Apple Inc.

Mc10, Inc.

Yung-Yu Hsu

Paul Stephen Drzaic

Hoon Sik Kim

Daniel D Sunshine

Kathryn P Crews

David M Kindlon

Daniel A Podhajny

Mingjing Ha

Roozbeh Ghaffari

Kevin Dowling

David W Lum

Stephen P Lee

John Work

Lauren E Klinker

Shubham A Gandhi

Conor S Rafferty

Kathleen A Bergeron

Clifford M Liu

Bassel De Graff

Bryce Bradford

Isaiah Kacyvenski

Tirshathah A Hunter

Han-Chieh Chang

Cliff Liu

Fernando Quivira

Kuan H Lu

Robert D'Angelo

Chaohao Wang

Paolo Sacchetto

Stephen Robert McClure

Christopher Schultz

Mark Alan Arbore

Derek William Wright

Yang Li

Marc Joseph DeVincentis

Rong Liu

Que Anh S Nguyen

Michael J Brown

Noah Denis Bedard

Adam R Standley

Zhen Zhang

David Andrew Doyle

Felipe Bacim De Araujo E Silva

Soyoung Kim

Hong Luo

Stuart John Wood

Blake M Coughenour

Milan S Raj

Wesley William Zuber

Chang-Chia Huang

Benjamin Schlatka

Jeffrey D Carbeck

George Ho Yin Mak

Yi-Pai Huang

Sinan Alousi

Bosheng Zhang

Adam Adjiwibawa

Steven Fastert

Jonathan C Moisant-Thompson

Anuranjini Pragada

Nathaniel T Lawrence

Anshi Liang

Bryan Keen

Brian Elolampi

Melissa Ceruolo

Terry C Shyu

Dana F Segler, Jr

Bhaskar Banerjee

Antonio Yamil Layon Halun

Yong Sun

Bulong Wu

Matthew T Morea

Romain F Chevallier

Zhiyuan Sun

Briana Morey

David G Garlock

Ping-Hung Wei

Luisa Petti

Daniel Mahgerefteh

Harold Gaudette

Brian Reilly

Alexander Dickson

Henry Wei

Kevin J Dowling

Dave Garlock

Harry Gaudette

An electromagnetic radiation detector pixel includes a set of epitaxial layers and a lens. The set of epitaxial layers defines an electromagnetic radiation absorber. The lens is directly bonded to the set of epitaxial layers.

Electromagnetic radiation detectors integrated with immersion lenses

A spatial light system that may, for example, be used to project image content onto surfaces of a room. The system may include two or more projection units for emitting light onto surfaces within a room. The system may include a controller and two or more projection units, each module including an LED array, an array of light pipes, and a condenser lens. Two or more projection units may be connected to a flexible strip that provides power and data (e.g., serial data) to the projection units. Two or more flex strips may be connected together. The flex strips provide a serially-connected, flexible modular architecture for spatial light systems that allow the projection units to be conformed to a variety of configurations and shapes.

Spatial light system

A fabric-based item may include fabric layers and other layers of material. An array of electrical components may be mounted in the fabric-based item. The electrical components may be mounted to a support structure such as a flexible printed circuit. The flexible printed circuit may have a mesh shape formed from an array of openings. Serpentine flexible printed circuit segments may extend between the openings. The electrical components may be light-emitting diodes or other electrical devices. Polymer with light-scattering particles or other materials may cover the electrical components. The flexible printed circuit may be laminated between fabric layers or other layers of material in the fabric-based item.

Fabric-based items with electrical component arrays

A display may include light-emitting components such as light-emitting diodes on a transparent substrate. Conductive signal paths between the light-emitting components, driver integrated circuits for controlling the light-emitting components, and the light-emitting components themselves may be opaque. To mitigate diffraction artifacts caused by the opaque components, the opaque footprint of the display may be selected to include non-periodic portions. The non-periodic portions increase randomness and reduce periodicity within the opaque footprint, which mitigates perceptible diffraction artifacts when viewing the display. One or both of the component mounting portions and interconnect portions of the opaque footprint may be non-periodic. The component mounting portions may have random shapes. The interconnect portions may follow random paths between the component mounting portions.

Displays with non-periodic opaque structures

An electronic device such as a voice-controlled speaker device may have a housing characterized by a vertical longitudinal axis. A flexible substrate such as a flexible mesh substrate with component support regions coupled by flexible segments may be wrapped around the housing and the vertical axis. The housing may have surface regions with compound curvature. The flexible substrate may conform to the regions with compound curvature. A fabric spacer layer may be interposed between the flexible substrate and the housing. Electrical components such as input-output devices may be mounted to the component support regions. A display may be formed from an array of light-emitting devices that are mounted on respective component support regions. Light from the light-emitting devices may pass through the fabric spacer layer toward the housing and back out away from the housing. An outer fabric layer may cover the mesh.

Fabric-covered electronic device

An electronic device display may have pixels formed from crystalline semiconductor light-emitting diode dies, organic light-emitting diodes, or other pixel structures. The pixels may be formed in a display panel having a single substrate or an array of display panel tiles. The display panel has inwardly facing display panel contacts that mate with corresponding outwardly facing interconnect substrate contacts on an interconnect substrate. The interconnect substrate may have areas with compound curvature that are overlapped by the display panel. To enhance flexibility of the interconnect substrate, the interconnect substrate may have flexibility enhancement openings and/or may be formed from a material with a low elastic modulus such as silicone or other elastomeric material.

Electronic devices with curved displays

An electronic device such as a wearable electronic device may have a band. The band may form a stand-alone device or a strap for a wristwatch unit or other device. Electrical components may be mounted on flexible printed circuit substrates. A substrate may be encapsulated by elastomeric polymer material or other material forming the band. The elastomeric polymer material may form cavities that receive the electrical components. Components such as light-emitting diodes may be mounted to the flexible printed circuit substrates so that the light-emitting diodes are located in the cavities. Reflective sidewalls in the cavities may reflect light from the light-emitting diodes outwardly through a thinned portion of the band. Light-diffusing material in the cavities may be formed from clear polymer with light-scattering particles.

Wearable bands with embedded circuitry

A fabric-based item may include fabric such as woven fabric having insulating and conductive yarns or other strands of material. The conductive yarns may form signal paths. Electrical components can be embedded within pockets in the fabric. Each electrical component may have an electrical device such as a semiconductor die that is mounted on an interposer substrate. The electrical device may be a light-emitting diode, a sensor, an actuator, or other electrical device. The electrical device may have contacts that are soldered to contacts on the interposer. The interposer may have additional contacts that are soldered to the signal paths. The fabric may have portions that form transparent windows overlapping the electrical components or that have other desired attributes.

Fabric with embedded electrical components

Flexible touch sensor panels can be implemented on a strap of a wearable device. A flexible touch sensor panel can provide an additional touch sensitive surface for a user to activate functions on the wearable device without covering a touch screen of the wearable device. In some examples, the flexible touch sensor panels can include electrode connectors configured to electrically couple touch electrodes of the flexible touch sensor panel. In some examples, the electrode connectors can have a serpentine routing pattern configured to allow the touch electrodes to move closer together or farther apart while maintaining electrical coupling between the touch electrodes. In some examples, the touch electrodes can have gaps configured to allow light to pass through the gaps. In some examples, an LED panel can be formed below or one or more waveguide layers can be formed above the flexible touch sensor panel.

Flexible touch sensor panel

Touch sensitive mechanical keyboards and processes for detecting touch events and key depressions on the touch sensitive mechanical keyboard are provided. The touch sensitive mechanical keyboard can include a set of individually depressible mechanical keys having a touch sensitive surface. A touch sensor layer can be disposed on top of a key mechanism and flexible interconnections provided between key segments of the touch sensor layer can allow for depression of the key mechanism of individual keys. In some examples, the flexible interconnections can be formed by patterning a spring-like structure into the touch sensor layer. In some examples, the touch sensor layer can be transparent or include openings to allow a backlight to shine through. In some examples, addressable LED backlighting with buckling interconnects can also be provided to illuminate keycaps of the mechanical keyboard.

Touch sensitive keyboard with flexible interconnections

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