Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may be configured to perform layer 1 (L1) measurement procedures and layer 3 (L3) measurement procedures. The UE configures a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) layer 3 (L3) measurement window, identifies a collision between a layer 1 (L1) measurement operation and a L3 measurement operation and omits at least one L1 measurement in response to identifying the collision.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 6, 2021
Date of Patent:
June 11, 2024
Assignee:
Apple Inc.
Inventors:
Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Yihong Qi, Herbert R. Dawid, Panagiotis Botsinis, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Xiang Chen
Abstract: Exemplary electrical disconnects may include a housing defining a first access at a first end of the housing and a second access at a second end of the housing. The second access may extend vertically along a height of the housing beyond a vertical location of the first access. The electrical disconnects may include a busbar characterized by a first segment and a second segment. The first segment and the second segment may be coupled at a break section of the busbar. The first segment of the busbar may extend through the first access of the housing. The second segment of the busbar may extend through the second access of the housing. The electrical disconnects may include a pyrotechnic initiator disposed within the housing. The electrical disconnects may include a blade laterally aligned with the break section of the busbar. The electrical disconnects may include a plunger within which the blade is seated.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 15, 2021
Date of Patent:
June 11, 2024
Assignee:
Apple Inc.
Inventors:
Dylan Erb, John M. Schoech, Paul W. Firehammer, Alexander J. Clarabut
Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing wireless communications including exchanging information related to capability of processing reference signals. A user equipment device may provide capability information to a network. The capability information may indicate a number of reference signal resources that the user equipment device can process in a slot or other defined period of time. The user equipment device and the network may share a common set of definitions, counting rules, and approaches for interpreting the capability information. The network may configure reference signals for the user equipment device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 31, 2021
Date of Patent:
June 11, 2024
Assignee:
Apple Inc.
Inventors:
Haitong Sun, Gokhan Ozer, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Yushu Zhang, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Manasa Raghavan, Jie Cui, Weidong Yang, Amir Aminzadeh Gohari, Ghaith N. Hattab, Yang Tang, Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez, Ziyang Ju
Abstract: Frequency-filtering circuitry is disclosed that rejects power of a wireless signal having an undesired frequency while causing a decreased power loss to a wireless signal having a desired frequency using distributed elements, rather than lumped elements. The frequency-filtering circuitry may reject at least 5 decibels of power of a wireless signal having a frequency over 32 gigahertz, while causing a power loss of at most 1.1 decibels to a wireless signal having a frequency lower than 29.5 gigahertz. The frequency-filtering circuitry may include a main branch, a first parallel branch coupled and parallel to the main branch via a first connecting trace, and a second parallel branch coupled and parallel to the main branch via a second connecting trace. The first connecting trace intersects the main branch and the first parallel branch, and the second connecting trace intersects the main branch and the second parallel branch.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 25, 2021
Date of Patent:
June 11, 2024
Assignee:
Apple Inc.
Inventors:
Xiaofang Mu, Bo Zhang, Mingjuan Zhu, Chi V. Pham, Berke Cetinoneri, Timothy B. Ogilvie
Abstract: A method performed by an audio source device that is communicatively coupled with an audio output device, the method includes obtaining an audio signal; receiving a volume adjustment; applying the volume adjustment to the audio signal; applying dynamic range compression on the volume adjusted audio signal; and applying an inverse volume adjustment to the compressed audio signal, where the inverse volume adjusted audio signal is to be transmitted to the audio output device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 22, 2021
Date of Patent:
June 11, 2024
Assignee:
Apple Inc.
Inventors:
Hilary K. Mogul, Eric J. Day, Hannes Breitschaedel, Juha O. Merimaa
Abstract: A mobile phone includes a housing structure, the housing structure defining a side surface of the mobile phone, a front cover coupled to the housing structure and defining a front surface of the mobile phone, a rear cover coupled to the housing structure and defining a rear surface of the mobile phone, a display positioned below the front cover, a first directional antenna defining a first radiation pattern extending through the front surface of the mobile phone, a second directional antenna defining a second radiation pattern extending through the rear surface of the mobile phone, and a third directional antenna defining a third radiation pattern extending through the side surface of the mobile phone.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 12, 2020
Date of Patent:
June 11, 2024
Assignee:
APPLE INC.
Inventors:
Arun R. Varma, David Hurrell, Eric N. Nyland, Ihtesham H. Chowdhury, Jennifer M. Edwards, Matthew D. Hill, Benjamin J. Kallman, Trent Canales, Daniel C. Wagman, Bilgehan Avser, Elisabeth Lang
Abstract: Characteristics of a watch band can change when placed in different configurations, and each of these characteristics can be correlated with each of the various configurations. The characteristics can be measured to detect in which of the various configurations the watch band is in. For example, the watch band can include an adjustable capacitor that changes it capacitance when the watch band changes its configuration. For example, the capacitance can change based on stretching of the watch band, bending of the watch band, and/or securement and release of an engagement element. The watch or another device can perform one or more operations based on the detected characteristic and configuration of the watch band.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 14, 2021
Date of Patent:
June 11, 2024
Assignee:
Apple Inc.
Inventors:
William Leith, Daniel W. Labove, Rimple Bhatia, Osamu Yabe, Yoji Hamada, Timothy S. Lui
Abstract: A method is performed at an electronic device with one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, an eye tracker, and a display. The eye tracker receives eye tracking data associated with one or more eyes of a user of the electronic device. The method includes displaying, on the display, a first user interface (UI) element that is associated with a first selection region and a second selection region. While displaying the first UI element, the method includes determining, based on the eye tracking data, that a first targeting criterion is satisfied with respect to the first selection region, and determining, based on the eye tracking data, that a second targeting criterion is satisfied with respect to the second selection region. The method includes selecting the first UI element based at least in part on determining that the first targeting criterion is satisfied and the second targeting criterion is satisfied.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 6, 2023
Date of Patent:
June 11, 2024
Assignee:
APPLE INC.
Inventors:
Bryce L. Schmidtchen, Ioana Negoita, Anshu K. Chimalamarri, Gregory Lutter, Thomas J. Moore, Trevor J. McIntyre
Abstract: One or more methods for an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) wireless network. At least one of the methods includes determining, by an IAB node including a mobile termination (MT) block and a co-located distributed unit (DU) block, two slot format indications (SFIs) by configuring the co-located DU block, the two SFIs indications including a first SFI that indicates a resource availability for communicating with a parent node and a second SFI that indicates a soft resource availability for communicating with a child node, in which each of the two SFIs include at least one RRCconfigured slot formats; and transmitting the two SFI indications to a second DU block.
Abstract: A method performed by an audio source device. The method receives a first audio signal and a second, different audio signal and encodes the first audio signal and the second audio signal, wherein the first audio signal is encoded differently than the second audio signal. The method generates a first data packet that comprises the first encoded audio signal and a first volume level and a second data packet that comprises the second encoded audio signal and a second volume level, wherein the first volume level is lower than the second volume level and transmits, over a wireless connection, the first and second data packets as a dual audio stream to an audio output device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 9, 2021
Date of Patent:
June 11, 2024
Assignee:
Apple Inc.
Inventors:
Aarti Kumar, Shehryar Lasi, Baptiste P. Paquier, Brian Clark
Abstract: The present disclosure generally describe user interfaces related to time. In accordance with embodiments, user interfaces for displaying and enabling an adjustment of a displayed time zone are described. In accordance with embodiments, user interfaces for initiating a measurement of time are described. In accordance with embodiments, user interfaces for enabling and displaying a user interface using a character are described. In accordance with embodiments, user interfaces for enabling and displaying a user interface that includes an indication of a current time are described. In accordance with embodiments, user interfaces for enabling configuration of a background for a user interface are described. In accordance with embodiments, user interfaces for enabling configuration of displayed applications on a user interface are described.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 24, 2020
Date of Patent:
June 11, 2024
Assignee:
Apple Inc.
Inventors:
Kevin Will Chen, Teofila Connor, Aurelio Guzman, Eileen Y. Lee, Christopher Wilson, Alan C. Dye
Abstract: Aspects are described for a user equipment (UE) comprising a transceiver configured to enable wireless communication with a serving cell and a target cell and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to receive a handover command from the serving cell. The handover command comprises an epoch index and ephemeris information of the target cell. The processor is further configured to determine an epoch time of the target cell based on the epoch index and perform time synchronization with the target cell using the epoch time and the ephemeris information.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 13, 2023
Publication date:
June 6, 2024
Applicant:
Apple Inc.
Inventors:
Jie Cui, Fangli Xu, Chunxuan Ye, Yang Tang, Hong He, Qiming Li, Yuqin Chen, Dawei Zhang
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, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Marc A. Newson, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
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
Inventors:
Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Markus Diebel, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
Inventors:
Greg Apodaca, Lee Broughton, Gary Butcher, Young Seok Cha, Sandy Chang, Craig Dehner, Gerardo A. Hernandez, Jonathan P. Ive, Chanaka Karunamuni, Mark Kim, Ernest Rowe, Alessandro Francesco Sabatelli, Megan Sullivan, Wan Si Wan