Patents Assigned to Apple, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11533770
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform substantially concurrent communications with a next generation network node and a legacy network node. The wireless device may be configured to stablish a first wireless link with a first cell according to a RAT, where the first cell operates in a first system bandwidth and establish a second wireless link with a second cell according to a RAT, where the second cell operates in a second system bandwidth. Further, the wireless device may be configured to perform uplink activity for both the first RAT and the second RAT by TDM uplink data for the first RAT and uplink data for the second RAT if uplink activity is scheduled according to both the first RAT and the second RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Zeng, Haijing Hu, Yuchul Kim, Dawei Zhang, Xiangying Yang, Zhu Ji, Yang Li, Beibei Wang, Jia Tang, Sami M. Almalfouh, Johnson O. Sebeni, Wei Zhang, Tianyan Pu, Vijay Venkataraman, Christian W. Mucke
  • Patent number: 11532227
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a location and a device type for one or more remote devices, and identifying one or more visible devices in one or more images, the one or more visible devices having a location and a device type. The method also includes matching a first visible device from the one or more visible devices with a first remote device from the one or more remote devices based on a location and a device type of the first visible device matching a location and a device type of the first remote device, obtaining a user input, and controlling a function of the first remote device based on the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Norris, Bruno M. Sommer, Alexandre Da Veiga
  • Patent number: 11532113
    Abstract: At least certain embodiments of the present disclosure include a method for animating a display region, windows, or views displayed on a display of a device. The method includes starting at least two animations. The method further includes determining the progress of each animation. The method further includes completing each animation based on a single timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Platzer, John Harper
  • Patent number: 11533313
    Abstract: A device implementing a system for sharing a voice profile includes a processor configured to receive a request to share a first voice profile corresponding to a first user account associated with a first device, with a second device associated with a second user account, the second device being voice-enabled, the first voice profile being stored on a first data store associated with the first user account. The processor is further configured to update a second data store associated with the second user account to include a reference to the first voice profile stored on the first data store, and to send, to the second device, a notification that the second data store has been updated to include the reference to the first voice profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anumita Biswas, Karl F. Schramm, Benjamin S. Phipps
  • Patent number: 11532072
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, are described for combining the crop function with zoom, pan and straighten functions as part of a single cropping environment, such that a user can select a portion of an image for cropping, apply zoom, pan and straighten transformations to the selected image portion and then crop the transformed image portion in a single utility. In one aspect, the methods include the actions of receiving user input defining a crop region within a displayed image. The methods also include the actions of displaying a user interface including a cropping panel that is configured to display a subset of the image corresponding to the defined crop region. Further, the methods include the actions of receiving user input requesting to perform at least one of a zoom, rotate or translate operation on the crop region displayed in the cropping panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nikhil Bhatt, Timothy David Cherna
  • Patent number: 11533675
    Abstract: Described is an Evolved Node-B (eNB) comprising one or more processors to generate a first transmission for a first Cellular Internet-of-Things (CIoT) device and a second transmission for a second CIoT device. The first transmission may be generated for a first Narrowband (NB) channel, and the second transmission may be generated for a second NB channel. The first and second transmissions may include the same set of system information. Also described is a CIoT device comprising one or more processors to process a System Information (SI) transmission on one of a plurality of NB channels, and to process and extract information from a PSS and/or SSS transmission on a set of subcarriers corresponding to a set of frequency bands. The plurality of NB channels are within a wireless communication system bandwidth, and at least two of the plurality of NB channels correspond to portions of the wireless communication system bandwidth outside the set of frequency bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Debdeep Chatterjee, Gang Xiong, Mohammad Mamunur Rashid, Tao Wu
  • Patent number: 11531714
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to cloud-based techniques that may be used to manage how digital content is arranged and distributed. For example, a non-transitory, computer-readable medium may include instructions that, when executed, are configured to cause processing circuitry to provide a cloud-based application that maintains an editable draft issue comprising a plurality of draft articles, generate a published issue that has a plurality of published articles corresponding to the plurality of draft articles based on the draft issue, and provide the published issue to one or more electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: George R. König, Rachana K. Gupta, Suchita C. Doshi, Taskin Ahmed Rahman, Deepak Batra, Andreas Jozef Maria Abelmann, Vincent T. Frisina, Pepijn T. Zoon, Caroline J. Crandall, Gregory Vincent Gaudio
  • Patent number: 11530501
    Abstract: A warp knitting system may knit a seamless tube of fabric. The fabric may have a spacer between outer and inner fabric layers. The knitting system may have first and second needle guide systems. The first and second needle guide systems may each have selectively linked needle bed sections that guide respective needles. A guide bar system may have guide bars that dispense strands of material during knitting. Each guide bar may be positioned using a respective guide bar positioner. The guide bar system may be shifted relative to the needles using a rotational positioner. The needle guide systems and guide bar system may be formed from selectively coupled links. The selectively coupled links may be configured to adjust the diameter of the tube of fabric to a desired value. The thickness of the tube may be adjusted by adjusting a gap between the first and second needle guide systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel A. Podhajny, Yohji Hamada
  • Patent number: 11533036
    Abstract: A radio frequency filtering circuitry includes a first inductor, a second inductor, and a conductive loop. The first inductor receives a first current that induces a second current in the second inductor upon receiving the first current. The first inductor and/or the second inductor induce a third current in the conductive loop. The conductive loop adjusts the third current to reduce a first gain peak of an output signal to correlate to a second gain peak of the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hongrui Wang, Sohrab Emami-Neyestanak, Saihua Lin
  • Patent number: 11532306
    Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. In accordance with one example, a method includes, at an electronic device with one or more processors, memory, and a plurality of microphones, sampling, at each of the plurality of microphones of the electronic device, an audio signal to obtain a plurality of audio signals; processing the plurality of audio signals to obtain a plurality of audio streams; and determining, based on the plurality of audio streams, whether any of the plurality of audio signals corresponds to a spoken trigger. The method further includes, in accordance with a determination that the plurality of audio signals corresponds to the spoken trigger, initiating a session of the digital assistant; and in accordance with a determination that the plurality of audio signals does not correspond to the spoken trigger, foregoing initiating a session of the digital assistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yoon Kim, John Bridle, Joshua D. Atkins, Feipeng Li, Mehrez Souden
  • Patent number: 11533494
    Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. To compress the attribute and/or spatial information, the encoder is configured to convert a point cloud into an image based representation. Also, the decoder is configured to generate a decompressed point cloud based on an image based representation of a point cloud. The encoder generates an occupancy map and may also encode the occupancy map as an image based representation. In some embodiments, a video encoder encodes image based representations of spatial information for the points of the point cloud, image based representations of attribute values for points of the point cloud, and an image based representation of an occupancy map for the spatial and attribute images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Khaled Mammou, Valery G. Valentin, Fabrice A. Robinet, Alexandros Tourapis, Yeping Su, Jungsun Kim
  • Patent number: 11532137
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method includes: determining first usage patterns associated with a physical object within the physical environment; obtaining a first objective for an objective-effectuator (OE) instantiated in a computer-generated reality (CGR) environment, wherein the first objective is associated with a representation of the physical object; obtaining a first directive for the OE that limits actions for performance by the OE to achieve the first objective to the first usage patterns associated with the physical object; generating first actions, for performance by the OE, in order to achieve the first objective as limited by the first directive, wherein the first set of actions corresponds to a first subset of usage patterns from the first set of usage patterns associated with the physical object; and presenting the OE performing the first actions on the representation of the physical object overlaid on the physical environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Gutemberg B. Guerra Filho, Ian M. Richter, Raffi A. Bedikian
  • Patent number: 11532112
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to generating and modifying virtual avatars. An electronic device having a camera and a display apparatus displays a virtual avatar that changes appearance in response to changes in a face in a field of view of the camera. In response to detecting changes in one or more physical features of the face in the field of view of the camera, the electronic device modifies one or more features of the virtual avatar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guillaume Pierre André Barlier, Sebastian Bauer, Aurelio Guzman, Nicolas Scapel, Giancarlo Yerkes
  • Patent number: 11532563
    Abstract: Packages and packaging techniques are described in which a patterned carrier substrate can be used to create a reconstituted fanout substrate with a topography that can accommodate components of different thicknesses. In an embodiment, a wiring layer is formed directly on a multiple level topography of a molding compound layer including embedded components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Karthik Shanmugam, Jun Zhai, Rajasekaran Swaminathan
  • Patent number: 11533817
    Abstract: The disclosure provides textured glass components as well as electronic device cover assemblies and enclosures which include the textured glass components. In some cases, a protruding portion of the glass component includes a textured region provided over a camera assembly of the electronic device. One or more openings may be provided in the textured region. The textured region may be configured to provide a translucent or hazy appearance to the electronic device while providing a desirable “feel” to the electronic device and level of cleanability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jason P. Shannon, Andi M. Limarga
  • Patent number: 11531468
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a technique for managing storage space in a user device. Users are provided with options to manage storage space usage in an organized and efficient manner. The options can include recommendations to the user regarding automatically and/or manually purging data from the user device to free up a particular amount of storage space that is needed to carry out a particular task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Steve S. Ko, Jean-Pierre Ciudad, Kazuhisa Yanagihara
  • Patent number: 11532282
    Abstract: A display may include an array of pixels. Each pixel in the array includes an organic light-emitting diode coupled to a drive transistor, a data loading transistor, a first capacitor for storing data charge, and a second capacitor. During a data programming phase, the data loading transistor may be activated to load in a data value onto the first capacitor. After the data programming phase, the second capacitor may be configured to receive a lower voltage, which extends a threshold voltage sampling time for the pixel. Configured and operated in this way, the temperature luminance sensitivity of the display can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shinya Ono, Chin-Wei Lin, Zino Lee, Chun-Chieh Lin, Chen-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 11533132
    Abstract: An electronic device that communicates frames is described. During operation, the electronic device may transmit the frames addressed to a recipient electronic device and associated with multiple links between the electronic device and the recipient electronic device. Then, the electronic device may receive block acknowledgments for at least a subset of the frames, where a given block acknowledgment is associated with the recipient electronic device and indicates received frames on a given link in the links. Moreover, the electronic device may control an amount of traffic conveyed on the links based at least in part on the block acknowledgments. Next, the electronic device may store a remainder of the frames based at least in part on the block acknowledgments, where the frames include the subset of the frames and the remainder of the frames. Note that the frames may have a common traffic identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jarkko L. Kneckt, Jinjing Jiang, Qi Wang, Su Khiong Yong, Tianyu Wu, Yong Liu
  • Patent number: 11533233
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for developing spanning trees at devices that are interconnected in a rendering network. According to the techniques, a change in connectivity between two devices in the rendering network may be detected at a first one of the devices, information representing a cost of connectivity may be stored in a data record at the first device. A spanning tree may then be calculated from a candidate set of communication links that interconnect the devices of the rendering network according to cost information representing those communication links. A device may exchange information, such as information regarding the rendering network, to another device of the rendering network according to communication links identified for the spanning tree. The data record may be of a conflict-free replicated data type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Johannes P. Schmidt, Kevin Shen
  • Patent number: D973101
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guillaume P. Barlier, Alan C. Dye, Lisa K. Forssell, Joseph D. Gardner, Aurelio Guzmán, Jason D. Rickwald, Christopher J. Romney, Nicolas V. Scapel, Christopher I. Wilson