International Business Machines Corporation

Apple Inc.

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Xilinx, Inc.

Agency for Science, Technology and Research

Hitachi Vantara Corporation

Elpis Technologies Inc.

Globalfoudries Inc.

Wei Lin

Spyridon Skordas

Nathan K Gupta

Kevin R Winstel

Shubhaditya Majumdar

Tuan Anh Vo

Prabhakar Gulgunje

Takeshi Nogami

Leathen Shi

Po-Jui Chen

Douglas C La Tulipe, Jr

Robert R Young, Jr

Mukta G Farooq

Son Van Nguyen

Deepika Priyadarshini

Boyi Fu

Ying-Da Wang

Di Liu

Shenglin Ye

Yindar Chuo

Daniel C Edelstein

John Z Zhong

Jean-Pierre Simon Guillou

Donald Francis Canaperi

Erdem Kaltalioglu

Michael J Brown

Kumar Deepak

Yazan Z Alnahhas

Travis N Owens

Jimmy Zhenming Wang

Sudirukkuge T Jinasundera

Andrew Deng

Timothy D Koch

Salman Karbasi

Ian T Clark

Chih-Yao Chang

Chunchia Huang

Kangguo Cheng

Xia Li

Michael Benjamin Wittenberg

Victor H Yin

Subramanian Srikanteswara Iyer

Sanjay C Mehta

John Anthony Fitzsimmons

Shawn Robert Gettemy

Stephen Robert McClure

Vamsi Krishna Paruchuri

Derek William Wright

Sunggu Kang

Raghuveer Reddy Patlolla

Shidong Li

Tyler Robin Kakuda

James E Pedder

Tore Nauta

Troy Lawrence Graves-Abe

Young Cheol Yang

Yi Qiao

Pey-Jiun Ko

Chun-Hao Tung

Soyoung Kim

Paul C Kelley

Tingjun Xu

Dhaval Chandrakant Patel

Karan S Jain

Mookyung Son

Christopher Edward Glazowski

Kian Kerman

Matthew T Shoudy

Xiaonan Wen

Supratik Datta

Michael Vosgueritchian

Christopher L Boitnott

Steven M Scardato

Jianmin Gong

Nailong He

Eugene C Cheung

Upinder Singh

Brian S Medower

Wookyung Bae

Meng Zhang

Elmar Gehlen

Xiaofan Niu

Elizabeth C Porter

Francois R Jacob

Xiaoqi Zhou

Hjalmar Edzer Ayco Huitema

Wei-Liang Hsu

Se Hyun Ahn

Yong Peng Leow

Ran He

Da Yu

Chun-Chih Chang

Prithu Sharma

Wei-Hao Sun

Ho Hyung Lee

Jonathan P Mar

Rasmi R Das

James Edward Alexander Pedder

Jonathan E Faltermeier

Sushama Ghanekar

Display structures and methods of manufacture of display structure including a display panel with a curved three-dimensional film contour are described. In an embodiment, a display panel includes display area with a main body area and a plurality of petals extending from the main body area. The petals are folded into a curved three-dimensional (3D) film contour, and are separated by corresponding trenches between petals. The trenches may be filled with various seam hiding materials to visually obscure the trenches.

Display structure for electronic devices

Example implementations described herein are directed to a system with a plurality of sensors associated with a plurality of apparatuses, which involves, for receipt of a hypothesis canvas and meta-data from the plurality of sensors, generating a plurality of meta-pipeline stages, the plurality of meta-pipeline stages having the meta-data and one or more stages, each of the one or more stages being an analytics application or a machine learning application stacked in execution order based on the meta-data and the hypothesis canvas; and executing the plurality of meta-pipeline stages in execution order on the meta-data to generate an analytics model for the system.

Self-learning analytical solution core

A touch screen device includes a transmitter optical fiber, optical transmitter circuitry, a receiver optical fiber, optical receiver circuitry, and cover material. The transmitter optical fiber and/or the receiver optical fiber include a respective core, a respective absorptive clad circumferentially surrounding the respective core, and/or a respective absorptive jacket circumferentially surrounding the respective absorptive clad.

Systems and methods to control cross-talk of an optical fiber-based sensing module

An electronic device may have optical components that each have first and second transparent layers such as first and second glass layers. The glass layers may have outer surfaces that face away from each other and inner surfaces that face towards each other. A polymer layer is formed between the inner surfaces of the glass layers. Along the periphery of each optical component, a hermetic seal is formed to protect the polymer material of the polymer layer. The seal may include one or more metal layers that are coupled to the first and second glass layers. Alternatively or additionally, the seal may include an internal seal, such as a metal foil layer that extends between the first and second glass layers, within the optical component to reduce the width of the optical component.

Seals for optical components

An electronic device may have optical components that each have first and second transparent layers such as first and second glass layers. The glass layers may have outer surfaces that face away from each other and inner surfaces that face towards each other. A polymer layer is formed between the inner surfaces of the glass layers. Along the periphery of each optical component, a hermetic seal is formed to protect the polymer material of the polymer layer. The seal may include one or more metal layers that are coupled to the first and second glass layers. For example, glass prism rings may be coupled to the first and second glass layers and metal may be coupled to the prism rings. The one or more metal layers may then be bonded to the metal on the prism rings, such as through soldering.

A light pipe such as a fiber ribbon may be formed from fibers joined by binder such as extruded binder. The fiber ribbon or other light pipe may have bends. A light source may provide light to an input of a fiber ribbon that is guided by the fiber ribbon to a corresponding output. The output may be located in an interior portion of an electronic device or may be positioned so that light from the output exits the electronic device and illuminates external objects. The light source may have light-emitting devices on a substrate. The light-emitting devices may be vertical cavity surface-emitting laser diodes or other lasers and/or may be light-emitting diodes. Light-emitting devices may be arranged in discrete clusters corresponding to the locations of fiber cores in the fiber ribbon.

Electronic devices with optical fiber ribbons

A two dimensional touch sensor panel can be thermoformed or curved by another process to a three-dimensional touch sensor panel, and the three-dimensional touch sensor panel can be laminated to a three-dimension surface having a highly curved or spherical shape. In some examples, thermoforming a two-dimensional touch sensor panel into a three-dimensional touch sensor panel can result in strain of the touch electrodes, and can result in non-uniform three-dimensional touch electrodes (distortion of the two-dimensional touch electrode pattern). The strain can be a function of the curved touch-sensitive surface and/or process related mechanical strain from thermoforming. In some examples, a three-dimensional touch sensor panel can be formed with uniform area touch electrodes using a two-dimensional touch sensor panel pattern with non-uniform area touch electrodes in accordance with the strain pattern expected for a given curved surface and thermoforming technique.

Spherical or highly curved touch-sensitive surfaces

Example implementations described herein are directed to a novel Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) framework that is generated on an AutoML library so as to facilitate functionality to incorporate multiple machine learning model libraries within the same framework through a solution configuration file. The example implementations further involve a solution generator that identifies solution candidates and parameters for machine learning models to be applied to a dataset specified by the solution configuration file.

Automated machine learning: a unified, customizable, and extensible system

An electronic device with a force sensing device is disclosed. The electronic device comprises a user input surface defining an exterior surface of the electronic device, a first capacitive sensing element, and a second capacitive sensing element capacitively coupled to the first capacitive sensing element. The electronic device also comprises a first spacing layer between the first and second capacitive sensing elements, and a second spacing layer between the first and second capacitive sensing elements. The first and second spacing layers have different compositions. The electronic device also comprises sensing circuitry coupled to the first and second capacitive sensing elements configured to determine an amount of applied force on the user input surface. The first spacing layer is configured to collapse if the applied force is below a force threshold, and the second spacing layer is configured to collapse if the applied force is above the force threshold.

Force sensing architectures

An electronic device may have a housing with a display. A protective display cover layer for the display may have an image transport layer formed from fibers or Anderson localization material. The image transport layer may include light absorbing material. Light absorbing material may be incorporated as an additive into a component of the image transport layer such as the binder layer of a coherent fiber bundle or the cladding of fibers in the image transport layer. The image transport layer may also be formed from fibers with a light absorbing layer formed in addition to a transparent cladding. The image transport layer may be formed from Anderson localization material that has light absorbing material. Fibers for the image transport layer may be extruded with light absorbing portions. A polymer preform having light absorbing material may be drawn to form fibers for the image transport layer.

Electronic devices with image transport layers having light absorbing material

An electronic device may have a display, a display cover layer, and an image transport layer formed from a coherent fiber bundle. The coherent fiber bundle may have an input surface that receives an image from the display and a corresponding output surface to which the image is provide through the coherent fiber bundle. The coherent fiber bundle may be placed between the display and the display cover layer and mounted to a housing. The coherent fiber bundle may have fiber cores with bends that help conceal the housing from view and make the display appear borderless. A central portion of the coherent fiber bundle may be formed from different materials and/or structures than a surrounding border portion of the layer.

Electronic devices with coherent fiber bundles

A system may include one or more electronic devices. Fiber bundles may be provided to convey light. A fiber bundle may have a bend along its length. Fibers for the fiber bundle may be formed from polymer cores coated with polymer claddings. The fibers may have end faces coated with antireflection coatings. The antireflection coatings may be formed from amorphous fluoropolymer deposited from solution. The fluoropolymer may be applied to the end faces of the fibers by dipping, spraying, or by dispensing with a needle dispenser or other dispensing tool. An optical component such as a light-emitting device for a communications system, an illumination system, or a sensor system may provide infrared light that is guided through the fiber bundle.

Systems having fibers with antireflection coatings

An electronic device may have a housing with a display. A protective display cover layer for the display may have an image transport layer such as an image transport layer formed from Anderson localization material. Anderson localization material may be formed using equipment such as heated molds, extrusion equipment, fusion tools, and fiber drawing equipment. The materials used to form a block of Anderson localization material may be polymers or other transparent materials. Elevated temperatures such as temperatures above the melting points of the polymers may be used during extrusion, fusion, drawing, and other operations.

Methods for forming image transport layers for electronic devices

An electronic device may have a display, a display cover layer, and a drawn sheet-packed coherent fiber bundle. The coherent fiber bundle may have an input surface that receives an image from the display and a corresponding output surface to which the image is transported. The coherent fiber bundle may be placed between the display and the display cover layer and mounted to a housing. The coherent fiber bundle may have fiber cores with bends that help conceal the housing from view and make the display appear borderless. The coherent fiber bundle has filaments formed from elongated strands of binder in which multiple fibers are embedded. Sheets of filaments are stacked and fused together to form a block of material that is subsequently drawn to form the drawn sheet-packed coherent fiber bundle.

Electronic devices with drawn sheet-packed coherent fiber bundles

An electronic device may have a display, a display cover layer, and a sheet-packed coherent fiber bundle. The coherent fiber bundle may have an input surface that receives an image from the display and a corresponding output surface to which the image is transported. The coherent fiber bundle may be placed between the display and the display cover layer and mounted to a housing. The coherent fiber bundle may have fiber cores with bends that help conceal the housing from view and make the display appear borderless. The coherent fiber bundle has filaments formed from elongated strands of binder in which multiple fiber cores are embedded. Sheets of filaments are stacked and fused together to form the coherent fiber bundle. By aligning and fusing the sheets with respect to each other the filaments are packed with a desired density and uniformity.

Electronic devices with sheet-packed coherent fiber bundles

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