Patents Assigned to Apple, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20240090015
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: determining a scheduling conflict between an uplink transmission and a downlink reception; determining a type of the scheduling conflict; and applying, based on in part on the type of the scheduling conflict, a prioritization rule that prioritizes at least a portion of the uplink transmission or the downlink reception in order to mitigate the scheduling conflict.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chunxuan YE, Dawei ZHANG, Haitong SUN, Hong HE, Huaning NIU, Oghenekome OTERI, Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN, Wei ZENG, Weidong YANG, Yushu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240085968
    Abstract: A system for a given device may include a plurality of systems on a chip (SOCs). Each SOC may include an interface circuit and a bridge circuit for communicating with other SOCs. The interface circuit of an SOC may include a plurality of communication devices to transfer data packets from/to the SOC to the other SOCs. The bridge circuit may provide various control functions for the interface circuit. An indication may be generated when the system enters an idle mode. In response, the bridge circuit may generate signal(s) to cause some of the communication devices of the interface circuit into a low power state. The interface circuit may obtain the signal(s) and accordingly transition some of the communication devices to the low power state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tzach Zemer, Lior Zimet, Sagi Lahav
  • Publication number: 20240089933
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing time domain bandwidth part (TD-BWP) switch for balancing between the UE power consumption and a latency of the UE. For example, a UE can be configured to add a plurality of padding bits to a transport block (TB) to reach a predetermined slot capacity for one transmission time interval (TTI) associated with UE traffic in response to determining that a parameter associated with the UE traffic meets a condition. The UE can be further configured to transmit the TB over the TTI to the base station and receive a message from the base station. The UE is further configured to change a time domain bandwidth part (TD-BWP) based on the received message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sushant VIKRAM, Gibran ALI, Pradeep S. SHARMA, Ajay SINGH, Deepankar BHATTACHARJEE, Guillaume MONGHAL
  • Publication number: 20240089880
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide uplink synchronization for a user equipment with one or more uplink transmissions to be transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Ping-Heng Kuo, Ralf Rossbach
  • Publication number: 20240082641
    Abstract: Notifications for instructing user behavior can be determined and presented when appropriate. Current fitness data are accessed. This data is used to determine whether a user fitness goal is likely to be achieved. If not, a notification may be determined and presented at a user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Kriz Blahnik, Aaron P. Thompson, David S. Clark, Julie A. Arney, Brian R. Drell, Keith P. Avery, Kevin M. Lynch
  • Publication number: 20240086062
    Abstract: The systems described herein provide a remote keyboard service for a media device on a computing device without having to invoke an application or unlock the computing device. The computing device can receive a message indicating that a text input field on the other device is selected and present a notification to the user prompting the user to invoke the virtual keyboard on the computing device to provide text input to the selected text input field. The computing device can receive user input selecting the notification and present a virtual keyboard for providing text input to the other device. The computing device can receive keyboard input from the user selecting characters and send the characters to the other device. The other device can then user the characters as text input to the selected text input field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander D. Sanciangco, Bob Bradley, Marc Krochmal, Graham Clarke
  • Publication number: 20240090007
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing time domain bandwidth part (TD-BWP) switch for balancing between the UE power consumption and a latency of the UE. For example, a UE can be configured to add a plurality of padding bits to a transport block (TB) to reach a predetermined slot capacity for one transmission time interval (TTI) associated with UE traffic in response to determining that a parameter associated with the UE traffic meets a condition. The UE can be further configured to transmit the TB over the TTI to the base station and receive a message from the base station. The UE is further configured to change a time domain bandwidth part (TD-BWP) based on the received message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sushant VIKRAM, Gibran ALI, Pradeep S. SHARMA, Ajay SINGH, Deepankar BHATTACHARJEE, Guillaume MONGHAL
  • Publication number: 20240085734
    Abstract: A panel includes an outer layer and an inner layer. A mask layer is positioned between the outer layer and the inner layer. An active layer is positioned between the mask layer and the inner layer and adjacent to an outer edge of the panel. The active layer extends from the outer edge of the panel toward a central portion of the panel and includes an independently controllable active element configured to limit viewing of the mask layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: David E. Kingman, Paul M. Connolly, Peter F. Masschelein
  • Publication number: 20240090014
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for improving a scheduling request transmission between a UE and a base station. The transmission of the scheduling request is postponed, by implementing a threshold that the data in the transmission buffer has to reach, before a transmission of the scheduling request is triggered. In one variant, the data in the transmission buffer needs to reach a specific amount, to trigger a scheduling request. The invention refers to further improvements: the PDDCH monitoring time window is delayed after sending a scheduling request; the dedicated scheduling request resources of the PUCCH are prioritized differently such that low-priority scheduling requests are transmitted less often.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joachim Loehr, Takahisa Aoyama, Prateek Basu-Mallick, Takashi Tamura, Martin Feuersaenger
  • Patent number: 11928483
    Abstract: An electronic device presents a user interface including an output property that represents a first type of output. The device detects a first input associated with modifying the first type of output via a first behavior model, and changes the output property over time based on the first behavior model and updates the user interface based on the changes in the output property. While updating the user interface, the device detects a change to the user input; and changes the output property over time based on a second behavior model based on: a value of the output property determined based on the first behavior model; and a first derivative of the value of the output property with respect to time determined based on the first behavior model. The device updates the user interface based on the changes in the output property that occur based on the second behavior model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Brandon M. Walkin, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Dmitry A. Gorbik, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Nathan de Vries, Joseph P Cerra, Emanuele Rudel
  • Patent number: 11928779
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein generate a mesh representing the surfaces in a physical environment. The mesh is generated using multi-resolution voxels based on detected depth information, e.g., from a depth camera. The techniques may use multiple hash tables to store the multi-resolution voxel data. For example, the hash tables may store each voxel's 3D position and a truncated signed distance field (TSDF) value corresponding to each voxels' distance to a nearest surface. Each of the multiple hash tables may include data corresponding to a different level of resolution and those resolutions may depend upon distance/noise or other factors. For example, voxels close to a depth camera may have a finer resolution and smaller size compared to voxels that are further from the depth camera. Techniques disclosed herein may involve using a meshing algorithm that combines multi-resolution voxel information stored in multiple hash tables to generate a single mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Maxime Meilland, Andrew Predoehl, Kyle L. Simek, Ming Chuang, Pedro A. Pinies Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11927761
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing. The head-mounted housing may have rear-facing display that displays a three-dimensional image to rear eye boxes. The head-mounted device may also have a front-facing display that faces away from the rear eye boxes. The front-facing display may cover a front face of the head-mounted housing. To share content such as content being displayed by the rear-facing displays with external viewers, the head-mounted device may use the front-facing display or a separate display to display images. An accessory that is coupled to the front face of the housing may reflect an image on the front-facing display towards a viewer for viewing. Sensors in the device may detect presence of the accessory. Display projectors and waveguides or optical layers on the front face that overlap the front-facing display may be used to display three-dimensional images to front eye boxes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammad F. Hossain, Syed F. Mohiuddin
  • Patent number: 11928317
    Abstract: A device with a display and, optionally, a touch-sensitive surface detects a first input corresponding to a request to share first content from a first application while displaying the first application on the display. In response to detecting the first input, the device displays a sharing interface that includes a plurality of options for sharing the first content. While displaying the sharing interface, the device detects selection of an affordance in the sharing interface. In accordance with a determination that the affordance is a respective user-first sharing option for a respective user, the device initiates a process for sharing the first content with the respective user. In accordance with a determination that the affordance is a protocol-first sharing option for a respective protocol, the device initiates a process for sharing the first content using the respective protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeremiah D. Shaw, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Stephen O. Lemay, Martin O. Pedrick, Marcel van Os, Imran Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 11928780
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of enriching a three-dimensional scene model with a three-dimensional object model based on a semantic label is performed at a device including one or more processors and non-transitory memory. The method includes obtaining a three-dimensional scene model of a physical environment including a plurality of points, wherein each of the plurality of points is associated with a set of coordinates in a three-dimensional space, wherein a subset of the plurality of points is associated with a particular cluster identifier and a particular semantic label. The method includes retrieving a three-dimensional object model based on the particular semantic label, the three-dimensional object model including at least a plurality of points. The method includes updating the three-dimensional scene model by replacing the subset of the plurality of points with the three-dimensional object model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Payal Jotwani
  • Patent number: 11927757
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display panel with an array of display pixels. Light from the display panel may be focused by a lens assembly towards a viewer. The presence of the lens assembly may cause geometric distortion for a viewer viewing images on the display through the lens assembly. To mitigate geometric distortion, geometric distortion compensation may be performed in the electronic device. The electronic device may include both a fixed lens element and a removable lens element in the lens assembly. The removable lens element may be changed, allowing the distortion function associated with the lens assembly to change over time. To dynamically compensate for geometric distortion caused by a lens assembly with a removable lens, ray tracing may be used to determine the geometric distortion caused by the lens assembly depending upon the particular removable lens that is present in the lens assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Milad Akhlaghi Bouzan, William W Sprague, Anup Rathi, Duncan A McRoberts, Tahereh Majdi
  • Patent number: 11928467
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a processor comprises an atomic predictor circuit to predict whether or not an atomic operation will complete successfully. The prediction may be used when a subsequent load operation to the same memory location as the atomic operation is executed, to determine whether or not to forward store data from the atomic operation to the subsequent load operation. If the prediction is successful, the store data may be forwarded. If the prediction is unsuccessful, the store data may not be forwarded. In cases where an atomic operation has been failing (not successfully performing the store operation), the prediction may prevent the forwarding of the store data and thus may prevent a subsequent flush of the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brian R. Mestan, Gideon N. Levinsky, Michael L. Karm
  • Patent number: D1017538
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 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, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1017603
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 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, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Marc A. Newson, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1017628
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea Lynn Angquist, Teresa Finch Perera, Daniel J. Wiersema
  • Patent number: D1017639
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Taylor Gerard Carrigan