Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 12278503Abstract: A wireless power system has a wireless power transmitting device and a wireless power receiving device. The wireless power transmitting device uses a wireless power transmitting coil to transmit wireless power signals to the wireless power receiving device. The wireless power transmitting device determines whether an external object is present. The external object may be a foreign object such as a coin or paperclip or may be a wireless power receiving device. External objects are detected using quality-factor measurements. Wireless communications are used to discriminate between foreign objects and wireless power receiving devices. Quality factor measurements may be compensated for aging and temperature effects using temperature measurements and compensation factors based on frequency and measured resistance.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Adam L. Schwartz, Niloofar Rashidi Mehrabadi, Hossein Sepahvand
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Patent number: 12277074Abstract: Techniques are disclosed pertaining to utilizing a communication fabric via multiple ports. An agent circuit includes a plurality of command-and-data ports that couple the agent circuit to a communication fabric coupled to a plurality of hardware components that includes a plurality of memory controller circuits that facilitate access to a memory. The agent circuit can execute an instruction that involves issuing a command for data stored at the memory. The agent circuit may perform a hash operation on a memory address associated with the command to determine which one of the plurality of memory controller circuits to which to issue the command. The agent circuit issues the command to the determined memory controller circuit on a particular one of the plurality of command-and-data ports that is designated to the memory controller circuit. The agent circuit may issue all commands destined to that memory controller circuit on that port.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sergio Kolor, Sandeep Gupta, James Vash
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Patent number: 12277954Abstract: A method for operating a voice trigger is provided. In some implementations, the method is performed at an electronic device including one or more processors and memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors. The method includes receiving a sound input. The sound input may correspond to a spoken word or phrase, or a portion thereof. The method includes determining whether at least a portion of the sound input corresponds to a predetermined type of sound, such as a human voice. The method includes, upon a determination that at least a portion of the sound input corresponds to the predetermined type, determining whether the sound input includes predetermined content, such as a predetermined trigger word or phrase. The method also includes, upon a determination that the sound input includes the predetermined content, initiating a speech-based service, such as a voice-based digital assistant.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2024Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Justin Binder, Samuel D. Post, Onur Tackin, Thomas R. Gruber
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Patent number: 12277308Abstract: Some embodiments described in this disclosure are directed to displaying additional controls and/or information when an input device such as a stylus is hovering over a user interface displayed by an electronic device. Some embodiments described in this disclosure are directed to providing feedback about the pose of an input device relative to a surface. Some embodiments of the disclosure are directed to performing contextual actions in response to input provided from an input device. Some embodiments of the disclosure are directed to providing handwritten input for conversion into font-based text using an input device.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher D. Soli, Marcos Alonso, Daniel T. Preston, Jennifer P. Chen, Peder Blekken
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Patent number: 12279166Abstract: A method for a network element is provided. The method comprises: encoding a message for transmission to a user equipment (UE) including neighbor cell configuration information that includes a list of a plurality of neighbor cell groups, wherein each of the plurality of neighbor cell groups is associated with a specific cell; and transmitting the message to the UE.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2021Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Qiming Li, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Fangli Xu, Yuqin Chen, Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen
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Patent number: 12279321Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive, from a base station of a wireless network, a deactivation indication indicating that a secondary cell group (SCG) of a dual connectivity (DC) wireless communications configuration has been deactivated, receive, from the base station, a remapping indication indicating that SCG data originally mapped to an SCG bearer should be remapped to an alternate bearer, remap the SCG data to the alternate bearer based on the remapping indication and transmit data over the alternate bearer.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yuqin Chen, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata
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Patent number: 12279146Abstract: In some implementations, a computing system can perform crowd sourced access point mapping using privacy preserving techniques. For example, a server device can receive access point data reports from multiple user devices that includes various attributes and/or measurements with respect to access points with which the user devices have established connections. The access point data reports can be delivered without identifying the user devices, or users thereof, and their exact locations. Based on the access point data reports, the server device can map locations of access points and relationships between access points to generate network topologies, network locations, network quality scores, and various other characteristics of networks and/or access points. The generated access point data can be served to user devices so that the user devices can improve the efficiency of the interactions between user devices and the detected access points and/or networks.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2024Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rachid Kachemir, Krishna M. Behara, Ashok Kumar Harikumar, Christopher R. Purcell, Welly Kasten
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Patent number: 12279056Abstract: Systems and methods for down-scaling are provided. In one example, a method for processing image data includes determining a plurality of output pixel locations using a position value stored by a position register, using the current position value to select a center input pixel from the image data and selecting an index value, selecting a set of input pixels adjacent to the center input pixel, selecting a set of filtering coefficients from a filter coefficient lookup table using the index value, filtering the set of source input pixels to apply a respective one of the set of filtering coefficients to each of the set of source input pixels to determine an output value for the current output pixel at the current position value, and correcting chromatic aberrations in the set of source input pixels.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2024Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Guy Cote, Simon Wolfenden Butler, Joseph Anthony Petolino, Jr., Joseph P. Bratt
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Patent number: 12278886Abstract: A hybrid receiver circuit included in a computer system may include both an analog and an ADC-based receiver circuit. A front-end circuit generates different equalized signals based on received signals that encode a serial data stream that includes multiple data symbols. Depending on a baud rate of the serial data stream, either the digital receive circuit or the analog receiver circuit is activated to provide the desired performance and power consumption over the range of possible baud rates. The ADC-based receiver circuit may include multiple analog-to-digital converter circuits with different resolutions that can be selected for different baud rates.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ryan D. Bartling, Jafar Savoj, Brian S. Leibowitz
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Patent number: 12278232Abstract: In an embodiment, an integrated circuit includes transistors in different active regions, electrically isolated using single diffusion break isolation. The single diffusion break isolation includes a first dummy transistor that has a different threshold voltage than the transistors in either active region for which the single diffusion break is creating isolation. The first dummy transistor may have lower leakage current than transistors in either active region, creating effective isolation between the active regions and consuming relatively small amounts of power due to the lower leakage currents.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Emre Alptekin, Thomas Hoffmann
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Patent number: 12279285Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for improving capability signaling and performing search space set switching, particularly with large sub-carrier spacings, as in high frequency ranges. In various scenarios, a user equipment (UE) device may signal its capability to perform multi-slot PDCCH monitoring and/or single-slot PDCCH monitoring, e.g., at various sub-carrier spacings, for various PDCCH/DCI types, etc. Various technical difficulties in this area are addressed, including increasing flexibility and versatility in capability signaling, overbooking, signaling and timing of search space set switching, and beam sweeping transmission of DCI Format 2_0, among others.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Huaning Niu, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang, Wenshu Zhang, Wei Zhang, Haitong Sun
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Patent number: 12277265Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that determine an attentive state of a user during an experience (e.g., visual and/or auditory content that could include real-world physical environment, virtual content, or a combination of each) based on the user's gaze characteristic(s) to enhance the experience. For example, an example process may include obtaining physiological data associated with a gaze of a user during an experience, determine a gaze characteristic during a segment of the experience based on the obtained physiological data, and determine that the user has a first attentive state during the segment of the experience based on classifying the gaze characteristic of the user during the segment of the experience.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Grant H. Mulliken, Christine Godwin, Izzet B. Yildiz, Sterling R. Crispin
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Patent number: 12277275Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to content-based tactile outputs. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with content-based tactile outputs are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with end-of-content tactile outputs are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with moving a user interface in response to different types of input are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with adjustable item-based tactile outputs are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces associated with input velocity-based tactile outputs are described.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2024Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Camille Moussette, David H. Bloom, Gary Ian Butcher, Alan C. Dye, Dylan Ross Edwards, Jules K. Fennis, Brian T. Gleeson, Miao He, Matthew J. Sundstrom
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Publication number: 20250114661Abstract: A user fitness goal may be determined based at least in part on i) historical fitness data that was tracked by a fitness application during a plurality of periods that together correspond to a historical period, or ii) or a user input. Current fitness data may be tracked by the fitness application during a current period. A coaching notification may be determined based on the current fitness data and the user fitness goal. The coaching notification may correspond to progress toward achieving including a suggested action for achieving the user fitness goal prior to a conclusion of the current period. The coaching notification may be provided for presentation at a user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jay Kriz Blahnik, Aaron P. Thompson, David S. Clark, Julie A. Arney, Brian R. Drell, Keith P. Avery, Kevin M. Lynch
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Publication number: 20250119780Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for performing measurements before a radio link failure. In an example, a condition is detected by a UE in advance of a time point in which a non-terrestrial network (NTN) node is to stop providing service to the UE. The condition can be a timing-based condition related to, for example, t-service, a location-based condition related to, for example, a reference location, a coverage hole, and/or a timer condition. The UE can perform, in advance of the time point, a radio resource management (RRM) measurement in an attempt to measure a neighbor cell based on the condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yuqin Chen, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu
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Publication number: 20250117965Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress and encode data for a three-dimensional dynamic mesh. The three-dimensional dynamic mesh is compressed and signaled using a base-mesh sub-bitstream and an atlas sub-bitstream (e.g., displacement and/or attribute sub-bitstream). The atlas sub-bitstream comprises displacement information to be applied at sub-division points of the base mesh to recreate the three-dimensional dynamic mesh at a given moment in time and may also include attribute values, such as colors, textures, etc. to be applied to the reconstructed mesh. Sub-mesh identifiers are included in tile headers of an atlas sub-bitstream that enable selective reconstruction of sub-meshes. A complimentary decoder decodes a compressed bitstream for the three-dimensional dynamic mesh, encoded such as by the encoder.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jungsun Kim, Alexandros Tourapis
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Publication number: 20250119789Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems, and methods for discarding packet data units (PDUs).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Ping-Heng Kuo, Sudeep Manithara Vamanan, Ralf Rossbach, Waqar Zia, Haijing Hu
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Patent number: 12271718Abstract: Systems and methods for performing binary translation include a system that is capable of translating binaries written for use in a source execution environment to binaries compatible with a target execution environment. Consistent with some embodiments, a binary translation system includes a system service and a runtime code module that exists in an application memory address space. The binary translation system translates object-level binaries corresponding to executables, linkers, libraries, and the like and stores the translation in a translation cache that is cryptographically secured to ensure that only a system having a specific key is able to access the translations. If the application or application binary has been modified since the translation was performed, the system service will ensure that the translation is removed from the cache, a new translation is performed, and all threads accessing that translation are updated to the new translation.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Cameron Zwarich, Denis Palmans
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Patent number: D1069789Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: 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
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Patent number: D1070879Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Alan C. Dye, Christopher I. Wilson