Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12061915
    Abstract: An electronic device displays one or more views of a software application with a plurality of gesture recognizers including at least one discrete gesture recognizer, configured to send a single action message in response to a respective gesture; and at least one continuous gesture recognizer, configured to send action messages at successive recognized sub-events of a respective recognized gesture. The device detects one or more events and processes each event using one or more of the gesture recognizers, including: processing the respective event at a respective gesture recognizer in accordance with a respective gesture definition corresponding to the respective gesture recognizer, and conditionally sending one or more respective action messages to the software application in accordance with an outcome of the processing of the respective event. The device executes the software application in accordance with one or more action messages received from one or more of the gesture recognizers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Joshua H. Shaffer, Bradford Allen Moore, Jason Clay Beaver
  • Patent number: 12062835
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with first, second, and third antennas and a dock flex. A first feed terminal for the first antenna may be coupled to a second feed terminal for the second antenna over a first path. The first path may be coupled to ground over a second path. Tuning components may be interposed on the first and second paths. The third antenna may be patterned on a first portion of the dock flex. Front end components for the first antenna may be mounted to a second portion of the dock flex. The first and second portions may extend from a tail of the dock flex. The tail may be wrapped around a plastic support block to hold the second portion over the first portion. The plastic support block may have a snap hook clip that holds the second portion in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Erdinc Irci, Aaron H. Squier, Daisong Zhang, Enrique Ayala Vazquez, Hongfei Hu
  • Patent number: 12063742
    Abstract: A camera may include a printed circuit board (PCB) that may include at least one coil and at least one position sensor. The coil may be embedded at least partially inside the PCB at a first side of the PCB, whilst the position sensor may be attached to the PCB at a second side opposite the first side. The PCB may include an aperture through the PCB at a location corresponding to the position sensor to enhance sensing of the position sensor. The PCB may further include at least one recess inside which the position sensor may be attached to the PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sai Harsha Jandhyala, Himesh Patel
  • Patent number: 12063182
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide reception and transmission in 5G NR at a frequency larger than 52.6 GHz and with a subcarrier spacing larger than 120 KHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Oghenekome Oteri, Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Weidong Yang, Sigen Ye, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Huaning Niu
  • Patent number: 12061755
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to displaying widgets, managing widgets, and navigating user interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Chao, Gregory M. Apodaca, Gary I. Butcher, Taylor G. Carrigan, Kevin W. Chen, Christopher P. Foss
  • Patent number: 12063598
    Abstract: A device may obtain, through wireless signaling from a network, a time-domain wireless-resource allocation (TWRA) pattern allocated to the device by the network and corresponding to a future time interval (TTI) for which the device has not yet decoded corresponding control information. This enables the device to conduct wireless communications during the TTI using resources allocated according to the obtained TWRA pattern, without first having to decode control information to identify the TWRA pattern. The device may obtain the TWRA pattern by obtaining an indication from the network that the TWRA pattern remains associated with future wireless communications of the device until indicated otherwise by the network, and/or by transmitting to the network an indication of preferred parameters associated with the future wireless communications and the TWRA pattern, and/or by transmitting to the network a request to have the network change from a different TWRA pattern to the TWRA pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jia Tang, Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Yuchul Kim, Zhu Ji, Wei Zeng, Wei Zhang, Ping Wang, Sreevalsan Vallath
  • Patent number: 12063172
    Abstract: Various user equipment (UE) operations performed when the UE is in multiple Downlink Control Information (multi-DCI) based multiple transmission and reception point (multi-TRP) configuration. The operations receiving, from one of the first or second gNBs, one or more cell reference signal (CRS) rate matching patterns, wherein the one or more CRS rate matching patterns comprise an indication of a control resource set (CORESET) pool for each of the one or more CRS rate matching patterns and applying the one or more CRS rate matching patterns to a CORESET for a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) based on the indication of the CORESET pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12063690
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for a 2-Step Random Access Channel (RACH) for New Radio (NR) with unlicensed operation. The systems and methods include at least, generating, by a user equipment (UE), a MsgA of a random access channel (RACH) procedure associated with the NR network, the MsgA having a physical random access channel (PRACH) occasion and an associated physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) occasion for transmission during the RACH procedure, and transmitting, by the UE, the MsgA to a base station (gNB) over unlicensed spectrum of the NR network during the RACH procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Yongjun Kwak, Lopamudra Kundu, Yushu Zhang, Sergey Sosnin
  • Patent number: 12063121
    Abstract: Provided is a method by a user equipment (UE), comprising: acquiring, from a Base Station (BS), one or more messages comprising a first group of parameters and a second group of parameters of one or more Configured Grant (CG) configuration in a bandwidth part (BWP) of a cell, at least one CG configuration with the second group of parameters indicates a plurality of transmission occasions within a period, and repeating transmission of a Transport Block (TB) in the plurality of transmission occasions based on the at least one CG configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Ralf Rossbach, Fangli Xu, Murtaza A. Shikari, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Sarma V. Vangala, Srinivasan Nimmala
  • Patent number: 12063505
    Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate improved security establishment procedures for Vehicle to Everything (V2X) direct connections. Various embodiments are employable at or comprise User Equipment, and can initiate and/or receive V2X security establishment connections wherein a receiving UE can reject the connection based on the initiating UE's capabilities/policy and/or the initiating UE can make the final decision regarding the connection based at least on receiving security policy and capability information from the receiving UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shu Guo, Xiangying Yang, Yuqin Chen, Fangli Xu, Zhibin Wu, Dawei Zhang, Huarui Liang, Haijing Hu
  • Patent number: 12061278
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for a multimedia device with audio and video capturing capability to identify an audio device based on acoustic playback signal if the audio device cannot be identified from captured video. The multimedia device may assemble a list of candidate audio devices that are a possible match for the observed audio device from a database of previously recognized audio devices and may transmit commands to the candidate audio devices to play acoustic identification signals. The acoustic identification signals may be audible sound or ultrasonic tone sequences with embedded identification information unique to each audio device. The multimedia device may record and analyze the acoustic identification signals received from any of the candidate audio devices to construct metrics to select the most likely candidate for the observed audio device. The metrics may include time of flight, direction of arrival, received amplitude, direct-to-reverberant ratio (DRR) of the acoustic identification signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher T. Eubank, Martin E. Johnson, Daniel K. Boothe, Jonathan D. Sheaffer
  • Patent number: 12062313
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed towards systems and methods of power saving in electronic displays based on changing clock signal frequencies supplied to the gate-in-panel (GIP) circuitry during extended blanking modes of the electronic display. The display driver circuitry of the display may reduce and/or halt clock signal frequencies sent to GIP circuitry in the display, to reduce power output during extended blanking modes of the electronic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Won Ryu, Kingsuk Brahma, Qing Li, Shawn P Hurley, Ce Zhang, Warren S Rieutort-Louis, Feng Wen, Marc J DeVincentis, Zhe Hua, Hyunwoo Nho
  • Patent number: 12063494
    Abstract: A transducer assembly comprising: a magnet motor assembly comprising a first magnet plate and a second magnet plate arranged along an axis, a first support plate positioned between inward facing surfaces of the first magnet plate and the second magnet plate, a second support plate positioned along an outward facing surface of the first magnet plate to form a first magnetic gap between the first support plate and the second support plate, and a third support plate positioned along an outward facing surface of the second magnet plate to form a second magnetic gap between the first support plate and the third support plate; a voice coil coupled to the magnet motor assembly, wherein the voice coil is positioned around the first support plate and within the first magnetic gap and the second magnetic gap; and a piston coupled to the voice coil, wherein the piston is operable to vibrate in a direction parallel to the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rebecca J. Russell, Onur I. Ilkorur, David S. Wilkes, Jr., Christopher Wilk, Michael J. Newman
  • Patent number: 12061680
    Abstract: Electronic devices in a system may be controlled by a user. The user may have one or more wearable devices or other devices. A user's device may be used by the user in identifying a target electronic device of interest among the electronic devices in the system. The target electronic device may be identified using a gaze tracking sensor that senses the user's point-of-gaze, an orientation sensor that detects a direction in which the user's device is pointed, or other sensor circuitry. Visual feedback, audio feedback, and/or haptic feedback may be provided to the user to confirm which electronic device has been identified as a target electronic device of interest. User input may be gathered by sensors and used in adjusting operating parameters in the target electronic device of interest. Health monitoring operations and other operations may also be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan Hafeneger, Craig C. Leong
  • Patent number: 12062349
    Abstract: In some implementations, a mobile computing device may participate in the calibration of an output signal of a media device. This calibration process includes storing device-specific calibration data which is related to properties of a light sensor of the mobile device. The mobile device then detects of properties of light emitted by the display device during a presentation to obtain sensor values related to light emitted by the display device during the presentation. The calibration process may also ensure that the mobile device is proximate to the display device prior to obtaining the sensor values. The collected sensor values are adjusted using device-specific calibration data stored to the mobile device to normalize the sensor values relative to a baseline. These normalized sensor values are sent to the media device for use in adjusting the output signal based on the normalized sensor values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marshall W. Huss, Maxim Stepanov, Manik Kalra, Christopher J. Sanders, Vijay Sundaram, Osborn F. de Lima, Shahram Peyvandi, Adria Fores Herranz, Jiaying Wu, Lu Zhang
  • Patent number: D1038810
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Marc A. Newson, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1038913
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 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, 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
  • Patent number: D1038961
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas D. Felton
  • Patent number: D1038987
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Allison W. Dryer, Grant R. Paul, Giancarlo Yerkes
  • Patent number: D1038991
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Boettcher, Anton Davydov