Patents Assigned to Apple, Inc.
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Patent number: 12223669Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that determine a wrist measurement or watch band size using depth data captured by a depth sensor from one or more rotational orientations of the wrist. In some implementations, depth data captured by a depth sensor including at least two depth map images of a wrist from different angles is obtained. In some implementations, an output is generated based on inputting the depth data into a machine learning model, the output corresponding to circumference of the wrist or a watch band size of the wrist. Then, a watch band size recommendation is provided based on the output.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Aditya Sankar, Qi Shan, Shreyas V. Joshi, David Guera Cobo, Fareeha Irfan, Bryan M. Perfetti
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Patent number: 12225751Abstract: Pixels in an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display may be microcavity OLED pixels having optical cavities. The optical cavities may be defined by a partially transparent cathode layer and a reflective anode structure. The anode of the pixels may include both the reflective anode structure and a supplemental anode that is transparent and that is used to tune the thickness of the optical cavity for each pixel. Organic light-emitting diode layers may be formed over the pixels and may have a uniform thickness in each pixel in the display. Pixels may have a conductive spacer between a transparent anode portion and a reflective anode portion, without an intervening dielectric layer. The conductive spacer may be formed from a material such as titanium nitride that is compatible with both anode portions. The transparent anode portions may have varying thicknesses to control the thickness of the optical cavities of the pixels.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gloria Wong, Jaein Choi, Sunggu Kang, Hairong Tang, Xiaodan Zhu, Wendi Chang, Kanuo C. Kustra, Rui Liu, Cheng Chen, Teruo Sasagawa, Wookyung Bae, Yusuke Fujino, Michael Slootsky
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Patent number: 12223943Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for synthesizing virtual speech. In various implementations, a device includes a display, an audio sensor, a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the non-transitory memory. A computer-generated reality (CGR) representation of a fictional character is displayed in a CGR environment on the display. A speech input is received from a first person via the audio sensor. The speech input is modified based on one or more language characteristic values associated with the fictional character in order to generate CGR speech. The CGR speech is outputted in the CGR environment via the CGR representation of the fictional character.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Ian M. Richter
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Patent number: 12224484Abstract: Two shot knuckles include a first shot component and a second shot component. Both shot components are composed of different dielectric materials, where the first shot is composed of a relatively high strength structural material and the second is composed of a cosmetic material. The first shot component can physically couple two conductive sections together by interfacing with a coupling structure of that section. The first shot component includes second shot retaining regions and a cosmetic region. The second shot component occupies the cosmetic region and anchors itself to the first shot component using the second shot retaining regions. The second shot may be the only part of the two-shot knuckle visible to a user of an electronic device and can exhibit any desired color.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Daniel William Jarvis
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Patent number: 12225443Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for provisioning live media services. For example, a method may include receiving, at a user equipment (UE), configuration data for the UE. The configuration data may be based on one or more parameters from among a plurality of different types of parameters and generated in response to a UE configuration update being initiated. The method may also include executing, at the UE, the configuration data to enable the UE to provision a live media production service.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Ching-Yu Liao
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Patent number: 12225495Abstract: User equipment (UE), an enhanced NodeB (eNB) and method of improving positioning accuracy and enabling vertical domain positioning of the UE are generally described. The UE may receive a prsInfo control signal having at least one PRS configuration and subsequently a plurality of Reference Signals (RSs). The RSs may have a first Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) pattern in a first set of PRS subframes and a second PRS pattern in a second set of PRS subframes received prior to a subsequent first set of PRS subframes. The RSs may have a vertical positioning RS and a lateral positioning RS. The UE may measure PRS resource elements (REs), each having a PRS, in the first and second PRS pattern. The UE may transmit a measurement of the PRS in the first and second PRS pattern. The patterns may enable horizontal and vertical positioning to be determined.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Seunghee Han, Shafi Bashar, Yuan Zhu, Yang Tang
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Patent number: 12224920Abstract: A method for managing a QoE for a UE in a communications network is provided. The method includes determining, based at least on data received in a communications session, one or more parameters affecting the QoE. The method includes determining weights corresponding to the one or more parameters. The method includes computing an expected QoE for the UE based on the determined weights corresponding to the one or more parameters. The method includes determining that the expected QoE satisfies a threshold. The method includes transmitting, to one or more network nodes in the communications network, the determined weights corresponding to the one or more parameters. The method also includes adjusting the communications session at the UE.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sarma V. Vangala, Seyedamirhossein Hosseini, Sreevalsan Vallath, Tarik Tabet
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Patent number: 12224816Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods to implement enhanced sounding reference signaling for uplink (UL) beam tracking in communication systems are described. In one example, an apparatus of an evolved Node B (eNB) comprising processing circuit to broadcast system information about one or more sets of uplink transmit time intervals and bandwidths available for a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission from a first user equipment (UE), configure one or more UE-specific SRS processes for the first UE for uplink beam tracking, and configure one or more millimeter wave access points (mmW APs) to transmit a mmW signal to the first UE and receive a mmW signal from the first UE. Other examples are also disclosed and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Honglei Miao, Hyejung Jung, Michael Faerber
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Patent number: 12224828Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for reporting channel state information (CSI) for multiple spatial layers. The apparatuses and methods can include at least: determining, by a user equipment (UE), a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) for a set of precoding matrixes, wherein the PMI is determined based on a combination of digital Fourier transformation (DFT) spatial domain (SD) vectors, or based on DFT-based frequency domain (FD) compression; and transmitting, by the UE, the PMI to a next-generation NodeB (gNB).Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Victor Sergeev, Alexei Davydov, Bishwarup Mondal, Dmitry Dikarev
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Patent number: 12224843Abstract: Some aspects relate to apparatuses and methods for selecting a receiving beam based on hybrid channel based beamforming and codebook based beamforming. A user equipment (UE) can determine, based on a first measurement related to signal to noise ratio (SNR) and predetermined threshold values, whether the UE is in a low SNR state. If the UE is in a low SRN state, the UE can derive an estimated channel covariance matrix RCH for channels at a set of antenna elements of the UE based on channel based bearmforming (CHBF). Afterwards, a set of test bears {0, . . . Ntest?1} is selected based on the channel covariance matrix RCH, and a set of codebook measurement beams is further selected based on the set of test beams. A receiving beam is selected based on a set of measurements performed on the set of codebook measurement beams at the measurement opportunity for codebook based beamforming (CBBF).Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Franz J. Eder, Adrian Carlos Loch Navarro, Andre Janssen, Holger Neuhaus, Kenan Kocagoez
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Patent number: 12222512Abstract: A head-mounted device may determine contextual information by analyzing sensor data. The head-mounted device may use computer vision analysis to determine contextual information from images of the physical environment around the head-mounted device. Instead or in addition, the head-mounted device may determine contextual information by receiving state information directly from external equipment within the physical environment. Based on the received state information, the head-mounted device may display content, play audio, change a device setting on the head-mounted device, the external equipment, and/or additional external equipment, and/or may open an application. The head-mounted device may receive the state information in accordance with identifying the external equipment in images of the physical environment.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Gregory Lutter
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Patent number: 12225521Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for configuring HARQ feedback for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) communication. In one example, a method includes identifying a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource in a first slot for communicating a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) codebook. The method includes determining a set of SPS PDSCH receptions for which feedback is multiplexed in the HARQ codebook based on SPS PDSCH configurations for each component carrier and each slot, a UE capability for number of SPS PDSCH receptions per slot, and a prioritization protocol. The method includes selecting a codebook type based on whether a PDSCH is scheduled by way of a dynamic grant for any of the plurality of slots, constructing the HARQ codebook based on the set of SPS PDSCH receptions and the selected codebook type, and transmitting the HARQ codebook to a next generation node.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Weidong Yang, Jie Cui, Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Oghenekome Oteri, Yang Tang, Sigen Ye
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Patent number: 12222491Abstract: An optical device includes first and second planar substrates having respective first and second faces and including first and second diffractive structure disposed respectively on the first and second faces. First and second planar electrodes are disposed respectively on the first and second faces. A mount holds the second planar substrate parallel to the first planar substrate, with the second face adjacent to the first face and with the first and second planar electrodes in mutual proximity, while permitting the second planar substrate to move transversely relative to the first planar substrate. A control circuit is coupled to apply an electrical potential between the first and second planar electrodes with a voltage sufficient to shift the second diffractive structure transversely relative to the first diffractive structure.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Sebastien Bolis, Arnaud Pouydebasque
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Patent number: 12222506Abstract: In one implementation, a method of controlling a dimming level of dimmable optical element based on a predicted ambient light level is performed at a device including one or more processors, non-transitory memory, and a dimmable optical element. The method includes predicting a change, in a first direction, in an ambient light level at a future time. The method includes changing, at a first time in advance of the future time and in the first direction, a transmission coefficient of the dimmable optical element based on the predicted change in the ambient light level. The method includes changing, at a second time after the first time and in a second direction opposite the first direction, the transmission coefficient of the dimmable optical element based on the ambient light level at the second time.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Anselm Grundhoefer
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Patent number: 12223928Abstract: Privacy control can be provided for displays that output content for users within an enclosed space. Display systems can include sensors that detect an external illuminance of an external environment outside the enclosed space. Based on the external illuminance and the brightness output by the display, the display system can control one or more of a variety of operating parameters to enhance privacy for the user within the enclosed space. For example, the display can be controlled with a reduced brightness when the external illuminance is low. By further example, windows separating the enclosed space from the external environment can be provided with an ability to adjust a transmissivity thereof and thereby reduce transmission of light from the display to the external environment. By further example, the display can be operated to change or omit certain content that has a relatively high privacy threshold.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Olivier C. Barthomeuf, Christopher B. Lyons, Joshua A. Spechler
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Patent number: 12223282Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. In one example process, discourse input representing a user request is received. The process determines whether the discourse input relates to a device of an established location. In response to determining that the discourse input relates to a device of an established location, a data structure representing a set of devices of the established location is retrieved. The process determines, using the data structure, a user intent corresponding to the discourse input, the user intent associated with an action to be performed by a device of the set of devices, and a criterion to be satisfied prior to performing the action. The action and the device are stored in association with the criterion, where, in accordance with a determination that the criterion is satisfied, the action is performed by the device.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Garett R. Nell, Roshni Malani, Sean P. Brown, Benjamin L Brumbaugh
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Patent number: 12224051Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to computer user interfaces, and more specifically to techniques for presenting activity trends and managing workouts.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Eamon F. Gilravi, Julie A. Arney
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Patent number: 12222210Abstract: A method includes determining a routing graph based on a map, wherein the routing graph represents locations from the map; determining a routing horizon based on the routing graph, wherein the routing horizon defines a portion of the routing graph that is usable for routing; determining a cost-action structure that includes, for each location of the routing horizon, a cost-to-go value for travel from a respective location from the routing horizon to a destination, wherein the cost-to-go values implicitly describe an optimal route for travel from each of the respective locations from the routing horizon to the destination; receiving, from an autonomous agent, a request that specifies one of the locations from the routing horizon; and providing, to the autonomous agent, information from the cost-action structure based on the specified location from the routing horizon.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Srichand Pendyala, Marlene Wan, Craig M. Hiller, Lukas M. Marti, Josh Redding
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Patent number: 12223606Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for modifying a visual property of an object based on a geographic location associated with a device. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining a request to display an object that is associated with a set of one or more visual properties including a visual property that is dependent on a theme. Based on a particular theme, a set of one or more physical elements is identified that corresponds to the object. The one or more physical elements are associated with respective values for the visual property. A value for the visual property associated with the object is determined based on the respective values associated with the set of one or more physical elements. The object is displayed in accordance with the value for the visual property.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Scott Rick Jones, Ronald Vernon Ong Siy, Christopher Harlan Paul
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Patent number: 12222024Abstract: 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: March 21, 2024Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Sina Mobasher Moghaddam, Troy A. Carter, Jonathan L. Hall