Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12052597
    Abstract: Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE) based on communication associated with New Radio (NR) in Unlicensed Spectrum (NR-U). The method includes obtaining information including a reference timing, setting up a target date measurement configuration in accordance with the reference timing; and performing a target data measurement in accordance with the target data measurement configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Yang Tang, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Huaning Niu, Dawei Zhang, Hong He
  • Patent number: 12050494
    Abstract: An internal component and external interface arrangement for a cylindrical compact computing system is described that includes at least a structural heat sink having triangular shape disposed within a cylindrical volume defined by a cylindrical housing. A computing engine having a generally triangular shape is described having internal components that include a graphics processing unit (GPU) board, a central processing unit (CPU) board, an input/output (I/O) interface board, an interconnect board, and a power supply unit (PSU).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brett W. Degner, Caitlin Elizabeth Kalinowski, Richard D. Kosoglow, Joshua D. Banko, David H. Narajowski, Jonathan L. Berk, Michael E. Leclerc, Michael D. McBroom, Asif Iqbal, Paul S. Michelsen, Mark K. Sin, Paul A. Baker, Harold L. Sontag, Wai Ching Yuen, Matthew P. Casebolt, Kevin S. Fetterman, Alexander C. Calkins, Daniel L. McBroom
  • Patent number: 12051918
    Abstract: A wireless power transfer device can include a coil that couples to a corresponding coil of a counterpart device to facilitate wireless power transfer, a power converter coupled to the coil, and controller and communication circuitry that monitors one or more observable parameters associated with the wireless power transfer to detect a presence of a foreign object that is not the counterpart device and control the power converter responsive to detection of a foreign object. The controller and communication circuitry can perform foreign object detection based on power accounting that includes estimating friendly metal losses associated with the counterpart device. The controller and communication circuitry can receive from the counterpart device friendly metal loss modeling parameters associated with the counterpart device, the modeling parameters including one or more coefficients relating to a wireless power transfer current and one or more coefficients relating to a wireless power transfer voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shubha Ramakrishnan, Adam L Schwartz, Jizhen Fu
  • Patent number: 12052615
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media are provided for exiting conditional handovers and for estimating a user equipment mobility state. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Candy Yiu, Ansab Ali
  • Patent number: 12050857
    Abstract: An electronic device: displays a first portion of content within an application interface; detects a screenshot capture input; and, in response to detecting the screenshot capture input: captures a screenshot image of the first portion of the content; and displays a screenshot editing interface that includes the screenshot image of the first portion of the content within an image area and expansion affordances provided to expand the screenshot image. The electronic device also: while displaying the screenshot editing interface, detects an expansion input that corresponds to expanding the screenshot image in one or more dimensions; and, in response to detecting the expansion input, modifies the screenshot image by displaying a second portion of the content within the image area in addition to the first portion of the content, where the second portion of the content was not displayed before detecting the screenshot capture input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Tiffany S. Jon, Chanaka G. Karunamuni
  • Patent number: 12052498
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and non-transitory program storage devices are disclosed to provide techniques for distortion compensation in images that are subject to video image stabilization (VIS), e.g., electronic image stabilization (EIS). In some embodiments, the techniques comprise: obtaining a first image captured by a first image capture device; determining a first set of image parameters configured to apply a first distortion operation (e.g., an un-distortion operation) to the first image; determining a second set of image parameters configured to apply a first stabilization operation to a first version of the first image that has already had the first distortion operation applied; determining a third set of image parameters configured to apply a second distortion operation (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Zejing Wang, Florian Ciurea, Benjamin A. Darling
  • Patent number: 12052430
    Abstract: A method is provided that includes receiving content data captured by a sensor and receiving a context signal representing a user context. The received content data is scaled using a trained model, wherein the context signal is an input to the trained model, and the scaled content data is provided for presentation to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ranjit Desai, Adrian P. Lindberg, Kaushik Raghunath, Vinay Palakkode
  • Patent number: 12052033
    Abstract: A decoder includes circuitry and multiple Variable-Node Circuits (VNCs). The VNCs individually hold one or more variables of an Error Correction Code (ECC) that is representable by a plurality of check equations defined over the variables. The circuitry is configured to receive a code word including variables having m-bit values that was encoded using the ECC, to further receive reliability levels assigned respectively to the variables, to decode the code word by applying to the code word a sequence of iterations, including deciding in a given iteration whether a given VNC is to be processed or skipped in that iteration, depending on the reliability levels assigned to the variables of the given VNC, and, when the given VNC is selected for processing, to make a decision whether or not to update one or more of the variables of the given VNC, and to apply the decision by the given VNC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Roy Roth, Yonathan Tate
  • Patent number: 12052616
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing conditional handovers and cell re-selections along known routes. A cellular base station may select a conditional handover set for a wireless device. The conditional handover set may include information for multiple conditional handovers. The wireless device may receive the conditional handover set. The wireless device may perform conditional handover to at least a first cell indicated in the conditional handover set based at least in part on the conditional handover set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Srirang A. Lovlekar, Srinivasan Nimmala, Haijing Hu, Fangli Xu, Yuqin Chen, Longda Xing, Dawei Zhang, Murtaza A. Shikari, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy
  • Patent number: 12050987
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to an electronic device that includes a neural processor having multiple neural engine circuits that operate in multiple modes of different bit width. A neural engine circuit may include a first multiply circuit and a second multiply circuit. The first and second multiply circuits may be combined to work as a part of a combined computation circuit. In a first mode, the first multiply circuit generates first output data of a first bit width by multiplying first input data with a first kernel coefficient. The second multiply circuit generates second output data of the first bit width by multiplying second input data with a second kernel coefficient. In a second mode, the combined computation circuit generates third output data of a second bit width by multiplying third input data with a third kernel coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Paolo Di Febbo, Waleed Abdulla, Chaminda N Vidanagamachchi, Yohan Rajan
  • Patent number: 12052621
    Abstract: Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE), that includes: obtaining, from a source cell, a handover command for handover from the source cell to a target cell, the handover command including activation indication for an activation of a secondary cell (SCell) of the target cell; generating a first message for transmission to the target cell, wherein the first message is used for initiating a random access procedure; obtaining a second message from the target cell in response to the first message, wherein the second message comprises a timing advance (TA) command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 12051413
    Abstract: Systems and processes for intelligent device identification are provided. In one example process, audio input may be sampled with a microphone at each of two or more of the plurality of electronic devices. A first electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices for determining a task associated with sampled audio input may be identified. The process may determine the task based on the sampled audio input with the first electronic device and identify identifying a second electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices for performing the task. The task be performed with the second electronic device. The second electronic device is not the first electronic device in some examples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon J. Newendorp, Lia T. Napolitano
  • Patent number: 12052891
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display and an optical sensor formed underneath the display. The electronic device may include a plurality of transparent windows that overlap the optical sensor. The resolution of the display panel may be reduced in some areas due to the presence of the transparent windows. To mitigate diffraction artifacts, a first sensor (13-1) may sense light through a first pixel removal region having transparent windows arranged according to a first pattern. A second sensor (13-2) may sense light through a second pixel removal region having transparent windows arranged according to a second pattern that is different than the first pattern. The first and second patterns of the transparent windows may result in the first and second sensors having different diffraction artifacts. Therefore, an image from the first sensor may be corrected for diffraction artifacts based on an image from the second sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuchi Che, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Majid Esfandyarpour, Sebastian Knitter, Warren S. Rieutort-Louis, Tsung-Ting Tsai
  • Patent number: 12051170
    Abstract: Various implementations provide a view of a 3D environment including a portal for viewing a stereo item (e.g., a photo or video) positioned a distance behind the portal. One or more visual effects are provided based on texture of one or more portions of the stereo item, e.g., texture at cutoff or visible edges of the stereo item. The effects change the appearance of the stereo item or the portal itself, e.g., improving visual comfort issues by minimizing window violations or otherwise enhancing the viewing experience. Various implementations provide a view of a 3D environment including an immersive view of a stereo item without using portal. Such a visual effect may be provided to partially obscure the surrounding 3D environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Bryce L. Schmidtchen, Bryan Cline, Charles O. Goddard, Michael I. Weinstein, Tsao-Wei Huang, Tobias Rick, Vedant Saran, Alexander Menzies, Alexandre Da Veiga
  • Patent number: D1037064
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan P. Siegel, Christopher M. Green, Stefan Behling, David Summerfield, James McGrath, Christopher Daniel Peak, Patrick O'Brien, Jennifer Ross Wynn, Andrea Fender Badgley, Richard P. Howarth, Rafe Bertram, John De Maio, Susana Varela De Sagarra, Raoul Skrein Bumballa, Neil Bancroft, Charlotte Hofstetter, Afroditi Kavallieraki
  • Patent number: D1037176
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1037299
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Broughton, Cas Lemmens
  • Patent number: D1037309
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Taylor Gerard Carrigan, Drew Rocky Domm, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Foss, David C. Graham, Jonathan P. Ive, Pedro Mari, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D1037313
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor Gerard Carrigan, Aled Williams
  • Patent number: D1037316
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Aurelio Guzmán