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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Benjamin J. Kallman, Emerald Hills, CA (US);
Luman Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hugh J. Jay, Cupertino, CA (US);
Trent Canales, Cupertino, CA (US);
Lindsay M. Alanen, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher B. Lyons, Cupertino, CA (US);
Brian A. Argyres, San Mateo, CA (US);
Sherry Cao, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jaden A. Barney, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
Lucy E. Browning, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sawyer I. Cohen, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Benjamin J. Pope, Mountain View, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A portable electronic device includes a housing, a display at least partially within the housing, a front cover coupled to the housing and positioned over the display, a rear cover coupled to the housing and defining a first portion of a rear exterior surface of the portable electronic device, a protrusion defining a sensor array region of the rear cover and a second portion of the rear exterior surface, and an internal surface opposite the second portion of the rear exterior surface. The portable electronic device also includes a sensor array mounted within the housing along the sensor array region and comprising a frame member coupled to the rear cover along the internal surface and defining a wall structure defining a first container region and a second container region, a camera module positioned in the first container region, and a depth sensor module positioned in the second container region and attached to the internal surface of the rear cover.