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Patent No.:

US 10911727 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021

Filed:

Jun. 14, 2018

Image sensor with optical communication capabilities

Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventor:

Neil MacKinnon, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:

Robert C. Kowert

Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin & Goetzel, P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Sinh Tran

Assistant Examiner:

Zhenzhen Wu

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/22 (2006.01); H04B 10/80 (2013.01); H01S 5/42 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H01S 5/02 (2006.01); H01S 5/343 (2006.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01); H04N 7/015 (2006.01); H04B 10/112 (2013.01); H04B 10/25 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/22 (2013.01); H01S 5/021 (2013.01); H01S 5/343 (2013.01); H01S 5/423 (2013.01); H04B 10/801 (2013.01); H04N 5/2253 (2013.01); H04N 5/2254 (2013.01); H04N 5/23227 (2018.08); H04N 5/23254 (2013.01); H04N 5/23287 (2013.01); H04N 5/3698 (2013.01); H04N 7/015 (2013.01); H04B 10/1121 (2013.01); H04B 10/25 (2013.01); H04B 10/807 (2013.01);
Abstract

A mobile device includes an image sensor separated from a processing component by an open space. The image sensor includes one or more light source modules and the processing component includes one or more light sensors aligned with the one or more light source modules. Image data from the image sensor may be transmitted to the processing component via light signals exchanged between the one or more light source modules and the one or more light sensors. In some embodiments, light signals transmitted between one or more light source modules of an image sensor and one or more light sensors of the processing component are used to determine positional and angular data about the image sensor.

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