Patents by Inventor David A. Doyle

David A. Doyle has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20260150211
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display overlapped by a display cover layer. Portions of the surface of the display and display cover layer may have curved profiles. For example, a display may have curved surface profiles including rounded corners having areas of compound curvature. The radius of curvature of the edge of the display panel may vary along the perimeter of the display panel. The display cover layer may have a varying thickness along the perimeter of the display panel. The thickness of the display cover layer may be different in an edge of the display cover layer than in a central portion of the display cover layer. Pixels in bent portions of the display panel may include a side mirror that asymmetrically increases off-axis luminance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2025
    Publication date: May 28, 2026
    Inventors: Yue Cui, Brian P. Graves, David A. Doyle, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Jung Yun Seuh, Ka Kuen Wan, Matthew P. Rao, Ming Xu, Se Hyun Ahn, Shawn R. Gettemy, Tyler R. Kakuda, Yi Qiao, Yifan Zhang, Ying-Chih Wang, Yue Qu, Yun Liu
  • Publication number: 20260007036
    Abstract: A display may include organic light-emitting diode (OLED) pixels. Each pixel may include OLED layers that are interposed between an anode and a cathode. The anode may be formed on a substrate. A layer of material that defines a plurality of bumps or recesses may be formed on the substrate. The anode may conform to the layer of material and may have a plurality of curved portions that are aligned with the bumps or recesses. The anode may have a side mirror portion that conforms to a tapered surface. A black pixel definition layer may be positioned above or below the side mirror portion of the anode. A pixel may include a pixel definition layer that defines multiple light-emitting apertures that overlap a single anode. The multiple light-emitting apertures may have circular, square, or non-square rectangular footprints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2025
    Publication date: January 1, 2026
    Inventors: Yue Qu, Chih-An Huang, Chih-Lei Chen, Chuan-Jung Lin, Chun-Kai Chang, David A. Doyle, Jianhong Lin, Jung Yen Huang, Kwang Ohk Cheon, Li-An Liu, Min-Ling Lin, Pei-Ling Lin, Po-Yu Lin, Rui Liu, Wendi Chang, Yifan Zhang, Yin-Ting Chen, Yung Da Lai, Yung-Sheng Tsai, Edward Lin, Po-Chun Yeh, Akanksha Gupta, Jiun-Jye Chang, Shinya Ono, Martijn Kuik, Kan Ding, Chin-Wei Lin, Danyong Lu, Yun Liu, Chia-Hsin Lin, Cheng Min Hu, Yu-Hsien Lin, Abhijeet S. Bagal, Ching-Sang Chuang
  • Publication number: 20250384384
    Abstract: Improved systems, apparatus, and methods for enhanced positioning of an airborne relocatable communication hub supporting wireless devices are described. Such a method begins with moving an aerial communication drone operating as the airborne relocatable communication hub to a first deployed airborne position, detecting a first signal broadcast by a first wireless device using a communication hub interface on the drone, and detecting a second signal broadcast by a second wireless device using the communication hub interface. The method has the drone comparing a first connection signal strength for the first signal and a second connection signal strength for the second signal, and repositioning the aerial communication drone to a second deployed airborne position based upon the comparison. Once repositioned at the second deployed airborne position, the method has the drone linking the first and second wireless devices using the communication hub interface on the aerial communication drone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2025
    Publication date: December 18, 2025
    Inventors: Reuben F. Burch, V, David A. Doyle, Brian D. Popp
  • Publication number: 20250298434
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display, a cover layer overlapping the display, and a housing have housing sidewalls. An encapsulant material may surround at least part of the display and may be used to couple the cover layer to the housing sidewalls. A rigid outer material having a higher elastic modulus than the encapsulant material may also be used to couple the cover layer to the housing sidewalls. The rigid outer material may be a molded material that surrounds an outer perimeter of the encapsulant, or the rigid outer material may be a metal or plastic frame member having a C-shaped cross-section or other geometry. The display may overlap the housing sidewall. The encapsulant may absorb mechanical stresses on the cover layer to protect the display, whereas the rigid outer material may transfer mechanical stresses on the cover layer to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2025
    Publication date: September 25, 2025
    Inventors: Tyler R. Kakuda, Daniel J. Barrett, Michael J. Brown, Hao Dong, David A. Doyle, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Erik G. de Jong, James P. Landry, Di Liu, Kiran S. Pillai, Yi Qiao
  • Patent number: 12406221
    Abstract: Improved systems, apparatus, and methods for enhanced positioning of an airborne relocatable communication hub supporting wireless devices are described. Such a method begins with moving an aerial communication drone operating as the airborne relocatable communication hub to a first deployed airborne position, detecting a first signal broadcast by a first wireless device using a communication hub interface on the drone, and detecting a second signal broadcast by a second wireless device using the communication hub interface. The method has the drone comparing a first connection signal strength for the first signal and a second connection signal strength for the second signal, and repositioning the aerial communication drone to a second deployed airborne position based upon the comparison. Once repositioned at the second deployed airborne position, the method has the drone linking the first and second wireless devices using the communication hub interface on the aerial communication drone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2025
    Assignee: FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Reuben F. Burch, V, David A. Doyle, Brian D. Popp
  • Patent number: 12353241
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display, a cover layer overlapping the display, and a housing have housing sidewalls. An encapsulant material may surround at least part of the display and may be used to couple the cover layer to the housing sidewalls. A rigid outer material having a higher elastic modulus than the encapsulant material may also be used to couple the cover layer to the housing sidewalls. The rigid outer material may be a molded material that surrounds an outer perimeter of the encapsulant, or the rigid outer material may be a metal or plastic frame member having a C-shaped cross-section or other geometry. The display may overlap the housing sidewall. The encapsulant may absorb mechanical stresses on the cover layer to protect the display, whereas the rigid outer material may transfer mechanical stresses on the cover layer to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler R. Kakuda, Daniel J. Barrett, Michael J. Brown, Hao Dong, David A. Doyle, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Erik G. de Jong, James P. Landry, Di Liu, Kiran S. Pillai, Yi Qiao
  • Publication number: 20240087527
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The display may have a pixel array that produces images. A display cover layer may overlap the pixel array. The display cover layer may have a planar central area surrounded by a peripheral edge area with a curved cross-sectional profile. From an on-axis viewing angle, an image on the pixel array is fully viewable through the planar central area and the peripheral edge area. From an off-axis viewing angle, the image is partly viewable through the peripheral edge area and not through the central area. To avoid an undesired color cast in the partly viewable image seen through the peripheral edge area of the display cover layer, the display may be provided with color cast compensation structures such as a guest-host liquid crystal layer that exhibits an anisotropic colored light absorption characteristic, a diffuser layer, and/or other optical structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Sameer Pandya, Daniel J. Barrett, Erik G. de Jong, James P. Landry, David A. Doyle, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Jung Yun Seuh, Yi Qiao
  • Patent number: 11861549
    Abstract: Drone-based systems and methods are described for providing an airborne relocatable communication hub within a delivery vehicle for broadcast-enabled devices maintained within the delivery vehicle. Such a method has an aerial communication drone paired with the delivery vehicle transitioning to an active power state, uncoupling from a secured position on an internal docking station fixed within the delivery vehicle and then moving to a first deployed airborne position within the delivery vehicle. At a first position, the method has the aerial communication drone establishing a first wireless data communication path to a first broadcast-enabled device within the delivery vehicle, then establishing a second wireless data communication path to a second broadcast-enabled device within the delivery vehicle. The drone then couples the first and second wireless data communication paths it established operating as the airborne relocatable communication hub for the devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Federal Express Corporation
    Inventors: Reuben F. Burch, V, David A. Doyle, Brian D. Popp
  • Patent number: 11862083
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The display may have a pixel array that produces images. A display cover layer may overlap the pixel array. The display cover layer may have a planar central area surrounded by a peripheral edge area with a curved cross-sectional profile. From an on-axis viewing angle, an image on the pixel array is fully viewable through the planar central area and the peripheral edge area. From an off-axis viewing angle, the image is partly viewable through the peripheral edge area and not through the central area. To avoid an undesired color cast in the partly viewable image seen through the peripheral edge area of the display cover layer, the display may be provided with color cast compensation structures such as a guest-host liquid crystal layer that exhibits an anisotropic colored light absorption characteristic, a diffuser layer, and/or other optical structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sameer Pandya, Daniel J. Barrett, Erik G. de Jong, James P. Landry, David A. Doyle, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Jung Yun Seuh, Yi Qiao
  • Patent number: 11775919
    Abstract: Drone-based systems and methods are described for providing an airborne relocatable communication hub within a delivery vehicle for broadcast-enabled devices maintained within the delivery vehicle. Such a method has an aerial communication drone paired with the delivery vehicle transitioning to an active power state, uncoupling from a secured position on an internal docking station fixed within the delivery vehicle and then moving to a first deployed airborne position within the delivery vehicle. At a first position, the method has the aerial communication drone establishing a first wireless data communication path to a first broadcast-enabled device within the delivery vehicle, then establishing a second wireless data communication path to a second broadcast-enabled device within the delivery vehicle. The drone then couples the first and second wireless data communication paths it established operating as the airborne relocatable communication hub for the devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Federal Express Corporation
    Inventors: Reuben F. Burch, V., David A. Doyle, Brian D. Popp
  • Patent number: 11735126
    Abstract: An electronic device such as a watch may include a display and a light sensor located behind the display. The light sensor may be used to measure the color of external objects. During color sampling operations, the display may emit light towards the external object in front of the display while the light sensor gathers color measurements. The display may emit light of different colors and the light sensor may detect an amount of reflected light for each color, which in turn may be used to determine the color of the external object. The control circuitry may use a watch-band-specific algorithm to determine the color of watch bands and may use a clothing-specific algorithm to determine the color of clothing. The control circuitry may display the color on the display so that the face of the watch matches the user's clothing or matches the user's watch band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jackson K. Roland, Nicolas P. Bonnier, Alexandre Chapiro, David A. Doyle, Guillaume Lestoquoy, Jonathan C. Moisant-Thompson
  • Patent number: 11688363
    Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display including display pixels to display an image based on compensated image data. The electronic display may also include a stressed reference pixel to exhibit burn-in related aging in response to one or more stress sessions and a non-stressed reference pixel configured to not undergo the one or more stress sessions. Additionally, the electronic device may include image processing circuitry to determine a panel-specific aging profile based on a comparison between one or more properties of the stressed reference pixel and the one or more properties of the non-stressed reference pixel. The image processing circuitry may also generate one or more gain maps based on the panel-specific aging profile and generate the compensated image data by applying the one or more gain maps to input image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Maofeng Yang, Jiayi Jin, David A. Doyle, Yifan Zhang, Weijun Yao, Jiye Lee, Tae-Wook Koh, Mathew K. Mathai, Chuang Qian, Tsung-Ting Tsai, James P. Landry, Kiran S. Pillai, Injae Hwang, Yongjun Li
  • Patent number: 11650368
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display that displays an image. The image may be viewed through a display cover layer that overlaps the display. The display cover layer may include an optical coupling layer such as a coherent fiber bundle. A pixel expansion layer such as a diffractive layer may be incorporated between the optical coupling layer and a protective layer. The diffractive layer may create duplicate pixels to occupy otherwise non-light-emitting areas on the output surface of the display cover layer. The diffractive layer may also create duplicate pixels that overlap adjacent pixels to allow for brightness averaging. An adhesive layer or the protective layer may be used to form diffractive elements for the diffractive layer. An adhesive layer having a high index of refraction may be interposed between the optical coupling layer and the display panel to mitigate undesired reflections of ambient light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yi Qiao, David A. Doyle, James P. Landry, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Ming Xu, Paul C. Kelley, Shawn R. Gettemy, Tyler R. Kakuda, Ying-Chih Wang, Yue Cui
  • Publication number: 20230118618
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for delivering API to a smokable structures and tea bags that contain a fill material. The fill material can include cannabis plant matter, such as cannabis flowers. In one example, an injection tube can be inserted into a smokable structure, and the API can be emitted as a spray. Other methods examples of delivering API to smokable structures are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: William Warren, Walter Lee Smith, David A. Doyle
  • Publication number: 20230087088
    Abstract: A display may be formed by an array of light-emitting diodes mounted to the surface of a display substrate. The light-emitting diodes may be inorganic light-emitting diodes formed from separate crystalline semiconductor structures. An array of pixel control circuits may be used to control light emission from the light-emitting diodes. Each pixel control circuit may be configured to control one or more respective passive matrices. To control partial pixel cells in the display, a donor pixel control circuit in a partial pixel cell may control the pixels in a receptor partial pixel cell without a pixel control circuit. To mitigate the size of an inactive area of the display, fanout signal lines for the display may be formed in the light-emitting active area of the display. The fanout signal lines may be formed between a row of pixel control circuits and a bottom edge of the light-emitting active area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Sandeep Chalasani, Xiang Lu, Anurag Mehta, Hopil Bae, Chaohao Wang, Rajesh Velayuthan, Steven E. Molesa, Yaser Azizi, Young Don Bae, Sunmin Jang, Haitao Li, Hari P. Paudel, Anatole Huang, Tyler R. Kakuda, David A. Doyle, Wei H. Yao, Majid Gharghi, Vaibhav D. Patel
  • Patent number: 11442503
    Abstract: An electronic device such as a wearable electronic device may have a band. The band may form a stand-alone device or a strap for a wristwatch unit or other device. Electrical components may be mounted on flexible printed circuit substrates. A substrate may be encapsulated by elastomeric polymer material or other material forming the band. The elastomeric polymer material may form cavities that receive the electrical components. Components such as light-emitting diodes may be mounted to the flexible printed circuit substrates so that the light-emitting diodes are located in the cavities. Reflective sidewalls in the cavities may reflect light from the light-emitting diodes outwardly through a thinned portion of the band. Light-diffusing material in the cavities may be formed from clear polymer with light-scattering particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yung-Yu Hsu, Shubham A. Gandhi, Mingjing Ha, Paul S. Drzaic, Chang-Chia Huang, Han-Chieh Chang, Bryce T. Bradford, David W. Lum, Bhaskar Banerjee, Adam Adjiwibawa, David A. Doyle, Hong Luo, Michael J. Brown
  • Publication number: 20220093059
    Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display including display pixels to display an image based on compensated image data. The electronic display may also include a stressed reference pixel to exhibit burn-in related aging in response to one or more stress sessions and a non-stressed reference pixel configured to not undergo the one or more stress sessions. Additionally, the electronic device may include image processing circuitry to determine a panel-specific aging profile based on a comparison between one or more properties of the stressed reference pixel and the one or more properties of the non-stressed reference pixel. The image processing circuitry may also generate one or more gain maps based on the panel-specific aging profile and generate the compensated image data by applying the one or more gain maps to input image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Maofeng Yang, Jiayi Jin, David A. Doyle, Yifan Zhang, Weijun Yao, Jiye Lee, Tae-Wook Koh, Mathew K. Mathai, Chuang Qian, Tsung-Ting Tsai, James P. Landry, Kiran S. Pillai, Injae Hwang, Yongjun Li
  • Publication number: 20220051622
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The display may have a pixel array that produces images. A display cover layer may overlap the pixel array. The display cover layer may have a planar central area surrounded by a peripheral edge area with a curved cross-sectional profile. From an on-axis viewing angle, an image on the pixel array is fully viewable through the planar central area and the peripheral edge area. From an off-axis viewing angle, the image is partly viewable through the peripheral edge area and not through the central area. To avoid an undesired color cast in the partly viewable image seen through the peripheral edge area of the display cover layer, the display may be provided with color cast compensation structures such as a guest-host liquid crystal layer that exhibits an anisotropic colored light absorption characteristic, a diffuser layer, and/or other optical structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Sameer Pandya, Daniel J. Barrett, Erik G. de Jong, James P. Landry, David A. Doyle, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Jung Yun Seuh, Yi Qiao
  • Publication number: 20220004980
    Abstract: Improved systems, apparatus, and methods for enhanced positioning of an airborne relocatable communication hub supporting wireless devices are described. Such a method begins with moving an aerial communication drone operating as the airborne relocatable communication hub to a first deployed airborne position, detecting a first signal broadcast by a first wireless device using a communication hub interface on the drone, and detecting a second signal broadcast by a second wireless device using the communication hub interface. The method has the drone comparing a first connection signal strength for the first signal and a second connection signal strength for the second signal, and repositioning the aerial communication drone to a second deployed airborne position based upon the comparison. Once repositioned at the second deployed airborne position, the method has the drone linking the first and second wireless devices using the communication hub interface on the aerial communication drone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Reuben F. Burch, V, David A. Doyle, Brian D. Popp
  • Patent number: 11145249
    Abstract: A display may include pixels (such as light-emitting diode pixels) that are susceptible aging effects (burn-in). To help avoid visible artifacts caused by burn-in during operation of the display, compensation circuitry may be used to compensate image data for the display. An optical sensor may be included behind the pixels to directly measure pixel brightness levels. The optical sensor may provide optical sensor data from testing operations to the compensation circuitry. The optical sensor may gather data during burn-in testing operations. During the burn-in testing operations, pixel groups including both high-usage pixels and low-usage pixels may sequentially emit light while the optical sensor gathers data. Brightness differences between the high-usage pixels and low-usage pixels may be used to characterize pixel aging in the display and compensate image data to mitigate visible artifacts caused by burn-in. The optical sensor may also gather data during global brightness testing operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Inventors: Wanglei Han, Akshay Bhat, Michael H. Lim, Kyung Hoae Koo, Jiayi Jin, David A. Doyle, Tae-Wook Koh, Jared S. Price, Yifan Zhang, Mahdi Nezamabadi