Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12028075
    Abstract: A serial data receiver subsystem included in a computer system may include a data detection circuit, a speed detection circuit, and a receiver circuit that includes multiple subcircuits. The data detection circuit performs a comparison of a reference voltage to the magnitude of signals received via a communication link that encodes a serial data stream consisting of multiple data symbols. Using a result of the comparison, the data detection circuit may activate a signal present indicator indicating the presence of data on the communication link. Once the signal present indicator is active, the speed detection circuit checks the number of transitions to determine a rate at which data is being transmitted. In response to a determination that the rate of the data being transmitted exceeds a threshold value, the receiver circuit activates one or more of the multiple subcircuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vishal Varma, Dhaval H. Shah, Jose A. Tierno, Sanjeev K. Maheshwari, Sumeet Gupta
  • Patent number: 12028615
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a camera actuator includes an actuator base, an autofocus voice coil motor, and an optical image stabilization voice coil motor. In some embodiments, the autofocus voice coil motor includes a lens carrier mounting attachment moveably mounted to the actuator base, a plurality of shared magnets mounted to the base, and an autofocus coil fixedly mounted to the lens carrier mounting attachment for producing forces for moving a lens carrier in a direction of an optical axis of one or more lenses of the lens carrier. In some embodiments, the optical image stabilization voice coil motor includes an image sensor carrier moveably mounted to the actuator base, and optical image stabilization coils moveably mounted to the image sensor carrier within the magnetic fields of the shared magnets, for producing forces for moving the image sensor carrier in a plurality of directions orthogonal to the optical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aurelien R. Hubert, Qiang Yang, Douglas S. Brodie, Scott W. Miller, Shashank Sharma
  • Patent number: 12028077
    Abstract: A phase detector circuit for use with a multi-level signaling communication protocol on a serial communication link is disclosed. The phase detector circuit employs multiple phase and logic circuits to detect data state changes between adjacent ones of voltage levels corresponding to different data states in the communication protocol, and generates early/late signals using the detected data state changes. The phase detector circuit statistically filters data state transitions between non-adjacent voltage levels to improve phase locking and reduce recovered clock jitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wenbo Liu, Gokce Gurun, Ajay M. Rao, Sanjeev K. Maheshwari
  • Patent number: 12028196
    Abstract: A vehicle may wirelessly communicate with another vehicle via a physical channel (a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) channel) that is robust and reliable under high mobility propagation conditions. The physical channel may be created by modifying an existing long-term evolution (LTE) physical channel, such as an LTE sidelink (SL) channel. For instance, the V2V physical channel may be created by increasing, by a particular factor, the subcarrier spacing of legacy LTE channels (e.g., from 15 kilohertz (kHz) to 30 kHz). Additionally, a symbol duration and a fast Fourier transform (FFT) size for the V2V physical channel may each be reduced by the same factor. Doing so may enable the V2V physical channel to be implemented without significant modifications to other aspects of the LTE standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexey Khoryaev, Andrey Cheryakov, Dmitry Belov, Mikhail Shilov
  • Patent number: 12026795
    Abstract: Based on a cost function that estimates a value of a confidence level above a confidence threshold using user information, an autonomous control system can determine that a user of a user device is ready for a pickup, identify a pickup location based on the user information, and determine a trajectory from a current location to the pickup location. A propulsion system is configured to cause motion current location toward the pickup location according to the trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Stephen B. Lynch, Matthew J. Allen, Kurt L. Adelberger, Evan Burton
  • Patent number: 12028936
    Abstract: A wireless communication device (UE) may provide information pertaining to one or more operating capabilities of the UE to LTE and 5G-NR networks. The UE may transmit information to an LTE base station directly, and to a 5G-NR base station directly, or indirectly via the LTE base station. The information may include preferred values corresponding to any number of different operating parameters associated with wireless communications or wireless communication capabilities of the UE in both LTE and 5G-NR networks, to inform and/or request the LTE and 5G-NR networks to make provisions based on the transmitted information for the wireless communications of the UE on those networks. The UE may thereby provide assistance information to LTE and 5G-NR networks in a multi-radio-access-technology dual-connectivity setting to request the respective networks to adjust certain operating capabilities of the UE in order to alleviate one or more operating issues that may be affecting the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuchul Kim, Christian W. Mucke, Haijing Hu, Dawei Zhang, Matthias Sauer, Johnson O. Sebeni
  • Patent number: 12028762
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure enable a user equipment (UE) to perform event trigger reporting for L1/L2 mobility, including event configuration, L1 filtering factor, and event triggered L1 reporting. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12026861
    Abstract: Methods and systems include determining an upper boundary of brightness values of high-dynamic range image content. Using the determined upper boundary, end points of bins of histogram values are determined. Using the determined end points of the bins of histogram values, luma values are allocated to the bins. The high-dynamic range image content is processed based at least in part on the allocations to the bins. Image data including the processed high-dynamic range image content is displayed via an electronic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mahesh B. Chappalli, Alexey Kornienko
  • Patent number: 12026108
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to controlling performance state of a memory element based on latency information for a processor. In some embodiments, a level of a memory hierarchy is configured to operate at multiple different performance states at different times. Processor circuitry may execute programs that generate requests to access the memory hierarchy. Bandwidth-based control circuitry may generate, based on bandwidth conditions for the processor circuitry, bandwidth performance state signals. Latency-based control circuitry may generate, based on latency information for processor requests to access the memory hierarchy, latency performance state signals. Performance control circuitry may control the performance state of the level of the memory hierarchy based on the bandwidth performance state signals and the latency performance state signals. Disclosed techniques may improve processor performance in certain operating scenarios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Karthik Ramani, Mohamed Ismail, Tian You Wang
  • Patent number: 12026033
    Abstract: A system and method for efficiently transferring data between devices. In various embodiments, a host computing device receives parallel data, encodes the parallel data as a count of pulses as serial data, and conveys the serial data to a peripheral device. The peripheral device decodes the received serial data to determine the parallel data, which is sent to processing logic. The devices send the encoded pluses on a bidirectional line, so the pulses are capable of being sent in both directions. The devices send the encoded pulses on the bidirectional line using a non-zero base voltage level. The devices are capable of using a voltage headroom when conveying encoded pulses between one another. Therefore, a full voltage swing between a ground reference voltage level and a power supply voltage level is not used when conveying the encoded pulses, which reduces power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: James M. Hollabaugh
  • Patent number: 12026364
    Abstract: A device detects, while displaying a first user interface that includes a first plurality of notifications in a list of notifications, a first user input that includes a first input. In response to detecting the first user input, the device, in accordance with a determination that the first input includes a swipe input in a first direction and a determination that an end of the list of notifications has been reached, displays a search input region. In response to detecting the first user input, the device, in accordance with a determination that the first input includes the swipe input in the first direction and that an end of the list of notifications has not been reached, displays a second plurality of notifications that are between the first plurality of notifications and the end of the list of notifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Nathan de Vries
  • Patent number: 12026325
    Abstract: A system may include an electronic device such as a head-mounted device and a handheld input device for controlling the electronic device. The handheld input device may include a stylus and a removable sleeve on the stylus. The input-output capabilities of the handheld input device may be shared between the stylus and the removable sleeve. The stylus may include touch sensor circuitry, a force-sensitive tip, and a motion sensor. The sleeve may include conductors for translating touch input on the sleeve to the touch sensor circuitry on the stylus, a deformable member for translating forces on the sleeve to the force-sensitive tip of the stylus, and visual markers that can be detected by an external camera and used with motion sensor data from the stylus to track the handheld input device. The removable sleeve may include haptic output devices and a battery and may be attached to an item without electronics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Paul X Wang, Ray L Chang
  • Patent number: 12023153
    Abstract: This relates to an electronic device configured for optical sensing having shared windows and including light restriction designs. The light restriction designs can include one or more of optical layers, optical films, lenses, and window systems configured to reduce or eliminate crosstalk between optical components. A plurality of accepting sections and a plurality of blocking sections can be employed to selectively allow light having an angle of incidence within one or more acceptance viewing angles and block light with angles of incidence outside of the acceptance viewing angles. In some examples, the light restriction designs can include variations in optical and structural properties can allow the light restriction designs to have spatially varying acceptance angles. Variations in structural properties can include, but are not limited to, differences in widths, heights, and/or tilts of the accepting sections and/or blocking sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guocheng Shao, Mathieu Charbonneau-Lefort, Ueyn L. Block
  • Patent number: 12028436
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing communication in a wireless communication system. The communication may be semantic communication and/or may use a programmable protocol stack. A protocol stack at a transmitter and/or receiver may include customization from an application platform, e.g., which may replace one or more layers relative to a non-customized protocol stack. A transmitter may transmit data, via the customized protocol stack, using a best effort data channel, e.g., with transmission characteristics that are relatively lossy in comparison to a data channel used by the non-customized protocol stack. A receiver may receive the data and may, e.g., if the data is corrupted, select one or more model to recover the data and/or determine whether reception is successful, e.g., from a semantic point of view. The proposed system may support higher data rates, less retransmissions, and/or better quality of user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Danila Zaev, Ayman Naguib
  • Patent number: 12028765
    Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for use in a wireless network for configuring the operation of a use equipment (UE) for and after exiting a conditional handover. Some embodiments are directed to a user equipment (UE). The UE includes processor circuitry and radio front circuitry. The processor circuitry can be configured to receive, using the radio front end circuitry and from a source device associated with a source cell, a conditional handover command for a conditional handover to a target cell. The processor circuitry can be further configured to determine, based on the received conditional handover command, a condition for exiting the conditional handover. The processor circuitry can be further configured to in response to the condition being met, exit the conditional handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Candy Yiu
  • Patent number: 12028847
    Abstract: Latency reduction techniques for radio access networks are described. In various embodiments, a reduced transmission time interval (rTTI) may be implemented in order to reduce air interface latency in a radio access network. In some embodiments, an rTTI block may be defined, and some operations may be performed in rTTI block-wise fashion in order to reduce the marginal overhead associated with implementation of the rTTI. In various embodiments in which an rTTI is implemented, DM-RS granularity may be improved by use of techniques that enable data and reference signals to be multiplexed within a same OFDM symbol. In some embodiments, a current transmission time interval (TTI) may be maintained, and latency reduction may be achieved via the use of novel techniques for one or more of code block (CB) segmentation, uplink (UL) resource element (RE) mapping, and HARQ cycle timing. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Ibars Casas, Seunghee Han
  • Patent number: 12028867
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for a wireless communication on an unlicensed spectrum. An access point (AP) of the wireless communication system includes a processor circuitry, and radio front end circuitry coupled to the processor circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to schedule multiple transmission time intervals (multi-TTIs) in a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in the unlicensed spectrum. The processor circuitry is configured to generate a downlink control information (DCI) to include the scheduled multi-TTIs and a hybrid automatic repeat and request acknowledgement (HARQACK) assessment information associated with the scheduled multi-TTIs. The radio front end circuitry is configured to transmit the DCI to a user equipment (UE) over the unlicensed spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yingyang Li, Salvatore Talarico, Yongjun Kwak, Jose Armando Oviedo
  • Patent number: 12028731
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for configuration of System frame number (SFN) and Frame Timing Difference (SFTD) measurement in an E-UTRA (Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access)—NR Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) network, and an NE-DC network. Various embodiments describe how to configure and perform the SFTD measurement in the EN-DC or NE-DC network of various conditions to facilitate adequate SFTD measurements and improve measurement accuracy and system performance. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhan Zhou, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Hua Li, Rui Huang
  • Patent number: 12028437
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for synchronizing a timebase is disclosed. A timebase management circuit includes limit circuitry, in a first clock domain, which generates, based on a global timebase, an initial timebase limit. The timebase management circuit includes, in a second clock domain, adjustment circuitry that generates an adjusted timebase limit based on the initial timebase limit. A storage circuit in the second clock domain stores a local timebase. Update circuitry, coupled to an output of the storage circuit, generates an updated local timebase using a clock signal in the second clock domain, wherein the updated local timebase is subject to the adjusted timebase limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher D. Finan, Alexander Ukanwa, Charles F. Dominguez, Jean-Didier Allegrucci, Jeffrey J. Irwin, Kalpana Bansal, Michael Bekerman, Remi Clavel
  • Publication number: 20240211038
    Abstract: Methods to trigger eye enrollment without requiring good gaze interaction are described that allow a guest user of a device to initiate partial or full eye enrollment even though their eye model is not known and thus conventional gaze-based interactions do not work well. A gaze tracking system collects gaze data in the background. At any time (or within an interval after a user puts on the device), an eye enrollment can be triggered by detecting some gaze gesture, for example rolling the eyes in a large circle, or moving the eyes randomly for a time that exceeds a threshold. Depending on the coverage of the gaze/cornea data collected in the background, a full eye enrollment or only a visual axis enrollment may be performed in response to the gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hao Qin, Hua Gao, Tom Sengelaub