US 11,835,382 B2
Handheld electronic device
Jason B. Neevel, Santa Clara, CA (US); Christopher S. Tomasetta, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Jonathan M. Lee, Fremont, CA (US); Ekaterina Pease, Sausalito, CA (US); Nicholas Merz, San Francisco, CA (US); Daniel Jarvis, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Michael B. Wittenberg, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Jared P. Ostdiek, Cupertino, CA (US); Rasamy Phouthavong, San Jose, CA (US); David A. Pakula, San Francisco, CA (US); Richard H. Koch, Cupertino, CA (US); Marwan Rammah, San Francisco, CA (US); Ian A. Spraggs, San Francisco, CA (US); and Laura M. Burke, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/471,851.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/208,477, filed on Jun. 8, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/170,327, filed on Apr. 2, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/155,693, filed on Mar. 2, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0283024 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. G01J 1/42 (2006.01); G01J 1/02 (2006.01); G01J 1/04 (2006.01); H04M 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC G01J 1/4204 (2013.01) [G01J 1/0219 (2013.01); G01J 1/0233 (2013.01); G01J 1/0411 (2013.01); G01J 1/0474 (2013.01); G01J 1/0252 (2013.01); G01J 2001/0257 (2013.01); H04M 1/026 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A portable electronic device comprising:
a housing;
a front cover coupled to the housing and defining a front side of the portable electronic device;
a display stack below the front cover and comprising a plurality of display layers configured to produce a graphical output in a display region of the display stack, the graphical output visible through the front cover; and
a light sensor module positioned at least partially within the housing and coupled to the display stack in the display region, the light sensor module configured to:
receive ambient light passing through the front cover and through the plurality of display layers; and
while a blanking interval is positioned over the light sensor module, produce an output corresponding to the received ambient light, the portable electronic device configured to determine an ambient light value based at least in part on the output from the light sensor module.