Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12016134
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The display may have layers such as polarizer layers, a color filter layer, and a thin-film transistor layer. Display layers such as color filter layers and thin-film-transistor layers may have glass substrates. Notches or other openings may be formed in the layers of a display. For example, a notch with a curved chamfered edge may be formed in a lower end of a thin-film-transistor layer. A component such as a button may overlap the notch. Structures such as sensors, cameras, acoustic components, and other electronic components, buttons, communications path structures such as flexible printed circuit cables and wire bonding wires, and housing structures may be received within a display layer notch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy C. Franklin, Benjamin M. Rappoport, John P. Ternus, Sean Corbin, Stephen R. McClure
  • Patent number: 12013455
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a processor and wireless circuitry with transmit and receive antennas. Radar circuitry may use the transmit and receive antennas to perform spatial ranging on external objects farther than a threshold distance (e.g., 1-2 cm) from the transmit antenna. The wireless circuitry may include a voltage standing wave ration (VSWR) sensor coupled to the transmit antenna to detect the presence of objects within the threshold distance from the transmit antenna. This may serve to cover a blind spot for the radar circuitry near to the transmit antenna. The VSWR sensor may gather background VSWR measurements when other wireless performance metric data for the wireless circuitry is within a predetermined range of satisfactory values. The background VSWR measurements may be subtracted from real time VSWR measurements to perform accurate and robust ultra-short range object detection near to the transmit antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joonhoi Hur, Bernhard Sogl, Jochen Schrattenecker, Andreas Menkhoff, Bin Xiao, Lucas Calderin, Andre Hanke, Harald Pretl, Rastislav Vazny
  • Patent number: 12013713
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system implementing a sensor. A sensing system is implemented in a functional circuit block that is coupled to a global supply voltage node. The sensing system includes a power converter circuit configured to generate a regulated voltage level on a local supply node using the voltage present on the global supply voltage node. The system also includes a sensor circuit coupled to receive the regulated voltage node, wherein the sensor is configured to compare corresponding parameters of different ones of a number of subset of device at a plurality of different time points and generate a plurality of comparison results. The comparisons generate an analog signal that is proportional to the operating parameter. An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is coupled to receive the analog signal and generate a plurality of bits corresponding thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Mesgarani, Ke Yun, Seyedeh Sedigheh Hashemi, Jasdeep S. Dhaliwal, Mansour Keramat, Jafar Savoj, Bruno W. Garlepp, Vahid Majidzadeh Bafar, Emerson S. Fang
  • Patent number: 12016030
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for causing a user equipment (UE) device to receive a configuration signaling to monitor for uplink (UL) cancellation indications; monitor a search space for an UL cancellation indication; detect an UL cancellation indication in the search space; and in response, cancel at least a portion of a scheduled UL transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Toufiqul Islam, Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr, Debdeep Chatterjee, Sergey Panteleev
  • Patent number: 12013741
    Abstract: An electronic device can be configured to operate in a plurality of operating modes to generate various stimulation signals for touch sensing operations. Switching circuitry can selectively couple one or more stimulation circuits to touch stimulation circuitry to reduce electromagnetic interference generated during transitions between the plurality of operating modes. The electronic device can transition from a stimulation phase to a termination phase at an arbitrary time, unconstrained by integration time requirements of accompany touch sensing circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Du Chen, Christoph H. Krah
  • Patent number: 12015801
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to systems and methods of streaming extensions for video encoding. The streaming extensions may enable the bitstream syntax for layered video data to be modified to reduce overhead for encoding. The bitstream syntax may be modified to enable variable length luma and chroma components, and enable the alignment between the layers and slice to be bit aligned to enable increased granularity in image encoding, and to minimize overhead between different elements within the layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sorin C Cismas, Ganesh G Yadav
  • Patent number: 12013585
    Abstract: A light pipe such as a fiber ribbon may be formed from fibers joined by binder such as extruded binder. The fiber ribbon or other light pipe may have bends. A light source may provide light to an input of a fiber ribbon that is guided by the fiber ribbon to a corresponding output. The output may be located in an interior portion of an electronic device or may be positioned so that light from the output exits the electronic device and illuminates external objects. The light source may have light-emitting devices on a substrate. The light-emitting devices may be vertical cavity surface-emitting laser diodes or other lasers and/or may be light-emitting diodes. Light-emitting devices may be arranged in discrete clusters corresponding to the locations of fiber cores in the fiber ribbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Prabhakar Gulgunje, Brian S. Medower, Mahmut C. Orsan, Nathan K Gupta, Shifa Xu, Shubhaditya Majumdar, Wei Lin, Yazan Z Alnahhas
  • Patent number: 12015413
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes embodiments of driver circuit. The driver circuit includes a first impedance element electrically coupled to a first inverter circuit and a second impedance element electrically coupled to the first impedance element and a second inverter circuit. For a first encoding using the driver circuit, the first inverter circuit and the second inverter circuit are controlled such that a first current flows through the first and second impedance elements, the first current having a first value and a first direction. For a second encoding using the driver circuit, the first inverter circuit and the second inverter circuit are controlled such that a second current flows through the first and second impedance elements, the second current having a second value and a second direction. The first value is substantially the same as the second value and the first direction is opposite to the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Charles L. Wang, Yi-Hsiu E. Chen, Pranavi Sunkara
  • Patent number: 12015758
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide images for displaying a 3D appearance of a tracked object on a view dependent device. In some implementations, a set of multiple images of the object from different capture positions is provided and then adjusted such as to render the object in focus when using the adjusted images for display on the view dependent device. In some implementations, the set of multiple images is provided that includes virtual images generated using virtual image sensors that may improve the appearance of out of focus regions (e.g., outside the 3D object appearance) on the view dependent device. In some implementations, the set of multiple images of a person provides a hologram of the person (e.g., left and right eye views provide the appearance of a 3D person) where the images are adjusted to improve gaze direction of eyes of the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gary L. Vondran, Jr., Dan C. Lelescu, Robert K. Molholm, Nicolas V. Scapel, Kathrin Berkner-Cieslicki, Seung Wook Kim
  • Patent number: 12014472
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method includes: obtaining a reference image frame and forward flow information; for a respective pixel within a target image frame, obtaining a plurality of starting points within the reference image frame with different depths; generating a plurality of intermediate warp results based on the plurality of starting points and the forward flow information, wherein each of the plurality of intermediate warp results is associated with a candidate warp position and an associated depth; selecting a warp result for the respective pixel from among the plurality of intermediate warp results, wherein the warp result corresponds to the candidate warp position associated with a closest depth to a viewpoint associated with the reference image frame; and populating pixel information for the respective pixel within the target image frame based on pixel information for a reference pixel within the reference image frame that corresponds to the warp result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Seyedkoosha Mirhosseini
  • Patent number: 12015922
    Abstract: Techniques and systems are described for monitoring remote identifiers transmitted by aerial devices and for detecting whether an aerial device is engaging in suspicious activities. A described technique can include determining, based on information collected from one or mom network components associated with a cellular network, that an aerial device is communicating via the cellular network and is operating in a geographical area; determining whether the aerial device corresponds to a remote identifier which is transmitted within the geographical area or reported for the geographical area; and providing an alarm notification based on the aerial device lacking a correspondence to a remote identifier which is transmitted within the geographical area or reported for the geographical area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Edward Davis, Gabriel C. Cox
  • Patent number: 12014109
    Abstract: A device configured to generate audio output, receive an indication that a second device is to emit a signal, adjust the audio output from a first state to a second state based at least on the indication that the second device is to emit the signal, identify a predetermined condition and adjust the audio output from the second state to the first state based on at least the predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Giles, Baptiste Paquier
  • Patent number: 12012356
    Abstract: Asymmetrically strengthened glass articles, methods for producing the same, and use of the articles in portable electronic device is disclosed. The asymmetrically strengthened glass articles include glass articles having a deeper compressive stress layer in a thicker portion of the glass article. Using a budgeted amount of compressive stress and tensile stress, asymmetric chemical strengthening is optimized for the utility of a glass article. In some aspects, the strengthened glass article can be designed for reduced damage, or damage propagation, when dropped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Victor Luzzato, Christopher D. Prest, Dale N. Memering, Matthew S Rogers
  • Patent number: 12015986
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques for transmit power control (TPC) in wireless communication systems are described. A described technique performed by a user equipment (UE) includes signaling that enables transmit power control (TPC) accumulation; receiving, by the UE, downlink control information (DCI) messages corresponding to respective physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission occasions; determining, by the UE, power control adjustment states for the PUSCH transmission occasions; and transmitting, by the UE, in the PUSCH transmission occasions in accordance with the power control adjustment states. Determining the power control adjustment states can include selectively applying TPC accumulation to one or more of the power control adjustment states based on a determination that at least one of the PUSCH transmission occasions is out-of-order based on an arrival ordering of the DCI messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Toufiqul Islam, Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr, Debdeep Chatterjee, Sergey Panteleev
  • Patent number: 12015845
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein include techniques for operating a multiple camera system. In some embodiments, a primary camera may be selected from a plurality of cameras using object distance estimates, distance error information, and minimum object distances for some or all of the plurality of cameras. In other embodiments, a camera may be configured to use defocus information to obtain an object distance estimate to a target object closer than a minimum object distance of the camera. This object distance estimate may be used to assist in focusing another camera of the multi-camera system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Abhishek Dhanda, Gregory Guyomarc'h, Mark N. Gamadia
  • Patent number: 12015450
    Abstract: A wireless power system has a wireless power transmitting device and a wireless power receiving device. A clock signal may be provided to inverter circuitry in wireless power transmitting circuitry at a power transmission frequency. The clock signal may cause transistors in the inverter circuitry to turn on and off to create AC current signals through the wireless power transmitting coil. The clock signal may be processed to mitigate electromagnetic interference in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sujeet Milind Patole, Cheung-Wei Lam, Vaneet Pathak
  • Patent number: 12015942
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to simultaneously connect to a primary cell (PCell) and a primary secondary cell (PSCell) of a wireless network, wherein a primary component carrier (PCC) of the PCell and a primary secondary component carrier (PSCC) of the PSCell are both in frequency range 1 (FR1). The UE receives a PCC measurement object (MO) configuration, a PSCC MO configuration, and an inter-frequency MO with no measurement gap configuration, determines a PCC MO carrier specific scaling factor (CSSF), a PSCC MO CSSF, and an inter-frequency MO with no measurement gap CSSF and applies each respective CSSF to a measurement period corresponding to each of the PCC MO, the PSCC MO, and the inter-frequency MO with no measurement gap to determine a scaled measurement period corresponding to each of the PCC MO, the PSCC MO, and the inter-frequency MO with no measurement gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Qiming Li, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen
  • Patent number: 12015294
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to techniques for a displaying a user interface including a visual indication that an electronic device is in a protective charging mode. While the electronic device is in a charging configuration with respect to an external power source, an energy-storage component of the electronic device is charged with power supplied by the external power source. After charging the energy-storage component, a user interface is displayed. When charging of the energy-storage component is stopped before reaching a full charge level, the user interface includes a visual indication that the electronic device is in a protective charging mode in which charging of the energy-storage component is delayed based on predetermined criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vitalii Kramar, Patrick L. Coffman, Caelan G. Stack
  • Patent number: 12016123
    Abstract: Computer modules that can have a high-capacity, can simplify the design of a computer system housing the modules, can utilize system resources in a highly configurable manner, can provide a variety of functionality, and can be readily inserted into, and removed from, a computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brett W. Degner, Michael E. Leclerc, Eric R. Prather, Scott J. Campbell, James M. Cuseo, Rodrigo Dutervil Mubarak, Ian A. Guy, Daniel D. Hershey, Mariel L. Lanas, Michael D. McBroom, David C. Parell, Bartley K. Andre, Danny L. McBroom, Houtan R. Farahani
  • Patent number: 12014118
    Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant to perform intelligent list reading are provided. In accordance with one example, a method includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors, receiving a first user input of a first input type, the first user input including a plurality of words; displaying, on the touch-sensitive display, the plurality of words; receiving a second user input of a second input type indicating a selection of a word of the plurality of words, the second input type different than the first input type; receiving a third user input; modifying the selected word based on the third user input to provide a modified one or more words; and displaying, on the touch-sensitive display, the modified one or more words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas R. Gruber, Mohammed A. Tayyeb, Ron C. Santos, Madhusudan Chinthakunta