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US 2026/0229245 A1Published application
Donning state detection for wearable electronic devices
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsDavid M. TREMBLAY, Venu M. DUGGINENI, Michael J. ROCKWELL, Jerome C. TU, Nicholas C. SOLDNER
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Abstract
Aspects of the subject technology provide for low power operations for determining when a wearable electronic device is being worn. A microphone may be used to identify one or more acoustic indicators of whether a device is being worn, is unworn, or is in the process of being put on (donned) or taken off (doffed). An operational state may be set based on the one or more acoustic indicators.
Claims23
A method, comprising:
- detecting, using a microphone of a device, a first donning indicator that indicates that the device is being donned by a user;
- performing, based on the detecting, a donning detection operation with a sensor separate from the microphone;
- and
- setting an operational state of the device based on whether a second donning indicator is detected by the donning detection operation.
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A method, comprising:
- detecting, using a microphone of a device while a user is logged into and wearing the device, a device removal indicator that indicates that the device is being removed from being worn by the user;
- and
- preventing, based on the detecting of the device removal indicator, access to one or more features of the device.
A wearable device comprising:
- a microphone;
- a sensor;
- and
- one or more processors configured to:
- detect, using the microphone, a first indicator that indicates that the wearable device is being moved from an unworn state to a worn state;
- perform a wearing state detection operation with the sensor;
- and
- set an operational state of the wearable device based on whether a second indicator that indicates that the wearable device is being moved from the unworn state to the worn state is detected by the wearing state detection operation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.