Apple Patents
Apple Inc. designs, manufactures and markets smartphones, tablets and personal computers, including the iPhone, iPad, Mac. It also produces the iPod, Apple Watch and Apple TV, as well as the operating systems and applications that support these devices. The company also sells digital content and applications through its iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store, iBooks Store and Apple Music.
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Patent number: 11956375Abstract: A digital letter of approval (DLOA) is used by a subscription manager (SM) server to determine whether a device is compliant with requirements for an application to be provisioned. If the device is compliant, the application is provisioned to the device or to an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) included in the device. To increase the security of the device DLOA, the device DLOA is linked to the eUICC, in some embodiments. The linkage may be based on one or more platform label fields in the device DLOA. A database is consulted, in some embodiments, to confirm a relationship between the device and the eUICC identified in the device DLOA. In some embodiments, the eUICC signs the device DLOA and the device DLOA with eUICC signature is sent to the SM server. In some embodiments, the device provides a device signature on the DLOA independent of the eUICC.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Xiangying Yang
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Patent number: 11955100Abstract: An electronic device having a touch-screen display detects a first input on the display while displaying a first user interface on the display. In response to detecting the first input on the display, the device enters a flashlight mode. Entering the flashlight mode includes replacing the first user interface with a first flashlight user interface. The first flashlight user interface has a first total lumen output and a first luminance that is substantially uniform over the display. The device determines whether brightness change criteria are met, and in accordance with a determination that the brightness change criteria are met, displays a second flashlight user interface having a second total lumen output greater than the first total lumen output and a second luminance that is substantially uniform over the display.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marco Triverio, Gary Ian Butcher, Kevin Will Chen, Matthew J. Sundstrom, Christopher Patrick Foss
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Patent number: 11956544Abstract: A camera includes a camera actuator having autofocus (AF) voice coil motor (VCM) with a lens carrier mounting attachment moveably mounted to a base, magnets mounted to the base, and an AF coil fixedly mounted to the lens carrier mounting attachment for producing forces for moving a lens carrier in a direction of an optical axis of a lens of the lens carrier. The magnets may include a pair of first magnets laterally spaced along a first side of the camera and a pair of second magnets laterally spaced along a second side of the camera opposite the first side. The optical image stabilization (OIS) VCM includes an image sensor carrier moveably mounted to the base, and OIS coils moveably mounted to the image sensor carrier within the magnetic fields of the magnets, for producing forces for moving the image sensor carrier in directions orthogonal to the optical axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Seyed Mohammad Javid Mahmoudzadeh, Aurelien R Hubert, Phillip R Sommer
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Patent number: 11953690Abstract: Multiple head-mounted devices and/or other electronic devices can operate in concert to provide multiple users with shared experiences and content enjoyment. Such operations can be facilitated by a connection between multiple head-mounted devices and/or other electronic devices to allow different users to receive content. Such a connection can be made possible by a connector that directly and physically connects head-mounted devices and/or other electronic devices to each other and transmits signals there between. By providing a physical connection, the signals can be efficiently transmitted even when other types of connections (e.g., wireless) are not available.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Forrest C. Wang, Ritu Shah
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Patent number: 11956740Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are disclosed herein. The UE may attempt to decode sidelink synchronization signals (SLSSs) received on component carriers (CCs) of a carrier aggregation. In one configuration, synchronization resources for SLSS transmissions may be aligned across the CCs at subframe boundaries in time, restricted to a portion of the CCs, and restricted to a same sub-frame. The UE may, for multiple CCs, determine a priority level for the CC based on indicators in the SLSSs received on the CC. The UE may select, from the CCs on which one or more SLSSs are decoded, the CC for which the determined priority level is highest. The UE may determine a reference timing for sidelink communication based on the one or more SLSSs received on the selected CC.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ajit Nimbalker, Debdeep Chatterjee, Jeongho Jeon, Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr, Sergey Panteleev, Gang Xiong, Alexey Vladimirovich Khoryaev, Mikhail Shilov, Sergey Sosnin, Andrey Chervyakov
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Patent number: 11953755Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein include techniques for maintaining multiple cameras in focus on same objects and/or at same distances. In some examples, a subordinate camera may be configured to focus based on the focus of a primary camera. For instance, a focus relationship between the primary camera and the subordinate camera may be determined. The focus relationship may characterize the trajectory of the lens position of the subordinate camera with respect to the lens position of the primary camera. In various examples, the focus relationship may be updated.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Richard L. Baer, Andrew David Fernandez, Santiago Alban
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Patent number: 11956594Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to a device comprising a moving-coil speaker including a diaphragm to play low-frequency signals from an audio-signal source, and a piezoelectric transducer coupled to the diaphragm to play high-frequency signals from the audio-signal source. A coupler couples the diaphragm to a housing of the device.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Aneesh R. Kudekar, Onur I. Ilkorur, Pablo Seoane Vieites, Stuart M. Nevill
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Patent number: 11954303Abstract: The subject technology displays an application window showing first contents of a given level of a hierarchical content structure associated with an electronic device. Upon receiving a first user input, a navigation bar is displayed. The navigation bar displays a path including levels for arriving at the first contents within the hierarchical content structure. The displayed path is determined based on metadata associated with contents displayed in the application window. Responsive to a user selection of one of the items of the hierarchical content structure displayed in the navigation bar, content items displayed in the application window are changed.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kim Hunter, Pavel Cisler
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Patent number: 11954308Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to account recovery. An example method includes, at a computer system in communication with a display generation component and one or more input devices: performing a recovery contact set up process including providing a notification to a contact; after performing the recovery contact set up process, receiving, via the one or more input devices, a request to initiate an account recovery process; in response to the request to initiate the account recovery process and without providing a request to the contact, displaying, via the display generation component, a recovery code interface for receiving a set of recovery credentials; while displaying of the recovery code interface, receiving the set of recovery credentials; in accordance with a determination that the recovery credentials are valid, performing a recovery function; and in accordance with a determination that the recovery credentials are not valid, forgoing performing the recovery function.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Carmen S. Yu, David G. Knipp, Munish K. Poonia, Keetae Ryu, Hannah S. Story, Gokul P. Thirumalai
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Patent number: 11956611Abstract: A portable electronic device can include a housing at least partially defining an internal volume. The device can include a venting module including a membrane, a porous member, and a support structure. The membrane and porous member can define a fluid path extending a width of the porous member and placing the internal volume in fluid communication with an ambient environment adjacent the housing. The support structure can be coupled to the porous member.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jiahui Liang, Kahn C. Wu, Stephen L. Frey
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Patent number: 11954316Abstract: In some implementations, a method includes: while presenting an object via the display device, determining an operation set associated with the object that includes a plurality of input-response pairings, wherein each input-response pairing includes an input type and an associated response; obtaining, via the one or more input devices, a user input directed to the object; and, in response to detecting the user input: mapping the user input to an input-response pairing within the operation set associated with the object; and performing an operation on the object based on the user input and the input-response pairing.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Tyler Casella
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Patent number: 11956646Abstract: An apparatus of user equipment (UE) includes processing circuitry coupled to a memory, where to configure the UE for uplink (UL) beam selection in a New Radio (NR) network, the processing circuitry is to decode a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) from a base station. The MAC CE identifies a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set and a plurality of spatial relationship reference signals. An SRS is selected from the SRS resource set. A beam direction associated with a spatial relationship reference signal of the plurality of spatial relationship reference signals is derived. The spatial relationship reference signal corresponds to the selected SRS. The SRS is encoded for beamforming to transmit the selected SRS in the derived beam direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Honglei Miao
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Patent number: 11954323Abstract: An electronic device displays a messaging user interface of a messaging application, including a conversation transcript of a messaging session between a user of the electronic device and another user, a message-input area, and a representation corresponding to the other user. In response to detecting a first user input corresponding to the representation of the other user, a menu is displayed that contains an activatable menu item for initiating a payment action with the other user. While displaying the menu, in response to detecting a second user input corresponding to the activatable menu item for initiating a payment action with the first other user, a user interface configured to initiate sending of payment to, and/or requesting payment from, the first other user is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Imran A. Chaudhri, Freddy A. Anzures, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Nicholas V. King, Wan Si Wan, Darin B. Adler, Justin N. Wood, Roberto Garcia, Soin Shedlosky, George R. Dicker
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Patent number: 11956670Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to communicate with a further UE via a sidelink (SL). The UE encodes traffic for transmission to the further UE, wherein the traffic comprises a payload and a medium access control (MAC) subheader, wherein the MAC subheader indicates whether the payload corresponds to non-routed traffic between the UE and the further UE or routed traffic between either one of the UE or the further UE and a base station, wherein an other one of the UE or the further UE functions as a relay for the routed traffic and transmits the traffic.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yuqin Chen, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Murtaza A. Shikari, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Sree Ram Kodali, Srinivasan Nimmala, Srirang A Lovlekar
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Patent number: 11953952Abstract: An input device includes a touch plate having a central axis and a top surface with three outer points evenly spaced away from the central axis. A touch sensor is used to detect a user touch on the top surface at the first outer point, and a support mechanism supports the touch plate and is configured to translate the touch plate at the second and third outer points upon application of the user touch and translation of the touch plate at the first outer point. Translation of the three outer points is substantially equal along the central axis.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Brett W. Degner, Thomas R. Matzinger, Bradley J. Hamel, Ryan P. Brooks, Scott J. Krahn, Arka P. Roy
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Patent number: 11954885Abstract: A tracked device may be used in an extended reality system in coordination with a tracking device. The tracked device may be ordinarily difficult to track, for example due to changing appearances or relatively small surface areas of unchanging features, as may be the case with an electronic device with a relatively large display surrounded by a thin physical outer boundary. In these cases, the tracked device may periodically present an image to the tracking device that the tracking device stores as an indication to permit tracking of a known, unchanging feature despite the image not being presented continuously on the display of the tracked device. The image may include a static image, designated tracking data overlaid on an image frame otherwise scheduled for presentation, or extracted image features from the image frame otherwise scheduled for presentation. Additional power saving methods and known marker generation methods are also described.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Paolo Di Febbo, Anthony Ghannoum, Michele Stoppa, Kiranjit Dhaliwal
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Patent number: 11955908Abstract: An energy storage system can include a battery, a power converter comprising a first plurality of switching devices coupled to the battery and a second plurality of switching devices coupled between the first plurality of switching devices and an AC power system, and control circuitry that determines whether the AC power system is a single/split phase system or a three phase system and operates the first and second pluralities of switching devices accordingly. The control circuitry can include a microcontroller and a plurality of voltage sensors each configured to monitor a magnitude and a phase of a voltage to allow the control circuitry to determine whether the AC power system is a single/split phase system or a three phase system and whether the AC power system is connected with a line to line or line to neutral fault condition.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ashish K. Sahoo, Brandon Pierquet
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Patent number: 11955054Abstract: A device may include a display that display an image frame that is divided into adjustable regions having respective resolutions based on compensated image data. The device may also include image processing circuitry to generate the compensated image data by applying gains that compensate for burn-in related aging of pixels of the display. The gains are based on an aggregation of history updates indicative of estimated amounts of aging associated with pixel utilization. The circuitry may generate a history update by obtaining boundary data indicative of the boundaries between the adjustable regions, determining an estimated amount of aging, and dynamically resampling the estimated amount of aging by resampling a portion of the estimated amount of aging corresponding to an adjustable region by a factor and resampling of a different portion of the estimated amount of aging corresponding to another adjustable region by a different factor based on the boundary data.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jim C Chou, Shereef Shehata, Yung-Chin Chen
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Patent number: 11956898Abstract: Structures that implement three-dimensional (3D) conductive material (e.g., copper) in printed circuit boards (PCBs) are disclosed. 3D (three-dimensional) conductive material may include trenches and/or buried vias that are filled with conductive material in the PCBs. Trenches may be formed in build-up layers of a PCB by overlapping multiple laser drilled vias. The trenches may be filled with conductive material using electroplating process(es). Buried vias may be formed through the core layers of the PCB by mechanical drilling. The buried via may be filled with solid conductive material using a combination of electroless plating and electrolytic plating of conductive material. Various PCB structures are disclosed that implement combinations of these trenches and/or these buried vias filled with conductive material.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Anne M. Mason, Chad O. Simpson, William Hannon, Mark J. Beesley
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Patent number: 11955696Abstract: A device includes a display and a housing. The housing surrounds the display and has four corners defining portions of an exterior surface of the device. The housing includes a first housing segment defining at least part of a first corner of the four corners and configured to operate as an antenna; a second housing segment defining at least part of a second corner of the four corners; and a third housing segment defining at least part of a third corner of the four corners. The third corner forms part of the housing diagonally opposite the second corner. The housing further includes a non-conductive housing component that structurally couples the first housing segment to another portion of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Kevin M. Froese, Paul U. Leutheuser, Martin J. Auclair, Christopher J. Durning, Jun Ham, Lucy E. Browning, Sawyer I. Cohen, Richard Hung Minh Dinh, Donald J. Parr
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Patent number: 11956231Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide authority transfer of a virtual object in a shared CGR environment. In some implementations, at a first electronic device associated with a first owner having authority to transmit state updates of a virtual object, a state update is transmitted to one or more peers participating in the shared CGR environment associated with the current state of the virtual object by the first electronic device. In some implementations, a handoff message is transmitted to indicate that ownership of the virtual object is being handed off. Then, an acquisition message transmitted by a second electronic device associated with a second owner indicates ownership acquisition of the virtual object by the second owner. The first electronic device accepts state updates of the virtual object transmitted from the second owner based on receiving the acquisition message.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Igor L. Gorelik, Courtland M. Idstrom, Pablo P. Cheng, Yasser Rihan
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Patent number: 11955038Abstract: An electronic device may include a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. The display may have a number of independently controllable viewing zones. Each viewing zone displays a respective two-dimensional image. Each eye of the viewer may receive a different one of the two-dimensional images, resulting in a perceived three-dimensional image. The electronic device may include display pipeline circuitry that generates and processes content to be displayed on the lenticular display. Content generating circuitry may generate content that includes a plurality of two-dimensional images, each two-dimensional image corresponding to a respective viewing zone. Pixel mapping circuitry may be used to map the two-dimensional images to the array of pixels in the lenticular display. The array of pixels may have a diagonal layout. An offset map may be used by the pixel mapping circuitry to account for the diagonal layout.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Chaohao Wang, Yi-Pai Huang, Yue Ma, Ping-Yen Chou, Fu-Chung Huang
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Patent number: 11956001Abstract: A mobile communication device that is configured to cancel interference within received millimeter wave band signals. The device includes a receiver circuit that is configured to receive a millimeter wave band signal, adjust gain provided to the millimeter wave band signal at a first amplifier, cancel interference in millimeter wave band signal after gain is adjusted by the first amplifier, and adjust gain provided to the millimeter wave band signal at a second amplifier after interference is cancelled.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Mikhail T. Galeev, Oner Orhan, Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe, Benjamin Grewell, Navid Naderializadeh, Hosein Nikopour, Susruth Sudhakaran, Shilpa Talwar, Liang Xian
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Patent number: 11955717Abstract: A radio frequency system package may include waveguides and loading blocks. The loading blocks may include dielectric material having a high dielectric constant between 13 and 20. Additionally, the loading blocks may be made of mold, epoxy, or the like material, and the loading blocks may fit into a region cut out of the waveguides. Moreover, the loading blocks may lower the cut-off frequency for wireless communication otherwise provided by the waveguides without the loading blocks (e.g., 28 GHz). In particular, the loading blocks may facilitate communication in low mmWave frequencies, such as 24 GHz.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Thomas Wu Yang, Michael D. Quinones, Harish Rajagopalan, Gareth L. Rose, Bhaskara R. Rupakula, Jiechen Wu, Hao Xu
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Patent number: 11956169Abstract: Technology for a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) operable to communicate over an anchor channel for Unlicensed Internet of Things (U-IoT) is disclosed. The gNB can encode control information for transmission on two discovery reference signal (DRS) subframes to a user equipment (UE). The control information can be transmitted on an anchor channel having a set frequency for U-IoT in an adaptive frequency hopping system. The control information can include: a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) transmission, and a system information block for MulteFire bandwidth reduced (SIB-MF-BR).Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Qiaoyang Ye, Huaning Niu, Wenting Chang, Salvatore Talarico
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Patent number: 11955796Abstract: An output circuit included in an integrated circuit may employ multiple protection circuits to protect driver devices from damage during an electrostatic discharge event. One protection circuit clamps a signal port to a ground supply node upon detection of the electrostatic discharge event. Another protection circuit increases the voltage level of a control terminal to one of the driver devices during the electrostatic discharge event to reduce the voltage across the driver device and prevent damage to the device.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Junjun Li, Abbas Komijani, Hongrui Wang
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Patent number: 11950916Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for health monitoring. Exemplary user interfaces for initial setup of health monitoring using a first electronic device and a second electronic device is described. Exemplary user interfaces for recording biometric information for use in health monitoring is described. Exemplary user interfaces for using an input device while recording biometric information for health monitoring is described. Exemplary user interfaces for viewing and managing aspects of health monitoring is described.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher D. Soli, Roxanne B. Brittain, Gary Ian Butcher, Matthew W. Crowley, Bradley W. Griffin, Heather E. Daniel, Stephen O. Lemay
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Patent number: 11955137Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. For example, a first speech input directed to a digital assistant is received from a user. A first response is provided based on the first speech input. A session window is initiated, wherein the session window is associated with a variable speech threshold. A second speech input is received during the session window. In accordance with a determination that the second speech input includes speech directed to the digital assistant, a duration associated with the session window is increased. In accordance with a determination that the variable speech threshold does not exceed a predetermined speech threshold, the session window is ended.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Garrett L. Weinberg, Harry J. Saddler
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Patent number: 11953080Abstract: A ball screw spline actuator includes a shaft, a ball nut, and a ball spline. The shaft includes a helical groove and a spline groove intersecting the helical groove forming intersections having a least one ridge including a first surface finish formed by a first manufacturing operation. The ridge is subsequently reformed through a second manufacturing operation to include a second surface finish to reduce stress concentrations in the ridge from cyclical loading from at least one of the ball nut or the ball spline. In one example, the second manufacturing operation reforms the ridge to include a surface finished edge.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Sina Mobasher Moghaddam, Troy A. Carter, Jonathan L. Hall
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Patent number: 11956048Abstract: Systems and methods provide for beam detection in a wireless communication system. An apparatus for a UE may be configured to identify a plurality of CSI-RS resources corresponding to different Tx beams configured for measurement by the UE, measure an L1-RSRP for the plurality of CSI-RS resources, determine a selected Tx beam of the different Tx beams based on measured L1-RSRP values for the plurality of CSI-RS resources, and determine a measurement accuracy of a first L1-RSRP value corresponding to the selected Tx beam based on successful beam detection probability.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Hua Li, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Qiming Li, Manasa Raghavan, Zhibin Yu
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Patent number: 11954405Abstract: An electronic device can implement a zero-latency digital assistant by capturing audio input from a microphone and using a first processor to write audio data representing the captured audio input to a memory buffer. In response to detecting a user input while capturing the audio input, the device can determine whether the user input meets a predetermined criteria. If the user input meets the criteria, the device can use a second processor to identify and execute a task based on at least a portion of the contents of the memory buffer.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: William F. Stasior, David A. Carson, Rohit Dasari, Yoon Kim
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Patent number: 11956291Abstract: Systems and methods for creating stations by adding new media streams are provided. A system and method can include a graphical interface having a group of graphical elements associated with remotely stored media streams, and an initiation object for adding new media streams. Input corresponding to a selection of the initiation object to display new stream options can be received. Input corresponding to a selection of a new stream option can be received. A selection indication of an added new media stream can be provided. Adding a new media stream can include displaying a graphical animation that adds a graphical element associated with the new media stream to the group of graphical elements on the graphical interface.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Imran A. Chaudhri, Lucas C. Newman
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Patent number: 11953967Abstract: A power management subsystem included in a computer system may include a host device and a power circuit group. The power circuit group includes multiple power circuits arranged in a tree-like structure. The resources of the multiple power circuits are mapped to corresponding addresses within a common address space. The host device sends, via a first communication bus, commands to a branch power circuit of the multiple power circuits, which, in turn, relays the commands, using a second communication bus, to corresponding ones of the other power circuits based on respective power resources specified in the commands received from the host device.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Shawn Searles, Preethi Damodaran, Ofir Gilad, Michele De Fazio, Inder M. Sodhi, Enrico Zanetti, Olivier Girard, Lothar Münch, Andrea Barsanti, Andrea Lazzeri
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Patent number: 11956059Abstract: A communication system may include an access point (AP), a user equipment (UE), and a communication path between the AP and the UE having a series of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS's). Each RIS may have a first beam pointing to a previous node and a second beam pointing to a next node in the communication path. Beams of routing RIS's and a beam from an end user RIS towards a last routing RIS may be set during calibration. The UE may perform beam discovery with the end user RIS. The UE and the AP may convey wireless data via reflections off each of the RIS's in the communication path. The beam of the end user RIS may be updated to track the UE device while the other the beams remain fixed. The beams may be calibrated using retroreflection and beam variation for each pair of RIS's up the communication path.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Stefan Meyer, Jan K Ellenbeck, Bertram R Gunzelmann
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Patent number: 11954288Abstract: In some examples, touch data can include noise. Machine learning techniques, such as gated recurrent units and convolutional neural networks can be used to mitigate noise present in touch data. In some examples, a gated recurrent unit stage and a convolutional neural network stage can be arranged in series, such as by providing the output of the gated recurrent unit as input to the convolutional neural network. The gated recurrent unit can remove noise caused by a first component of the electronic device and the convolutional neural network can remove noise caused by a second component of the electronic device, for example. Thus, together, the gated recurrent unit and the convolutional neural network can remove or substantially reduce the noise in the touch data.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lichen Wang, Behrooz Shahsavari, Hojjat Seyed Mousavi, Nima Ferdosi, Baboo V. Gowreesunker
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Patent number: 11956023Abstract: A first device may generate optical signals of different polarizations. Photodiodes may use the optical signals to transmit wireless signals at different polarizations and at a frequency greater than 100 GHz using the optical signals. A second device may receive the wireless signals and may convert the wireless signals into optical signals. A Stokes vector receiver on the second device may generate Stokes vectors based on the optical signals. Control circuitry on the second device may use the Stokes vectors generated for a series of training data in the wireless signals to generate a rotation matrix that characterizes polarization rotation between the first and second devices. The control circuitry may multiply wireless data in subsequently received wireless signals by the rotation matrix to mitigate the polarization rotation and other transmission impairments while using minimal resources.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Bertram R Gunzelmann
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Patent number: 11954302Abstract: An electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface accesses a collection of media items, organized into a hierarchy of granularity levels, each corresponding to a respective timescale. The device displays a first plurality of representations of the media items at a first granularity level, corresponding to a first timescale, and in response to a pinch gesture, replaces the display of the first plurality of representations of the media items with display of a second plurality of representations of the media items at a second granularity level that corresponds to a second timescale that is longer than the first timescale.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Richard R. Dellinger, Gregory Christie, Justin S. Titi
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Patent number: 11956654Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for searcher resource coordination between NR mobility based measurement and LTE (E-UTRA) PRS based measurement without measurement gap in EN-DC mode or NE-DC mode. Other embodiments are also provided for searcher resource coordination between NR PRS measurement and LTE (E-UTRA) PRS measurement without measurement gap in EN-DC mode or NE-DC mode. Further embodiments provide for searcher resource coordination between NR or LTE (E-UTRA) PRS measurement and NR mobility measurement without measurement gap in EN-DC mode or NE-DC mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jie Cui, Hong He, Dawei Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Haitong Sun, Weidong Yang, Wei Zeng, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang, Zhibin Wu, Yang Tang
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Patent number: 11954322Abstract: At least certain embodiments of the present disclosure include an environment with a framework of software code interacting with a plurality of applications to provide gesture operations in response to user inputs detected on a display of a device. A method for operating through an application programming interface (API) in this environment includes displaying a user interface that includes a respective view that is associated with a respective application of the plurality of applications. The method includes, while displaying the respective view, detecting, via the software code, a user input within the region of the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to the respective view, and, in response, in accordance with a determination that the user input is an inadvertent user input, ignoring the user input. The determination that the user input is an inadvertent user input is made based on an inadvertent user input call transferred through the API.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Christopher Blumenberg
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Patent number: 11956623Abstract: Processing sound in an enhanced reality environment can include generating, based on an image of a physical environment, an acoustic model of the physical environment. Audio signals captured by a microphone array, can capture a sound in the physical environment. Based on these audio signals, one or more measured acoustic parameters of the physical environment can be generated. A target audio signal can be processed using the model of the physical environment and the measured acoustic parameters, resulting in a plurality of output audio channels having a virtual sound source with a virtual location. The output audio channels can be used to drive a plurality of speakers. Other aspects are also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher T. Eubank, Joshua D. Atkins, Soenke Pelzer, Dirk Schroeder
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Patent number: 11954242Abstract: A computer system presents first computer-generated content. While presenting the first computer-generated content, the computer system detects first movement of a first user in a physical environment, and in response: in accordance with a determination that the first movement changes a spatial relationship between the first user and a second user in the physical environment from a first spatial relationship to a second spatial relationship and that the change in spatial relationship meets first criteria, the computer system changes one or more output properties of the first computer-generated content; and in accordance with the determination that the first movement changes the spatial relationship from the first spatial relationship to the second spatial relationship and that the change in spatial relationship does not meet the first criteria, the computer system presents the first computer-generated content without changing the one or more output properties of the first computer-generated content.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jonathan R. Dascola, Israel Pastrana Vicente, Peter D. Anton, Stephen O. Lemay, William A. Sorrentino, III, Kristi E. S. Bauerly, Philipp Rockel, Dorian D. Dargan
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Patent number: 11956846Abstract: The exemplary embodiments relate to a user equipment (UE) performing radio link monitoring of a sidelink. The UE may transmit a signal over the sidelink and receive an indication of a type of hybrid automatic repeating request (HARQ) feedback in response to the signal. The UE may then generate a radio link metric associated with the sidelink based on the type of HARQ feedback. The UE may determine that the radio link metric satisfies a predetermined threshold and initiate a keep alive procedure for the sidelink based on the radio link metric satisfying the predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Zhibin Wu, Fangli Xu, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Jie Cui, Yuqin Chen
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Patent number: 11954245Abstract: The present disclosure relates to techniques for displaying representations of physical input devices and overlaying visual features on the representations of physical input devices in a computer-generated reality (CGR) environment. The techniques include displaying a virtual application in a CGR environment and, in response to detecting an input field in the displayed virtual application, displaying at least a portion of the displayed application on a representation of a physical input device. The at least a portion of the displayed application includes the detected input field. In response to detecting an input received at the physical input device, the input field is updated with the input, and the updated input field is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Pol Pla I. Conesa, Earl M. Olson, Aaron P. Thompson
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Patent number: 11956782Abstract: An apparatus of user equipment (UE) includes processing circuitry coupled to a memory, where to configure the UE for New Radio (NR) vehicle-to-everything (V2X) sidelink communication. The processing circuitry is to determine a set of candidate resources of the UE from a sidelink resource pool, the sidelink resource divided into multiple time slots, frequency channels, and frequency sub-channels. Sidelink control information (SCI) is encoded for transmission to a second UE via a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH). The SCI indicates a plurality of transmission resources of the set of candidate resources. A transport block is mapped across the plurality of transmission resources. A physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) is encoded for transmission to the second UE using the plurality of transmission resources, the PSSCH encoded to include the mapped transport block.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Mikhail Shilov, Alexey Khoryaev, Sergey Panteleev, Andrey Chervyakov, Dmitry Belov
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Patent number: 11954249Abstract: A head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing. The head-mounted housing may have displays that overlap a user's eyes and/or speakers that provide sound to the user's ears. The head-mounted housing may have transparent lenses that overlap the eyes of the user or may have opaque structures that prevent ambient light from reaching the user's eyes. The head-mounted device may have a geographic location sensor such as a satellite navigation system sensor and may include an orientation sensor such as an inertial measurement unit. The direction of a user's gaze relative to the head mounted device may be measured using an electrooculographic sensor. Electrodes in the electrooculographic sensor may measure signals resulting from the standing potential between the retina and cornea in the eye. Facial expressions and eye blinks may affect the signals detected with the electrodes and can be monitored during operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Paul G. Puskarich
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Patent number: 11954492Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to channel stalls or deactivations based on the latency of prior operations. In some embodiments, a processor includes a plurality of channel pipelines for a plurality of channels and a plurality of execution pipelines shared by the channel pipelines and configured to perform different types of operations provided by the channel pipelines. First scheduler circuitry may assign threads to channels and second scheduler circuitry may assign an operation from a given channel to a given execution pipeline based on decode of an operation for that channel. Dependency circuitry may, for a first operation that depends on a prior operation that uses one of the execution pipelines, determine, based on status information for the prior operation from the one of the execution pipelines, whether to stall the first operation or to deactivate a thread that includes the first operation from its assigned channel.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Benjiman L. Goodman, Dzung Q. Vu, Robert Kenney
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Patent number: D1021852Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ryan Ott, Carlos M. Santana, William R. Rochowicz, Robert Boyd, Martin Gschwandtl, Guillaume Raoult, Christopher Kuh, Robert Brunner
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Patent number: D1021867Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Robert Boyd, Sean Stewart Corbin, Duy P. Le, Guillaume Raoult, Christopher Kuh, Robert Brunner
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Patent number: D1021929Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ryan Hunter Depaola, Thomas John Miller, Allie Mikelle Perry, Matthew Cade Sanders
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Patent number: D1021958Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Yeo Been Chung, Aurelio Guzmán