Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 12026348Abstract: Generating for display an indicator of hidden objects in response to user input is disclosed. An input for moving a pointer presented in a user interface toward a first virtual boundary is received. The movement of the pointer toward the first virtual boundary is generated for display. An action is triggered in response to receiving input for movement of the pointer across the first virtual boundary after the pointer crosses the first virtual boundary. An object is generated for display in the user interface in response to receiving input for movement of the pointer across a second virtual boundary.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2017Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: John Louch, Alessandro Sabatelli
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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: 12028867Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for a wireless communication on an unlicensed spectrum. An access point (AP) of the wireless communication system includes a processor circuitry, and radio front end circuitry coupled to the processor circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to schedule multiple transmission time intervals (multi-TTIs) in a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in the unlicensed spectrum. The processor circuitry is configured to generate a downlink control information (DCI) to include the scheduled multi-TTIs and a hybrid automatic repeat and request acknowledgement (HARQACK) assessment information associated with the scheduled multi-TTIs. The radio front end circuitry is configured to transmit the DCI to a user equipment (UE) over the unlicensed spectrum.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Yingyang Li, Salvatore Talarico, Yongjun Kwak, Jose Armando Oviedo
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Patent number: 12028421Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for collecting, storing, and transmitting account information in a matchable form, and for using this information to quickly set up accounts. Account information is maintained and shared between one or more client devices and an intermediate server. Account information can be reconciled locally to determine whether to add or enable an active account or an account proxy to a client device. Account proxies can be quickly enabled by a single user action. The methods and systems allow enabled accounts and account proxies to be removed from a first client device without propagating the deletion to a second client device.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Michael McDougall, Steve S. Ko, John William Scalo, Patrick L Coffman, Aaron Matthew Everitt
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Patent number: 12028437Abstract: A method and apparatus for synchronizing a timebase is disclosed. A timebase management circuit includes limit circuitry, in a first clock domain, which generates, based on a global timebase, an initial timebase limit. The timebase management circuit includes, in a second clock domain, adjustment circuitry that generates an adjusted timebase limit based on the initial timebase limit. A storage circuit in the second clock domain stores a local timebase. Update circuitry, coupled to an output of the storage circuit, generates an updated local timebase using a clock signal in the second clock domain, wherein the updated local timebase is subject to the adjusted timebase limit.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher D. Finan, Alexander Ukanwa, Charles F. Dominguez, Jean-Didier Allegrucci, Jeffrey J. Irwin, Kalpana Bansal, Michael Bekerman, Remi Clavel
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Publication number: 20240214174Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to perform a secondary cell (SCell) activation. A network node can send a UE a command to activate a component carrier, where this component carrier is associated with other component carriers of a component carrier group. In turn, the UE can determine one or more cross-component carrier reference signal(s) received on one or more activated component carriers of the component carrier group for use in the activation of the component carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2021Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
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Publication number: 20240214168Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods related to multiplexing patterns for synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block (SSB) and remaining minimum system information (RMSI).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2024Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
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Publication number: 20240211569Abstract: Methods for performing user authentication based on a multi-representation eye model for devices such as head-mounted display devices are disclosed. The multi-representation eye model may be generated and updated based on feature representations of an identified eye. The user authentication process may be initiated by causing an image to be captured of a current eye under a first set of conditions that may then be transformed into a current feature representation. The current feature representation may be applied to the multi-representation eye model to determine whether the current eye is a match for the identified eye.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2023Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gendong Zhang, Martin Haller, Abhishek Nagar, Saurabh Jain, Stefan Roennecke, Tomi P Maila, Andrei Nikiforov, Tom Sengelaub
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Publication number: 20240211805Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure present devices, methods, and computer readable medium for techniques for creating machine learning models. Application developers can select a machine learning template from a plurality of templates appropriate for the type of data used in their application. Templates can include multiple templates for classification of images, text, sound, motion, and tabular data. A graphical user interface allows for intuitive selection of training data, validation data, and integration of the trained model into the application. The techniques further display a numerical score for both the training accuracy and validation accuracy using the test data. The application provides a live mode that allows for execution of the machine learning model on a mobile device to allow for testing the model from data from one or more of the sensors (i.e., camera or microphone) on the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2023Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Michael R. Siracusa, Alexander B. Brown, Dheeraj Goswami, Nathan C. Wertman, Jacob T. Sawyer, Donald M. Firlik
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Publication number: 20240214050Abstract: Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE). The UE performs at least one of: reporting, to a base station (BS), a UE capability related to port selection codebooks, in accordance with a determination that an active bandwidth part (BWP) has less than a threshold number of physical resource blocks (PRBs), operating according to a rule that the UE is not expected to report, to the BS, the port selection codebooks, or in accordance with a determination that the active BWP has less than the threshold number of PRBs and that the UE is configured with the port selection codebooks by the BS, assuming that a subset of parameters has a predefined value, wherein the parameters comprise a number, M, of selected frequency basis, a percentage, ?, of number of selected ports, a percentage, ?, of number of reported non-zero coefficients, and a number, R, of precoding matrix indicator (PMI) sub-bands per channel quality information (CQI) sub-band.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2021Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
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Publication number: 20240214799Abstract: Provided is a method of a transmitter in a wireless communication system, that includes: generating protocol data units (PDU) in layer 2 (L2); performing security protection on a control PDU of the PDUs in L2 to obtain a protected control PDU for the control PDU, wherein the control PDU in a sublayer lower than service data adaptation protocol (SDAP); and transmitting the protected control PDU.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2021Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Fangli Xu, Bobby Jose, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Murtaza A. Shikari, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Pavan Nuggehalli, Ralf Rossbach, Sarma V. Vangala, Shu Guo, Weidong Yang
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Publication number: 20240214910Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for managing relay identifiers for sidelink relays in wireless networks.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2021Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Zhibin Wu, Shu Guo, Chunxuan Ye, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sudeep Manithara Vamanan, Yuqin Chen
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Publication number: 20240215047Abstract: Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE). The method comprises acquiring a downlink control information (DCI) configured for multiple-physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduling; determining, based on the number of PDSCHs scheduled by the DCI, whether a codebook group (CBG)-based operation is enabled for the scheduled PDSCHs; and determining, based on the number of PDSCHs scheduled by the DCI, a format of the DCI.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2021Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang
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Publication number: 20240211038Abstract: Methods to trigger eye enrollment without requiring good gaze interaction are described that allow a guest user of a device to initiate partial or full eye enrollment even though their eye model is not known and thus conventional gaze-based interactions do not work well. A gaze tracking system collects gaze data in the background. At any time (or within an interval after a user puts on the device), an eye enrollment can be triggered by detecting some gaze gesture, for example rolling the eyes in a large circle, or moving the eyes randomly for a time that exceeds a threshold. Depending on the coverage of the gaze/cornea data collected in the background, a full eye enrollment or only a visual axis enrollment may be performed in response to the gesture.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2023Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hao Qin, Hua Gao, Tom Sengelaub
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Publication number: 20240214684Abstract: A camera includes a camera actuator having autofocus (AF) voice coil motor (VCM) with a lens carrier mounting attachment moveably mounted to a base, magnets mounted to the base, and an AF 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 a lens of the lens carrier. The magnets may include a pair of first magnets laterally spaced along a first side of the camera and a pair of second magnets laterally spaced along a second side of the camera opposite the first side. The optical image stabilization (OIS) VCM includes an image sensor carrier moveably mounted to the base, and OIS coils moveably mounted to the image sensor carrier within the magnetic fields of the magnets, for producing forces for moving the image sensor carrier in directions orthogonal to the optical axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2024Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Seyed Mohammad Javid Mahmoudzadeh, Aurelien R Hubert, Phillip R Sommer
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Publication number: 20240211039Abstract: In an unobtrusive visual axis enrollment process, a line of text or other content is displayed at a known vertical location and virtual depth that the user can then read. This line of text may be content that the user needs to read as part of the normal enrollment process. As the user reads the line of text, eye tracking cameras may capture images of the eye. This data may then be used to estimate a stimulus plane. The error between the estimated stimulus plane and the ground truth stimulus plane (the actual location of the line of text in virtual space) may then be used to estimate the kappa angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2023Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hao Qin, Hua Gao, Tom Sengelaub
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Patent number: 12021628Abstract: An electronic device (such as an access point) is described. This electronic device transmits an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) frame to a recipient electronic device (such as a client or a station). The OFDMA frame includes multiple predefined resource units (RUs) allocated to the recipient electronic device in a set of predefined RUs having associated frequency bandwidths. Moreover, the multiple predefined RUs include two or more first predefined RUs having a first number of tones less than a predefined amount, or two or more second predefined RUs having a second number of tones greater than or equal to the predefined amount. For example, the predefined amount may include 242 tones. Note that the multiple predefined RUs may have the same or different numbers of tones. Moreover, the electronic may receive an acknowledgment or a block acknowledgment from the recipient electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2023Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Tianyu Wu, Yong Liu, Jinjing Jiang, Jarkko L. Kneckt, Lochan Verma, Qi Wang, Su Khiong Yong, Anuj Batra
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Patent number: 12020380Abstract: A computer system displays a representation of a previously-captured media item, which includes or is associated with depth information corresponding to a physical environment in which the media item was captured. While displaying the representation of the media item, the system receives, via one or more input devices, one or more inputs corresponding to a request to display a representation of a measurement corresponding to a respective portion of the physical environment captured in the media item, and, in response, the system displays the representation of the measurement over at least a portion of the representation of the media item that corresponds to the respective portion of the physical environment, based on the depth information, and a label corresponding to the representation of the measurement that describes the measurement based on the depth information.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2022Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Joseph A. Malia, Praveen Sharma, Mark K. Hauenstein
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Patent number: 12022393Abstract: This disclosure describes methods, systems, and devices for broadcasting a Physical Downlink Control Channel-based (PDCCH-based) wake-up signal. In one example, a method involves receiving, by one or more user equipment (UEs), a configuration for monitoring a wake up signal (WUS). The method further includes monitoring, by the one or more UEs and based on the configuration, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for downlink control information (DCI) associated with the WUS. The method also includes receiving, by the one or more UEs, the WUS in response to detecting the DCI.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Qiaoyang Ye, Hong He, Toufiqul Islam, Gregory Ermolaev
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Patent number: 12018960Abstract: A sensor mounting assembly includes a sensor that is operable to detect conditions, and a body structure having an inner wall and an outer wall located opposite the inner wall. A sensor mount is coupled to the outer wall with at least one fastener extending through the outer wall, inner wall, and sensor mount. The sensor mount defines an internal space in which the sensor is coupled.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2022Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Philipp J. Wolf, Alyssa J. Garver, Brooks G. Marquette, James J. Dowle, Jens M. Elfwing, Romain A. Teil, Erik Mikael Fermer