Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 12143988Abstract: A UE may receive multiple signals causing a Quasi co-location TypeD (QCL-TypeD) collision. To determine which of the multiple signals to select, the UE may use a certain option based on a type transmission scheme associated with each of the multiple signals. The options may include one of a priority rule for signal reception, a scheduling restriction, or a priority rule for QCL-TypeD selection.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Qiming Li, Wei Zeng
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Patent number: 12140770Abstract: A head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing. The housing may include a chassis with left and right openings that overlap respective left and right optical modules that present images eye boxes. Each optical module may have a lens and display that presents an image through the lens. The chassis may have an inner frame and outer frame. A middle portion of the chassis may form a stiffened nose bridge structure. Components in the housing such as a display, a fan housing, a heat sink layer, optical module guide rods, and a rear cover may span the width of the housing and may be attached to edge portions of the chassis, thereby forming a box-shaped structure that provides rigidity and helps prevent housing deformation.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ivan S. Maric, Aidan N. Zimmerman, Brian Baillargeon, Evan D. Christensen, Jason C. Sauers, Jia Tao, Phil M. Hobson, Sivesh Selvakumar
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Patent number: 12139104Abstract: An electronic device that at least semi-automatically performs car-key pairing is described. During operation, the electronic device may perform wireless pairing with a second electronic device (e.g., a vehicle), where the wireless pairing establishes a connection between the electronic device and the second electronic device. Moreover, during the wireless pairing, the electronic device may receive information associated with the car-key pairing of the electronic device and the second electronic device. Then, after the wireless pairing is completed, the electronic device may determine that the car-key pairing is supported or available based at least in part on the information.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Matthias Lerch, Gordon Y Scott, Najeeb M Abdulrahiman, Oren M Elrad
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Patent number: 12143987Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for supporting blind retransmission. In one example, a method includes processing control information that indicates resources for communication of a physical downlink shared channel or a physical uplink shared channel (PDSCH/PUSCH) transmission and timing information for a retransmission of the PDSCH/PUSCH. The method includes configuring operation to: receive the PDSCH/PUSCH transmission based on the resources; and determine that a subsequent PDSCH/PUSCH received at a subsequent time corresponds to the retransmission of the PDSCH/PUSCH when the subsequent time coincides with the indicated timing information for the retransmission and, in response combine the PDSCH/PUSCH with the retransmission in a HARQ buffer for decoding purposes.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Sarma V. Vangala, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang, Zhu Ji
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Patent number: 12142219Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display having a pixel and that displays an image based on compensated image data. The electronic device may also include image processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the electronic display. The image processing circuitry may receive image data and determine a gain value for the pixel based on an aging value of the pixel that is based on previously displayed pixel values of the pixel. The image processing circuitry may also adjust the gain value based on a pixel value of the image data corresponding to the pixel to generate an updated gain value and adjust the pixel value of the image data based on the updated gain value to generate, at least in part, the compensated image data.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Tae-Wook Koh, Mahesh B Chappalli, Jared S Price, Vincent Z Young, Yifan Zhang
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Patent number: 12140995Abstract: A head-mounted display includes a display unit, a head support, and a balancing mass. The display unit displays graphical content to a user. The head support is coupled to the display to support the display unit on a head of the user for displaying the graphical content thereto. The balancing mass is movable relative to the display unit to offset changes in torque induced by the display unit when tilting the head-mounted display.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Dustin A. Hatfield, Daniel M. Strongwater, Kristi E. Bauerly
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Patent number: 12143784Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces and techniques for managing audio exposure using a computer system (e.g., an electronic device). In accordance with some embodiments, the electronic device displays a graphical indication of a noise exposure level over a first period of time with an area of the graphical indication that is colored to represent the noise exposure level, the color of the area transitioning from a first color to a second color when the noise exposure level exceeds a first threshold. In accordance with some embodiments, the electronic device displays noise exposure levels attributable to a first output device type and a second output device type and, in response to selecting a filtering affordance, visually distinguishes a set of noise exposure levels attributable to the second output device type.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Felton, Tyrone Chen, Eamon Francis Gilravi, Joseph M. Williams
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Patent number: 12143995Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing techniques for a user equipment (UE) to transmit a configured grant (CG) physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) including an uplink control information (UCI) without transmitting a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). The UE determines, based on a configuration received from the base station, a first set of CG PUSCHs. Each CG PUSCH of the first set of CG PUSCHs overlaps with the PUCCH, and is configured to transmit data from the UE to the base station. The UE further determines a second set of CG PUSCHs by excluding a third set of CG PUSCHs from the first set of CG PUSCHs. and select a CG PUSCH from the second set of CG PUSCHs to carry the UCI contained in the PUCCH. The UE further transmits the selected CG PUSCH including the UCI without transmitting the PUCCH.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Wenshu Zhang, Weidong Yang, Fangli Xu, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Yushu Zhang, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Ralf Rossbach
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Patent number: 12144056Abstract: SL-DRX involves both Uu and PC5 interfaces. For an RRC_CONNECTED UE (also referred to as a connected mode UE, or simply connected UE), several SL-DRX enhancements are described in this disclosure to trigger SL DRX and share configurations. Alignment of SL-DRX alignment with Uu-DRX (referred to as Uu/SL DRX alignment or simply alignment) is also described, as an optional feature (since not all schedules can temporally align).Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Zhibin Wu, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Yuqin Chen
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Patent number: 12142074Abstract: This application relates to a laptop computer. The laptop computer includes a base portion pivotally coupled to a lid portion is described. The laptop computer includes a display assembly carried by the lid portion, where the display assembly includes a light-transmissive cover, a display layer overlaid by the light-transmissive cover, a display stack electrically coupled to and overlaid by the display layer, and a light pattern recognition module adjacent to the display stack and overlaid by the display layer. The light pattern recognition module includes (i) a light pattern projector that projects a light pattern directly through the display layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Paul X. Wang, Keith J. Hendren, Adam T. Garelli, Antonio Clarke, Joshua L. Daigle, Dinesh C. Mathew
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Patent number: 12143971Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for determining fallback behavior in a user equipment (UE) wireless communication device. The method includes signaling an enhanced processing time capability and fallback type to the wireless network, wherein the processing time capability includes respective numbers of transport blocks per slot the UE can process mapped to different respective specified numbers of serving cells. A number of configured serving cells that support the enhanced processing time capability is determined. The method includes determining, based on the number of configured serving cells, a maximum number of transport blocks per slot that will be communicated between the UE and the configured serving cells. A fallback behavior based on the determined maximum number of transport blocks per slot and the fallback type is determined.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Debdeep Chatterjee, Christiane Senger
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Patent number: 12141893Abstract: A device may include a display for displaying an image frame based on warped image data and image processing circuitry to generate the warped image data by warping input image data to account for one or more distortions associated with displaying the image. The image processing circuitry may include a two-stage cache architecture having an first cache and an second cache and warp the input image data by generating mapping data indicative of a warp between the input image space and the output image space and fetching the input image data to populate the first cache. Warping may also include populating the second cache with a grouping of pixel values from the first cache that are selected according to a sliding window that traverses the first cache based on the mapping data and interpolating between pixel values of the grouping to generate pixel values of the warped image data.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ido Y Soffair, Uri Nix, Yung-Chin Chen, Jim C Chou, Jian Zhou, Assaf Menachem, Sorin C Cismas
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Patent number: 12141937Abstract: A method includes obtaining one or more images associated with a user. The method further includes generating, using a body-assessment classifier, one or more body-assessment vectors. Each of the one or more body-assessment vectors is a function of a particular one of the one or more images. The one or more body-assessment vectors include quantitative physique and biometric assessments associated with the user. The method further includes displaying, on the display, a body-assessment indicator that is based on the one or more body-assessment vectors.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gutemberg B. Guerra Filho, Saumil B. Patel
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Patent number: 12141892Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to handling memory pages for geometry processing in graphics processors. In some embodiments, a set of geometry work includes multiple segments that generate primitive data. The graphics processor may use distributed control circuitry to assign memory pages, from a page pool for a memory, for primitive data from the geometry work and may close memory pages completed by the geometry work. The distributed control circuitry may generate a list of closed pages for a given segment of the set of geometry work. Primary control circuitry may combine multiple lists of closed pages, from the distributed control circuitry, to generate a consolidated list of closed pages for the set of geometry work. This may reduce memory footprint and facilitate traversal of the combined list, in some embodiments.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Arjun Thottappilly, Frank W. Liljeros
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Patent number: 12143787Abstract: Certain embodiments relate generally to modifying audio playing on a first device based on detection of that audio by a second device. Other embodiments relate to transferring audio between a first device and a second device. More particularly, audio playing from a first device may be muted, stopped, or adjusted in volume based on detection of that audio by, or interaction with, a second device. Likewise, audio may be transferred from a first device to a second device based on communications between the first and second devices, proximity of the first and second devices relative to one another, proximity of a user to either the first or second device, and so on.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Peter C. Tsoi, Adam S. Meyer, Karlin Y. Bark, Matthew W. Brown, Sean B. Kelly
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Patent number: 12141423Abstract: A computer-generated virtual object manipulator having one or more affordances for manipulating a computer-generated virtual object is disclosed. Selection of a virtual object can cause an object manipulator to be displayed over the virtual object. The object manipulator can include a cone-shaped single-axis translation affordance for each of one or more object axes, a disc-shaped single-axis scale affordance for each of the one or more object axes, an arc-shaped rotation affordance for rotation about each of the one or more object axes, and a center of object affordance for free space movement of the virtual object. The object manipulator can also include a slice-shaped two-axis translation affordance that can be displayed after hovering over an area in a particular plane.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Zachary Z. Becker, Michelle Chua, David A. Lipton, Robin Yann Joram Storm, Eric G. Thivierge, Jue Wang
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Patent number: 12143895Abstract: Embodiments that relate to pairing and finding a group of accessory devices are described. In an embodiment, a pairing status is received from a first accessory device, a request is sent to the first accessory device for information on a number of accessory devices in a device group and a number of accessory devices that are proximate to the first accessory device in the device group, information on a second accessory device in the device group is received, a continue pairing message is sent to the second accessory device if the second accessory device is proximate, and a device group profile is created with information on the number of parts and received information on the second accessory device.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Siva Ganesh Movva, Tunc Ertan, Ariane Cotte, Kerry Nguyen, Anita Desai, Steven Douglas Laver, Brent Ledvina, Kenneth U. Victa, Ping-Ko Chiu, Michał Adam Kałużny
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Patent number: 12141414Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide a CGR environment in which virtual objects from one or more apps are included. User interactions with the virtual objects are detected and interpreted by a system that is separate from the apps that provide the virtual objects. The system detects user interactions received via one or more input modalities and interprets those user interactions as events. These events provide a higher-level, input modality-independent, abstractions of the lower-level input-modality dependent user interactions that are detected. The system uses UI capability data provided by the apps to interpret user interactions with respect to the virtual object provided by the apps. For example, the UI capability data can identify whether a virtual object is moveable, actionable, hover-able, etc. and the system interprets user interactions at or near the virtual object accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Edwin Iskandar, Ittinop Dumnernchanvanit, Samuel L. Iglesias, Timothy R. Oriol
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Patent number: 12141914Abstract: A computer-generated virtual light source manipulator having one or more affordances for manipulating a computer-generated virtual light sources is disclosed. Selection of a virtual light source can cause a light source manipulator tailored for that virtual light source to be displayed over the virtual light source. The light source manipulator can include various lines, circles and the like that can define starting boundaries (e.g., surfaces that represent the start location and initial aperture of light emission from the virtual light source), ending boundaries (e.g., surfaces that represent the extent or reach (i.e., end location or projection distance) and final aperture of light transmission from the virtual light source), and fade boundaries (e.g., surfaces that represent the beginning of the fading of the virtual light source). The light source manipulators can also include one or more disc or spherical affordances for adjusting these boundaries.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Zachary Z. Becker, Mahdi Nabiyouni, Robin Yann Joram Storm
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Patent number: D1051122Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bartley K. Andre, Matthew Phillip Casebolt, Houtan Farahani, Ron Alan Hopkinson, Eric Knopf, Jay Scott Nigen, Gavin John Reid, Mikael Silvanto, Richard Hing Tan, Eric Joel Weirshauser