Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12062207
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for low bandwidth transmission of event data. In various implementations, a device includes one or more cameras, a non-transitory memory, and one or more processors coupled with the one or more cameras and the non-transitory memory. In various implementations, the method includes obtaining, by the device, a set of images that correspond to a scene with a person. In various implementations, the method includes generating pose information for the person based on the set of images. In some implementations, the pose information indicates respective positions of body portions of the person. In some implementations, the method includes transmitting the pose information in accordance with a bandwidth utilization criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Ian M. Richter
  • Patent number: 12063608
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing a synchronized short range communication protocol scan mechanism across multiple devices. Some aspects relate to an electronic device including a transceiver configured to communicate based on a short range communication protocol and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor receives one or more parameters from a peripheral electronic device and determines, based at least on the one or more parameters, one or more synchronization parameters. The processor further transmits the one or more synchronization parameters to the peripheral electronic device. The one or more synchronization parameters can include at least a scan offset associated with the peripheral electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yann Ly-Gagnon, Arun Unkn, Chen Ganir, Duy N. Phan, Langford M. Wasada
  • Patent number: 12063645
    Abstract: Methods and devices for a base station acting as a primary cell to perform dual spectrum sharing (DSS) with a first user equipment device (UE) over a 5G NR connection and a second UE over an LTE connection. The first UE establishes the 5G NR connection with the primary cell and one or more secondary cells. One of the secondary cells is configured in the 5G NR connection to provide downlink control information to the UE for the primary cell, to avoid collisions by the primary cell with LTE control transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Wei Zhang, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12063364
    Abstract: A method of signaling additional chroma QP offset values that are specific to quantization groups is provided, in which each quantization group explicitly specifies its own set of chroma QP offset values. Alternatively, a table of possible sets of chroma QP offset values is specified in the header area of the picture, and each quantization group uses an index to select an entry from the table for determining its own set of chroma QP offset values. The quantization group specific chroma QP offset values are then used to determine the chroma QP values for blocks within the quantization group in addition to chroma QP offset values already specified for higher levels of the video coding hierarchy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandros Tourapis, Guy Cote
  • Patent number: 12063621
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using ranging signals with cellular devices. The ranging signals may utilize ranging slots and resources at least partially allocated by a cellular network. The resources may include frequencies used for uplink or downlink communications between the cellular network and the cellular devices. Alternatively, the resources may include frequencies outside of a spectrum used for communication between the cellular network and the cellular devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anatoliy Sergey Ioffe, Rohit U. Nabar, Rastislav Vazny
  • Patent number: 12063539
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods may use an smtc information element or an smtc2-LP information element to calculate timing of a first measurement period to evaluate a serving cell while the UE is in idle mode or inactive mode. Additionally, apparatuses, systems, and methods may use the smtc information element or the smtc2-LP information element to calculate timing of a second measurement period to evaluate intra-frequency cells while the UE is in idle mode or inactive mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Manasa Raghavan, Yang Tang, Yuqin Chen
  • Patent number: 12061545
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to managing page pools for sets of processing work. In some embodiments, a processor assigns sets of processing work to respective primary slots. Page manager circuitry may maintain, in a memory, page pool descriptor information for memory pages allocated to multiple different page pools, maintain a mapping of multiple primary slots of the processor circuitry to a first page pool of the page pools, and cache page pool descriptor entries in the page pool descriptor cache. The page manager circuitry may provide pages to requesting client circuitry from the first page pool for the multiple mapped primary slots. In some embodiments, the page manager circuitry pre-fetches virtual pages. The page manager circuitry may include primary and distribute components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Arjun Thottappilly, Frank W. Liljeros
  • Patent number: 12063441
    Abstract: Various embodiments include implementing optical image stabilization (OIS) in a camera module. For example, a controller may control an actuator of the camera module to move a lens group and/or an image sensor of the camera module to provide OIS movement. In various embodiments, OIS movement control is implemented according to a region-based blur reduction model that effects a greater reduction in blur associated with a target region of an image sensor, relative to one or more other regions of the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Abhishek Dhanda, Jianping Zhou, Kevin A Gross, Santiago Alban
  • Patent number: 12061752
    Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example process includes initiating a virtual assistant session responsive to receiving user input. In accordance with initiating the virtual assistant session, the process includes determining, based on data obtained using one or more sensors of the electronic device, whether one or more criteria representing expressed user disinterest are satisfied. In accordance with determining that the one or more criteria representing expressed user disinterest are satisfied prior to a first time, the process includes automatically deactivating the virtual assistant session prior to the first time. The first time is defined by a setting of the electronic device. In accordance with determining that the one or more criteria representing expressed user disinterest are not satisfied prior to the first time, the process includes automatically deactivating the virtual assistant session at the first time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Musa M. Hindi, Rohit Dasari, Trungtin Tran
  • Patent number: 12063089
    Abstract: Technology is disclosed for a relay node (RN) operable for backhaul beam failure recovery (BFR) in a fifth generation (5G) new radio (NR) integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network. The relay node can be configured to: decode a periodic reference signal for beam failure instance detection received from a donor node (DN); identify abeam failure between the RN and the DN, wherein the beam failure occurs when N beam failure instances are identified, wherein N is a positive integer; identify whether a candidate beam of one or more candidate beams at the RN has a reference signal greater than a threshold; prepare a BFR request; and encode the BFR request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Lili Wei, Qian Li, Dawei Ying, Hassan Ghozlan, Geng Wu
  • Patent number: 12062211
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that tracks an electronic device by fusing tracking algorithms. In some implementations, instructions stored on a computer-readable medium are executable to cause obtaining pairs of first position data corresponding to a position of the electronic device in a first coordinate system obtained using a first technique and second position data in a second coordinate system obtained using a second technique. In some implementations, transformations for the respective pairs are determined that provide a positional relationship between the first coordinate system and the second coordinate system. In some implementations, a subset of the pairs is identified based on the transformations, and a combined transformation is determined based on the subset of the transformations. In some implementations, content is provided on an electronic device based on the combined transformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Lipski, David A. McLaren
  • Patent number: 12061735
    Abstract: A head-mountable device and/or another electronic device can provide guidance for optimal placement of the head-mountable device. The head-mountable device and/or another electronic device can be operated to guide a user to position the head-mountable device in a manner that will achieve proper alignment of components with respect to the user and maximize user comfort. For example, the head-mountable device and/or another device can include sensors for detecting features of the user's face, forces distributed on the face when worn, and/or alignment with the face (e.g., eyes). By further example, the head-mountable device and/or another device can detect changes in adjustment and infer user discomfort based on the frequency and/or magnitude of such changes. By further example, the head-mountable device and/or another device can detect changes in features of the user's face before, during, and/or after use of the head-mountable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Paul X. Wang, Dustin A. Hatfield
  • Patent number: 12063119
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) associated with a wireless communication system is disclosed. The UE comprises a processor configured to receive a first downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The first DCI includes a non-numerical (NN) value of K1 for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-ACK feedback. The processor is further configured to determine a first priority class associated with the first PDSCH, and determine K1 value and priority class associated with one or more subsequent PDSCH received from the BS, until a selected PDSCH having a numerical K1 value and a same priority class as the first priority class is identified. Further, the processor is configured to provide HARQ-ACK feedback associated with the first PDSCH using a PUCCH/PUSCH occasion indicated by a second DCI scheduling the selected PDSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Hong He, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 12063657
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for enhancing unicast and groupcast communication in a wireless communication system also utilizing broadcast communication. An example apparatus for a user equipment (UE) wireless communication device, including baseband circuitry having a radio frequency (RF) interface configured to transmit and receive RF signals, and one or more processors is provided. The one or more processors are configured to generate a signal encoding one or more capabilities of the UE wireless communication device and transmit the signal to one or more other UE wireless communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Panteleev, Alexey Khoryaev, Mikhail Shilov
  • Patent number: D1038770
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Liane Fang, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Charles A. Schwalbach, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Sheng Yang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1038970
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Eduardo Ahumada Apodaca, Vincenzo O. Giuliani, Harry Payne
  • Patent number: D1038971
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Pon Chen, Christopher Daryl Soli
  • Patent number: D1038982
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Arian Behzadi, Alan C. Dye, Pedro Mari
  • Patent number: D1038994
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Broughton, Lynne Devine, Mischa McLachlan, Grant R. Paul
  • Patent number: D1039044
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Russell-Clarke