Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 12112011Abstract: Some examples of the disclosure are directed to methods for application-based spatial refinement in a multi-user communication session including a first electronic device and a second electronic device. While the first electronic device is presenting a three-dimensional environment, the first electronic device receives an input corresponding to a request to move a shared object in the three-dimensional environment. In accordance with a determination that the shared object is an object of a first type, the first electronic device moves the shared object and an avatar of a user in the three-dimensional environment in accordance with the input. In accordance with a determination that the shared object is an object of a second type, different from the first type, and the input is a first type of input, the first electronic device moves the shared object in the three-dimensional environment in accordance with the input, without moving the avatar.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Connor A. Smith, Christopher D. McKenzie, Nathan Gitter
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Patent number: 12113948Abstract: Some examples of the disclosure are directed to systems and methods for managing locations of users in a spatial group within a communication session based on the display of shared content in a three-dimensional environment. In some examples, a first electronic device and a second electronic device are in communication within a communication session. In some examples, the first electronic device displays a three-dimensional environment including an avatar corresponding to a user of the second electronic device. In some examples, in response to detecting an input corresponding to a request to display shared content in the three-dimensional environment, if the shared content is a first type of content, the first electronic positions the avatar a first distance away from the viewpoint, and if the shared content is a second type of content, the first electronic device positions the avatar a second distance away from the viewpoint.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2024Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Connor A. Smith, Willem Mattelaer, Joseph P. Cerra, Kevin Lee
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Patent number: 12114321Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques for preemption indication in wireless communication systems are described. A described technique includes receiving, by a User Equipment (UE) via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a downlink control information (DCI) message in a Control Resource Set (CORESET) configured with a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state, the TCI state being associated with a transmission reception point (TRP), the DCI message comprising a downlink preemption indication for the TCI state; and applying preemption to a reference signal or a channel associated with the TCI state responsive to the downlink preemption indication.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Avik Sengupta, Bishwarup Mondal, Toufiqul Islam, Hong He
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Patent number: 12113955Abstract: A head-mounted device includes one or more displays configured to present media content. The media content may be presented in a user interface window. The head-mounted device may include a display controller configured to adjust a frame rate of the one or more displays and may include a frame rate management circuit configured to determine whether to adjust the frame rate of the one or more displays based on the type of the media content being presented in the user interface window and based on additional information such as a preferred frame rate associated with the media content, a size of the user interface window relative to the total display area of the one or more displays, point of gaze data, hand gestures data, head pose data, data associated with other body parts, audio information and other data.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Danvin Ruangchan, Nathaniel C Begeman, Samir Gehani, Edwin Iskandar, Chad B Woolf
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Patent number: 12112034Abstract: While user interface objects that correspond to different applications are concurrently displayed at respective depths, with a background located behind the user interface objects visible via a display, a user input including a movement is detected. In response to the user input, if the input is directed to a first user interface object and the movement meets first criteria, the computer system maintains display of the second user interface object while the background remains visible, and ceases to display the first user interface object; and if the input is directed to the second user interface object and the movement meets first criteria, the computer system maintains display of the first user interface object while the background remains visible, and ceases to display the second user interface object.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Brandon M. Walkin, Shubham Kedia
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Patent number: 12112446Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that uses object relationships represented in the scene graph to adjust the position of objects. For example, an example process may include obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) representation of a physical environment that was generated based on sensor data obtained during a scanning process, detecting positions of a set of objects in the physical environment based on the 3D representation, generating a scene graph for the 3D representation of the physical environment based on the detected positions of the set of objects, wherein the scene graph represents the set of objects and relationships between the objects, and determining a refined 3D representation of the physical environment by refining the position of at least one object in the set of objects based on the scene graph and an alignment rule associated with a relationship in the scene graph.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Angela Blechschmidt, Daniel Ulbricht, Alexander S. Polichroniadis
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Patent number: 12112113Abstract: A system includes a first instance and a second instance of an integrated circuit. The integrated circuits include respective external interfaces with a physical pin layout having transmit and receive pins for a particular bus located in complementary positions relative to an axis of symmetry. The external interfaces of the first and second instances of the integrated circuit are positioned such that the transmit and receive pins for the given I/O signal on the first instance are aligned, respectively, with the receive and transmit pins for the given I/O signal on the second instance.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sergio Kolor, Dany Davidov, Nir Leshem, Mark Pilip, Lior Zimet
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Multiplexing of uplink control information for operation with multiple transmission-reception points
Patent number: 12113727Abstract: A user equipment (UE) communicates with transmission-reception points (TRPs). When the UE generates uplink control information (UCI), it determines a higher layer index (HLI) value to target the UCI to the appropriate TRP. (Possible values of the HLI are associated with the TRPs.) For UCI on Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH), the HLI value may be determined: based on an HLI value configured for a control resource set (CORESET), or for particular Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resources; based on UCI type or spatial relation data or an index related to PUCCH resources. For UCI on a configured-grant Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), the HLI value may be based on higher layer signals or an indicator relating to channel sounding on spatial relation data. For UCI on MsgA PUSCH in a two-step random access procedure, the HLI value may be based on PUSCH resource unit or PUSCH opportunity.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang, Haitong Sun, Yuchul Kim, Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Weidong Yang, Oghenekome Oteri, Jie Cui, Fangli Xu, Yuqin Chen -
Patent number: 12111676Abstract: A bandgap circuit that is area efficient and has a low power consumption. The bandgap circuit includes a voltage generator circuit, and a sample and hold circuit coupled to the voltage generator circuit. The voltage generator circuit includes a pair of transistors each connected in a diode configuration and biased with a respective current source of a plurality of current sources of the voltage generator circuit. During a sample phase, the sample and hold circuit samples a first voltage between a first base and a first emitter of a first transistor of the pair of transistors and a second voltage between a second base and a second emitter of a second transistor of the pair of transistors. During a hold phase subsequent to the sample phase, the sample and hold circuit generates an output voltage as a combination of the sampled first and second voltages.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Giulio Maria Iadicicco, Angelo Bassi
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Patent number: 12112441Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that present virtual content based on detecting a reflective object and determining a three-dimensional (3D) position of the reflective object in a physical environment. For example, an example process may include obtaining sensor data (e.g., image, sound, motion, etc.) from a sensor of an electronic device in a physical environment that includes one or more objects. The method may further include detecting a reflective object amongst the one or more objects based on the sensor data. The method may further include determining a 3D position of the reflective object in the physical environment (e.g., where the plane of the mirror is located). The method may further include presenting virtual content in a view of the physical environment. The virtual content may be positioned at a 3D location based on the 3D position of the reflective object.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yutaka Yokokawa, Devin W. Chalmers, Brian W. Temple, Rahul Nair, Thomas G. Salter
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Patent number: 12112015Abstract: An electronic device displays a first application and a second application along an edge of the display and, while concurrently displaying the first and second applications, detects an edge-swipe gesture. in response, if the location corresponds to a location of a respective application on the display, the respective application is associated with standard edge-swipe gesture criteria, and the edge-swipe gesture meets the standard edge-swipe gesture criteria, the device performs a system operation that includes displaying a system user interface at a portion of the display previously occupied by at least a portion of the first application and at least a portion of the second application; if the location of the edge-swipe gesture corresponds to a location of the respective application, the respective application is associated with enhanced edge-swipe gesture criteria, and the edge-swipe gesture does not meet the enhanced edge-swipe gesture criteria, the device forgoes performing the system operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Brandon M. Walkin, Wan Si Wan
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Patent number: 12114389Abstract: While in an inactive state, a user equipment (UE) device transmits a message to a base station. The message indicates the UE device's intent to perform transmission and/or reception of user data with the network during the inactive state. The message may include a portion of the user data and/or a buffer status report. The UE device receives a response message that induces a state transition in the UE device. Different state transitions (e.g., to idle, inactive, legacy inactive, connected) may be induced by different types of response message (e.g., release, release with suspend configuration, resume, setup). One particular type of response message causes the UE to stay in the inactive state and enables subsequent user data transmission/reception in the inactive state. The response message may implicitly (or explicitly) indicate that forwarding of the user data to a core network was successful.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Fangli Xu, Murtaza A Shikari, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Srinivasan Nimmala, Zhanfeng Jia, Sarma V Vangala, Ralf Rossbach
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Patent number: 12111421Abstract: An optical transmission device includes a waveguide including a transparent medium having mutually-parallel first and second surfaces arranged so that light propagates within the waveguide by internal reflection between the first and second surfaces. At least one light source is configured to inject coherent light into the waveguide. A first array of diffractive structures is applied to the waveguide and configured to couple respective beams of the coherent light out through the first surface of the waveguide. The device includes a second array of tunable optical phase modulators, which are overlaid on respective ones of the diffractive structures in the first array and are configured to apply different respective phase shifts to the respective beams, thereby modulating a far-field light pattern formed by interference between the beams.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Yakov G. Soskind, Alexander Shpunt, Graham C. Townsend
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Patent number: 12114284Abstract: One or more location-based clients can be activated on a mobile device for providing location-based services. The location-based clients can be provided with information (e.g., presets, defaults) related to the current location and/or mode of the mobile device. The information can be obtained from one or more network resources. In some implementations, a location-based client can concurrently display map and vehicle information related to a location of the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Scott Forstall, Gregory N. Christie, Robert E. Borchers, Imran A. Chaudhri, Peter Henry Mahowald
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Patent number: 12113285Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a phased antenna array having a dielectric resonator antenna. The antenna may include a first dielectric block on a printed circuit, a second dielectric block on the first dielectric block, and a third dielectric block on the second dielectric block. At least the second and third dielectric blocks may have different dielectric constants. The antenna may be fed by one or more feed probes. Each feed probe may include respective conductive via and a conductive patch coupled to the conductive via. The conductive via may extend through the first dielectric block. The conductive patch may be sandwiched between the first and second dielectric blocks. The conductive patch may have a width that configures the conductive patch to form a smooth impedance transition between the conductive via and each of the dielectric blocks despite the different materials used to form the antenna.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Subramanian Ramalingam, David Garrido Lopez, Forhad Hasnat, Harish Rajagopalan, Panagiotis Theofanopoulos
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Patent number: 12112519Abstract: An exemplary process obtains sensor data for a physical environment, generates a local scene graph for the physical environment based on the sensor data, wherein the local scene graph represents a set of objects and relationships between the objects, matches the local scene graph with a principal scene graph of a set of principal scene graphs, and executes one or more scripted actions involving the objects based on a narrative associated with the matched principal scene graph. In some implementations, the set of principal scene graphs is generated by generating local scene graphs for a plurality of environments, and generating individual scene graphs each representative of local scene graphs.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alexander S. Polichroniadis, Angela Blechschmidt, Daniel Ulbricht
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Patent number: 12114089Abstract: Disclosed herein are electronic devices and image sensors containing pixel arrays, layouts of electrical signal lines for such pixel arrays, and methods of pixel read out operations, including row read operations, for such pixel arrays. Layouts are disclosed that have reduced sets of shielding or ground lines. In some layouts, shielding ground lines are used only between pairs of adjacent pixel output signal lines (OSLs). Also disclosed is a method of using one OSL within a pair of adjacent pixel OSLs to provide settling assist of the pixel output signal on the other OSL of the adjacent pair of OSLs.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hai Yan, Chiajen Lee
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Patent number: 12112681Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. The display may include an array of pixels formed on a silicon substrate. Display driver circuitry may be formed in a display driver integrated circuit that outputs display data and other control signals for operating the display. An interposer structure may be included in the electronic device. The interposer structure may be attached to the silicon display substrate and may only partially overlap the silicon display substrate. The display driver integrated circuit may be attached to the interposer structure and provide signals to the display pixels through the interposer structure. In another possible arrangement, the display driver integrated circuit may bridge a gap between the silicon display substrate and the flexible printed circuit. The display driver integrated circuit only partially overlaps the silicon display substrate in this arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Steven M Scardato, Baris Cagdaser, Patrick B Bennett, Michael Slootsky, Alejandro X Levander, Henry C Jen
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Patent number: 12111721Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for error detection and recovery when streaming data are described. A system includes one or more companion direct memory access (DMA) subsystems for transferring data. When an error is detected for a component of the companion DMA subsystem(s), the operations performed by the other components need to gracefully adapt to this error so that operations face only a minimal disruption. For example, while one or more consumers are still consuming a first frame, a companion router receives an indication of an error for a second frame, causing the companion router to send a router frame abort message to a route manager. In response, the route manager waits until the consumer(s) are consuming the second frame before sending them a frame abort message. The consumer(s) flush their pipeline and transition to an idle state waiting for a third frame after receiving the frame abort message.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marc A. Schaub, Roy G. Moss, Michael Bekerman
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Patent number: D1045857Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2023Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: 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