Apple Inc. (20250087877). Electronic Device with Reconfigurable Antenna Radiation Pattern

Electronic Device with Reconfigurable Antenna Radiation Pattern

Organization Name

Apple Inc.

Inventor(s)

Simon G. Begashaw of Santa Clara CA (US)

Jiangfeng Wu of San Jose CA (US)

Mei-Li Chi of San Jose CA (US)

Killian J. Poore of San Jose CA (US)

Siwen Yong of San Francisco CA (US)

Yi Jiang of Cupertino CA (US)

Electronic Device with Reconfigurable Antenna Radiation Pattern

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250087877 titled 'Electronic Device with Reconfigurable Antenna Radiation Pattern

Original Abstract Submitted

a head-mounted device may have a housing with a cover having three-dimensional curvature. a front-facing display may be mounted to the cover and may display images through the cover. the cover may have a peripheral region laterally surrounding the front-facing display. an antenna may have an antenna resonating element layered onto the cover overlapping the peripheral region. the antenna may be switchable between different radiation patterns. a controller may gather wireless performance metric data for each of the radiation patterns. the antenna may be switched to exhibit a radiation pattern that optimizes the wireless performance metric data. this may serve to minimize interference from external devices operating using the same ultra-low-latency audio communications protocol as the antenna.