Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 12052621Abstract: Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE), that includes: obtaining, from a source cell, a handover command for handover from the source cell to a target cell, the handover command including activation indication for an activation of a secondary cell (SCell) of the target cell; generating a first message for transmission to the target cell, wherein the first message is used for initiating a random access procedure; obtaining a second message from the target cell in response to the first message, wherein the second message comprises a timing advance (TA) command.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jie Cui, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
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Patent number: 12052694Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for configuring cellular sidelink resources in a flexible manner. A cellular base station may select a cellular sidelink resource pool. The cellular sidelink resource pool may include non-contiguous frequency resources. The cellular base station may provide cellular sidelink resource pool configuration information to a wireless device. The cellular sidelink resource pool configuration information may configure the cellular sidelink resource pool that includes non-contiguous frequency resources.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Chunxuan Ye, Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Zhibin Wu, Haijing Hu
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Patent number: 12052440Abstract: A video encoding system in which pixel data is decomposed into frequency bands prior to encoding. The frequency bands are organized into blocks that are provided to a block-based encoder. The encoded frequency data is packetized and transmitted to a receiving device. On the receiving device, the encoded data is decoded to recover the frequency bands. Wavelet synthesis is then performed on the frequency bands to reconstruct the pixel data for display. The system may encode parts of frames (tiles or slices) using one or more encoders and transmit the encoded parts as they are ready. A pre-filter component may perform a lens warp on the pixel data prior to the wavelet transform.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jim C. Chou, Sorin C. Cismas
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Patent number: 12052622Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments for reducing likelihood of selecting a cell identified by a Radio Access Network (RAN) Notification Area ID (RNA ID) that is different from that identifying a last or current serving cell so as to avoid an RNA update procedure; reducing Random Access Channel (RACH) transmissions for an RNA update procedure and a mobile originated (MO) data transmission in response to a Radio Resource Control (RRC) triggered RNA update procedure; and selecting a band or beam in a multi-band/beam cellular system that improves RACH efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Vijay Venkataraman, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Li Su, Sharad Garg, Syed A. Rahim, Sandeep K. Sunkesala, Jia Tang, Vijay Gadde, Tarakkumar G. Dhanani, Muhammad Saad
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Patent number: 12052720Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to group transmissions into one or more groups, e.g., of various priority levels and/or types of transmissions. The UE may resolve collisions, e.g., according to one or more procedures described herein. The UE may transmit the transmissions according to the resolutions.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hong He, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jia Tang, Pengkai Zhao, Wei Zeng, Wei Zhang, Yuchul Kim
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Patent number: 12050360Abstract: A lens assembly includes a stack of thermoplastic lenses that are aligned along a common optical axis and that are interleaved with metallic disks having an open central portion. Peripheral portions of each of the thermoplastic lenses adhere to the interleaved metallic disks to form a fused stack of lenses. A method of making the fused stack of lenses is disclosed and includes subjecting a set of interleaved lenses and metallic disks to an alternating current electromagnetic field that induces eddy currents in the metallic disks, causing heating that melts the adjacent lenses. The melted thermoplastic lens material adheres to adjacent metallic disks. The metallic disks reduce stray light from entering the lens stack, while permitting light to enter central portions of the lenses.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Norimichi Shigemitsu, Misha Scepanovic, Steven Webster
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Patent number: 12052047Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include a quadratic phase generator for outputting a perfectly interpolated constant amplitude zero autocorrelation (CAZAC) sequence for a transmit path. The quadratic phase generator may include a numerically controlled oscillator, a switch controlled based on a value output from the numerically controlled oscillator, a first integrator stage, and a second integrator stage connected in series with the first integrator stage. The numerically controlled oscillator may receive as inputs a chirp count and a word length. The switch may be configured to switchably feed one of two input values that are a function of the chirp count and the word length to the first integrator stage. The quadratic phase generator may output full-bandwidth chirps or reduced-bandwidth chirps. Bandwidth reduction can be achieved by scaling the two input values of the switches.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Andreas Menkhoff, Andreas Boehme, Bernhard Sogl, Jochen Schrattenecker, Joonhoi Hur
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Patent number: 12050532Abstract: A routing circuit for an integrated circuit configured to access a set of resources that are organized according to a topology with a plurality of dimensions. The routing receives a request for a particular resource of the set of resources that includes an address that includes first and second sets of bits, the topology having a first dimension with n routing options (where n is not a power of two) and a second dimension with m routing options. The routing circuit determines first and second routing selections for the first and second dimensions by performing respective modulo-n and div-n operations on values formed from the address that include the first and second set of bits. The routing circuit then activates one or more selection signals in accordance with the first and second routing selections that are usable to cause the particular resource to be selected in response to the request.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Qiong Cai, Emiliano Morini
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Patent number: 12051006Abstract: The subject technology provides receiving a neural network (NN) model to be executed on a target platform, the NN model including multiple layers that include operations and some of the operations being executable on multiple processors of the target platform. The subject technology further sorts the operations from the multiple layers in a particular order based at least in part on grouping the operations that are executable by a particular processor of the multiple processors. The subject technology determines, based at least in part on a cost of transferring the operations between the multiple processors, an assignment of one of the multiple processors for each of the sorted operations of each of the layers in a manner that minimizes a total cost of executing the operations. Further, for each layer of the NN model, the subject technology includes an annotation to indicate the processor assigned for each of the operations.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gaurav Kapoor, Cecile M. Foret, Francesco Rossi, Kit-Man Wan, Umesh S. Vaishampayan, Etienne Belanger, Albert Antony, Alexey Marinichev, Marco Zuliani, Xiaojin Shi
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Patent number: 12052024Abstract: The current disclosure is related to a column and line digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with a hybrid coupler for generating quadrature analog signals. The DAC may include an array of unit power amplifiers (cells). A first portion of the cells of the array may be coupled to a first column decoder to receive in-phase components of digital signals and a second portion of the cells may be coupled to a second column decoder to receive quadrature components of the digital signals. The first portion of the cells of the array may generate in-phase components of analog signals and the second portion of the cells of the array may generate quadrature components of the analog signals. A hybrid coupler of the DAC may receive the in-phase and quadrature components of the analog signals with a similar phase, delay the quadrature components by a phase delay (e.g., 90 degrees), and output the resulting analog signals.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Filipe Tabarani, Timo W Gossmann
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Patent number: 12050766Abstract: The present disclosure relates to manipulating a user interface on a wearable electronic device using a mechanical crown. In some examples, the user interface can be scrolled or scaled in response to a rotation of the crown. The direction of the scrolling or scaling and the amount of scrolling or scaling can depend on the direction and amount of rotation of the crown, respectively. In some examples, the amount of scrolling or scaling can be proportional to the change in rotation angle of the crown. In other examples, a speed of scrolling or a speed of scaling can depend on a speed of angular rotation of the crown. In these examples, a greater speed of rotation can cause a greater speed of scrolling or scaling to be performed on the displayed view.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Zambetti, Imran Chaudhri, Jonathan R. Dascola, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Patrick Foss, Aurelio Guzman, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Duncan Robert Kerr, Stephen O. Lemay, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson, Lawrence Y. Yang, Gary Ian Butcher, Jonathan P. Ive, Kevin Lynch
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Patent number: 12050918Abstract: A prefetcher for a coprocessor is disclosed. An apparatus includes a processor and a coprocessor that are configured to execute processor and coprocessor instructions, respectively. The processor and coprocessor instructions appear together in code sequences fetched by the processor, with the coprocessor instructions being provided to the coprocessor by the processor. The apparatus further includes a coprocessor prefetcher configured to monitor a code sequence fetched by the processor and, in response to identifying a presence of coprocessor instructions in the code sequence, capture the memory addresses, generated by the processor, of operand data for coprocessor instructions. The coprocessor is further configured to issue, for a cache memory accessible to the coprocessor, prefetches for data associated with the memory addresses prior to execution of the coprocessor instructions by the coprocessor.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Brandon H. Dwiel, Andrew J. Beaumont-Smith, Eric J. Furbish, John D. Pape, Stephen G. Meier, Tyler J. Huberty
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Patent number: 12052048Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry having a mixer configured to receive an oscillating signal from oscillator circuitry. The oscillator circuitry can include a chain of buffer circuits sometimes referred to as oscillator driver circuitry. Transformers may be coupled at the input and output of each buffer circuit in the chain. Adjustable biasing circuits may be formed at the input of a selected buffer circuit in the chain of the buffer circuits. The adjustable biasing circuits can be digital-to-analog converters (DACs). The adjustable biasing circuits may be configured to apply a differential direct current (DC) offset voltage to the input of the selected buffer circuit. The differential DC offset voltage can have a value chosen to minimize a second harmonic component of the oscillator driver circuitry. Configured and operated in this way, a second harmonic conversion gain of the mixer can be reduced and can improve the transmit and receive performance of the wireless circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Omar E Elaasar, Aly Ismail
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Patent number: 12052315Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions to cause one or more processors to receive, at a client device, a machine learning model from a server, detect a usage pattern for a content item, store an association between the content item and the detected usage pattern in local data, train the machine learning model using local data for the content item with the detected usage pattern to generate a trained machine learning model, generate an update for the machine learning model, privatize the update for the machine learning model, and transmit the privatized update for the machine learning model to the server.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Stephen Cosman, Kalu Onuka Kalu, Marcelo Lotif Araujo, Michael Chatzidakis, Thi Hai Van Do, Alexis Hugo Louis Durocher, Guillaume Tartavel, Sowmya Gopalan, Vignesh Jagadeesh, Abhishek Bhowmick, John Duchi, Julien Freudiger, Gaurav Kapoor, Ryan M. Rogers
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Patent number: 12051918Abstract: A wireless power transfer device can include a coil that couples to a corresponding coil of a counterpart device to facilitate wireless power transfer, a power converter coupled to the coil, and controller and communication circuitry that monitors one or more observable parameters associated with the wireless power transfer to detect a presence of a foreign object that is not the counterpart device and control the power converter responsive to detection of a foreign object. The controller and communication circuitry can perform foreign object detection based on power accounting that includes estimating friendly metal losses associated with the counterpart device. The controller and communication circuitry can receive from the counterpart device friendly metal loss modeling parameters associated with the counterpart device, the modeling parameters including one or more coefficients relating to a wireless power transfer current and one or more coefficients relating to a wireless power transfer voltage.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Shubha Ramakrishnan, Adam L Schwartz, Jizhen Fu
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Patent number: 12050494Abstract: An internal component and external interface arrangement for a cylindrical compact computing system is described that includes at least a structural heat sink having triangular shape disposed within a cylindrical volume defined by a cylindrical housing. A computing engine having a generally triangular shape is described having internal components that include a graphics processing unit (GPU) board, a central processing unit (CPU) board, an input/output (I/O) interface board, an interconnect board, and a power supply unit (PSU).Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Brett W. Degner, Caitlin Elizabeth Kalinowski, Richard D. Kosoglow, Joshua D. Banko, David H. Narajowski, Jonathan L. Berk, Michael E. Leclerc, Michael D. McBroom, Asif Iqbal, Paul S. Michelsen, Mark K. Sin, Paul A. Baker, Harold L. Sontag, Wai Ching Yuen, Matthew P. Casebolt, Kevin S. Fetterman, Alexander C. Calkins, Daniel L. McBroom
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Patent number: 12052597Abstract: Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE) based on communication associated with New Radio (NR) in Unlicensed Spectrum (NR-U). The method includes obtaining information including a reference timing, setting up a target date measurement configuration in accordance with the reference timing; and performing a target data measurement in accordance with the target data measurement configuration.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Yang Tang, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Huaning Niu, Dawei Zhang, Hong He
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Base station (BS) supplemental BSR procedures for reduced latency in high-propagation-delay networks
Patent number: 12052717Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for reducing latency in a high-propagation-delay wireless communication system. A base station (BS) may receive from a user equipment (UE) a first buffer status report (BSR) indicating an amount of uplink data buffered by the UE for transmission to the BS, and may subsequently receive a first BSR update message indicating that an additional amount of uplink data has been buffered by the UE subsequent to transmission of the first BSR. The first BSR update message may be received prior to expiration of a timer authorizing transmission of a second BSR following the first BSR. In response, the BS may allocate resources for transmission to the UE, based on the first BSR and the first BSR update message. The BS may provide an uplink grant identifying the allocated resources.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sarma V Vangala, Tarik Tabet, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Murtaza A Shikari, Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata, Ralf Rossbach, Sreevalsan Vallath, Srinivasan Nimmala, Wei Zeng -
Patent number: 12052498Abstract: Devices, methods, and non-transitory program storage devices are disclosed to provide techniques for distortion compensation in images that are subject to video image stabilization (VIS), e.g., electronic image stabilization (EIS). In some embodiments, the techniques comprise: obtaining a first image captured by a first image capture device; determining a first set of image parameters configured to apply a first distortion operation (e.g., an un-distortion operation) to the first image; determining a second set of image parameters configured to apply a first stabilization operation to a first version of the first image that has already had the first distortion operation applied; determining a third set of image parameters configured to apply a second distortion operation (e.g.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Zejing Wang, Florian Ciurea, Benjamin A. Darling
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Patent number: D1037064Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jonathan P. Siegel, Christopher M. Green, Stefan Behling, David Summerfield, James McGrath, Christopher Daniel Peak, Patrick O'Brien, Jennifer Ross Wynn, Andrea Fender Badgley, Richard P. Howarth, Rafe Bertram, John De Maio, Susana Varela De Sagarra, Raoul Skrein Bumballa, Neil Bancroft, Charlotte Hofstetter, Afroditi Kavallieraki