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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
May. 10, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Nicholas C. Soldner, Mountain View, CA (US);
Arthur Y. Zhang, San José, CA (US);
Tushar Gupta, Stanford, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Object detection may include transmitting, by a first device, a first pulse into an environment using a wide field configuration of an ultrasonic sensor array, detecting a presence of an object in the environment based on a detected echo based on the first pulse. In response to detecting the presence of the object, a targeted configuration of the ultrasonic sensor array is determined, and a second pulse is transmitted into the environment based on the second pulse, wherein a characteristic of the object is determined based on a detected echo from the second pulse.