Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 12028809Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for relaxing signaling characteristic evaluation measurements in wireless communication systems.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Huaning Niu, Yushu Zhang, Yang Tang, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Sigen Ye, Weidong Yang, Oghenekome Oteri, Chunxuan Ye
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Patent number: 12028838Abstract: A wireless device may establish communication with a network node and determine a relationship between transmission configuration indication (TCI) and bandwidth part (BWP). The wireless device may then receive an indication of one of TCI or BWP from the network node followed by determining the other of TCI or BWP based on the indication and using the relationship between the TCI and BWP. Finally, the wireless device may perform downlink communication using the indicated one of TCI or BWP and determined other TCI or BWP. The network node may be comprised in a non-terrestrial network and may specify via RRC signaling the relationship between TCI and BWP for the wireless device. The indication of the TCI or BWP may be provided by downlink control information (DCI), medium access control (MAC) control element (CE), an inactivity timer, or RRC reconfiguration commands.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Qiming Li, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen
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Patent number: 12023153Abstract: This relates to an electronic device configured for optical sensing having shared windows and including light restriction designs. The light restriction designs can include one or more of optical layers, optical films, lenses, and window systems configured to reduce or eliminate crosstalk between optical components. A plurality of accepting sections and a plurality of blocking sections can be employed to selectively allow light having an angle of incidence within one or more acceptance viewing angles and block light with angles of incidence outside of the acceptance viewing angles. In some examples, the light restriction designs can include variations in optical and structural properties can allow the light restriction designs to have spatially varying acceptance angles. Variations in structural properties can include, but are not limited to, differences in widths, heights, and/or tilts of the accepting sections and/or blocking sections.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Guocheng Shao, Mathieu Charbonneau-Lefort, Ueyn L. Block
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Patent number: 12028844Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for coordinating transmission and reception of data according to multiple communication standards over a frequency band. In particular, one or more base stations/mobile electronic devices may determine a first data size of first data to be sent conforming to a first communication standard and a second data size of second data conforming to a second communication standard. A first time period may then be determined for which to send the first data based on the first data size, and a second time period may be determined for which to send the second data based on the second data size. In response to determining that the frequency channel is clear of other transmissions, the first data may be sent according to the first standard in the first time period, and the second data may be sent according to the second standard in the second time period.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Anatoliy Sergey Ioffe, Alexander Sayenko
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Patent number: 12028289Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for performing vehicle-to-everything (V2X) sidelink communications with hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback include using a new long physical sidelink feedback channel (PFSCH) format, i.e., PFSCH format 1, to assign feedback resources for various sidelink communication networks and environments where the existing or legacy sidelink feedback format, i.e., the short PFSCH format, referred to herein as PFSCH format 0, is insufficient to support effective acknowledgements (ACKs) and non-acknowledgements (NACKs) due to the limited nature of the format design.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Zhibin Wu, Yushu Zhang
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Patent number: 12026309Abstract: The invention is concerned with a method for performing a calibration procedure for calibrating an eye tracking device (12), wherein a stimulus object (S) is displayed within a certain display area (22), such that the stimulus object (S) is at least temporarily moving along a defined trajectory (26) and images of at least one eye (16) of at least one user (18) are captured during the displaying of the stimulus object (S). Based on the captured images gaze data are provided and in dependency of the gaze data gaze points (P) of the at least one eye (16) of the user (18) with respect to the display area (22) are determined. Further, at least one calibration parameter (a1; a2; a3; a4; a5; a6; a7; a8; a9; a10; a11; a12; a13; a14; ?; R; K; a; b; r) of at least one predefined calibration model (M, M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6) is determined in dependency of a first analysis at least of positions of at least part of the respective gaze points (P) with regard to the defined trajectory (26) of the stimulus object (S).Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Walter Nistico, Andrii Nikiforov, Borys Lysyansky
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Patent number: 12027979Abstract: A power system for a battery powered device can include a first stage power converter, a charge injector, and a bypass switch. The first stage power converter can be configured to have an input coupled to a battery and operable to convert a battery voltage to a level higher than a main voltage bus of the battery powered device. The charge injector can include an input coupled to the output of the power converter and an output configured to be coupled to the main voltage bus. The bypass can include one or more bypass switches operable to selectively couple an output of the power converter to the main voltage bus, bypassing the charge injector. The charge injector may be selectively operable as a current source configured to draw power from an output of the power converter and the battery to reduce voltage dips of the main voltage bus.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Adriane S. Niehaus, Parin Patel
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Patent number: 12026861Abstract: Methods and systems include determining an upper boundary of brightness values of high-dynamic range image content. Using the determined upper boundary, end points of bins of histogram values are determined. Using the determined end points of the bins of histogram values, luma values are allocated to the bins. The high-dynamic range image content is processed based at least in part on the allocations to the bins. Image data including the processed high-dynamic range image content is displayed via an electronic display.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Mahesh B. Chappalli, Alexey Kornienko
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Patent number: 12028474Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device displays user interfaces associated with games in response to detecting input devices having been connected to the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a reduced user interface in response to detecting that a cover has covered a portion of the display of the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a user interface via a display generation component of an input device. In some embodiments, an electronic device projects a user interface via a projection device of an input device. In some embodiments, an electronic device directs inputs from an input device to different user interfaces depending on the mode in which the input device is operating.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Fiona P. O'Leary, Jonathan A. Topf, Mylène E. Dreyer, Julian Missig
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Patent number: 12028884Abstract: A method for allocating channel resources for transmitting data by user equipment (UE), includes receiving a resource allocation specification for a PSCCH transmission on PSSCH resources. The resource allocation specifies a PSCCH decoding unit of N symbols by M PRBs. The decoding unit is larger than a resource element group (REG) associated with the PSSCH resources. The method includes causing transmission, by a transceiver, of the PSCCH transmission in using the decoding unit specified by the resource allocation specification.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sergey Panteleev, Alexey Khoryaev, Mikhail Shilov, Kilian Roth, Leonardo Gomes Baltar
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Patent number: 12028753Abstract: Methods and devices for selecting an edge application server (EAS) to service a user equipment (UE). One exemplary method incudes determining that a current protocol data unit (PDU) session of an application being executed by a UE is being serviced by a first EAS, determining that the first EAS is no longer suitable to service the application, selecting a second EAS to service the application and instructing the UE to use the second EAS for future PDU sessions for the application.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rohit R. Matolia, Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Jathurshun Sivaloganathan, Krisztian Kiss, Longda Xing, Mohammed Sadique, Srinivasan Nimmala, Vijay Venkataraman
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Patent number: 12028385Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology provide for secure, privacy-preserving access to electronic conferencing. In one or more implementations, an electronic device associated with an account can generate links, such as links for joining an electronic conferencing session. In some use cases, multiple electronic devices can be associated with the same account. Aspects of the subject technology provide for synchronization of links generated by multiple electronic devices associated with the same account.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nelson M. Leduc, Elliot T. Garner, Justin R. Etzine
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Patent number: 12028615Abstract: In some embodiments, a camera actuator includes an actuator base, an autofocus voice coil motor, and an optical image stabilization voice coil motor. In some embodiments, the autofocus voice coil motor includes a lens carrier mounting attachment moveably mounted to the actuator base, a plurality of shared magnets mounted to the base, and an autofocus coil fixedly mounted to the lens carrier mounting attachment for producing forces for moving a lens carrier in a direction of an optical axis of one or more lenses of the lens carrier. In some embodiments, the optical image stabilization voice coil motor includes an image sensor carrier moveably mounted to the actuator base, and optical image stabilization coils moveably mounted to the image sensor carrier within the magnetic fields of the shared magnets, for producing forces for moving the image sensor carrier in a plurality of directions orthogonal to the optical axis.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Aurelien R. Hubert, Qiang Yang, Douglas S. Brodie, Scott W. Miller, Shashank Sharma
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Patent number: 12026364Abstract: A device detects, while displaying a first user interface that includes a first plurality of notifications in a list of notifications, a first user input that includes a first input. In response to detecting the first user input, the device, in accordance with a determination that the first input includes a swipe input in a first direction and a determination that an end of the list of notifications has been reached, displays a search input region. In response to detecting the first user input, the device, in accordance with a determination that the first input includes the swipe input in the first direction and that an end of the list of notifications has not been reached, displays a second plurality of notifications that are between the first plurality of notifications and the end of the list of notifications.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Nathan de Vries
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Patent number: 12027166Abstract: Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. An example process for performing a task includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory, receiving a spoken input including a request, receiving an image input including a plurality of objects, selecting a reference resolution module of a plurality of reference resolution modules based on the request and the image input, determining, with the selected reference resolution module, whether the request references a first object of the plurality of objects based on at least the spoken input, and in accordance with a determination that the request references the first object of the plurality of objects, determining a response to the request including information about the first object.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hong Yu, Saurabh Adya, Shruti Bhargava, Myra C. Lukens, Jianpeng Cheng, Lin Li, Alkeshkumar M. Patel, Dhivya Piraviperumal, Stephen G. Pulman
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Patent number: 12028813Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling uplink (UL) transmission power of a user equipment (UE) electronic device includes determining, using the UE electronic device, that a maximum power availability for a transmission between the UE and a wireless network node is not appropriate to current conditions. Based on the determination that maximum power availability is not appropriate the UE electronic device sends a request to the wireless network node to reduce power for communication with the wireless network node. Based on the request, the UE electronic device communicates at a reduced power level for communications with the wireless network node.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yakun Sun, Anatoliy S. Ioffe, Ehsan Haghani, Rohit U. Nabar
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Patent number: 12026962Abstract: In one implementation, a method of semantically labeling a point cloud cluster is performed at a device including one or more processors and non-transitory memory. The method includes obtaining a point cloud of a physical environment including a plurality of points, each of the plurality of points associated with coordinates in a three-dimensional space. The method includes spatially disambiguating portions of the plurality of points into a plurality of clusters. The method includes determining a semantic label based on a volumetric arrangement of the points of a particular cluster of the plurality of clusters. The method includes generating a characterization vector of a particular point of the points of the particular cluster, wherein the characterization vector includes the coordinates of the particular point, a cluster identifier of the particular cluster, and the semantic label.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Payal Jotwani
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Patent number: D1033350Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, 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, Christopher J. Stringer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
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Patent number: D1033413Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: 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, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
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Patent number: D1033464Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alexander Johnston, Jonathan Lochhead