Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12075145
    Abstract: A camera system may include one or more voice coil motor (VCM) actuators to implement focus, tilt and shift functions. The VCM actuators may include coils segmented into multiple coil segments having individually impedances lower than the impedance of the respective coil as a whole. The coil segments may be individually driven by respective currents at different points in time to interact with magnet(s) to produce motive forces along the same axis. Based on the winding configuration and driving mode of the coil segments, the motive forces may move a lens group relative to an image sensor in a direction substantially orthogonal to an image plane, tilt the lens group relative to the image sensor, or shift the image sensor relative to the lens group on the image plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shahrooz Shahparnia, Anish Bhide
  • Publication number: 20240284019
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide an apparatus for controlling the motion of a camera component. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes an actuator module. The actuator module includes a plurality of magnets. Each magnet of the plurality of magnets is poled with magnetic domains substantially aligned in the same direction throughout each magnet. The apparatus further includes a coil rigidly disposed around a lens. Each magnet of the plurality of magnets contributes to the forces to adjust focus of the lens based on Lorentz forces generated from the coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. Topliss, Douglas S. Brodie, Anthony J. Rossetti, Richard H. Tsai, Richard L. Baer
  • Publication number: 20240284154
    Abstract: described embodiments transfer an activity from a source electronic device to a companion electronic device. The source electronic device receives activity information describing an activity performed in a first application at the source electronic device, determines an activity identifier for the activity information, and broadcasts an activity advertisement comprising the activity identifier. Upon receiving the activity advertisement, the companion electronic device determines whether a second application that is associated with the first application is available at the companion electronic device. If the second application is available, the companion electronic device requests extended activity data from the source electronic device. The source electronic device responds by sending extended activity data from the first application to the companion electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher S. Linn, Keith Stattenfield, Alexander J. Dunn
  • Publication number: 20240284446
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for enhancement in configured grant transmission. An embodiment operates by receiving a configured grant (CG) configuration message configuring a plurality of CG physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission occasions (TOs) within a CG period. Next, the embodiment receives an information element indicating a time division duplexing (TDD) uplink-downlink (UL-DL) slot configuration. The embodiment then determines whether a particular CG PUSCH TO of the plurality of CG PUSCH TOs overlaps with a DL slot indicated by the TDD UL-DL slot configuration. Finally, in response to a determination that the particular CG PUSCH TO overlaps with the DL slot, the embodiment skips utilizing the particular CG PUSCH TO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Weidong YANG, Dawei ZHANG, Wei ZENG, Chunxuan YE, Hong HE, Haitong SUN, Huaning NIU
  • Publication number: 20240284312
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems, and methods for providing the user equipment (UE) state indication to the policy control function (PCF).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Vivek Gupta, Haijing Hu, Sridhar Prakasam
  • Publication number: 20240284234
    Abstract: A method for a user equipment (UE) includes: determining that a first set of criteria is met for relaxing an evaluation; in response to the determining that the first set of criteria is met, entering a relaxation mode in which the evaluation is performed by the UE using a relaxed evaluation period, the relaxed evaluation period longer than a normal evaluation period with which the evaluation is not relaxed; determining that a second set of criteria is met for not relaxing the evaluation; and in response to the determining that the second set of criteria is met, exiting the relaxation mode to perform the evaluation using the normal evaluation period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Huaning Niu, Dawei Zhang, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Sigen Ye, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Publication number: 20240283575
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for determining and acknowledging transmission configuration indicator states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Publication number: 20240284253
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for dynamic control of protocol data unit set discarding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ping-Heng Kuo, Ralf Rossbach, Sudeep Manithara Vamanan
  • Publication number: 20240284345
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for identifying an aggressor device or an aggressor beam of an aggressor device. The embodiments further mitigate the impact of the identified aggressor device or the identified aggressor beam of the aggressor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dawei YING, Hassan GHOZLAN, Qian LI, Geng WU
  • Publication number: 20240277260
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for measuring biometric data including respiration in head-mounted devices (HMDs). Accelerometers may be integrated into a HMD and used to collect motion data from a user's face. This motion data may be processed to generate estimates of the user's respiration rate and changes to the respiration rate. Thermal sensors may also be integrated into the HMD and used to collect thermal data from the surface of the user's face (or other regions of the user's head). This thermal data may also be processed to generate estimates of the user's respiration. The respiration rate and changes to respiration rate derived from signals from the sensors may be used to generate and present biometric data to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas C Soldner, Arthur Y Zhang, Grant H Mulliken, Izzet B Yildiz, Javier Mendez, Sterling R Crispin, Tushar Gupta
  • Publication number: 20240283301
    Abstract: Wireless power transmitting devices according to embodiments of the present technology may include a contact surface configured to support one or more wireless power receiving devices. The wireless power transmitting devices may include a plurality of coils. The wireless power transmitting devices may also include a shield positioned between the plurality of coils and the contact surface. The shield may include one or more shield members, each shield member axially aligned with a separate coil of the plurality of coils, and may include a multilayer structure exhibiting various conductivities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andro Radchenko, Vaneet Pathak, Martin Schauer, Cheung-Wei Lam, Rahul A. Sabnani
  • Publication number: 20240284539
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for unified transmission configuration indicator state for multiple-transmit-receive point operation in wireless networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Ankit Bhamri, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Wei Zeng
  • Publication number: 20240284434
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for unified transmission configuration indicator state for multiple-transmit-receive point operation in wireless networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Ankit Bhamri, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: 12067178
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive textile device that is configured to detect the occurrence of a touch, the location of a touch, and/or the force of a touch on the touch-sensitive textile device. In some embodiments, the touch-sensitive textile device includes a first set of conductive threads oriented along a first direction, and a second set of conductive threads interwoven with the first set of conductive threads and oriented along a second direction. The device may also include a sensing circuit that is operatively coupled to the first and second set of conductive threads. The sensing circuit may be configured to apply a drive signal to the first and second set of conductive threads. The sensing circuit may also be configured to detect a touch or near touch based on a variation in an electrical measurement using the first or second set of conductive threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel A. Podhajny, Kathryn P. Crews, Daniel D. Sunshine
  • Patent number: 12069652
    Abstract: An apparatus configured to be employed in a user equipment (UE) associated with a new radio (NR) communication system is disclosed. The apparatus comprises one or more processors configured to process a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduling signal, received from a gNodeB associated therewith, wherein the PDSCH scheduling signal is configured to schedule a transmission of PDSCH. In some embodiments, the PDSCH scheduling signal comprises a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state indicative of a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resource that is triggered aperiodically. In some embodiments, the apparatus is further configured to determine a receive (Rx) beam to be utilized for the reception of the scheduled PDSCH transmission, that forms a PDSCH Rx beam, based on the indicated CSI-RS resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guotong Wang, Yushu Zhang, Alexei Davydov, Gang Xiong
  • Patent number: 12066861
    Abstract: A head-mountable device can include a nosepiece that distributes forces away from a top of the nose to the sides of the nose. The nose contact elements of such nosepieces can be slideably and/or rotationally biased to apply forces to the sides of the nose when the head-mountable device is worn by a user. Such distribution allows forces to be spread across a greater area, which improves overall comfort, positioning, and light sealing of the head-mountable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Claire E. Dalke, Paul X. Wang, Liam R. Martinez
  • Patent number: 12068989
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments relate to signaling between a user equipment (UE) and a cell over the unlicensed spectrum. The UE may receive a signal broadcast by a cell of the network over a channel in the unlicensed spectrum. The signal includes a set of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) each corresponding to a set of synchronization signal blocks (SSB) and is transmitted during a discovery reference signal (DRS) window. The UE may then determine a location of the set of CSI-RS within the DRS window and perform an operation based on the set of CSI-RS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12069513
    Abstract: A host device establishes a wireless communication link with a client device, and implements a wired communication standard on the link to transfer a first data stream. To increase data throughput while complying with the standard, the host device replaces synchronizing information in a packet to be sent during a first synchronizing frame with configuration information indicating that packet exchange data of a second data stream is to be sent or received during a second synchronizing frame. The host device sends or receives the packet exchange data of the second data stream to or from the client device during the second synchronizing frame via the wireless communication link. The host device may send or receive the packet exchange data of the second data stream during delays or idle periods between sending and/or receiving packets of the first data stream via the wireless communication link according to the wired communication standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jorge L. Rivera Espinoza, Venkatesh Rajendran, Derek Fujio Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 12066293
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a map application that identities a transit route that includes one or more transit legs between a starting location and a destination location. In response to a request to start navigating the identified transit route, the map application of some embodiments provides a first display area for displaying a set of navigation instructions, each of which describes a transit maneuver that is associated with a transit leg of the transit route. The map application also provides a second display area for displaying a map region presentation associated with the navigation instruction that is displayed in the first display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Usama M. Hajj, Marcel Van Os, Brian Andrich, Ian Leighton, Justin O'Beirne, David Hodge, Eleanor Cady Wachsman, Nathaniel V. Kelso, Aaron A. Reiner, Christine B. McGavran, Wesley Yue, Eric L. Grundstrom
  • Patent number: D1040174
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph Mark Willoughby Luxton