Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12265704
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising one or more touches on a region of the touchscreen display that includes the application content of the first application. In response to detecting the input comprising the one or more touches, the electronic device, in accordance with a determination that the one or more touches correspond to a system gesture for switching applications, replaces display of the first application with a second application without delivering information corresponding to the one or more touches to the first application; and in accordance with a determination that the touches do not correspond to a system gesture, delivers the information corresponding to the one or more touches to the first application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Joshua H. Shaffer, Kenneth L. Kocienda, Imran A. Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 12267666
    Abstract: A device can receive an audio signal and determine a measure of correlation between the audio signal and a microphone signal. The audio signal can be attenuated based on the measure of correlation. The audio signal can be used to drive one or more speakers of the device. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen E. Pinto, Chad Himeda
  • Patent number: 12267131
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing capability signaling design for 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) release 15 (Rel-15) and/or release 16 (Rel-16) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) enhancement. For example, systems and methods are provided implementing designs for New Radio (NR) MIMO channel state information (CSI) for a small bandwidth part (BWP) and/or a small number of subbands. For example, some aspects relate to a user equipment (UE) including a transceiver configured to communicate with a base station and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor receives, from the base station, a CSI reporting configuration message. The processor determines, using the CSI reporting configuration message, that a number of physical resource blocks (PRBs) of a BWP associated with the CSI reporting configuration message is less than a threshold number. The processor also generates and transmits a CSI report for the BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, David Neumann, Dawei Zhang, Ghaith N. Hattab, Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez, Wei Zeng, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12265248
    Abstract: An electronic device may have image transport layer material such as coherent fiber bundle material or Anderson localization material. The image transport layer material may overlap optical components. Optical sensor components can emit and/or detect light passing through the image transport layer material. Optical components such as light-emitting diodes may emit light through image transport layers. An image from a display may pass through an image transport layer. Infrared light-emitting diodes, infrared photodetectors, and/or other optical sensor components may be used to form a two-dimensional optical touch sensor that is configured to gather touch input from an external object such as a finger of a user. The optical touch sensor may operate through an image transport layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Erik G. de Jong, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Michael B. Wittenberg, Ueyn L Block, Vivek Venugopal
  • Patent number: 12267160
    Abstract: A user equipment wireless communication device in a wireless communication environment receives a signal from the network that includes a radio network temporary ID. From the radio network temporary ID, the user equipment is capable of determining whether a phase tracking reference signal is present based on the radio network temporary ID. If any of these are identified by the radio network temporary ID, then the user equipment determines that a phase tracking reference signal is present. After the user equipment has determined that the phase tracking reference signal is present, the user equipment can then determine which phase tracking reference signal antenna ports are to be used based on the values of the transmitted precoding matrix indicator value and the transmit rank indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Gang Xiong, Yujian Zhang, Guotong Wang
  • Patent number: 12264931
    Abstract: A method for providing navigation assistance using a head-worn device that has a camera, several microphones, and several speakers. The method captures sound in an environment as a plurality of microphone audio signals, captures, using the camera, a scene of the environment as a digital image, and processes the digital image to detect an object therein. The method selects, in response to the detection of the object, one of several navigation audio rendering modes. The several navigation audio rendering modes include a first mode that activates an acoustic transparency function to cause the speakers to reproduce the sound of the environment, a second mode that sonifies the object and activates the acoustic transparency function, and a third mode that sonifies the object, partially activates the acoustic transparency function, and an activates active noise cancellation function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Katherine S. Shigeoka, Jonathan D. Sheaffer, Andrew P. Bright
  • Patent number: 12267601
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to identifying locations in an image where a green ghost is likely to occur by processing a raw version of the image. A block of pixels in the raw image is extracted and then each pixel value in the block is compared with a threshold value of a corresponding color channel. The compared results are then processed to generate bright light information for the block, indicating whether the green ghost is likely to be present at a location of the image diagonally opposed to the location of the block in the image relative to an optical center of an image sensor. By processing the raw image without subsequent processing prone to introducing artifacts and creating false positive, a likely location of the green orb or green ghost may be more accurately identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Muge Wang
  • Patent number: 12267128
    Abstract: A first electronic device is wireless connected to an audio output device that is also concurrently wirelessly connected with a second electronic device that is different from the first electronic device and playing first audio corresponding to first audio data transmitted by the second electronic device to the audio output device. The first electronic device, in response to detecting a user request to play a second audio that is associated with a media item, transmits to the audio output device second audio data corresponding to the second audio. In accordance with the second audio data being transmitted to the audio output device, the audio output device ceases playing the first audio and begins playing the second audio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Taylor G. Carrigan, Patrick L. Coffman
  • Patent number: 12267880
    Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Next Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The UE may receive, from a gNB, configuration information related to a 2-step random access (RA) procedure between the UE and the gNB in unlicensed spectrum. The 2-step RA procedure may include: an uplink MsgA message that includes, within a random access occasion (RO), a MsgA preamble and a MsgA payload; and a downlink MsgB message that includes, within another RO, a MsgB PDCCH and a MsgB payload. The configuration information may indicate: resources allocated for the MsgA preamble; and a mapping between the resources allocated for the MsgA preamble and the MsgA payload. The UE may determine the resources allocated for the MsgA pay load based on the resources allocated for the MsgA preamble and the mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Lee, Seau S. Lim, Yongjun Kwak, Youn Hyoung Heo
  • Patent number: 12267824
    Abstract: Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving request for scheduling assistance from a base station, wherein the request for scheduling assistance comprises scheduling configuration to be applied to a set of flows of a scheduled terminal on an application layer; informing the scheduled terminal of the scheduling configuration; receiving scheduling assistance information from the scheduled terminal, wherein the scheduling assistance information is generated by the scheduled terminal based on the set of flows of the scheduled terminal on the application layer; and transmitting the scheduling assistance information to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Ralf Rossbach, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Lakshmi Iyer, Sabine Roessel, Sarma V. Vangala, Sree Ram Kodali, Sudeep Manithara Vamanan
  • Patent number: 12265696
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to receiving voice input via the one or more microphones; and displaying a visual indication of the voice input, where in accordance with a determination that a portion of the voice input corresponds to voice input that is to be transmitted to one or more devices displaying, via the one or more display devices, the visual indication includes displaying the visual indication with a first set of one or more colors; and in accordance with a determination that the voice input does not include an instruction to transmit any portion of the voice input to the one or more devices, displaying, via the one or more display devices, the visual indication includes displaying the visual indication with a second set of one or more colors that is different from the first set of one or more colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Seunghyun Kim, Patrick L. Coffman
  • Patent number: 12265665
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method includes: determining a location for virtual content; detecting a user interaction with the virtual content; in response to detecting the user interaction with the virtual content, determining a position of a hand gesture during the user interaction with the virtual content; in accordance with a determination that the position of the hand gesture is within a threshold distance relative to the location of the virtual content, generating corrected hand tracking data associated with the user interaction with the virtual content; and in accordance with a determination that the position of the hand gesture is outside of the threshold distance relative to the location of the virtual content, generating uncorrected hand tracking data associated with the user interaction with the virtual content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Emmanuel Piuze-Phaneuf, Ali Ercan, Julian K. Shutzberg, Paul A. Lacey
  • Patent number: 12267623
    Abstract: An example process includes receiving, from a user, an input corresponding to a request to render, without using a camera, and during a communication session with an external electronic device, an avatar associated with the user; and in accordance with receiving the input: in accordance with a determination that the electronic device is coupled to an external accessory device: during the communication session with the external electronic device, and while a camera corresponding to the communication session is disabled: receiving, from the external accessory device, a first data stream detected by a first type of sensor of the external accessory device; determining, based on the first data stream, a first set of data representing a first type of visual feature of the avatar; and rendering the avatar using the first set of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Justin G. Binder, Abhimanyu Yadav, Ahmed S. Hussen Abdelaziz, Abhishek Walia, Anushree Prasanna Kumar
  • Patent number: 12266846
    Abstract: A radio frequency package includes a first portion of an antenna array module, a second portion of the antenna array module, and a flexible cable. The first portion of the antenna array module provides a first wireless communication functionality and the second portion of the antenna array module provides a second wireless communication functionality. The flexible cable includes first surface directly coupled to the first portion of the antenna array module. The flexible cable also includes a second surface directly coupled to the second portion of the antenna array module. The flexible cable communicates signals between the first portion of the distributed antenna array module and the second portion of the antenna array module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sidharth S. Dalmia, Wansuk Yun, Flynn P. Carson
  • Patent number: 12267702
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for beam failure recovery based on a unified TCI framework. A UE may receive, from a base station, a configuration for a BFR procedure for a CCG. The CCG may include at least two CCs and the UE may periodically receive, from the base station, at least a first BFD RS and a first CBD RS in a first CC included in the CCG. The UE may detect, based on the first BFD RS, a beam failure in at least the first CC and send, to the base station, a BFRQ. The BFRQ may include a candidate beam selected based on at least the first CBD RS and may be sent via a PRACH or MAC CE. The UE may receive, from the base station, a BFR response and apply the candidate beam to the first CC and at least one additional CC of the CCG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Andre Janssen, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Franz J. Eder
  • Patent number: 12266106
    Abstract: Rendering an avatar may include determining an expression to be represented by an avatar, obtaining a blood texture map associated with the expression, wherein the blood texture map represents an offset of coloration from an albedo map for the expression, and rendering the avatar utilizing the blood texture map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Olivier Soares, Andrew P. Mason
  • Patent number: D1068758
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, 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: D1068807
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Chand, Jonathan R. Dascola, Nathan Gitter, Stephen O. Lemay, Richard D. Lyons, Israel Pastrana Vicente, Lorena S. Pazmino, William A. Sorrentino, Matan Stauber
  • Patent number: D1068822
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Freddy Anzures, Imran Chaudhri, Greg Christie, Stephen O. Lemay, Mike Matas, Bas Ording, Marcel van Os
  • Patent number: D1068844
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Daniel Satoru Hamaguchi