Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12108312
    Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Next Generation Node-B (gNB), Evolved Node-B (eNB) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The UE may detect one or more LTE synchronization signals from an eNB over an LTE Uu interface between the UE and the eNB. The LTE synchronization signals may be detected in resources allocated for LTE communication. The LTE synchronization signals may be detected in accordance with an LTE protocol. The UE may determine, based on the LTE synchronization signals, a reference timing and a reference frequency for NR vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication over an NR PC5 interface with another UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexey Khoryaev, Andrey Chervyakov, Mikhail Shilov, Sergey Panteleev
  • Patent number: 12107472
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to a shaker module for an electronic device. The shaker module may include a movable component that is resiliently suspended in relation to a voice coil by one or more gap-separated pairs of the flat springs. The flat springs reduce the z-height of the shaker module for implementation in, for example, compact electronic devices. The gap-separated pairs of flat springs facilitate adjustment of the resonance frequency of the shaker module substantially independently of adjustments to drop performance, while providing stability against unwanted rocking motions of the movable component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Onur I. Ilkorur, Xin Luo, Christopher Wilk, Aneesh R. Kudekar
  • Patent number: 12105480
    Abstract: An electronic watch includes a housing, a display positioned at least partially within the housing, a cover covering at least part of the display, and a crown having a portion positioned along a side of the housing. The crown may include an inner member that is rotationally constrained relative to the housing and an outer member that is rotationally free relative to the inner member. The device may further include a rotation sensor configured to sense a rotation of the outer member relative to the inner member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan C. Perkins, Maegan K. Spencer, Brad G. Boozer
  • Patent number: 12107786
    Abstract: Some embodiments include an apparatus, method, and computer program product for tracking reference signal (TRS) support of high speed use cases of 5G communications in a single frequency network (SFN), where a user equipment (UE) can measure a Doppler offset of a combined signal from two or more transmission reception points (TRPs) of the 5G communications system. A 5G node B (gNB) node can transmit a periodic, semi-persistent (SP), or aperiodic TRS with high measurement density that the UE uses to measure a Doppler offset of a combined signal. For example, the gNB can: trigger the aperiodic TRS based on a downlink assignment; and/or use lower layer signaling to arrange to transmit a semi-persistent TRS or a periodic TRS with a reduced periodicity. In some embodiments, the gNB can measure the Doppler offset based on an uplink signal, and transmit a TRS based on a pre-compensated Doppler frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: 12105248
    Abstract: An optical module includes a beam-tilting light source enclosure. The enclosure is coupled to a substrate that includes a light emitter connected thereto. The enclosure has a geometry such that the enclosure has a first surface configured to couple substantially flat to the substrate and a second surface tilted with respect to the first surface and configured to couple substantially flat to a component of an electronic device through which the light is to project. The enclosure is optically transmissive and covers the light source when coupled to the substrate. In this way, the enclosure may be assembled and used in the electronic device by coupling the first surface to the substrate and coupling the second surface to the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael K. McCord, Mehmet Mutlu, Ryan J. Linderman
  • Patent number: 12104934
    Abstract: An electronic device is described. The electronic device may include a housing, a rotatable crown, and a self-mixing interferometry (SMI) sensor positioned within the housing. The rotatable crown may include an array of retroreflective surface features that reflect incident light back to a light source. Each retroreflective surface feature of the array of retroreflective surface features may be formed as a corner-cube with three perpendicular faces. The SMI sensor or associated processing electronics may compare originally emitted light with reflected light to identify a movement or distance of the rotatable crown with respect to the SMI sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Li, Damon R. Lemmon, David D. Dashevsky, Dianbo Guo, Peng Zhao, Ruonan Yang
  • Patent number: 12107985
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to interfaces and techniques for media playback on one or more devices. In accordance with some embodiments, an electronic device includes a display, one or more processors, and memory. The electronic device receives user input and, in response to receiving the user input, displays, on the display, a multi-device interface that includes: one or more indicators associated with a plurality of available playback devices that are connected to the device and available to initiate playback of media from the device, and a media playback status of the plurality of available playback devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick L. Coffman, Taylor G. Carrigan, David Chance Graham, Cyrus Daniel Irani, Aimee Piercy
  • Patent number: 12108469
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing relay communication by a relay wireless device in a wireless communication system. A relay wireless device may receive bearer configuration information from a network. Based on the bearer configuration information, the UE may establish a bearer with a remote wireless device. The relay wireless device may forward data to/from the remote wireless device using the bearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fangli Xu, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Yuqin Chen, Longda Xing, Srinivasan Nimmala, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Murtaza A. Shikari, Sree Ram Kodali
  • Patent number: 12105874
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to controlling electronic devices. In some examples, the electronic device uses gaze information to activate a digital assistant. In some examples, the electronic device uses gaze information to identify an external device on which to act. In some examples, the electronic device provides an indication that distinguishes between different speakers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sean B. Kelly, Felipe Bacim De Araujo E Silva, Karlin Y. Bark
  • Patent number: 12108274
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for using integrated access and backhaul (IAB) nodes configured to provide multi-access edge computing (MEC) functionality. An IAB node may include a MEC functionality that includes an instance of an application configured for MEC. A UE using the application connects to the network through an access link with the IAB node and establishes a PDU session for traffic of the application with a core network (CN). The CN may determine that the traffic corresponds to the application, and that an instance of the application is present on the IAB node. Accordingly, the CN may instruct the IAB donor to instantiate a remote packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer and, in some cases, a remote service data application (SDAP) layer that are configured to route the traffic from the UE for the application to the instance of the application on the IAB node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Sudeep Manithara Vamanan, Sarma V. Vangala, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Krisztian Kiss, Mona Agnel, Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata, Ralf Rossbach, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 12108377
    Abstract: Systems, methods and devices can are provided, which can include configuring one or more bandwidth parts for a secondary cell (SCell) that is in communication with a user equipment (UE). A base station transmits to a UE a first radio resource control (RRC) message including one or more configuration parameters for a first bandwidth part (BWP) associated with a secondary cell (SCell). The UE communicates a first message with the SCell via the first SCell BWP. The UE receives a second RRC message indicating a change from the first SCell BWP to a second SCell BWP to be used for SCell communications. The UE communicates a second message with the SCell via the second SCell BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Manasa Raghavan, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Huaning Niu, Fangli Xu, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Chunxuan Ye
  • Patent number: 12108483
    Abstract: A 3GPP LTE protocol enhancement realizes the full benefit of discontinuous reception (DRX) in Long Term Evolution networks by coordinating and aligning DRX operations for conserving power and timing overhead. A dual connectivity enabled User Equipment (UE) comprising a processor and transceiver is configured to align DRX configuration between counterpart Evolved Node Bs (eNB)s, wherein counterpart eNBs are a Master eNB (MeNB) and a Secondary eNB (SeNB) simultaneously connected to the UE, communicate system frame timing and system frame number (SFN) information between the counterpart eNBs, align DRX start offset (drxStartOffset) values for the counterpart eNBs according to the communicated system frame timing and SFN information to compensate for offsets in system frame timing, and allow the start of a DRX ON duration at specific frame or sub-frame times determined by the drxStartOffset values, after the expiration of a DRX inactivity timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Satish Chandra Jha, Ali T. Koc, Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan, Rath Vannithamby
  • Patent number: 12105287
    Abstract: A display having a reflective display panel may provide image light to an eye box. The panel may include mirrors rotatable between first and second angles. The mirrors may take a non-zero time period to transition between the first and second angles. During the non-zero time period, the light source may emit pulses of illumination. The mirrors may reflect the pulses of illumination as offset pupils of image light. The mirrors may be at respective intermediate angles while reflecting each of the pulses of illumination. The mirrors may toggle between the first and second angles at a sufficiently fast rate such that the offset pupils form an effective pupil that is expanded in at least one dimension. If desired, the offset pupils may be used to display virtual objects in different focal planes at the eye box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vikrant Bhakta, Guolin Peng, Hyungryul Choi, Scott M. DeLapp
  • Patent number: 12108447
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing request to send (RTS) and clear to transmit (CTS) frames and transmission rules for the RTS and CTS frame. For example, some aspects relate to an electronic device including a transceiver and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The one or more processors receive, using the transceiver, a request to send (RTS) frame from the second electronic device and determine, using the received RTS frame, a format for a clear to send (CTS) frame to use in response to the RTS frame. The one or more processors further transmit, using the transceiver, the CTS frame based on the determined format on at least one sub-channel on which the RTS frame was received and that the at least one sub-channel is idle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Su Khiong Yong, Jinjing Jiang, Yong Liu, Jarkko L. Kneckt, Tianyu Wu, Qi Wang, Lochan Verma
  • Patent number: 12105942
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a device displays functionality information in response to receiving an indication of a first input for which a contact meets functionality display criteria. In some embodiments, a device generates a user interface that includes a navigation bar including images from different positions in a respective content item, and a representation of an adjacent content item. In some embodiments, a device moves a selection-indicator in a user interface by a predefined amount in response to receiving an indication of a first input that meets unitary movement criteria. In some embodiments, a device interprets movement of a contact of an input based at least in part on a grip of a user. In some embodiments, a device displays a plurality of character selection options when a text entry field is not tolerant of character ambiguity and a first input corresponds to a plurality of candidate characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel Van Os, William M. Bachman, Elbert D. Chen, Jeffrey L Robbin, Joe Howard, Joshua McGlinn, Jonathan Lochhead, Benjamin W. Keighran, Jennifer L. C. Folse, Lynne Kress, Julian Missig, Imran Chaudhri, Alessandro Sabatelli, Nicholas Zambetti
  • Patent number: 12107795
    Abstract: To reduce the beam reporting latency, a base station may include a sounding reference signal (SRS) indication to a wireless communication device (UE) as part of the transmission configuration information (TCI) transmitted to the UE, allowing the UE to receive a corresponding downlink signal using the same beam (or with the same beam) the UE used to transmit (or with which the UE transmitted) the SRS indicated in the TCI. The SRS may be one of multiple SRSs previously transmitted by the UE. The UE may transmit the multiple SRSs periodically and/or according to semi-persistent scheduling, or it may transmit them aperiodically. Therefore, the UE does not need to report the beam quality, and the base station may perform the necessary beam measurement(s) instead. Various parameters and conditions may be defined for the UE to support SRS-based TCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Wei Zeng, Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Yuchul Kim, Yuqin Chen, Fangli Xu, Yakun Sun
  • Patent number: 12107785
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for sounding reference signal (SRS) coverage enhancement. A user equipment device (UE) may receive a configuration for SRS time domain bundling from a base station and may transmit, to the base station, at least one SRS transmission in accordance with the configuration. The configuration may include an indication of (and/or indicate) one or more SRS transmission occasions. The configuration may be communicated via higher layer signaling or physical layer signaling. The RRC parameter may be an SRS-ResourceSet parameter or an SRS-Resource parameter and may include a nrofSlots parameter to indicate the number of slots, where a slot may correspond to an SRS transmission occasion. The MAC CE may include at least four bits indicating the number of slots. The DCI may include at least one field indicating the number of slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Hong He, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Weidong Yang, Chunhai Yao, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12108475
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for refreshing a GUTI of a UE. The UE may receive a GUTI from an AMF as part of a registration process. After a timer has expired, the UE may receive a new GUTI from the AMF. The timer may be provided by the UE as a request for use by the AMF. Alternatively, the timer may be used by the UE and the UE may request the new GUTI upon expiry of the timer, e.g., using an existing message or a new message, as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shivani Suresh Babu, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Krisztian Kiss
  • Patent number: D1044807
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 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, Alexandre B. Girard, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Marc A. Newson, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Robert V. Tang, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1044808
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 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