Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 12033058Abstract: In some implementations initially training a first neural network includes inputting the training inputs and corresponding training labels into the first neural network to produce output labels, comparing the output labels to the corresponding training labels using a second neural network that learns and applies a comparison metric, and adjusting parameters of the first neural network based on the comparing. The device then inputs additional inputs into the first neural network to produce additional output labels and corresponding confidence values from the second neural network. The device selects, based on the confidence values, an automatically-labeled training set of data including a subset of the additional inputs and a corresponding subset of the additional output labels. During a second training stage, the device trains the first neural network and the second neural network using the automatically-labeled training set of data.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Peter Meier, Tanmay Batra
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Patent number: 12031836Abstract: Techniques described herein may be used to identify anomalies in a joined region of two datasets. For example, a computer system may determine an elevation anomaly data point in based on an elevation criterion. The computer system may determine a set of buffer points surrounding the elevation anomaly data points. The computer system may user the set of buffer points to reduce the number of data points for adjusting. The computer system may determine a reduction factor based on the buffer points. The computer system may then apply the reduction factor to points in the buffer points and other points.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gianluca Donato, Apostolos Karmirantzos, Deepak Kumar Singh, Madhuwanti A. Vaidya, Joseph B. Wearing, Santanu Bhowmick
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Patent number: 12035266Abstract: An example system includes an application processor (AP), a transceiver associated with a firmware layer and a controller. The controller is configured to perform operations that include receiving data representing a clock synchronization request from a remote device, such as a UWB clock synchronization request. The request is received by the transceiver over a wireless communication link. The controller generates a response to the synchronization request. The response is configured for synchronizing a remote clock of the remote device and a local clock of the mobile device. The controller sends, to the remote device by the transceiver, the response to the synchronization request.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2021Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yann Ly-Gagnon, Arun Unkn, Langford M. Wasada
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Patent number: 12035251Abstract: Various techniques are presented to improve phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) performance with respect to very high frequency communications. According to some embodiments, increased power boosting may be applied to improve PTRS performance, while still keeping power spectral density (PSD) within ETSI Broadband Radio Access Networks (BRAN) limits. In some cases, the power boosting may be semi-static and/or dynamic. In other embodiments, the improved performance may be achieved by dynamically changing time and/or frequency density of the PTRS. In other embodiments, a multi-port configuration may be used for the downlink PTRS. In other embodiments, one or more PTRS configurations may be determined per SCS and/or frequency band, e.g., based on traffic type, channel priority, parameters signaled in the slot format indication (SFI), etc. In other embodiments, common phase error (CPE) estimates may be obtained for those OFDM symbols without PTRS by interpolating the available PTRS estimates in the time domain.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Weidong Yang, Wei Zeng, Hong He
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Patent number: 12034848Abstract: A device implementing a system for device-relationship based communication includes at least one processor configured to establish, by a first device associated with a first user, a secure communication channel with a second device associated with a second user via a direct wireless connection. The at least one processor is configured to transmit, over the secure communication channel, first device-identifying information to the second device, and receive, over the secure communication channel, second device-identifying information from the second device. The at least one processor is configured to establish a particular type of relationship with the second device, store the second device-identifying information in association with an indication of the particular type of relationship established with the second device, and transmit, to the second device and over the secure communication channel, the indication of the particular type of relationship established with the second device.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Andrew J. Daley, Nicholas J. Circosta, Ryan W. Baker, Elliot T. Garner
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Patent number: 12034657Abstract: The implementations disclosed provide apparatus, systems, and methods for downlink control information (DCI) enhancement for a reduced-complexity new radio (NR) wireless device. The wireless device includes one or more processors configured to transmit a type of the wireless device to a base station communicatively coupled to the wireless device. A format of the DCI is received from the base station. The DCI includes multiple bit strings indicating a schedule of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The format specifies a respective number of bits for each bit string. The format is defined by the base station based on the type of the wireless device. The DCI is received from the base station using a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The multiple bit strings are extracted from the DCI based on the format of the DCI.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Weidong Yang, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang, Yuchul Kim, Yuqin Chen, Yushu Zhang
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Patent number: 12032951Abstract: Techniques are provided for updating firmware of an accessory device. An accessory development kit of the accessory device can communicate with an accessory update daemon using a home management daemon of a controller device. Based at least in part on a firmware update policy of the accessory device, the accessory update daemon will check for firmware updates. When firmware updates are available, the accessory update daemon can instruct the home management daemon to stage the update. The home management daemon will notify the accessory development kit to be in a stage mode. The accessory update daemon will download the firmware update and send the firmware update to the accessory development kit of the accessory device using an interface for the secure channel provided by the home management daemon. The accessory device can be a third party accessory device that does not have its own firmware updating application.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hung Q. Le, Zaka Ur Rehman Ashraf, Keith W. Rauenbuehler, Christopher B. Zimmermann, Keith R. Bisset, Sivaramachandran Ganesan, Wayne A. Lee, Praveen Chegondi, Patrick L. Coffman, Peter N. Heerboth, Pranika Seth
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Patent number: 12032552Abstract: This application relates to features for a mobile device that allow the mobile device to assign utility values to applications and thereafter suggest applications for a user to execute. The suggested application can be derived from a list of applications that have been assigned a utility by software in the mobile device. The utility assignment of the individual applications from the list of applications can be performed based on the occurrence of an event, an environmental change, or a period of frequent application usage. A feedback mechanism is provided in some embodiments for more accurately assigning a utility to particular applications. The feedback mechanism can track what a user does during a period of suggestion for certain applications and thereafter modify the utility of applications based on what applications a user selects during the period of suggestion.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Stephen C. Peters, Kit-Man Wan, Gaurav Kapoor
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Patent number: 12032638Abstract: Techniques for providing an enhanced search to generate a feed based on a user's interests are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for providing an enhanced search to generate a feed based on a user's interests includes receiving a plurality of interests associated with a user, searching online content including one or more websites (e.g., news or other content websites, social networking sites, and/or other online content) based on the plurality of interests associated with the user, receiving a plurality of web documents (e.g., links to websites, social networking sites, and other online content) based on the search for online content, ranking the plurality of web documents based on a document score and a user signal, and generating a content feed that includes at least a subset of the plurality of web documents based on the ranking.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Anand Shukla, Vishnu Priya Natchu, Srinivasan Venkatachary, Kushal Tayal
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Patent number: 12033381Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for performing scene-to-text conversion. In various implementations, a device includes a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining environmental data corresponding to an environment. Based on the environmental data, a plurality of objects that are in the environment are identified. An audio output describing at least a first object of the plurality of objects in the environment is generated based on a characteristic value associated with a user of the device. The audio output is outputted.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Jack Greasley
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Patent number: 12035226Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing mechanisms for exchanging a searcher number between an electronic device (for example, a UE) and a network for cell detection and measurement. For example, some embodiments relate to an electronic device including a transceiver and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor determines a searcher number associated with the electronic device. The searcher number is greater than two. The processor further transmits, using the transceiver, a signal to the network, where the signal includes an indication of the searcher number.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jie Cui, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang, Zhibin Wu
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Patent number: 12034663Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to AP-SRS triggering offset enhancement for further enhanced MIMO. User equipment (UE), base stations, apparatus, methods, computer-readable memory media, and computer program products are disclosed. The UE may be configured to receive an offset information associated with AP-SRS transmission of the UE; determine a slot offset associated with the AP-SRS transmission, at least based on the offset information; determine a specific slot for the AP-SRS transmission, based on the determined slot offset; and perform the AP-SRS transmission in the determined specific slot.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang, Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Huaning Niu, Weidong Yang, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Chunhai Yao
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Patent number: 12033600Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for displaying image data based on ambient light. In some implementations, a device includes an image sensor, an environmental sensor, a display, a non-transitory memory and one or more processors. In some implementations, a method includes capturing, via the image sensor, first image data that corresponds to a body part of a user of the device. In some implementations, the method includes detecting, via the environmental sensor, environmental data that indicates a current ambient light condition of a physical environment surrounding the device. In some implementations, the method includes generating second image data by modifying the first image data based on a function of the current ambient light condition and a threshold ambient light condition detected during enrollment. In some implementations, the method includes displaying the second image data on the display.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Pavel V. Dudrenov, Karol E. Czaradzki, Felipe Bacim de Araujo e Silva, Edwin Iskandar
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Patent number: 12035241Abstract: Embodiments are provided for resource monitoring and power saving in a user equipment (UE) operating according to a discontinuous reception (DRX) in new radio (NR) wireless communication system. The UE, operating in the DRX mode, monitors for a wake up occasion in control signal prior to the DRX ON time. If the wake occasion is detected, then the EFE monitors for a channel state information (CSI) resource signal (RS) prior to the DRX ON time. If no wake up occasion is detected, then at least a portion of the UE remains in a sleep mode prior to DRX ON time.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2020Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Toufiqul Islam, Hong He, Qiaoyang Ye, Gregory Ermolaev
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Patent number: 12032785Abstract: In some examples, a touch screen can perform a first touch scan to obtain first touch data and a second touch scan to obtain second touch data. The touch data resulting from the second touch scan may exclude respective noise (e.g., display-to-touch crosstalk (DTX) noise) or may include a reduced amount of the respective noise. In some examples, the electronic device can subtract the second touch data from the first touch data to obtain an estimate of the noise in the first touch data. In some examples, this noise estimate can be subtracted from the first touch data and an action can be performed based on the first touch data with the noise estimate removed.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2023Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Eric S. Winokur, Andreas Johannes Koeberl, John Brandon Laflen, Mir Hamza Mahmood, Narmadha Vijayakumar
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Patent number: D1034541Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2023Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Vijay Karthik Koneru, Christopher Wiita, Duy P. Le, Robert Boyd, Sean Stewart Corbin, Guillaume Raoult, Elvin Chu, Martin Gschwandtl, Christopher Kuh, Robert Brunner
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Patent number: D1034584Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2023Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Markus Diebel, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
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Patent number: D1034657Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Andrew Patrick Clymer, Aurelio Guzmán, Aaron Mathew Melim
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Patent number: D1034686Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Arian Behzadi, Lynne Devine, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Pedro Mari, Nicole R. Ryan, Eric Lance Wilson
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Patent number: D1034695Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2023Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marco Antonio Amador, Guillaume P. Barlier, Lisa K. Forssell, Robert Garcia, III, Joseph D. Gardner, Aurelio Guzmán, Aron Hjartarson, Rongxuan Jin, Wendy M. Klein, Kui Han Lee, Stephanie Wang Nai Ping Perea, Jason D. Rickwald, Christopher J. Romney, Johannes Lucius Wolfgang Saam, Nicolas V. Scapel, Oleksandr Tyemirov, Christopher I. Wilson