery Artemus Sanford

Daniel William Jarvis

Erik L Wang

Benjamin J Pope

Rico Zörkendörfer

Christopher S Graham

James R Wilson

Anthony Sagala Montevirgen

Jayesh Nath

Christopher D Jones

Craig Matthew Stanley

Hung A Pham

Henry Hung Yang

Richard M Mank

Carlo Di Nallo

George V Anastas

Po-Jui Chen

Justin Derry Crosby

Prashanth S Holenarsipur

Nikolas T Vitt

Edward S Huo

Benjamin Shane Bustle

David D Dashevsky

Andrea Ruaro

Albert Wang

Christopher T Cheng

Martin J Auclair

Osamu Yabe

Adam S Howell

Tyson Benner Manullang

Rex Tyler Ehman

David Glen Havskjold

Jiahui Liang

Daniel J Hiemstra

Shannon X Yang

Jorge L Rivera Espinoza

Richard A Davis

Vijayasekaran Boovaragavan

A wearable electronic device includes a body, a housing component, a band operable to attach the body to a body part of a user, and a force sensor coupled to the housing component. The force sensor is operable to produce a force signal based on a force exerted between the body part of the user and the housing component. A processing unit of the wearable electronic device receives the force signal from the force sensor and determines the force exerted on the housing component based thereon. The processing unit may use that force to determine a tightness of the band, determine health information for the user, adjust determined force exerted on a cover glass, and/or to perform various other actions.

Sensing contact force related to user wearing an electronic device

Device localization (e.g., ultra-wideband device localization) may be used to provide coordinated outputs and/or receive coordinated inputs using multiple devices. Providing coordinated outputs may include providing partial outputs using multiple devices, modifying an output of a device based on its position and/or orientation relative to another device, and the like. In some cases, each device of a set of multiple devices may provide a partial output, which combines with partial outputs of the remaining devices to produce a coordinated output.

Electronic system for producing a coordinated output using wireless localization of multiple portable electronic devices

An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may have a flexible display layer covered by a protective display cover layer. The flexible display layer may be an organic light-emitting diode display layer or other layer with a flexible substrate. The flexible display layer may have a central region with peripheral edges. The central region may be rectangular, may be octagonal, or may have other shapes. Strip-shaped protrusions may extend along each of the peripheral edges of the central region. The strip-shaped protrusions may be bent to provide the protrusions with curved surface profiles. The display cover layer may have a cushion shape with bowed edges that overlap parts of the strip-shaped protrusions, may have curved inner and outer surfaces and/or planar surfaces, may have rounded corners with compound curvature, may have edges with curved surface profiles, and/or may have other configurations.

Electronic devices having displays with expanded edges

A biometric button assembly may be disposed in an opening of an enclosure of an electronic device. The biometric button assembly may include an input member that forms an exterior surface of the button housing and is configured to receive inputs, for example from a user of the electronic device. The biometric button assembly may further include a biometric sensor for detecting the received inputs and transmitting a signal to a processor of the electronic device. The signal may correspond to a biometric characteristic, such as a fingerprint. A flexible conduit may transmit the signal to the processor. A portion of the flexible conduit and a seal may be positioned between the button assembly and the enclosure that prevents contaminants from entering the button housing and the enclosure.

Electronic device having sealed button biometric sensing system

A modular button assembly includes a button housing that may be disposed in an opening of an enclosure of an electronic device. The modular button assembly may include an input member that forms an exterior surface of the button housing and is configured to receive inputs, for example from a user of the electronic device. The modular button assembly may further include a sensor to detect the received inputs and transmit a signal to a processor of the electronic device. The modular button assembly may be configured such that disposing the button housing in the opening of the enclosure forms a seal that prevents contaminants from entering the button housing and the enclosure.

Modular button assembly for an electronic device

A compact crown for an electronic device such as an electronic watch, including a set of wipers capable of determining a rotation angle, rotation direction, or rotation speed, is disclosed. The set of wipers is in contact with at least one resistance member at different angular positions around a rotation axis. The crown may have a group of ground taps disposed along the resistance member and a measured signal may vary based on the position of each wiper as it contacts the at least one resistance member. A compact crown may also include capacitive members and capacitive sensors in order to similarly determine rotation angle, rotation direction, or rotation speed.

Rotatable crown for an electronic device

Housing for an electronic device

An input mechanism for a portable electronic device includes a rotational manipulation mechanism, such as a cap or shaft. The input mechanism also includes a sensor having first capacitive elements coupled to the manipulation mechanism, second capacitive elements, and a dielectric positioned between the first and second capacitive elements. Movement of the manipulation mechanism alters the positions of the first and second capacitive elements with respect to each other and is determinable based on capacitance changes resulting therefrom. In some implementations, the second capacitive elements may be part of an inner ring or partial ring nested at least partially within an outer ring or partial ring.

Capacitive gap sensor ring for an input device

Systems and methods for performing damping analyses on a device are disclosed. The damping analyses may be used by a device in numerous ways. For example, in some embodiments, damping analyses are used to determine whether a device is being worn or held by a user. In some embodiments, damping analyses are used to determine which user of multiple users is wearing a device. In some embodiments, damping analyses are used to determine the body composition of a user who is holding or wearing the device. In some embodiments, damping analyses are used to determine how much force a user is applying to a device via a touch input. In some embodiments, damping analyses are used to determine whether and to what extent a sensor is in contact with a body of a user.

Band adjustment for electronic devices

An electronic device display and a display cover layer may be coupled to a housing. The display may have an array of pixels that are configured to emit light. One or more light redirecting elements may be incorporated into the electronic device that redirect and thereby change the direction of light rays emitted from peripheral pixels in the display. The light redirecting elements may be used to enlarge the effective size of the display, to create images on sidewall surfaces of the display cover layer, and/or to create diffuse glowing areas around the periphery of the device. Light redirecting elements may be formed as integral portions of a display cover layer, as laminated optical films on a display cover layer, or as coating layers on a display cover layer. Afocal optical systems may be formed by placing first and second light redirecting elements on opposing first and second sides of a display cover layer.

Electronic devices with enhanced display areas

A watch can include a watch body and a band for securing the watch to the user. The watch body can detect an identification of the band or combination of band portions, which can serve as an input to initiate actions performed by the watch body. For example, a type, model, color, size, or other characteristic of a band can be determined and used to select a corresponding action performed by the watch body. Identification of the band can be performed by components of the watch body that also serve other purposes. The watch body can respond to the identification of a particular band by performing particular functions, such as changing an aspect of a user interface or altering settings of the watch body.

Identification of watch bands

A watch having electrodes for physiological measurements is disclosed. The watch can be provided with an enclosure configured to couple to a wristband. An electrode can be disposed on the enclosure. Processing circuitry can be disposed in the enclosure and configured to use the electrode to obtain multiple types of physiological measurements.

Watch having electrodes for physiological measurements

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Mountain View, CA, United States of America

Tyler S Bushnell