Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 12075352Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to reducing power consumption of an electronic device scanning for wireless communication signals while maintaining or even improving an efficiency of the scanning operations. To do so, the electronic device may include more than one scan core, such as a main core and a receiving core. The receiving core may have limited functionality compared to the main core. For example, the receiving core may only receive wireless signals (including scanning for wireless signals). That is, the receiving core may not support certain operations that consume relative high power that are supported by the main core, such as transmission of signals. In this way, operation of the receiving core, either in place of or in addition to the main core, may reduce power consumption of the electronic device by avoiding high power consuming operations, such as data transmission, while scanning for various signals.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sriram Lakshmanan, Tushar Ramanlal Shah, Udaykumar R. Raval, Bernd Willi Adler, Dongwoon Hahn, Shehla S. Rana, Yang Yu, Rajneesh Kumar, Veerendra Boodannavar, Yann Ly-Gagnon, Duy N. Phan, Karan Sawhney, Rohit Sharma, Sarin S. Mehta
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Patent number: 12073041Abstract: In some embodiments, a user interface displayed by a first electronic device is navigated with a first mode of navigation when touch input at a touch-sensitive surface of a second electronic device satisfies one or more criteria, and is navigated with a second mode of navigation when touch input at the touch-sensitive surface does not satisfy the one or more criteria.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2023Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher J. Sanders, Dennis S. Park, Neil P. Cormican, Ada Turner, Dale A. Taylor
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Patent number: 12075338Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for a UE to determine a cell global identity (CGI) of a target cell.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Haitong Sun, Weidong Yang, Wei Zeng, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang, Zhibin Wu, Oghenekome Oteri
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Patent number: 12074865Abstract: This application relates to establishing a communication session between a host device and a trusted client device. A host device generates a one-time secret (OTS) and transmits the OTS to a trusted client device via an out-of-band communication channel. The trusted client device verifies an identity of a user of the trusted client device utilizing one or more sensors of the trusted client device. Responsive to verifying the identity of the user, the trusted client device negotiates an encryption key with the host device based on the OTS. The trusted client device then establishes a communication session with the host device utilizing the encryption key. The communication session can be utilized to pass credentials in a protected manner from the trusted client device to the host device that enable the host device to access a user account associated with a service.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Max M. Gunther, Onar Vikingstad, Ramiro Calvo, Isabella M. Funke, Eric D. Friedman, Hervé Sibert, David P. Remahl, Yannick L. Sierra, Frank B. Dancs, Sudhakar N. Mambakkam
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Patent number: 12074363Abstract: A housing for an electronic device is disclosed. The housing comprises a first component and a second component separated from the first component by a gap. The housing also includes a first molded element disposed at least partially within the gap and defining at least a portion of an interlock feature, and a second molded element disposed at least partially within the gap and mechanically engaging the interlock feature. The first component, the second component, and the second molded element form a portion of an exterior surface of the housing. A method of forming the housing is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2023Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Matthew D. Hill, Michael B. Wittenberg, Shane Bustle, Duy P. Le
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Patent number: 12075433Abstract: Wireless communication systems can include multiple Transmission and Reception Points (TRPs). Systems, devices, and techniques for control signaling of Precoding Resource block Group (PRG) size configuration for multi-TRP operations are described. A described technique includes determining, by a User Equipment (UE), a PRG size based on a downlink control information (DCI) message that provides scheduling information for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); receiving, by the UE, a group of PDSCH transmissions from multiple TRPs that are transmitted in accordance with the DCI message; and decoding, by the UE, one or more of the PDSCH transmissions based on the PRG size.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Alexei Davydov, Bishwarup Mondal, Guotong Wang, Avik Sengupta
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Patent number: 12073530Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide a view of an adjusted position of a three-dimensional (3D) representation of another user (e.g., an avatar) during a communication session. At a first device, 3D representation data corresponding to at least a portion of a second user of a second device (e.g., a sender) is obtained during a communication session. Offset information (e.g., a vertical offset value) corresponding to an offset between a camera viewpoint position and an eye viewpoint position associated with the second device is obtained. A position of a first portion of a 3D representation of the second user (e.g., head and torso) is adjusted relative to a 3D environment associated with the first device. A view that includes the first portion of the 3D representation of the second user in the 3D environment is provided during the communication session.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2023Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Victor Ng-Thow-Hing
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Patent number: 12075446Abstract: A user equipment (UE) monitors a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH). The UE reports, to a base station, a reduced PDCCH monitoring capability for at least one group of search space sets (SSS) of a PDCCH, receives, from the base station, a reduced monitoring capability (MO) configuration, wherein the base station determines the reduced MO configuration based on the reported reduced PDCCH monitoring capability and monitors the PDCCH based on the reduced MO configuration.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
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Patent number: 12074818Abstract: A user equipment (UE) receives TCI state configurations for a plurality of signals, wherein a first state configuration comprises a first port for a first signal being quasi-co-located (QCL) to a second port of a second signal and a second state configuration comprises the second port of the second signal being QCL to a third port of a third signal and determines a TCI chain comprising the first, second and third signals so that channel measurements for each one of the first, second and third signals are applied to channel measurements for each other one of the first, second and third signals, wherein at least one of the first, second or third signals is an uplink (UL) signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Qiming Li, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Yushu Zhang
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Patent number: 12073018Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide retinal imaging-based gaze tracking In some implementations, a user's gaze is tracked based on a retinal imaging technique that selectively uses a subset of multiple light sources (222, 310, 610) that illuminate different portions of the user's retina (352). In some implementations, a method (700) includes selecting (710) a subset of light sources, where the subset of the light sources includes less than all of the light sources. In some implementations, one or more portions of a retina (352) are illuminated (720) by producing light using the subset of the light sources. In some implementations, sensor data is received (730) at a sensor (224, 340, 814), the sensor data corresponding to the light detected during retinal imaging, and an eye characteristic is determined (740) based on the sensor data.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Eran Tal, Ariel Lipson
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Patent number: 12073501Abstract: Generating an expressive avatar includes obtaining an expressive image of a face, and determining at least one target levels of detail for a representation of the face. A trained convolutional neural network model is applied to the expressive image of the face to obtain a mesh representation of the face at each of the at least one target levels of detail, wherein each convolution in the trained convolutional neural network model provides a unique level of detail, and an avatar is generated based on the mesh representation of the face at least of the at least one target levels of detail.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Gabor Nagy
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Patent number: 12075476Abstract: A user equipment (UE), or other network component can operate to configure different sets of resources for an uplink (UL) physical channel for an uplink (UL)-to-downlink (DL) channel occupancy time (COT) sharing to coexist with another radio access technology (RAT). An energy detection (ED) threshold can be selected from the different sets of resource configurations for an UL transmission based on one or more conditions. A gap can be configured between a physical random access control channel (PRACH) transmission and a PUSCH transmission based on one of at least a first value associated with a numerology between the PRACH and the PUSCH and a second value greater than the first value. The UL transmission can be provided based on the ED threshold or the configured conditional gap via the UL physical channel.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
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Patent number: 12073705Abstract: Methods to provide separation notifications are described. In an embodiment, movement is detected beyond a threshold distance from a trusted location, in response to the detecting, receiving an indication that at least one accessory device is nearby the electronic device and storing information on a status of a wireless connection with the at least one accessory device, receiving an indication that the electronic device is in transit, monitoring the wireless connection for the at least one accessory device, and upon detection of a lost wireless connection for the at least one accessory device, send a separation notification.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Benjamin A. Detwiler, Siva Ganesh Movva, Katherine K. Ernst, Richard Akira Heru, Johan O. Bergerengen, Langford M. Wasada, Ernst Thomas Erdmann, IV
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Patent number: 12075313Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for system and methods to crowdsource the location of wireless devices and accessories that lack a connection to a wide area network. One embodiment provides for a data processing system configured to perform operations comprising loading a user interface on an electronic device, the user interface to enable the determination of a location of a wireless accessory that is associated with the electronic device, generating a set of public keys included within a signal broadcast by the wireless accessory, the signal broadcast during a first period, sending the set of public keys to a server with a request to return data that corresponds with a public key in the set of public keys, decrypting the location data using a private key associated with the public key, and processing the location data to determine a probable location for the wireless accessory.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2022Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Scott Lopatin, Emmanuel Lalande, Lawrence T. Lu, Robert W. Mayor, Siva Ganesh Movva, Raghunandan K. Pai, Munish K. Poonia, Tommy Rochette, Sam Schaevitz, Yannick L. Sierra, Navin Bindiganavile Suparna, Langford Wasada
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Patent number: 12075074Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods of multi-processing core processing of image frames during image encoding. The multiple processing cores may be connected via dedicated interfaces and transfer neighbor data between the processing cores to enable parallel processing of frame data. The multiple processing cores may each process quad-rows of image data for a single frame in parallel to reduce memory usage and mitigate latency in video encoding.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Liviu R Morogan, Athanasios Leontaris, Mark P Rygh, Sorin C Cismas
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Patent number: 12075353Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform methods for configuring a power savings signal in fifth generation (5G) new radio (NR) networks. The wireless device may transmit, to a base station within a network, power savings requirements and receiving, from the base station, a configuration of a power saving signal, where the configuration indicates one or more functionalities of the power saving signal. The wireless device may periodically receive, from the base station, the power saving signal and interpret the power saving signal based on the configuration. The configuration of the power saving signal may be received via radio resource control signaling.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2023Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yuchul Kim, Wei Zeng, Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Jia Tang, Yang Li, Zhu Ji, Johnson O. Sebeni
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Patent number: 12074849Abstract: The subject disclosure provides systems and methods for application-specific network data filtering. Application-specific network data filtering may be performed by a sandboxed process prior to providing the network data to an application to which the network data is directed. Any malicious or otherwise potentially harmful data that is included in the network data may be removed by the application-specific network data filter or may be allowed to corrupt the application specific network data filtering operations within the sandbox, thereby preventing the malicious or harmful data from affecting the application or other portions of an electronic device. In one or more implementations, a first process such as an application-specific network data filtering process may request allocation of memory for the first process from second process, such as an application, that is separate from a memory manager of the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ivan Krstic, Damien P. Sorresso, David P Remahl, Elliot C. Liskin, Justin S. Hogg, Kevin J. Lindeman, Lucia E. Ballard, Nicholas J. Circosta, Richard J. Cooper, Ryan A. Williams, Steven C. Vittitoe, Zachariah J. Riggle, Patrick R. Metcalfe, Andrew T. Whitehead
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Patent number: 12073782Abstract: A device may include an electronic display to display an image frame based on image data. The electronic display may include an illuminator that generates light, multiple light regulators that control emission of the light pixel locations on the electronic display based on bitplane data, and driving circuitry that applies an operating electrical stimulus to the illuminator during an emission period of the image frame and a reference electrical stimulus to the illuminator during an off period of the image frame. While the reference electrical stimulus is applied the bitplane data may be indicative of off bitplane. Additionally, the electronic display may include measurement circuitry that measures a response characteristic of the illuminator in response to the reference electrical stimulus and generates temperature data indicative of the temperature of the illuminator based on the response characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2023Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Johan L Piper, Arash Hazeghi, Adam Adjiwibawa
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Patent number: 12075372Abstract: In an example method, a first device determines a first Zadoff-Chu sequence having a first root value, and a second Zadoff-Chu sequence having a second root value, where the second root value is an inverse modulus of the first root value. Further, the first device generates a wireless signal including (i) a first preamble generated based, at least in part, on the first Zadoff-Chu sequence, (ii) a second preamble generated based, at least in part, on the second Zadoff-Chu sequence, and (iii) a payload. Further, the first device transmits the wireless signal from the first device to a second device.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2021Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Zhu Ji, Jianxiong Shi, Miao Yao
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Patent number: D1040166Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nicholas D. Felton, Andrea Marie Fieger