Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12086644
    Abstract: Disclosed techniques relate to work distribution in graphics processors. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes circuitry that implements a plurality of logical slots and a set of graphics processor sub-units that each implement multiple distributed hardware slots. The circuitry may determine different distribution rules for first and second sets of graphics work and map logical slots to distributed hardware slots based on the distribution rules. In various embodiments, disclosed techniques may advantageously distribute work efficiently across distributed shader processors for graphics kicks of various sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew M. Havlir, Steven Fishwick, David A. Gotwalt, Benjamin Bowman, Ralph C. Taylor, Melissa L. Velez, Mladen Wilder, Ali Rabbani Rankouhi, Fergus W. MacGarry
  • Patent number: 12089253
    Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for a shared channel occupancy time (COT) procedure in a wireless channel of unlicensed spectrum. The shared COT can be utilized among one or more user equipment (UE) and a 5G Node B (gNB). A UE contends for access to the channel to acquire the COT, and transmits in the uplink (UL) according to the UEs time-domain configuration. When the UL transmission does not utilize the entire COT, the UE can signal to the gNB that the COT can be shared. In particular, the UE transmits an indication of a COT boundary that the gNB can use to determine when to transmit DL data in the shared COT. The COT can also be shared between two or more UEs in addition to the gNB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jose Armando Oviedo, Yingyang Li, Salvatore Talarico, Yongjun Kwak
  • Patent number: 12089180
    Abstract: In an example method, a user equipment (UE) determines a first identifier assigned to the UE for use on a first wireless communications network and one or more first time slots for monitoring the first wireless communication networks. The UE determines a second identifier assigned to the UE for use on a second wireless communications network and one or more second time slots for monitoring the second wireless communication networks. The UE determines that the one or more first time slots at least partially overlap the one or more second time slots, and in response, transmits to the second wireless communications network, a request for a third identifier to be assigned to the UE for use on the second wireless communications network and/or a request that the one or more second time slots be offset by an interval of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandre Saso Stojanovski, Ching-Yu Liao, Sudeep Palat, Sheetal Bhasin
  • Patent number: 12083649
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a glass housing structures. The glass housing structures may be used to cover a display and other internal electronic device components. The glass housing structure may have multiple glass pieces that are joined using a glass fusing process. A peripheral glass member may be fused along the edge of a planar glass member to enhance the thickness of the edge. A rounded edge feature may be formed by machining the thickened edge. Raised fused glass features may surround openings in the planar glass member. Multiple planar glass members may be fused together to form a five-sided box in which electronic components may be mounted. Raised support structure ribs may be formed by fusing glass structures to a planar glass member. Opaque masking material and colored glass may be used to create portions of the glass housing structures that hide internal device components from view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Peter N. Russell-Clarke, Jonathan P. Ive, Michael K. Pilliod
  • Patent number: 12088401
    Abstract: User equipment may configure a transmitter or receiver to conform to regulations or standards of a geographical region to communicate with non-terrestrial networks (e.g., satellite networks). In one embodiment, the user equipment may receive an indication of a regulation or standard to which to conform to from a terrestrial communication node, and apply an emission mask to the transmitter based on the regulation or standard. The user equipment may additionally or alternatively configure the receiver to be compliant with a noise level tolerance of a received signal specified by the regulation or standard. In some embodiments, the user equipment may implement a frequency offset between the received signal and an interfering signal associated with the noise level tolerance that is scaled based at least on a channel bandwidth associated with the desired signal. Moreover, the user equipment may scale the noise level tolerance based on the frequency offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anatoliy S Ioffe, Elmar Wagner, Daniel Popp, Fucheng Wang, Camila Priale Olivares, Alexander Sayenko
  • Patent number: 12089008
    Abstract: Broadly speaking, the embodiments disclosed herein describe replacing a current hearing aid profile stored in a hearing aid. In one embodiment, the hearing aid profile is updated by sending a hearing aid profile update request to a hearing aid profile service, receiving the updated hearing aid profile from the hearing aid profile service, and replacing the current hearing aid profile in the hearing aid with the updated hearing aid profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Edwin W. Foo, Gregory F. Hughes
  • Patent number: 12086399
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a method is performed at a device with one or more processors, non-transitory memory, a display, and an input device. The method includes displaying, on the display, a playback status indicator regarding playback of a media item. The method includes displaying, on the display, an image associated with the media item. The method includes detecting an input interacting with the image. In response to a first portion of the input, the method includes adjusting the appearance of the image on the display in accordance with the first portion of the input. In response to a second portion of the input, the method includes changing playback of media items on the device in accordance with the input in accordance with the second portion of the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Dye, Christopher P. Foss, Cyrus D. Irani, David Chance Graham, Drew R. Domm, Eric Lance Wilson, Jeffrey L. Robbin, Matthew J. Cielak, Monika Ewa Gromek, Ofer Morag, Prashant Desai, Stephen O. Lemay, Taylor G. Carrigan, William M. Bachman
  • Patent number: 12088748
    Abstract: A portable electronic device includes a housing, a sensor array including a first camera module having a first field of view, a second camera module having a second field of view different from the first field of view, and a light source, and a rear cover formed from a glass material and defining a raised sensor array region positioned over the sensor array. The raised sensor array region defines a first hole extending through the rear cover and positioned proximate a first corner region of the raised sensor array region, and a second hole extending through the rear cover and positioned proximate a second corner region diagonal from the first corner region. The first camera module includes a first camera housing defining a recess at a corner of the first camera housing, and the second camera module includes a second camera housing extending into the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Xuyang Zhang, Jason P. Shannon, Jon F. Housour, Robert F. Meyer, Owen D. Hale, Dale T. Morgan, Daniel Jarvis, Nicholas Merz, Benjamin Morse, Rasamy Phouthavong, Michael B. Wittenberg, David A. Pakula, Simon C. Helmore, Gareth L. Rose, Marwan Rammah, Melissa A. Wah, Jacob Barton, Ian A. Spraggs
  • Patent number: 12086379
    Abstract: At a computer system, in response to detecting a respective user input: if the respective user input meets first criteria requiring the one or both hands of the user maintain a first grip while a first type of movement of the one or both hands is detected, the computer system moves a virtual object in a three-dimensional environment relative to the three-dimensional environment in accordance with the movement of the one or both hands in the three-dimensional environment; and if the respective user input meets second criteria requiring the one or both hands of the user maintain a second grip while a second type of movement of the one or both hands is detected, the computer system replaces the view of the three-dimensional environment corresponding to a first viewpoint with a view of the three-dimensional environment corresponding to a second viewpoint different from the first viewpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE, INC
    Inventors: Philipp Rockel, William A. Sorrentino, III, Stephen O. Lemay, Peter D. Anton
  • Patent number: 12086769
    Abstract: To facilitate conducting a financial transaction via wireless communication between an electronic device and another electronic device, the electronic device determines a unique transaction identifier for the financial transaction based on financial-account information communicated to the other electronic device. The financial-account information specifies a financial account that is used to pay for the financial transaction. Moreover, the unique transaction identifier may be capable of being independently computed by one or more other entities associated with the financial transaction (such as a counterparty in the financial transaction or a payment network that processes payment for the financial transaction) based on the financial-account information communicated by the portable electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: George R. Dicker, Christopher B. Sharp, Ahmer A. Khan, Yousuf H. Vaid, Glen W. Steele, Christopher D. Adams, David T. Haggerty
  • Patent number: 12086304
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for monitoring a user of a head-wearable electronic device with multiple light-sensing assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joel S. Armstrong-Muntner, Nicholas P. Allec, James E. Stark
  • Patent number: 12089182
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a relay user equipment device (UE) assisting one or more remote UEs in performing a radio access network notification area (RNA) update procedure in a cellular communication system. The relay UE establishes a first relay connection with a first remote device. The first relay connection relays communications between the first remote device and a network. The relay UE transmits a first message to the network to initiate the RNA update procedure for the first remote device, receives an acknowledgment message from the network including updated connection information for the first remote device, and transmits the updated connection information to the first remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Zhibin Wu, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Yuqin Chen
  • Patent number: 12088925
    Abstract: An image capture device may include an image sensor having a plurality of light-sensitive pixel sensors to capture light from a scene for generating images and a flicker detection circuit to detect flicker in the light captured by the image sensor. The flicker detection circuit may include one or more event-based readout circuits and at least one event-based processing circuit. The event-based readout circuits may detect a series of events associated with the flicker in the light captured by the image sensor. The event-based processing circuit may determine a frequency of the flicker in the captured light based on the series of events detected by the event-based readout circuits. In some embodiments, the frequency may be used to adjust the exposure time of the image sensor, e.g., to identify intervals for exposure when the captured light is bright.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Francesco Cannillo, Emanuele Mandelli
  • Patent number: 12089096
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs, for implementing dual-connectivity handover. In one aspect, a method includes determining, by user equipment (UE), whether the UE is capable of simultaneous communication with a source cell and a target cell, generating, by the UE, a handover indicator, the handover indicator having one or more fields structuring data that indicates that the UE is capable of simultaneous communication with the source cell and the target cell, transmitting, by the UE, the handover indicator to an access node, and receiving, by the UE and from the access node based on receipt by the access node of the handover indicator, a command to perform handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qiming Li, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Hua Li, Rui Huang
  • Patent number: 12085406
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device can provide a map application providing a representation of a physical structure of venues (e.g., shopping centers, airports) identified by the application. In addition, the application can provide an inside view that includes the physical layout and geometry of the venue's structure as well as the location, structure and layout of points of interest (e.g., stores, security check points, restrooms) within the venue. The views become more detailed as the user zooms into the venue to reveal points of interest and to give the user a feel for traversing the venue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan D. Shelby, Ryan W. Apuy, Vincent P. Arroyo, Sunny Chan, Jae Woo Chang, Megan M. Frost, Brett L. Lareau, Sean P. O'Brien, Tadayasu Sasada, Sebastian A. Araya
  • Patent number: 12088388
    Abstract: A base station and wireless communication (UE) may perform type II CSI-RS port selection based at least on partial reciprocity between an uplink path and a downlink path between the base station and the UE. The base station may identify dominant signal paths between the base station and the UE, based on measurements performed during uplink transmissions, and may transmit, to the UE, corresponding information indicative of CSI measurement and reporting configuration that may include a single measurement resource or multiple measurement resources. Each measurement resource may include multiple-port CSI-RS ports. The UE may indicate, to the base station, selection of a measurement resource when multiple measurement resources are configured, and may also report layer independent or layer common selection of a subset of CSI-RS ports included in the indicated single measurement resource or multiple measurement resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Yuchul Kim, Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Oghenekome Oteri, Ghaith N Hattab, Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Yeong-Sun Hwang
  • Patent number: 12089243
    Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for use in a wireless network for scheduling intra-frequency measurements. Some embodiments are directed to a user equipment (UE). The UE includes processor circuitry and radio front circuitry. The processor circuitry can be configured to determine a collision signal status between an intra-frequency measurement signal and an uplink transmission signal. The processor circuitry can be further configured to determine a measurement gap status of the LIE. Moreover, the processor circuitry can be further configured to prioritize between the SSB measurement signal and the uplink transmission signal based on the collision signal status and the measurement gap status. Additionally, the processor circuitry can be further configured to perform a wireless measurement according to the prioritization between the intra-frequency measurement signal and the uplink transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Yuanye Wang, Yang Tang, Qiming Li, Manasa Raghavan
  • Patent number: 12087308
    Abstract: The intelligent automated assistant system engages with the user in an integrated, conversational manner using natural language dialog, and invokes external services when appropriate to obtain information or perform various actions. The system can be implemented using any of a number of different platforms, such as the web, email, smartphone, and the like, or any combination thereof. In one embodiment, the system is based on sets of interrelated domains and tasks, and employs additional functionally powered by external services with which the system can interact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas R. Gruber, Adam J. Cheyer, Daniel Keen
  • Patent number: D1041480
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel T. Preston, Christopher Daryl Soli
  • Patent number: D1041683
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: James O'Callaghan, Graham Coult, Vladimir Marinov, Peter Lenk, Stefan Behling, David Summerfield, David Nelson, James McGrath, Roger Ridsdill-Smith, James Bishop, Rafe Bertram, Robert Bridger, Jonathan P Siegel