Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 12126264Abstract: Systems and methods for current sensing are described. For example, a system may include a transformer including a winding that connects a first tap and a second tap; a circuit board; a first trace on a layer of the circuit board, wherein the first trace connects the first tap to a rectifier; a coil including one or more turns of trace on the layer of the circuit board, adjacent to the first trace; and a measurement circuit configured to estimate current flowing in the first trace based on voltage across the coil.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Brandon Pierquet, Ashish K. Sahoo, Garet E. Gamache, Jie Lu
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Patent number: 12125149Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer system displays user interfaces for enrolling one or more features of a user of a computer system. In some embodiments, a computer system displays visual effects associated with a virtual avatar in an XR environment. In some embodiments, a computer system displays objects having different visual characteristics in an XR environment. In some embodiments, a computer system switches between different presentation modes associated with a user represented in an XR environment. In some embodiments, a computer system displays a virtual avatar in an XR environment.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rupert Thomas Guy Burton, Gary Ian Butcher, Jason Rickwald, Giancarlo Yerkes, Kristi Elaine Schmidt Bauerly, Dorian D. Dargan
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Patent number: 12125431Abstract: A local active matrix display panel, circuits and methods of operation are described. In an embodiment, a local active matrix display panel includes an array of pixel driver chip, a thin film transistor layer in electrical contact with the array of pixel driver chips, and an array of light emitting diodes electrically connected with the thin film transistor layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hjalmar Edzer Ayco Huitema, Thomas Charisoulis, Xia Li
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Patent number: 12124770Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates techniques for audio-assisted enrollment of biometric features. In some embodiments, methods and devices for assisting users with enrollment of biometric features, using spatial audio cues, are described.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sawyer I. Cohen, Justin D. Crosby, Ruchir M. Dave, Martin E. Johnson, Benjamin J. Pope, Darius A. Satongar
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Patent number: 12121793Abstract: Sharing relationships may be established with multiple user devices to enable sharing of user interface element data. A view of a user interface may be presented that includes an activity user list. The activity user list may include user identifiers of activity user and updatable graphical fitness user interface elements. A detailed view of for a particular activity user may be presented.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Jay Kriz Blahnik
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Patent number: 12125158Abstract: In one implementation, a method of displaying overlapping objects is performed at a device including an optical see-through display, one or more processors, and a non-transitory memory. The method includes obtaining a request to display a first object in front of a second object. The method includes modifying a transparency of the first object in a region corresponding to an overlap between the first object and the second object. The method includes displaying the first object in front of the second object while maintaining visibility of the second object through the overlap between the first object and the second object based on the modified transparency.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Tobias Eble
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Patent number: 12126847Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to providing frame rate arbitration for electronic devices. Frame rate arbitration can include determining a global frame rate based on frame rate parameters from one or more animation sources, and providing the global frame rate to the animation sources. The frame rate parameters for various animations sources can have differing preferred, minimum, and/or maximum frame rates, and the global frame rate may be determined for concurrent display of multiple animations from the multiple animation sources. In one or more implementations, frame rate arbitration can also be performed based on frame rate parameters from an input source.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yuhui Li, Chendi Zhang, Andrey Pokrovskiy, Wanqing Xin
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Patent number: 12126748Abstract: Head-mounted display systems and methods of operation that allow users to couple and decouple a portable electronic device such as a handheld portable electronic device with a separate head-mounted device (e.g., temporarily integrates the separate devices into a single unit) are disclosed. The portable electronic may be physically coupled to the head-mounted device such that the portable electronic device can be worn on the user's head. The portable electronic device may be operatively coupled to the head-mounted device such that the portable electronic device and head mounted device can communicate and operate with one another. Each device may be allowed to extend its features and/or services to the other device for the purpose of enhancing, increasing and/or eliminating redundant functions between the head-mounted de ice and the portable electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Quin C Hoellwarth
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Patent number: 12126085Abstract: An electronic device may have an antenna module with a triplet of antennas on a substrate. The triplet may include a first antenna with a radiating element formed from a patch on the substrate and second and third antennas having radiating elements formed from patches on that extend across a smaller lateral area than the patch in the first antenna. The patches in the second and third antennas may have extended electrical lengths formed from parasitic patches embedded within the substrate that are coupled to opposing edges of the patches by fences of conductive vias. The antenna module may include phased antenna arrays for conveying centimeter/millimeter wave signals. Signal conductors for the antennas may be distributed across multiple metallization layers of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Aaron J Cooper, Amin Tayebi, Ana Papio Toda, Carlo Di Nallo
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Patent number: 12127249Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for controlling a number of allowed downlink/uplink (DL/UL) switching points. For example, the method may include acquiring a shared channel occupancy time (COT) that includes one or more DL bursts and/or UL bursts. The method may also include utilizing one or more of the DL bursts or the UL bursts as a reference burst. The method may also include deriving a metric for controlling the number of DL/UL switching points in the shared COT based on the reference burst. The method may also include comparing the metric to a threshold value. The method may also include setting the number of DL/UL switching points in the shared COT based on the comparison of the metric to the threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yingyang Li, Salvatore Talarico, Carlos H. Aldana
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Patent number: 12126564Abstract: An apparatus of a New Radio (NR) User Equipment (UE), a method and system. The apparatus includes one or more processors to encode a two part CSI including: encode a two part CSI including: encoding information bits of a first channel state information (CSI) type and information bits of a second CSI part to generate, respectively, encoded bits of a first CSI part and encoded bits of a second CSI part, a payload size of the second CSI part being based on encoded bits of the first CSI part and further being encoded separately from information bits of the first CSI part; and mapping the encoded bits of the first CSI part onto a first physical resource and the encoded bits of the second CSI part onto a second physical resource different from the first physical resource; and configure the two part CSI in a long or short PUCCH for transmission to a NR evolved Node B (gNodeB).Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alexei Davydov, Gang Xiong, Yushu Zhang, Victor Alexandrovich Sergeev, Joonyoung Cho
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Patent number: 12127305Abstract: This application describes a phased approach to provision eSIM profiles to a wireless device. Credentials are preloaded to an eUICC during manufacture of the eUICC and used subsequently to load eSIM profiles to the eUICC without requiring an active, real-time connection to an MNO provisioning server. Multiple bound profile packages (BPPs) can be pre-generated and encrypted by MNO provisioning servers for an eUICC and transferred to a BPP aggregator server before assembly of the eUICC in a respective wireless device. A local provisioning server in a manufacturing facility mutually authenticates and connects to the BPP aggregator server to download and store one or more of the encrypted BPPs for later installation on the eUICC. The local provisioning server subsequently mutually authenticates and connects to the eUICC to load at least one of the one or more pre-generated, encrypted BPPs to the eUICC during assembly and/or testing of the wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Li Li, Jean-Marc Padova, Najeeb M. Abdulrahiman
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Patent number: 12124895Abstract: This application sets forth techniques for browsing and accessing files stored by a storage solution. The technique includes the steps of (1) prior to receiving a command to open a file, operating in a user space and engaging a first pathway by (a) instantiating, by an application, a preview application; (b) constructing a file path associated with the file stored in the volume; (c) providing the file path to the preview application; (d) generating, by the preview application, preview data of the file; and (e) receiving, by the preview application, a request to open the file; and (2) in response to receiving the request to open the file, engaging a second pathway to retrieve the file from the volume by: (a) generating, by the preview application, a system call to open the file; and (b) transmitting the system call to a kernel process executing within a kernel space.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jason R. Thorpe, William R. Stouder-Studenmund
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Patent number: 12124622Abstract: Range finding methods and apparatus that may be implemented by VR/MR systems that include a head-mounted display (HMD) and an accessory that the user holds or wears. Range finding sensors (e.g., ultrasonic transducers) may be included on the HMD and on the accessory and used to track distances to and relative position of walls, objects, and other obstacles within constrained physical environments such as rooms, gyms, yards, or fields, or in unconstrained physical environments. Range finding information from the sensors on the HMD and accessory can be used to generate a 3D map of the user's environment that can be used for various purposes in the VR/MR system. In addition to mapping the user's environment, the range finding methods and apparatus may also be used to track the relative position of the accessory with respect to the HMD.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2018Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Wesley W. Zuber, Thayne M. Miller, Jae Hwang Lee
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Patent number: 12127176Abstract: A reduced capacity (redcap) device may perform initial uplink communications, including transmitting a redcap physical uplink control channel (R-PUCCH), over an initial uplink bandwidth part (BWP) shared with a second device, the initial uplink BWP having a bandwidth (BW) larger than a maximum BW supported by the redcap device and smaller than or equal to a maximum BW supported by the second device. Frequency hopping operation for the redcap device may be supported for the R-PUCCH transmission through frequency division multiplexing and/or time division multiplexing settings for the resources used for the R-PUCCH transmission, and for PUCCH transmission by the second device. Restrictions may be implemented to create a gap for redcap devices to perform RF retuning between a physical RACH transmission and a subsequent physical control channel (e.g. PDCCH) monitoring for random access reception when the frequency gap is larger than the maximum BW supported by the redcap device.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2021Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao
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Patent number: 12127074Abstract: In some implementations, a first computing device can send notifications at times that the first computing device is not in an expected location. A user of a second computing device can remotely configure an expected location for the first computing device, which may be a particular location for a certain period of time. During that time, the first computing device can monitor its own location and check whether it is within the expected location. If the first computing device unexpectedly leaves or fails to enter the expected location, the first computing device may transmit a notification to the second computing device. Similarly, if the first computing device loses connectivity with other devices, a server device may notify the second computing device that the location of the first computing device cannot be determined.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Andreas E. Schobel, Swaminathan Jayaraman, Paul W. Salzman, Kevin M. Lynch, Tommy Rochette, Albert R. Howard, Siva Ganesh Movva, Thomas Chathoth Abraham, Frank De Jong, Rachel F. Needle, David John Williams, Raghunandan K. Pai, Swadesh Bhattacharya
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Patent number: 12123589Abstract: An optoelectronic apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate and an array of emitters disposed on the semiconductor substrate and configured to emit beams of optical radiation having respective chief rays. An optical diffuser is mounted over the semiconductor substrate and configured to diffuse the beams. Microlenses are disposed between the semiconductor substrate and the optical diffuser in respective alignment with the emitters and configured to steer the beams at different, respective angles, which are selected so that at least some of the chief rays cross one another before passing through the diffuser.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Yuval Tsur, Refael Della Pergola, Roei Remez, Assaf Avraham, Yazan Alnahhas
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Patent number: D1048028Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Lucy E. Browning, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Richard Hung Minh Dinh, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Luman Zhang, Xiao Ying Zhao, Rico Zörkendörfer
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Patent number: D1048030Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Trent J. Canales, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Richard Hung Minh Dinh, Michael Walter Firka, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Benjamin J. Pope, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
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Patent number: D1048077Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Yeo Been Chung, Andrew Patrick Clymer, Alan C. Dye, Aurelio Guzmán, Pani Page