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ROUTE IDENTIFICATION AND CLUSTERING FOR REAL-TIME MAPPING
The subject technology provides for route identification and clustering for real-time mapping. Various clustering techniques can identify groupings of relevant prior routes that can later be mapped against a current route. Filtering and matching techniques can be applied to identify and cluster…
Electrolyte for lithium ion batteries
This disclosure relates generally to battery cells, and more particularly, electrolyte additives for use in lithium ion battery cells.
Electronic device with charging-coil independent rear-facing antenna
An electronic device may have conductive sidewalls and a rear wall. The rear wall may have a first portion mounted to the sidewalls and a second portion protruding away from the first portion to define a cavity. A sensor board may be mounted within the cavity. A coil structure may be mounted within…
TECHNIQUES FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT WITH A LIVE VIDEO FEED
The present disclosure generally relates to techniques for displaying content with a live video feed.
FRIENDLY METAL LOSS ESTIMATION FOR WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER
Determining friendly metal loss in a wireless power transfer device can include measuring one or more observable parameters associated with wireless power transfer between the wireless power transfer device and a counterpart wireless power transfer device; determining flux in a wireless power…
NAVIGATIONAL USER INTERFACES
The present disclosure generally relates to navigational user interfaces, including displaying indications of locations, transitioning from displaying a watch face user interface in a first mode to displaying the watch face user interface in a second mode, displaying a navigational complication for…
Display module and glass with undercut plastic frame
An electronic device having a display assembly is disclosed. Several layers may combine to form the display assembly. For example, the display assembly may include a touch sensitive layer (or touch detection layer), a display layer that present visual information, and a force sensitive layer (or…
Devices and methods for comparing and selecting alternative navigation routes
Devices, methods, and machine-read le media to facilitate intuitive comparison and selection of calculated navigation routes are disclosed. An electronic device for navigation includes a touch-sensitive screen and a processing module for displaying a map, calculating a number or navigation routes…
Capturing location data for waypoint
Approaches to provide location services are described. An example method may include receiving a request to display at least one waypoint user interface object on an electronic device user interface, sending a request to duty cycle waypoint information requests for the at least one waypoint user…
System and method for adjusting the audio volume of a charging case
A charging case for a pair of wireless earphones, the charging case comprising: a housing having a peripheral wall that defines a shell and one or more audio openings formed through the peripheral wall; a frame insert coupled to the housing and extending into the shell, the frame insert having one…
Coil driven switched capacitor and controller for wired and inductive charging
A coil driven switched capacitor (CDSC) converter can include at least one input coil that receives input power; first and second cascades of one or more CDSC cells, an input of each cascade being coupled to the at least one coil, and an output of each cascade being coupled to an output bus of the…
Copper alloy film with high strength and high conductivity
A method of forming a component can include electrochemically depositing a metallic material onto a carrier component to a thickness of greater than 50 microns. The metallic material can include crystal grains and at least 90% of the crystal grains can include nanotwin boundaries. The metallic…
Pedestrian dead reckoning using differential geometric properties of human gait
In some embodiments, a method comprises: receiving acceleration data from a motion sensor of a mobile device carried by a user, the acceleration data represented by a space curve in a three-dimensional (3D) acceleration space, the space curve indicative of a cyclical vertical displacement of the…
Physical activity user interfaces
The present disclosure generally relates to displaying information related to a physical activity. In some embodiments, methods and user interfaces for managing the display of information related to a physical activity are described.
Power transfer accounting for wireless power transfer
Transmitters and/or receivers in a wireless power transfer system predict power losses to account for presence of foreign objects.
Methods and Circuitry for Mitigating Saturation in Wireless Power Systems
A wireless charging system having a power transmitter may wirelessly transfer power to a power receiver. Shield saturation, such as saturation of a ferrite structure, in the wireless power receiver may occur under some operating conditions. Saturation can lead to disruptive oscillations in power…
Wireless power systems with amplitude-shift-keying communications
A wireless power system has a wireless power transmitting device and a wireless power receiving device. The wireless power transmitting device may include ASK decoding circuitry. An inverter controller may supply control signals to an inverter based on a clock signal. To improve wireless…
System For Determining Position Both Indoor and Outdoor
An apparatus, method, and computer readable medium related to determining the position of a device, for example determining the pose of a camera. Varying embodiments discuss the use of sensors and captured images to construct an environment property map, which provides reference information in the…
USER INTERFACES FOR CREATING AND NAVIGATING PREDEFINED ROUTES
In some embodiments, an electronic device navigates the electronic device back to a predefined route when the electronic device determines that the current location of the electronic device is off route. In some embodiments, an electronic device provides different navigation directions in…
EXPANDED FUNCTIONALITY OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE VIA A CLOSED-LOOP THERMAL SOLUTION
Devices, methods, and structures for unleashing the full computing power of handheld and wearable computing devices. An example can provide a docking station that can help to overcome form factor limitations of handheld and wearable computing and other small form factor devices. These limitations…
FREEFORM BATTERIES
Batteries having convoluted, freeform shapes. These batteries can have curved and twisted surfaces that are freeform and do not have a constant radius or degree of rotation. A stack of battery layers can undergo a two-step heat press. The first heat press can be applied to the battery layers in a…
SURFACE AREA INCREASE AND PROTECTION FOR ELECTRODES
Batteries that can have improved power delivery capabilities. One example can provide an anode electrode having an increased surface area. This increase in surface area can improve electrolyte wetting capability and lithium ion diffusion kinetics. The improved electrolyte wetting capability and…
BATTERY ELECTRODE WITH NON-UNIFORM TAB
An electrode includes a body and a tab extending from the body. The tab includes a first cross-sectional area at a first location along a length of the tab, a second cross-sectional area at a second location along the length of the tab, and a third cross-sectional area at a third location along the…
WIRELESS CHARGER DEVICE SUPPORTING MULTIPLE WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER SPECIFICATIONS
A wireless charger device can support multiple different receiver devices having different wireless charging specifications. The wireless charger device can house two wireless power transmitter coils having different dimensions and arranged coaxially with each other. A first coil can have a size…
LOW POWER PING TRANSITION TO WIRELESS POWER RECEIVER MODE
An electronic device selectively operable in a wireless power receiver mode to receive power from a wireless power transmitter and in a wireless power transmitter mode to transmit power to an accessory can include a wireless power transfer coil; a rectifier coupled to the wireless power transfer…
MULTI-PHASE BUCK-BOOST CHARGER ARCHITECTURE
A multi-phase buck-boost converter system can include an external discrete component power stage and a controller integrated circuit. The external discrete component power stage can include a first and second phases each respectively having an input half bridge including first and second or third…
WIRELESS CHARGER DEVICE
Wireless charger devices can incorporate various combinations of features, such as monolithic ferrite structures to shield the inductive coil that include sidewalls to confine flux, a common-mode choke integrated with the ferrite, and/or robust grounding of the ferrite and an electric shield. Such…
FAST CHARGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS
A battery configured to power a device includes a battery management unit (BMU). The BMU is configured to determine a fast charging handshake criteria based at least in part on a temperature of the battery and an aging condition of the battery. The BMU is also configured to transmit a fast charging…
COUPLING BETWEEN BATTERY COVER AND BASE
A battery comprising a base including a base portion defining an interior volume and a base flange extending from the base portion. The battery also includes a battery cell stack positioned in the interior volume. The battery also includes a cover welded to the base flange with a plurality of welds…
TECHNIQUES FOR SENSOR CALIBRATION
The present disclosure generally relates to sensor calibration. Some techniques described herein are for calibrating a camera using a motion sensor.
IMPROVED COUPLING BETWEEN BATTERY COVER AND BASE
A battery comprising a base including a base portion defining an interior volume and a base flange extending from the base portion. The battery also includes a battery cell stack positioned in the interior volume. The battery also includes a cover welded to the base flange with a plurality of welds…
ACTIVE DISCHARGER FOR HIGH VOLTAGE CAPACITORS WITH REDUCED IDLE POWER LOSS
An active capacitor discharging circuit for a power supply can include a current source adapted to be coupled between one or more capacitors and ground; and a voltage-controlled switch that selectively opens responsive to the power supply operating to reduce power consumed by the current source and…
BATTERY WITH SELECTIVELY LOCATED COMPONENTRY OF A BATTERY MANAGEMENT UNIT
A battery includes an enclosure having a longitudinal body section and a lateral body section extending from and normal to the longitudinal body section, where an intersection of the longitudinal body section and the lateral body section defines an interior corner. The battery also includes…
BATTERY WITH COVERED PLUG
A battery that includes a housing defining a housing aperture, a battery cell stack positioned in the housing, a plug coupled to the housing over the housing aperture, a covering material disposed on at least a portion of the plug. The plug includes a first plate coupled to the housing and defining…
Filtering Spurious Signals in a Wireless Transceiver
An electronic device may include wireless circuitry having a transformer with a primary coil and a secondary coil, a first series inductor coupled to the primary coil, a second series inductor coupled to the primary coil, and a filter inductor inductively coupled to the first and second series…
USER INTERFACES FOR MANAGING CAR KEY CREDENTIALS
The present disclosure generally relates to managing car key credentials, including transferring a car key during a device setup process and configuring a new role for sharing a car key.
INTELLIGENT RESTRICTION OF DEVICE OPERATIONS
A navigation system includes a user interface for detecting touch input. The system uses touch input to determine if a driver or passenger is operating the navigation system. If the system determines that the driver is operating the system, then an action is initiated (e.g., the user interface is…
Head-Mounted Device With Tension Adjustment
A head-mounted device includes a display device that is configured to display content to a user, a support structure including a contact pad configured to engage a face of the user to support the display device with respect to the face of the user, a sensor that generates a sensor output signal…
Guidance Of Autonomous Vehicles In Destination Vicinities Using Intent Signals
Signals usable to determine a path of a vehicle towards a particular stopping point in a vicinity of a destination are detected from an individual authorized to provide guidance with respect to movements of the vehicle. Based at least in part on the signals and a data set pertaining to the external…
DEVICE COUPLING FOR WIRELESS CHARGING
Electronic apparatuses according to embodiments of the present technology may include an electronic device a first surface and a second surface opposite the first. The electronic device may include a battery and a wireless charging coil within an interior volume of the device. The electronic device…
SMART ENCLOSURES FOR BATTERIES IN CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
A battery includes an enclosure, a battery management unit (BMU), a conductive trace including conductive particles disposed on a surface of the enclosure and electrically coupled with the BMU to form a closed-loop electrical path. The BMU is configured to detect a resistance in the closed-loop…
Wireless Power System With Charging Alerts
A wireless power system has first and second electronic devices. The first electronic device may receive power from an alternating-current-to-direct-current power converter. A magnetic sensor and/or other sensing circuitry may detect when a second electronic device is attached to the first…
Orientation Based on Vanishing Points
In one implementation, a method of determining a downward direction is performed by a device including one or more processors, non-transitory memory, and an image sensor. The method includes capturing, using the image sensor, an image of a physical environment. The method includes detecting a…
Transit Navigation
Some embodiments provide a map application that identifies a transit route that includes one or more transit legs between a starting location and a destination location. In response to a request to start navigating the identified transit route, the map application of some embodiments provides a…
FRIENDLY METAL LOSS ESTIMATION
A wireless power transfer device can include a coil that couples to a corresponding coil of a counterpart device to facilitate wireless power transfer, a power converter coupled to the coil, and controller and communication circuitry that monitors one or more observable parameters associated with…
INDICATION FOR PROTECTIVE CHARGING MODE
The present disclosure generally relates to techniques for a displaying a user interface including a visual indication that an electronic device is in a protective charging mode. While the electronic device is in a charging configuration with respect to an external power source, an energy-storage…
Wireless Power Systems With Interference Mitigation
A wireless power system has a wireless power transmitting device and a wireless power receiving device. A clock signal may be provided to inverter circuitry in wireless power transmitting circuitry at a power transmission frequency. The clock signal may cause transistors in the inverter circuitry…
Wireless Charging System with a Switchable Magnetic Core
An electronic device in a wireless power system may be operable with a removable accessory such as a case. The device may convey wireless power to, from, or through the case while the device is coupled to the case. The device may have coplanar power transmitting and power receiving coils. The…