Apple Patents

Device Hardware

Apple filed these patents around Device Hardware in the last 5 years

# Patent No. Short Description
1. US10409434B2 Integrated touch screens that combine display and touch sensing circuitry on a single substrate
2. US10512130B1 A backlight circuit for a display that uses multi-string LED drivers to reduce current mismatches between LED strings
3. US10530615B1 A transceiver with an adaptive power equalizing electrical balance duplexer to maintain isolation between transmission signals and received signals across a range of transceiver operating conditions, such as across range of output powers of a power amplifier of the transceiver
4. US10545038B2 Environmental sensor for electronic devices that includes multiple sensor components and one or more audio components in an enclosure
5. US10548529B2 A retention mechanism for securing a cover member to a housing of a consumer product like a wearable device
6. US10566286B2 Signal routing structures for high density interconnects in integrated circuits
7. US10566963B2 A differential receiver circuit that receives low voltage differential signals and amplifies them to full swing signals suitable for conventional logic gates
8. US10566972B1 Efficiently receiving analog input signals in a computing system with multiple functional units
9. US10571744B1 A display with a direct-lit backlight unit that can vary the brightness of the backlight across the display and compensate pixel values for the varied backlight to improve image quality and power efficiency
10. US10573236B1 Display with luminance adjustment circuitry to compensate for variations in display brightness due to different capacitive loading effects in different rows of pixels
11. US10586482B1 Using ambient light sensors on both front and rear of an electronic device to adjust display settings
12. US10602612B1 Stacked circuit board structure with integrated vertical modules and pin arrays to provide mechanical support and electrical interconnection between the circuit boards
13. US10623007B1 A charge pump circuit for a phase-locked loop (PLL) that reduces voltage fluctuations on the control node of the VCO, thereby reducing jitter in the output clock signal
14. US10628654B2 A capacitive fingerprint sensor with improved resolution and imaging by driving a higher voltage to the sensor relative to system ground, while maintaining the drive ring's voltage at system ground
15. US10630299B2 Systems and methods for calibrating and characterizing components of phase-locked loops (PLLs) to improve performance and stability

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