Patents Assigned to Apple, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20240154709
    Abstract: Aspects are described for a user equipment (UE) comprising a transceiver configured to enable wireless communication with a base station, and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to receive a configuration message from the base station, wherein the configuration message indicates a model identifications (ID) and one or more signals and measure the one or more signals to generate a data set corresponding to the model ID. The processor is further configured to train a first artificial intelligence (AI) model corresponding to the model ID using the data set; generate a second data set corresponding the model ID; and transmit the second data set and the model ID to the base station. The second data set is used to train a second AI model corresponding to the model ID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Huaning NIU, Wei ZENG, Dawei ZHANG, Ankit BHAMRI, Hong HE, Sigen YE, Oghenekome OTERI, Weidong YANG, Haitong SUN
  • Publication number: 20240154759
    Abstract: Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE). The UE obtains, from a network device, a first configuration information. The first configuration information indicates a first resource set for an aperiodic Sounding Reference Signal (AP-SRS). The first resource set for the AP-SRS includes a first list of slot offsets. The UE decodes a second configuration information from the network device. The second configuration information indicates a reference slot and a first slot offset of the first list of slot offsets. The UE generates the AP-SRS for transmission to the network device based on the reference slot and the first slot offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240155525
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein can mitigate interference in a wireless network. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can determine a mode of operation of a base station (BS) within the wireless network. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can select a first time advance (TA) when the BS is operating in a static time division duplex (TDD) mode of operation or a second TA when the BS is operating in a sub-band full duplex (SBFD) mode of operation or a dynamic TDD mode of operation. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can advance signals on an uplink (UL) by the first TA to cause the signals on the UL to be time aligned with other signals from other UEs on the UL at the BS to mitigate inter carrier interference (ICI) at the BS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN, Haitong SUN, Hong HE, Wei ZENG, Chunxuan YE, Dawei ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240153150
    Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress and encode data for three-dimensional visual volumetric content. To compress the 3D visual volumetric content, a compressed mesh is generated as well as compressed attribute information. Also, texture coordinates indicating a mapping between the vertices of the mesh and the attributes are signaled. However, in some situations a resolution used for the texture coordinates and a resolution used for the attributes may differ, in which case the respective resolutions are signaled. A decoder determines how to adjust the texture coordinate to attribute value mapping to account for the differing resolutions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jungsun Kim, Alexandros Tourapis, Khaled Mammou
  • Patent number: 11979656
    Abstract: An electronic device with a camera obtains, with the camera, one or more images of a scene. The electronic device detects a respective feature within the scene. In accordance with a determination that a first mode is active on the device, the electronic device provides a first audible description of the scene. The first audible description provides information indicating a size and/or position of the respective feature relative to a first set of divisions applied to the one or more images of the scene. In accordance with a determination that the first mode is not active on the device, the electronic device provides a second audible description of the plurality of objects. The second audible description is distinct from the first audible description and does not include the information indicating the size and/or position of the respective feature relative to the first set of divisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Christopher B. Fleizach, Darren C. Minifie, Eryn R. Wells, Nandini Kannamangalam Sundara Raman
  • Patent number: 11979945
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for a wireless device to determine a radio access technology availability indicator to present. A wireless device may establish a wireless link with a cellular network via a cell that operates according to a first radio access technology. The wireless device may determine if access to the cellular network is also available via a cell that operates according to a second radio access technology, by configuration by the serving cell or from another standalone cell. The wireless device may select a radio access technology availability indicator to present based at least in part on determining if access to the cellular network is also available via a cell that operates according to the second radio access technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sofheem Mohammed, Rohit Thareja, Vijay Venkataraman, Shivani Suresh Babu
  • Patent number: 11979939
    Abstract: Emergency services support is indicated to roaming devices in a wireless network. A user equipment (UE) may receive a message from the wireless network indicating at least one public land mobile network (PLMN) that provides emergency services support for devices in limited service. The UE may store, in a non-volatile memory (NVM), an identifier of the at least one PLMN in a whitelist of limited service emergency services support. In response to a trigger in a roaming limited service condition of the UE, the UE may establish an emergency session with a selected PLMN based on the whitelist of limited service emergency services support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Vijay Venkataraman, Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Krisztian Kiss, Mohammed Sadique, Nirlesh Koshta, Rohit R. Matolia, Sirisha Madduri, Sridhar Prakasam, Srinivasan Nimmala, Xiangpeng Jing
  • Patent number: 11979657
    Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology provide power efficient object detection for electronic devices. Power efficient object detection can be provided in order to allow extended tracking of objects by portable devices such as battery powered devices. In one or more implementations, a recommendation engine including a machine learning model and/or a rule-based recommendation process may be provided that has been trained to output a sensor recommendation indicating at least one sensor for object tracking. The sensor recommendation can indicate which of several sensors to operate to track a particular object and/or an accuracy level for operating the recommended sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Anselm Grundhoefer
  • Patent number: 11977951
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that match image portions of a first set of image portions and image portions of another set of image portions. This may be performed in a such a way that the sum of descriptor distances of the matched image portions is optimized in a globally optimal way. In some implementations, the matching is subject to one or more constraints, e.g., ensuring that each image portion of the first data set is matched with at least one image portion of the second data set and ensuring that each image portion of the second data set is matched with only one image portion of the first data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Charles Bernard Marcel Bazin, Anselm Grundhoefer, Arun Srivatsan Rangaprasad
  • Patent number: 11977729
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for navigating and providing physical activity information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Julie A. Arney, Chandler S. Bachman, Jay K. Blahnik, Edward Chao, David S. Clark, Brett L. Lareau, Emily Pedersen, Matthew M. Sun, Eduardo Valencia Paz
  • Patent number: 11977731
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments are directed to a media capture lock affordance for a graphical user interface displayed by a media capture device. The media capture lock affordance allows a user to lock and unlock a capture state of the media capture device using a simple and intuitive touch gesture that can be applied by the user's finger (e.g., the user's thumb) while holding the media capture device in one hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anton M. Davydov, Jane E. Koo, Johnnie B. Manzari, Grant R. Paul, William A. Sorrentino, III, Andre Souza Dos Santos, Daniel J. Wiersema
  • Patent number: 11977411
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to context-specific user interfaces. In some embodiments, methods are provided for displaying a watch user interface including a clock face and a user interface element at least partially surrounding the clock face. In some embodiments, methods are further provided for receiving a request to add a respective complication to a respective location on the clock face and, in response to receiving the request: in accordance with a determination that the respective complication is a first complication, displaying the first complication in the respective location and replacing at least a portion of the user interface element with content associated with the first complication; and in accordance with a determination that the respective complication is a second complication, displaying the second complication in the respective location without replacing the portion of the user interface element with content associated with the second complication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Taylor G. Carrigan, Alan C. Dye, Nicholas D. Felton, Aled Hywel Williams, Christopher Wilson
  • Patent number: 11977683
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing defining an aperture. An input device extends through the aperture and has a user input surface external to the housing. An inertial actuator is mechanically and fixedly coupled to the input device and positioned within the housing. A mechanical wave dampener provides mechanical wave dampening between the input device and the housing. The electronic device enables haptic feedback to be provided locally to the input device. In some cases, the mechanical wave dampener may dampen shaking of the input device with respect to the housing by at least an order of magnitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Riccardo Tarelli, Muhammad F. Hossain
  • Patent number: 11979911
    Abstract: Current 5G provisions for wireless communications do not allow for the differentiation of channel access by User Equipments (UEs) with different priorities. Approaches are described by which priority access for UEs in a controlled environment using frame based equipment (FBE), and in particular for different UEs or the same UE that has different configured grants. The approaches are particularly helpful for ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) UEs. In one approach, the UE performs a clear channel assessment (CCA) in an idle period before the fixed frame period (FFP), followed by a channel access priority test. In an alternative approach, the UE performs a channel access priority test before the UE performs a clear channel assessment (CCA) in an idle period before the fixed frame period (FFP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Huaning Niu, Weidong Yang, Sigen Ye, Haitong Sun, Chunxuan Ye, Chunhai Yao, Hong He, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang
  • Patent number: D1025678
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rebecca M. Cully, Jennifer Ross Wynn, Christopher M. Green, Christopher Daniel Peak, David Kahl Peschel, Stefan Behling, James Sherman, Vasileios Bakas
  • Patent number: D1025794
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Alexandre B. Girard, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1026016
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Woo Chang, Nathan de Vries, Marcel van Os
  • Patent number: D1026020
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brian James Andrich, Woon Yung Choi, William Nevin Danner, Nicholas Provenzano
  • Patent number: D1026023
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin James Crick, Richard R. Dellinger, YunJae Kim, Eileen Y. Lee, Joseph Mark Willoughby Luxton
  • Patent number: D1026026
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Butcher, Joseph Chan, Victoria Elaine Hinn, Jennifer Patton, Eric Lance Wilson