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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2024
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Tong Chen, Fremont, CA (US);
Xiaoyang Zhang, Singapore, SG;
Christopher K. Ewy, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ian P. Colahan, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/03 (2006.01); G06F 3/0354 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0308 (2013.01); G06F 3/03545 (2013.01);
Abstract
Present examples are directed to systems and methods for detecting local optical occlusion on a device. Examples are also directed to devices that may detect local optical occlusion. For example, a device may include a first light emitter and a first light detector, and the device may determine that the first light emitter of the device is optically occluded by an object outside a housing of the device based on a first amount of light of one or more amounts of light detected via the first light detector.