Portable electronic device having an integrated bio-sensor
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsQiliang Xu, Richard G. Huizar
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Abstract
An electronic device includes a translucent layer that forms a portion of an exterior of the electronic device, an opaque material positioned on the translucent layer that defines micro-perforations, and a processing unit operable to determine information about a user via the translucent layer. The processing unit may be operable to determine the information by transmitting optical energy through a first set of the micro-perforations into a body part of the user, receiving a reflected portion of the optical energy from the body part of the user through a second set of the micro-perforations, and analyzing the reflected portion of the optical energy.
Claims20
A portable electronic device, comprising:
- an upper enclosure;
- a display positioned within the upper enclosure;
- a lower enclosure pivotally coupled to the upper enclosure and comprising:
- a translucent layer defining an external surface;
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- an opaque layer coupled to the translucent layer and defining an array of micro-perforations;
- a keyboard positioned within the lower enclosure;
- a bio-sensor positioned within the lower enclosure below the array of micro-perforations and comprising:
- a light source operable to transmit light through the array of micro-perforations into a body part of a user;
- and
- a light receiver operable to receive reflected light from the body part of the user;
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- a processing unit, communicably coupled to the light receiver and operable to determine a health metric based on the reflected light.
An electronic device, comprising:
- an enclosure having a translucent layer that forms part of an exterior surface of the electronic device;
- a keyboard positioned within the enclosure;
- an opaque material positioned along an interior surface of the translucent layer and defining an array of micro-perforations;
- a bio-sensor positioned within the enclosure and below the array of micro-perforations, the bio-sensor comprising:
- a light source configured to transmit light through the array of micro-perforations;
- a light receiver configured to detect reflected light from a body part exterior to the enclosure;
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- a processing unit operable to determine bio-information based on the reflected light detected by the light receiver.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.