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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
May. 22, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Janos C. Keresztes, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yu P. Sun, Yorba Linda, CA (US);
Rong Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chungjae Lee, San Jose, CA (US);
Ka Ho P. Poon, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian P. Graves, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jun Qi, San Jose, CA (US);
Victor H. Yin, Cupertino, CA (US);
Joel C. Yamasaki, San Francisco, CA (US);
Pedro Mari, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device includes a housing, a speaker, control circuitry, a plurality of light-emitting components configured to emit light through an upper housing wall or other housing structure. A lens diffuser layer having lenses overlapping respective light-emitting components, a textured diffuser layer formed from textured coatings on a substrate, and a volume diffuser layer having light-scattering structures in a polymer layer might be included to project light from the light-emitting components. A light-guiding portion of the lens diffuser layer may guide light to a circular peripheral edge to form an illuminated ring visible through the upper housing wall.