Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 12078819Abstract: Various embodiments include perimeter sheet spring suspension arrangements for cameras. A perimeter sheet spring suspension arrangement may be used to suspend a moveable platform of the camera from a base structure of the camera, and allow a lens group of the camera to move laterally. According to some embodiments, the perimeter sheet spring suspension arrangement may include one or more tabs that may be used as bumpers that cushion lateral movement of the moveable platform.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2023Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alfred N. Mireault, Scott W. Miller
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Patent number: 12081311Abstract: A communications system may include user equipment (UE) devices, communications satellites, gateways, and a terrestrial network. The UE devices may receive broadcast signals from the constellation. The UE devices may transmit registration requests to the gateways via the satellites in response to the broadcast signals. The registration requests may include information identifying the geographic locations of the UE devices and may include two-line element (TLE) identifiers. A scheduler on the terrestrial network may receive forward link traffic requests for the UE devices, each with a corresponding priority. The scheduler may also receive satellite information that includes thermal constraints, position information, and power information associated with the satellites. The scheduler may generate forward link traffic grants for the UE devices based on the forward link traffic requests, the thermal constraints, the TLE versions, the geographic locations, and the priorities.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Shahram Talakoub, Sebastian B. Seeber
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Patent number: 12082116Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for uplink panel selection with power saving. In some embodiments, user equipment (UE) may experience a positional change. In response, the UE may deactivate a first communication panel to save power and activate a second communication panel. The UE may then transmit a status message to a communication node indicating the activation and/or deactivation. The node may then register this activation and/or deactivation. In some embodiments, the node may monitor uplink slots from the first and second communication panel to identify the activation and deactivation. For example, if the node detects an absence of an uplink signal within a slot threshold, the node may identify the panel as being deactivated. The node may establishing communications with another panel based on a detected signal and/or the status message.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Alexei Davydov, Gang Xiong, Guotong Wang, Hong He
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Patent number: 12079945Abstract: Presenting a virtual object includes obtaining, by a first device, a first geometric representation and a second geometric representation corresponding to a physical surface in a real environment, determining an initialization location on the first physical surface for a virtual object, obtaining a first normal for the first representation and a second normal for the second representation at the initialization location, and rendering the virtual object at the initialization location based on the first normal and the second normal.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2023Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: David Lui, Hon-Ming Chen, Shuai Song, Xiao Jin Yu
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Patent number: 12082228Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods of configuring received signal strength indicator (RSSI) measurements to determine crosslink interferences (CLI). For instance, a user equipment (UE) can receive, using radio front-end circuitry, a RSSI resource configuration for CLI measurement from a base station in a 5G network. The UE can then measure a RSSI of one or more received signals based at least in part on the RSSI resource configuration. The UE can then perform one or more CLI measurements based at least in part on the measured RSSI. The RSSI resource configuration includes an identifier information element (IE), one or more slot-level indication IEs, one or more symbol-level indication IEs, one or more physical resource block (PRB)-level indication IEs, one or more resource element (RE) pattern indication IEs, and one or more receive beam indication IEs.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Dawei Ying, Hassan Ghozlan, Qian Li, Daewon Lee, Geng Wu
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Patent number: 12082029Abstract: Techniques discussed herein facilitate Base Station (BS) enhancements to measurement by a RRC Connected mode User Equipment (UE) for configuration of Carrier Aggregation (CA) and/or Dual Connectivity (DC). One example embodiment comprises a BS device comprising a processor configured to perform operations comprising: receiving a UE Assistance Information message comprising a measurement request; transmitting a first RRCReconfiguration message comprising a measConfig IE; receiving a MeasurementReport message from a UE that indicates one or more measurements on one or more sets of frequencies, wherein the one or more sets of frequencies comprise a set of serving frequencies for one of a serving cell or the neighboring cell and a set of non-serving frequencies for the UE, wherein the set of non-serving frequencies are associated with the neighboring cell; and transmitting a second RRCReconfiguration message that configures the UE with at least one set of the one or more sets of frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Fangli Xu, Dawei Zhang, Dirk Nickisch, Haijing Hu, Sarma V. Vangala, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Sharad Sambhwani, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
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Patent number: 12082031Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may perform configured to perform layer 1 (L1) measurements and layer 3 (L3) measurements. The UE receives a first configuration for layer 1 (L1) measurements of a resource set comprising a plurality of reference signals (RS) and a second configuration for layer 3 (L3) measurements, the first configuration including periodic measurement occasions and a reporting periodicity for transmitting measurement reports comprising the L1 measurements, determines the L3 measurements collide with at least one of the plurality of RSs for the L1 measurements, wherein the colliding causes a determination of the L1 measurements to be muted for the at least one RS during at least one of the measurement occasions and alters at least a first measurement report so that the L1 measurements that collide with the L3 measurements are not reported in at least one reporting periodicity.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Herbert R. Dawid, Panagiotis Botsinis, Yihong Qi, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Xiang Chen
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Patent number: 12078914Abstract: Various embodiments include a locking mechanism for a camera. The locking mechanism may be used to provide a clamping force that prevents one or more components of the camera from moving along one or more axes in some examples. According to various embodiments, the locking mechanism may include a ferromagnetic plate fixedly attached to a carrier (e.g., a lens carrier, an image sensor carrier, etc.), an electromagnet for electromagnetically interacting with the ferromagnetic plate, and a flexure to which the electromagnet may be attached. The flexure may further be attached to a stationary structure of the camera. In some embodiments, the camera may be operable such that, in a lock mode of the camera, the electromagnet is electrically driven to generate a magnetic field that attracts the ferromagnetic plate, thereby providing a clamping force that prevents the carrier from moving along an optical axis of the camera.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bin Xu, Aurelien R Hubert, Xu Wang
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Patent number: 12079142Abstract: A permissions model for a processor in which permissions are based on the instruction group of an instruction. These permissions may be stored in permissions tables and indexed using the program counter of the instruction. The permissions may identify which of a plurality of instruction groups of an instruction set architecture (ISA) of a processor are permitted to execute from that program counter value. Accordingly, the instruction group of the instruction can be compared to the permitted instruction groups to determine if the instruction has execution permission. In some cases, the instruction-group-based permissions are secondary execution privileges; additional primary execution permissions that are determined using the program counter may also be used.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2023Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jeffry E. Gonion, Bernard J. Semeria
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Patent number: 12079350Abstract: In an embodiment, a system is provided in which the private key is managed in hardware and is not visible to software. The system may provide hardware support for public key generation, digital signature generation, encryption/decryption, and large random prime number generation without revealing the private key to software. The private key may thus be more secure than software-based versions. In an embodiment, the private key and the hardware that has access to the private key may be integrated onto the same semiconductor substrate as an integrated circuit (e.g. a system on a chip (SOC)). The private key may not be available outside of the integrated circuit, and thus a nefarious third party faces high hurdles in attempting to obtain the private key.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2023Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Timothy R. Paaske, Mitchell D. Adler, Conrad Sauerwald, Fabrice L. Gautier, Shu-Yi Yu
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Patent number: 12081282Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to beam reporting using media access control element in wireless communication systems.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Huaning Niu, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye
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Patent number: 12081294Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to establish a cellular connection with a base station. The UE may receive multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) uplink configuration information from the base station. The MIMO configuration information may indicate a plurality of sounding reference signal (SRS) resources. The UE may receive downlink control information (DCI) from the base station, which may specify a plurality of MIMO parameters. The UE may perform uplink MIMO communication with the base station according to the MIMO configuration and the plurality of MIMO parameters.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Weidong Yang, Sigen Ye, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri
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Patent number: 12082282Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for adequate failure secondary cell group (SCG) reporting in New Radio (NR) involved networks. Various embodiments describe how to generate a sufficient SCG failure report so that a master node (MN) in the network may acknowledge the corresponding failed reference signal including its frequency and subcarrier spacing. In accordance, the MN may configure the UE and network communication effectively. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Seau S. Lim, Candy Yiu, Youn Hyoung Heo
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Patent number: 12081689Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for shielding of an optical element of an imaging device in a mobile device. In an embodiment, an imaging device includes: an optical element; a metallic shielding enclosure, wherein the optical element is partially located within the metallic shielding enclosure; an electrically conductive coating layer applied on a surface of the optical element that is outside the metallic shielding enclosure, wherein the electrically conductive coating layer is electrically connected to the metallic shielding enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Julien Sarry, Henry M. Daghighian
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Patent number: 12078812Abstract: While head-mountable devices can provide immersive experiences, a user wearing a head-mountable device can also benefit from activities that include body motion and promote the user's health. Because such activities may not be intrinsically necessary to the operation of head-mountable devices, it can be beneficial to provide additional or modified operations that allow a user to continue operation of a head-mountable device while performing the desired body motions. The head-mountable device can detect movement and/or stasis of the user and determine whether motion would be recommended. Upon determining that motion, an additional motion, or a different motion would be beneficial, the head-mountable device can provide an output to the user that promote such motions. The output can include a notification to the user and/or a modification of the user interface that encourages the user to move in a particular way.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2023Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Dustin A. Hatfield, Kam Mui C. Siu, Angela M. Avera
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Patent number: 12079910Abstract: According to various embodiments, a method of presenting a computer-generated reality (CGR) file includes receiving user inputs to present a CGR scene including one or more CGR objects. The CGR scene is associated with an anchor. The anchor is selected via a user input directed to an anchor selection affordance of a user interface. The method further includes capturing an image of a physical environment, and determining that a portion of the image corresponds to the anchor. Based on determining that the portion of the image corresponds to the anchor, the method includes displaying the CGR scene at a location of the display corresponding to the portion of the image corresponding to the anchor.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Tyler Casella, David Lui, Norman Nuo Wang, Xiao Jin Yu
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Patent number: 12079260Abstract: The subject technology for maintaining differential privacy for database query results receives a query for a database that contains user data. The subject technology determines that the query is permitted for the database based at least in part on a privacy policy associated with the database. The subject technology determines that performing the query will not exceed a query budget for the database. The subject technology, when the query is permitted and performing the query will not exceed the query budget, performs the query on the database and receiving results from the query. The subject technology selects a differential privacy algorithm for the results based at least in part on a query type of the query. The subject technology applies the selected differential privacy algorithm to the results to generate differentially private results. The subject technology provides the differentially private results.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Mona Chitnis, Abhishek Bhowmick, Lucas O. Winstrom, Koray Mancuhan, Stephen D. Fleischer
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Patent number: 12079915Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for concurrently presenting two synchronized animations based on an input value that is received through an input interface of a device. The method defines, based on the received input, a first animation that presents a first animated object, and then uses a set of attributes of the first animation to define a second animation that presents a second animated object. The method then displays at least portions of the first and second animations concurrently. In some embodiments, the method displays the first and second animations on a display screen of the device, or on a display screen connected to the device.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Sean P. O'Brien
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Patent number: 12082158Abstract: Techniques for power savings by a wireless device. The technique including receiving, by a first wireless device, a set of sidelink resources for communicating directly with a second wireless device from a wireless node, determining, by the first wireless device, to transmit sidelink data to the second wireless device, receiving sidelink coordination information, the sidelink coordination information including discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration information of the second wireless device, transmitting a sidelink resources request to the wireless node, the sidelink resources request including assistance information based on the received sidelink coordination information, receiving a sidelink resources grant from the wireless node, and transmitting the sidelink data based on the sidelink resources grant.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Chunxuan Ye, Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Zhibin Wu
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Patent number: D1040815Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Dylan Ross Edwards, Christopher Daryl Soli, Brandon Marshall Walkin