Patents Assigned to Apple, Inc.
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Publication number: 20250148932Abstract: A user input may be received at a user device to begin a breathing sequence. First heart rate information may be presented on a display of the user device during a first phase of the breathing sequence. A fluctuating user interface element may fluctuate on the display of the user device during a second phase of the breathing sequence. Second heart rate information may be presented on the display of the user device during a first phase of the breathing sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2025Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jay Kriz Blahnik, Erno H. Klaassen, Julie A. Arney, Alan C. Dye, Gary I. Butcher, Kevin M. Lynch, Nader E. Bagherzadeh, Gracee Agrawal, Stephen J. Waydo, Christopher J. Brouse
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Publication number: 20250150926Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for a user equipment (UE) to perform a handover operation from a first base station in a serving cell to a second base station in a target cell under conditions. The UE can receive a conditional handover instruction including a channel quality condition for the handover operation and an additional condition for the handover operation. The UE may determine an operation order between testing the channel quality condition and testing the additional condition, and further determine whether the channel quality condition or the additional condition is met or not. In response to a determination that the channel quality condition is met and a determination that the additional condition is met, the UE can perform the handover operation to handover the UE from the first base station to the second base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2022Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jie CUI, Qiming LI, Yang TANG, Dawei ZHANG
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Publication number: 20250151128Abstract: A method and device are disclosed for performing collision resolution in a two-step random access channel (RACH) process. In such a process, an MsgA PUSCH signal and a grant based PUSCH signal may collide. When such a collision is detected, either the MsgA PUSCH signal or the grant based PUSCh signal are dropped. The other of the two signals is then transmitted. The determination regarding which signal to drop can be based on a set of rules stored in memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2025Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gang XIONG, Yujian ZHANG, Yushu ZHANG, Sergey SOSNIN, Seau S. LIM
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Publication number: 20250150165Abstract: Approaches are described to enhance radio link monitoring and link recovery for the integration of non-terrestrial networks (e.g., satellites) into next generation wireless communication networks. Certain approaches describe the modification of block error rate threshold requirements based on the particulars of the satellites involved, and the procedure for making those modifications. Other approaches describe the modification of the evaluation period based on the particulars of the satellites involved, and the procedure for making those modifications. In making these modifications, user-equipment (UE)-specific margins are also considered. In addition, modifications to the procedure for higher priority cell search are also described when non-terrestrial wireless communication networks are involved.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2022Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jie CUI, Qiming LI, Xiang CHEN, Yang TANG, Hong HE, Haitong SUN, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Dawei ZHANG, Qunfeng HE, Chunxuan YE
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Publication number: 20250150300Abstract: A first status signal can be received by a controller device from a first user proxy device. The first status signal can indicate whether the first user proxy device is within a threshold distance from a location. The location can be associated with a state and one or more devices. Settings on the one or more devices can be based on the state. The state can be determined from a hierarchy of potential states. Determining the state from a hierarchy of potential states can be based on satisfying a criteria of a parent state of the hierarchy. Determining the state can be further based on satisfying a second criteria of a child state of the parent state.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2024Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jeffery T. Lee, Toshiro Yamada, Kuldeep R. Modi
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Publication number: 20250147767Abstract: A system may include multiple processors. One of the processors may receive an indication of a data synchronization barrier (DSB) instruction in another processor that follows a translation look-ahead buffer invalidate (TLBI) instruction to invalidate an entry of a translation look-ahead buffer. The processor may determine whether instructions are pending in the processor for which the virtual addresses used for memory accesses have been translated to physical addresses before receiving the DSB indication. If there are such pending instructions, the processor may provide, after these instructions retire, an indication to the other processor as a response to the DSB indication.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2025Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Madhu Sudan Hari, Mridul Agarwal, Kulin N. Kothari, John D. Pape, Niket K. Choudhary
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Patent number: 12294655Abstract: A method of unlocking a second device using a first device is disclosed. The method can include: the first device pairing with the second device; establishing a trusted relationship with the second device; authenticating the first device using a device key; receiving a secret key from the second device; receiving a user input from an input/output device; and transmitting the received secret key to the second device to unlock the second device in response to receiving the user input, wherein establishing a trusted relationship with the second device comprises using a key generated from a hardware key associated with the first device to authenticate the device key.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Conrad Sauerwald, Alexander Ledwith, John Iarocci, Marc J. Krochmal, Wade Benson, Gregory Novick, Noah Witherspoon
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Patent number: 12292597Abstract: Configurations for an optical system used for guiding light and reducing back-reflection back in an output waveguide is disclosed. The optical system may include an output waveguide defined in a slab waveguide. The output waveguide may terminate before an output side of the slab waveguide, which may reduce the back-reflection of light from the output side back into the output waveguide. The output side may define an optical element that may steer the output light. The optical element may collimate the output light, cause the output light to converge, or cause the output light to diverge.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Mark A. Arbore, Mohsen Kamandar Dezfouli, Yongming Tu, Jeremy D. Witmer, Huiyang Deng, Alfredo Bismuto, Petr Markov
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Patent number: 12293764Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example process includes receiving an utterance including a user request, determining, based on the user request, a domain associated with the user request, determining, based on the domain, a first subsequent user action and a second subsequent user action, determining, based on the domain, a first parameter for the first subsequent user action and a second parameter for the second subsequent user action, in accordance with a determination that a first score associated with the first subsequent user action is higher than a score associated with the second subsequent user action, selecting the first subsequent user action as a suggested subsequent user action, and providing the suggested subsequent user action.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jamie Harry Drummie, Silvia Frias Delgado, Andrew J. Haines, Samuel E. Turnbull, Johan D. Forsell
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Patent number: 12294851Abstract: A method performed by a first electronic device that includes a first speaker, the method includes, receiving, via a network, a representation of audio content, while a second electronic device is playing back the audio content through a second speaker, determining that the first electronic device is moving away from the second electronic device, and, in response to determining that the first electronic device is moving away from the second electronic device, using the representation of audio to play back the audio content through the first speaker.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher T. Eubank, Ronald J. Guglielmone, Jr.
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Patent number: 12294927Abstract: A first wireless communication device (UE device) associated with a certain user (or included in a specified set/group of UE devices) may establish a first communication link with an accessory device according to a short-range radio access technology, and transmit link (pairing) information associated with the first communication link to a server, such as a cloud-based server. The server may share this (first) link information with other UE devices associated with the same user (or belonging to the same specified group of UE devices as the first UE device). Link information associated with the other UE devices (i.e. second link information) may equally be shared with the accessory device, and the other UE devices and accessory device may use the first link information and second link information in establishing respective communication links between any of the other UE devices and the accessory device without having to undergo a pairing procedure.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Akshay Mangalam Srivatsa, Craig P. Dooley, David John Shaw, Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta, Michael Jason Giles, Sriram Hariharan
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Patent number: 12293808Abstract: A memory subsystem and method for performing calibrations therein is disclosed. A memory subsystem includes a memory controller coupled to a memory by a plurality of signal paths. The memory controller is configured to perform an initial calibration to determine respective eye patterns corresponding to the ones of the plurality of signal paths. For a subsequent calibration, updated eye patterns are determined for a subset of the plurality of signal paths. Remaining ones of the plurality of signal paths (not included in the subset), are not active during the subsequent calibrations. Updated eye patterns for the remaining ones of the plurality of signal paths are determined based on information obtained during the initial calibration and information from signal paths in the subset designated proxies for the remaining ones of the plurality of signal paths.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Robert E. Jeter, Rakesh L. Notani, Kai Lun Hsiung, Venkata Ramana Malladi, Rahul Ranjan, Naveen Kumar Korada
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Patent number: 12294455Abstract: A base station is configured to receive channel state information (CSI) from a user equipment (UE). The base station transmits configuration information including one or more interference measurement resources (IMRs) allocated for measurement by the UE, receives a reference CSI report from the UE, receives a new CSI report including interference and noise power fluctuation feedback from the UE and selects a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for the UE based on at least the interference and noise power fluctuation feedback and the reference CSI report.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2020Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Weidong Yang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
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Patent number: 12293740Abstract: An electronic device may include a lenticular display. The lenticular display may have a lenticular lens film formed over an array of pixels. A plurality of lenticular lenses may extend across the length of the display. The lenticular lenses may be configured to enable stereoscopic viewing of the display such that a viewer perceives three-dimensional images. Crosstalk between viewing zones and disparity between images received from different viewing zones may result in disparity-caused shifts in images perceived by viewer of the lenticular display. To mitigate these disparity-caused shifts, compensation circuitry may be included in the display pipeline circuitry. The compensation circuitry may include stored disparity-caused shift calibration information that is used for the compensation. The stored disparity-caused shift calibration information may be a polynomial function that outputs a magnitude of disparity-caused shift for a given pixel location.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ping-Yen Chou, ByoungSuk Kim, Fu-Chung Huang, Hao Chen, Juan He, Jun Qi, Mingming Wang, Sheng Zhang, Yang Li, Yi Huang, Yi-Pai Huang, Yunhui Hou
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Patent number: 12293741Abstract: An electronic device having a display and a physical input mechanism detects a request to display a flashlight user interface. In response to detecting the request, the device displays the flashlight user interface. While displaying the flashlight user interface, the electronic device detects an interaction with the physical input mechanism. In response to detecting the interaction, the electronic device changes a property of the illumination source that is used as the flashlight.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2024Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marco Triverio, Gary Ian Butcher, Kevin Will Chen, Matthew J. Sundstrom, Christopher Patrick Foss
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Patent number: 12290346Abstract: An algorithm for removing motion artifacts from the PPG signal in the time domain to determine heart rate is disclosed. A device for determining a heart rate of a user can include a heart rate sensor configured to generate heart rate signals when positioned on or adjacent to a user's skin, an accelerometer configured to generate one or more acceleration signals, and processing circuitry configured to remove, in a time domain, motion artifacts from the heart rate signals based on the acceleration signals. In some examples, the removal of motion artifacts can also be based on mean-centered, variance-scaled integrated acceleration signals. In some examples, the processing circuitry can be configured to remove motion artifacts using a least squares algorithm to identify a best representation of acceleration and integrated acceleration signals in the heart rate signals.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Ian R. Shapiro
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Patent number: D1073602Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2024Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Jeremy Bataillou, M. Evans Hankey, Richard P Howarth, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Clement Tissandier, Julian Jaede, Marine C. Bataille, Markus Diebel, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Eugene Antony Whang, Joe Sung-Ho Tan
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Patent number: D1073687Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nicholas V. King, Matthew Sanders
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Patent number: D1073692Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher P. Foss, William McMillan Tyler
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Patent number: D1073796Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Taylor Hoff, Alejandro Hernandez Torres, Haiden Goggin, Kameron Gad, Stephen Yustiono