Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12039632
    Abstract: Novel viewpoints may be rendered using arrays of camera images with synthesized viewpoints. Different viewpoints of a scene may be captured via image sensors. Depth information may be determined for the captured viewpoints. An array of images may be generated that includes synthetic viewpoints generated from the captured viewpoints and depth information. A request to render a novel viewpoint may be received. Then novel viewpoint may be rendered using the array of images with synthetic viewpoints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Felipe Bacim De Araujo E Silva, Dan C. Lelescu, Sebastien Eric Gilles Leprince, Gary L Vondran, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12039525
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for validating online access to secure device functionality are provided that may use shared secrets between different subsystems and limited use validation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Karl Anders Carlsson, Anton K. Diederich, Christopher Sharp, Gianpaolo Fasoli, Maciej Stachowiak, Matthew C. Byington, Nicholas J. Shearer, Samuel M. Weinig
  • Patent number: 12041365
    Abstract: Systems and methods for down-scaling are provided. In one example, a method for processing image data includes determining a plurality of output pixel locations using a position value stored by a position register, using the current position value to select a center input pixel from the image data and selecting an index value, selecting a set of input pixels adjacent to the center input pixel, selecting a set of filtering coefficients from a filter coefficient lookup table using the index value, filtering the set of source input pixels to apply a respective one of the set of filtering coefficients to each of the set of source input pixels to determine an output value for the current output pixel at the current position value, and correcting chromatic aberrations in the set of source input pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guy Cote, Simon Wolfenden Butler, Joseph Anthony Petolino, Jr., Joseph P. Bratt
  • Patent number: 12041478
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing system can perform crowd sourced access point mapping using privacy preserving techniques. For example, a server device can receive access point data reports from multiple user devices that includes various attributes and/or measurements with respect to access points with which the user devices have established connections. The access point data reports can be delivered without identifying the user devices, or users thereof, and their exact locations. Based on the access point data reports, the server device can map locations of access points and relationships between access points to generate network topologies, network locations, network quality scores, and various other characteristics of networks and/or access points. The generated access point data can be served to user devices so that the user devices can improve the efficiency of the interactions between user devices and the detected access points and/or networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rachid Kachemir, Krishna M. Behara, Ashok Kumar Harikumar, Christopher R. Purcell, Welly Kasten
  • Patent number: 12041524
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs, for warning system notifications and acquisition. In one aspect, the method includes actions of receiving, by user equipment (UE) and from an access node, data indicating the presence of a PDSCH broadcast, configuring, by the UE and based on the received data, a narrowband (NB) to receive transport blocks in PDSCH, and receiving, by the UE, one or more transport blocks broadcast in PDSCH using the NB, the one or more transport blocks including the warning system information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bharat Shrestha, Marta Martinez Tarradell, Seau S. Lim, Debdeep Chatterjee
  • Patent number: 12041051
    Abstract: A service client on a device can generate an access control identifier using a server seeded and client-specific secret. The device can generate a blinded access control identifier (ACI) using a randomness factor as part of a request message for a blinded ACI signature including authentication data. The device can transmit the request message to a verification server and upon verification receive a blinded ACI signature message that can subsequently be unblinded using the randomness factor to obtain the ACI signature. The device may send the ACI and the ACI signature to a verification server and after verifying the signature receive a service token. The device may transmit the service token to a service provider server requesting access to the service. When a rate associated with the service token is below a threshold rate, the device can access the service provided by the service provider service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Chu, Fabio Sozzani, Ying Chen, Betim Deva, Mufaddal Y. Khumri
  • Patent number: 12039644
    Abstract: The invention is related to a method of presenting a digital information related to a real object, comprising determining a real object, providing a plurality of presentation modes, wherein the plurality of presentation modes comprises an augmented reality mode, and at least one of a virtual reality mode and an audio mode, providing at least one representation of a digital information related to the real object, determining a spatial relationship between a camera and a reference coordinate system under consideration of an image captured by the camera, selecting a presentation mode from the plurality of presentation modes according to the spatial relationship, and presenting the at least one representation of the digital information using the selected presentation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Kurz, Anton Fedosov
  • Patent number: 12041738
    Abstract: A foldable display may have a display cover layer and a flexible display panel. The foldable display may bend around a bend axis. The display panel may have an array of pixels configured to display an image through the display cover layer. The display cover layer may be formed from a layer of glass. A recess may be formed in the layer of glass that extends along the bend axis. The recess may form a flexible locally thinned portion in the layer of glass that allows the glass layer to bend about the bend axis. To ensure that the display cover layer exhibits satisfactory impact resistance during drop events, corner portions of the display cover layer and other edge portions of the display cover layer may be provided with greater thickness relative to other portions of the display cover layer outside of the locally thinned portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Que Anh S. Nguyen, Michael B. Wittenberg
  • Patent number: 12039146
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to managing user interfaces associated with physical activities. The user interface displays a scrollable list of affordances associated with physical activities. The affordances may contain physical activity and heart rate information. A user can launch a physical activity tracking function or an interface to change a workout metric using an affordance. Users can also control the music that is played in response to selecting a workout. Further, the interface can be used to compose a reply message to a received message that contains workout information. The interfaces can show a graph that includes heart data when the user's heart rate meets a heart rate alert criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aled Hywel Williams, Gary Ian Butcher, Taylor G. Carrigan
  • Patent number: 12036018
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for monitoring a workout and for generating improved interfaces for the same. In one example, while receiving activity data for a workout session, a first user interface of a workout application is displayed. While displaying the first user interface of the workout application, user input of a first type is detected. In response to detecting the user input of the first type, a first control affordance to pause receiving the activity data for the workout session is displayed, and activity data for the workout session is continued to be received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Jay Blahnik, Gary Ian Butcher, Jules K. Fennis, David Chance Graham, Lawrence Y. Yang
  • Patent number: 12041695
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may include one or more processors that are configured to cause UE capability information to be communicated to a radio access network (RAN) node, regarding a maximum number of blind decode attempts (BDAs) supported by the UE. The one or more processors are configured to determine, based on the maximum BDAs, shortened channel control elements (sCCEs) to be used, by the RAN node, to transmit shortened downlink control information (sDCI) via a shortened physical downlink control channel (sPDCCH) and obtain sDCI by monitoring the sPDCCH in accordance with the determined sCCEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Debdeep Chatterjee, Gang Xiong, Hong He, Yongjun Kwak, Alexei Davydov, Hwan-Joon Kwon, Dae Won Lee
  • Patent number: 12040859
    Abstract: A base station may transmit to a device an indication of codebook subset restriction (CBSR), which includes at least a restriction on a frequency basis. The device may receive the indication of CBSR, and may transmit to the base station channel state information (CSI) according to the received indication of CBSR. The indication of CBSR may also include a restriction on a spatial basis and restrict the device from reporting the CSI based on a subset of the frequency basis in addition to the spatial basis per configuration of the base station. The indication of CBSR may include a separately configured maximum allowed amplitude of a weighting coefficient for the spatial basis and the frequency basis, where the weighting coefficient is associated with a column vector of a precoding matrix used by the base station and the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Yuchul Kim
  • Patent number: 12040999
    Abstract: Technology for an eNodeB operable to decode a sounding reference signal (SRS) received from a user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The eNodeB can decode the SRS received from the UE, wherein 5 the SRS is received using one or more SRS resources in a subframe where each SRS resource includes one or more symbols. The subframe can be an uplink subframe dedicated for SRS transmission or a short transmission time interval (sTTI) subframe used for SRS transmission. The eNodeB can determine uplink channel quality information for a channel between the eNodeB and the UE based in part on the 10 SRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Alexei Davydov, Sameer Pawar, Avik Sengupta
  • Patent number: 12041728
    Abstract: Electronic assembly methods and structures are described. In an embodiment, an electronic assembly method includes bringing together an electronic component and a routing substrate, and directing a large area photonic soldering light pulse toward the electronic component to bond the electronic component to the routing substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Maryam Rahimi, Meng Chi Lee, Wyeman Chen, Leilei Zhang, Jason P. Marsh, Lan Hoang, Yashar Abdollahian
  • Patent number: D1035652
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 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, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Richard P. Howarth, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1035680
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: James Felkins, Erik Klimczak, Jeffrey Dustin Tanner
  • Patent number: D1035691
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gorm Halfdan Amand, Daniel Joseph Billett, Joseph Chan, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, James Nicholas Jones, Ieyuki Kawashima, Vincent M. Lane, Chia Yang Lin, Cecilia S. Zhou
  • Patent number: D1035695
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Woo Chang, Teofila Connor, Pedro Mari, Mischa McLachlan
  • Patent number: D1035715
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Freddy Anzures, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Lauren Trottier, Wan Si Wan, Christopher Wilson, Giancarlo Yerkes
  • Patent number: D1035719
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guillaume P. Barlier, Alan C. Dye, Lisa K. Forssell, Joseph D. Gardner, Aurelio Guzmán, Jason D. Rickwald, Christopher J. Romney, Nicolas V. Scapel, Christopher I. Wilson