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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 10, 2018
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ueyn L. Block, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Guocheng Shao, San Jose, CA (US);

Itaru L. Hiromi, Cupertino, CA (US);

Mathieu Charbonneau-Lefort, San Jose, CA (US);

Tobias J. Harrison-Noonan, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/024 (2006.01); H01L 25/16 (2006.01); H01L 31/0232 (2014.01); H01L 31/16 (2006.01); A61B 5/0295 (2006.01); A61B 5/1455 (2006.01); A61B 5/026 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/02433 (2013.01); A61B 5/0261 (2013.01); A61B 5/0295 (2013.01); A61B 5/02438 (2013.01); A61B 5/14551 (2013.01); A61B 5/681 (2013.01); H01L 25/167 (2013.01); H01L 31/02327 (2013.01); H01L 31/16 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0238 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0242 (2013.01); A61B 2562/046 (2013.01);
Abstract

An electronic device including optical sensing with a concentric architecture and methods for operation thereof is disclosed. The concentric architecture can include light detector(s) arranged in a concentric manner around light emitter(s). In some examples, at least one light emitter can be located in the center of the device, and each light detector can be located the same separation distance from the light emitter. Each light detector can be arranged such that the separation distance from the centrally located light emitter can be greater than the separation distance from another light emitter. Examples of the disclosure further include a selective transparent layer overlaying the light detector(s). The selective transparent layer can include section(s) transparent to a first wavelength range and non-transparent to a second wavelength ranges. In some examples, the selective transparent layer can further include section(s) transparent to the second wavelength range.


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