Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12045275
    Abstract: The content items presented to a user account as part of a media station can be recorded in a content history index, which can be requested and presented to the user account. The content history can enable a user to revisit the content items included in the content history and/or provide feedback regarding the content items. The version of the content item returned to the user can be based on the client device used to request the content item. For example, a user that was presented a content item on their mobile device, can later request to revisit the content item on their PC and receive a version of the content item best suited for presentation by the PC, rather than the version presented on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Alsina, Kenley Sun, David T. Wilson, Sagar A. Joshi, Nicholas James Paulson, Arvind S. Shenoy
  • Publication number: 20240244591
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems, and methods for uplink (UL) grant adjustment in wireless networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Amr Abdelrahman Yousef Abdelrahman Mostafa, Panagiotis Botsinis, Tarik Tabet, Christian Hofmann, Sameh M. Eldessoki
  • Publication number: 20240242692
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a billboard circuit that stores context information received from various component circuits in an electronic device. The context information indicates an operating status of the corresponding component circuit, system or shared resources. The stored context information may be retrieved by one or more component circuits when events (e.g., turning on of a component circuit) are detected. By using the billboard circuit, a component circuit may detect changes in the operating status of other components circuits and configure or update its operations even when the changes occurred while the component circuit was asleep or disabled. The billboard circuit may monitor updating of the context information by the component circuit and initiate notification to other components circuits when certain entries of the context information is updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Helena Deirdre O’Shea, Matthias Sauer, Jorge L. Rivera Espinoza
  • Publication number: 20240240960
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and machine-read le media to facilitate intuitive comparison and selection of calculated navigation routes are disclosed. An electronic device for navigation includes a touch-sensitive screen and a processing module for displaying a map, calculating a number or navigation routes simultaneously on the touch-sensitive screen, and receiving a selection of a route. Callouts, or markers for presenting key information about each route, are also displayed discretely on the map. Navigation tiles including key route information and route pictorials can also be created and displayed for each calculated route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bradford Moore, Christopher Blumenberg, Marcel Van Os, Graham Gyatt
  • Publication number: 20240241570
    Abstract: A processor can include various processing pipelines that perform different data processing operations, with different pipelines having dedicated logic and memory circuits. A power management circuit can determine when to supply power to various pipelines, including the logic and memory circuits of the various pipelines, depending on a current operating mode of the processor. When a memory circuit transitions to a lower power state such as a sleep state, data can be saved to a different memory circuit that is not transitioning to a lower power state, and when the memory circuit is powered up again, the data can be restored from the different memory circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ping Zhou, Nikolai Schlegel, Navid Ehsan, Zhimin Chen, Gerard D. Jennings
  • Publication number: 20240241350
    Abstract: Lens systems are described that may be used in small form factor cameras. An imaging lens system may include a front aperture and five lens elements, and provides a low F-number (<=2.4), wide field of view (>=82 degrees), and short total track length (TTL). Lens system parameters and relationships may be selected at least in part to reduce, compensate, or correct for optical aberrations and lens artifacts and effects across the field of view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Yuhong Yao
  • Patent number: 12039149
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology provide for suggested home screens and/or lock screens of an electronic device. The suggested home screens and/or lock screens can include suggested backgrounds, user interface elements, colors, styles, photos, and the like, and can be generated and/or suggested for a user of an electronic device based on activity history information for the user and/or the electronic device. In one or more implementations, the home screens and/or lock screens may be generated and/or suggested specifically for various operational modes of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sofiane Toudji, Daniel Li, Erik M. Berget, Mateusz K. Rajca, Rishab Mehra, Surabhi Gupta
  • Patent number: 12039661
    Abstract: A device for performing parameterized generation of two-dimensional images from a three-dimensional model may include at least one processor configured to receive a set of parameters for generating a two-dimensional image from a three-dimensional model. The at least one processor may be further configured to position a render camera relative to the three-dimensional model based at least in part on a first parameter of the set of parameters, apply a pose to the three-dimensional model based at least in part on a second parameter of the set of parameters, and add at least one supplemental content item to the posed three-dimensional model based at least in part on a third parameter of the set of parameters. The at least one processor may be further configured to generate, using the positioned render camera, the two-dimensional image from the posed three-dimensional model including the added at least one supplemental content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey D. Harris, Amaury Balliet, Remi G. Santos, Jason D. Rickwald
  • Patent number: 12040643
    Abstract: Attachment devices that can secure a phone or other electronic device in place in a vehicle or other structure. One example can provide an attachment device that can include a stalk portion to attach to a surface or structure in a vehicle, such as a vent cover, dashboard, monitor, cup holder or other surface or structure. The attachment device can further include an attachment feature to provide for an attachment to the electronic device. Further examples can provide power for a phone or other electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Demetrios B. Karanikos, Varun K. Sanghvi
  • Patent number: 12041476
    Abstract: An approach is described of an access node that is configured to exchange intended Uplink (UL)/Downlink (DL) direction information for cross-link interference (CLI) management in a wireless communication system. The access node includes processor circuitry and communication circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to generate a message including the intended UL/DL DL direction information. The communication circuitry is coupled to the processor circuitry, and configured to transmit the message to a second access node to thereby implement CLI management.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Dawei Ying, Hassan Ghozlan, Qian Li, Geng Wu
  • Patent number: 12041568
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) comprising a processor configured to perform the operations that determines an uplink (UL) slot is described. In exemplary embodiments, the UE receives, from a base station, a scaling factor through a first Radio Resource Control (RRC) signal. The UE may further determines an offset through a second RRC signal. In addition, the UE may receive from the base station, downlink control information (DCI) that includes an indication of an initial time gap. Furthermore, the UE may calculate a new time gap by at least applying the scaling factor to the initial time gap and determine a slot of uplink transmission based on at least the new time gap and the offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Sarma V. Vangala, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12041514
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device presents user interfaces for defining identifiers for remote locator objects. In some embodiments, an electronic device locates a remote locator object. In some embodiments, an electronic device provides information associated with a remote locator object. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays notifications associated with a trackable device. In some embodiments, a first device generates alerts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Arian Behzadi, Sriram Hariharan
  • Patent number: 12041526
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using a relay user equipment (UE) to transport data of interest received from a first remote UE to a second remote UE on a UE to UE relay within a wireless communication system are discussed herein. These methods may be performed at Layer 2 of a protocol stack of the wireless communication system. Data packets sent on the UE to UE relay may include an adaptation header including routing information (e.g., Layer 2 addresses, a bearer-specific index, etc.) for the UE to UE relay. An adaptation layer may accordingly be provided within Layer 2 to decode these adaptation headers. In some cases, a per-bearer approach may be used to map between individual direct bearers of a hop by hop path configuration of the UE to UE relay. Embodiments eschewing the adaptation header and instead using logical channel identifiers (LCIDs) to make routing indications are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Zhibin Wu, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Yuqin Chen
  • Patent number: 12041464
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide uplink spatial relation switch delay for an uplink spatial relation switch based at least in part on a pathloss reference signal associated with uplink spatial relation switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Dawei Zhang, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Panagiotis Botsinis, Sameh M. Eldessoki, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12041487
    Abstract: A process for execution by user equipment (UE) for activation or deactivation of a Radio Link Control (RLC) entity for Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) duplication includes identifying a set of RLC entities that are configured by a Radio Resource Control (RRC) for communication using PDCP. The process includes, for each RLC entity of the set of RLC entities: determining a network configured offset value; determining a channel condition value; and determining an RLC entity level value based on a combination of the network configured offset value and the channel condition value. The process includes comparing the RLC entity level value for each RLC entity to a threshold value; and based on comparing the RLC entity level value to the threshold value, selecting a subset of RLC entities for PDCP duplication; and activating or deactivating PDCP duplication for the selected subset of RLC entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yujian Zhang, Junaid Ansari, Marta Martinez Tarradell
  • Patent number: 12040598
    Abstract: A mobile device includes a camera and a light source module embedded in the mobile device. The light source module includes at least a laser-pumped phosphor light source that includes a photoluminescent phosphor and a laser diode to generate laser light within a first wavelength range to pump the photoluminescent phosphor. Exposure of the photoluminescent phosphor to the laser light results in emission of visible light within a second wavelength range according to a laser-pumped emission spectrum associated with the photoluminescent phosphor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Angelo M. Alaimo, Richard L. Baer, Garam Young, Florian R. Fournier, Blake M. Coughenour, Bryan Dang
  • Patent number: D1035275
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    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, Alexandre B. Girard, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Richard P. Howarth, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1035690
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Pablo F. Caro, Nicholas D. Felton
  • Patent number: D1035712
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D1036502
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: YunJae Kim