Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12041609
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided for determining a number of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates and non-overlapped control channel elements (CCEs) for a UE configured with a plurality of component carriers having more than one subcarrier spacing (SCS). The plurality of component carriers are assigned to a number of cell groups. Each cell group includes a scheduling component carrier providing scheduling information for the other component carriers in the cell group. A reference slot window is selected based on an SCS of component carriers assigned to each cell group. And a number of PDCCH candidates and non-overlapped CCEs per the reference slot window are determined based on a number of and SCS of the component carriers in each cell group. Control information in a downlink radio frame is monitored by the UE based on the number of PDCCH candidates and non-overlapped CCEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Debdeep Chatterjee, Gang Xiong, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12040772
    Abstract: This disclosure provides techniques for impedance matching. A radio frequency (RF) device includes a power detector to determine a transmitter leakage and a post-processing unit to determine a receiver leakage, and determines if isolation is acceptable based on the leakages. The RF device may include a device for measuring antenna impedance. Otherwise, the RF device may select multiple tuner settings (e.g., capacitor values) for test signals to be transmitted and received at a target frequency, determine multiple sets of leakage values, determine multiple reflection coefficients based on the multiple sets of leakage values, and determine an estimated antenna impedance at the target frequency based on the reflection coefficients. The RF device then determines impedance tuner settings based on the measured or estimated antenna impedance. Alternatively, the RF device determines impedance tuner settings using an inverse machine-learning model based on a determined matching impedance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Björn Lenhart, Joonhoi Hur, Harald Pretl, Rastislav Vazny
  • Patent number: 12041695
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may include one or more processors that are configured to cause UE capability information to be communicated to a radio access network (RAN) node, regarding a maximum number of blind decode attempts (BDAs) supported by the UE. The one or more processors are configured to determine, based on the maximum BDAs, shortened channel control elements (sCCEs) to be used, by the RAN node, to transmit shortened downlink control information (sDCI) via a shortened physical downlink control channel (sPDCCH) and obtain sDCI by monitoring the sPDCCH in accordance with the determined sCCEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Debdeep Chatterjee, Gang Xiong, Hong He, Yongjun Kwak, Alexei Davydov, Hwan-Joon Kwon, Dae Won Lee
  • Patent number: 12040816
    Abstract: A number of unit cells of a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) may be simultaneously activated to generate an analog signal according to a decoded digital signal. However, while many unit cells may be generally the same, there may be variations in the gains associated with each unit cell (e.g., based on the locations of the activated unit cells within a unit cell array) amounting to a gain gradient that may cause error in the analog output. As such, a fill order may be set or selected to counter such variation by activating a particular arrangement of unit cells, as opposed to simply the number of unit cells, for a given digital signal. By filling the unit cell array from different sides, spatially and/or temporally, the gain gradient associated with the unit cells may be balanced to reduce error and increase the linearity of the DAC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Antonio Passamani
  • Patent number: 12040708
    Abstract: A multi-level power converter with hysteretic control is disclosed. In one embodiment, a power converter includes a switching circuit and a control circuit. The switching circuit includes a plurality of switches, a capacitor, and a switch node coupled to a regulated supply voltage node via an inductor. The switching circuit is configured to couple the switch node to different circuit nodes according to different switch states. The control circuit is configured to activate a particular set of switches according a current switch state, perform a comparison of an output current of the switching circuit to various threshold values, and determine a next switch state using results of the comparison and duty cycle information. Based on these results, the control circuit is configured to cause a transition from the current switch state to the next switch state by activating a different set of switches according to the next switch state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Enrico Pardi
  • Patent number: 12041478
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing system can perform crowd sourced access point mapping using privacy preserving techniques. For example, a server device can receive access point data reports from multiple user devices that includes various attributes and/or measurements with respect to access points with which the user devices have established connections. The access point data reports can be delivered without identifying the user devices, or users thereof, and their exact locations. Based on the access point data reports, the server device can map locations of access points and relationships between access points to generate network topologies, network locations, network quality scores, and various other characteristics of networks and/or access points. The generated access point data can be served to user devices so that the user devices can improve the efficiency of the interactions between user devices and the detected access points and/or networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rachid Kachemir, Krishna M. Behara, Ashok Kumar Harikumar, Christopher R. Purcell, Welly Kasten
  • Patent number: 12038964
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device may create a semantic mapping that includes identified features that appear in a particular percentage of assets in a subset of assets of a media library. Also, the computing device may analyze assets of the media library using the semantic mapping to generate semantic scores, which may be used to determine a first tier of assets from the media library that rate highest for semantic score out of all assets. The computing device may present at least one of the first tier assets prominently in a user interface when viewing assets of the media library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sabrine Rekik, Marcos Regis Vescovi, Eric Circlaeys
  • Patent number: 12039645
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that render perspective correct 2D graphics. In some implementations, a vector graphic including portions defined on a 2D canvas is obtained, and tiles of the 2D canvas is divided into tiles. In some implementations, a subset of the portions outside of a first tile of the tiles on the 2D canvas is identified. Then, the portions of the subset are projected onto an edge of the first tile. In some implementations, data for rendering the vector graphic is provided, the data comprising the projected portions of the subset of the portions outside the first tile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Jeremy G. Bridon
  • Patent number: 12039525
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for validating online access to secure device functionality are provided that may use shared secrets between different subsystems and limited use validation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Karl Anders Carlsson, Anton K. Diederich, Christopher Sharp, Gianpaolo Fasoli, Maciej Stachowiak, Matthew C. Byington, Nicholas J. Shearer, Samuel M. Weinig
  • Patent number: 12041610
    Abstract: Techniques for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) processing for multiple transmission and reception point (multi-TRP) are disclosed. In some embodiments, determining PDSCH hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) processing timing may include determining that a user equipment (UE) is configured for single downlink control information (single-DCI) multi-TRP PDSCH operation, determining a first PDSCH and a second PDSCH within a slot, wherein the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH are used in the single-DCI multi-TRP PDSCH operation, and determining a minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing for the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH using one or more symbols of the first PDSCH or one or more symbols of both the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Jia Tang, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Wei Zhang, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: D1035283
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 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, Richard P. Howarth, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1035627
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Brunner, Christopher Kuh, Achille Biteau
  • Patent number: D1035680
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: James Felkins, Erik Klimczak, Jeffrey Dustin Tanner
  • Patent number: D1035689
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Joseph Mark Willoughby Luxton
  • Patent number: D1035691
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gorm Halfdan Amand, Daniel Joseph Billett, Joseph Chan, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, James Nicholas Jones, Ieyuki Kawashima, Vincent M. Lane, Chia Yang Lin, Cecilia S. Zhou
  • Patent number: D1035692
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Freddy Anzures, Greg Apodaca, Ismael Basso, Imran Chaudhri, Jonathan Dascola, Christopher Foss, David C. Graham, Jonathan P. Ive, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Brian Andrew Schmitt, Christopher Daryl Soli, Christopher Wilson
  • Patent number: D1035693
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Arian Behzadi, Frank De Jong, Nicole R. Ryan, Marcel van Os
  • Patent number: D1035695
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Woo Chang, Teofila Connor, Pedro Mari, Mischa McLachlan
  • Patent number: D1035710
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Chao, Lynne Devine, Victoria Elaine Hinn, Jennifer Patton
  • Patent number: D1035712
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson