Apple won 60 Patents this week covering their Wireless AirPower Charging Pad, HMD Eye Tracking Technology & more - Patently Apple

Yesterday the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a bid of 60 recently granted patents for Apple Inc. In this peculiar study we concisely screen 2 wireless charging patents and 1 for precocious oculus tracking exertion for Apple's aboriginal Mixed Reality Headset. We besides screen 3 plan patents and arsenic always, we wrapper up this week's granted patent study with our accepted listing of the remaining granted patents that were issued to Apple today.

Two Wireless Charging Patents, AirPower +

Apple was granted 2 patents relating to wireless charging devices. The archetypal patent covers Apple's AirPower that failed to travel to marketplace though inactive rumored to beryllium preparing for an existent motorboat successful the future.

Apple's patent covers a wireless powerfulness strategy has a wireless powerfulness transmitting instrumentality that transmits powerfulness wirelessly to a wireless powerfulness receiving device. The wireless powerfulness transmitting instrumentality is simply a instrumentality specified arsenic a wireless charging mat (shown successful FIG. 2 below), wireless charging puck, wireless charging stand, wireless charging table, oregon different wireless powerfulness transmitting equipment. The wireless powerfulness transmitting instrumentality has 1 oregon much coils that are utilized successful transmitting wireless powerfulness to 1 oregon much wireless powerfulness receiving coils successful the wireless powerfulness receiving device. The wireless powerfulness receiving instrumentality is simply a instrumentality specified arsenic a cellular telephone, watch, media player, tablet computer, brace of earbuds, distant control, laptop computer, different portable physics device, oregon different wireless powerfulness receiving equipment.

For much details, reappraisal Apple's granted patent US 11476719 B2.

Apple's 2nd granted patent covers a wireless powerfulness strategy that has a wireless powerfulness transmitting instrumentality and a wireless powerfulness receiving device. The wireless powerfulness receiving instrumentality whitethorn beryllium a wristwatch having a magnetic halfway with astatine slightest archetypal and 2nd wireless powerfulness receiving coils. The wireless powerfulness transmitting instrumentality whitethorn beryllium a charging puck connected to a plug specified arsenic a Universal Serial Bus plug via a cable.

Apple Patent FIG. 1 beneath is simply a schematic diagram of an illustrative wireless charging strategy that includes a wireless powerfulness transmitting device; FIG. 3 is simply a broadside presumption of an illustrative wireless powerfulness transmitting instrumentality specified arsenic a wireless charging puck connected to a connector plug via a cable.

For much details, reappraisal Apple's granted patent US 11476707 B2.

Eye Tracking Using Event Camera Data

Apple has been granted a patent titled Method and Device for Eye Tracking Using Event Camera Data. The patent relates to yet different magnitude of their precocious oculus tracking/eye gazing exertion for their aboriginal Head Mounted Display (HMD) device. Apple's patent introduces america to however an oculus tracking strategy is capable to get biometrics of a idiosyncratic utilizing lawsuit camera information and past auto-adjust the brightness of the imagery generated onto the HMD show and more.

Apple's patent FIG. 1 beneath is simply a artifact diagram of an illustration operating situation #100 wherein the controller (#110) is configured to negociate and coordinate an augmented reality/virtual world (AR/VR) acquisition for the user.

Apple's patent FIG. 4 illustrates a artifact diagram of a head-mounted instrumentality (#400). The lodging (#401) besides houses an oculus tracking strategy including 1 oregon much airy sources #422, a camera 424, and a controller 480. The 1 oregon much airy sources 422 emit airy onto the oculus of the idiosyncratic 10 that reflects arsenic a airy signifier (e.g., a ellipse of glints) that tin beryllium detected by the camera 424. Based connected the airy pattern, the controller 480 tin find an oculus tracking diagnostic of the idiosyncratic 10. For example, the controller 480 tin find a regard absorption and/or a blinking authorities (eyes unfastened oregon eyes closed) of the idiosyncratic 10. As different example, the controller 480 tin find a pupil center, a pupil size, oregon a constituent of regard. Thus, successful assorted implementations, the airy is emitted by the 1 oregon much airy sources 422, reflects disconnected the oculus of the idiosyncratic 10, and is detected by the camera 424. In assorted implementations, the airy from the oculus of the idiosyncratic 10 is reflected disconnected a blistery reflector oregon passed done an eyepiece earlier reaching the camera 424.

In patent FIG. 5A supra we spot an oculus of a idiosyncratic having a archetypal regard direction; FIG. 5B illustrates the oculus of the idiosyncratic having a 2nd regard direction.

You could reappraisal much of this from our 2020 patent exertion study here oregon from Apple's granted patent fig US 11474348 B2.

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