Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12262399
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for latency reduction for beam failure recovery (BFR), with respect to transmit-receive point (TRP)-specific BFR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng
  • Patent number: 12260532
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate performing registration of a first image to a second image where the first image is undistorted to linear space before applying a geometric transformation matrix to modify the first image to align with the second image. The geometric transformation matrix may be a linear matrix that causes the undistorted version of the first image to make translation movement, rotational movement or both. The undistorted and modified first image is then reverted back to nonlinear distorted space. Then the reverted first image may be warped to better align with the second image for fusing with the second image. In this way, visual distortions in the fused image such as wobbling may be reduced or eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Kaiming Liu, Maxim Smirnov, William T. Warner, David Pope, Hui Chao, Jason Holloway
  • Patent number: 12257900
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to managing cruise control settings. A cruise control indicator is displayed at a location that corresponds to a cruise control speed concurrently with a textual indication of the cruise control speed. In response to receiving input, the textual indication ceases to be displayed after a non-zero duration while the cruise control indicator continues to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Crick, Conrad H. Albrecht-Buehler, Joseph Y. Chan, Richard R. Dellinger, Yun Jae Kim, Eileen Y. Lee
  • Patent number: 12262335
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) monitors for a synchronization signal block (SSB) to synchronize with a cell of a network. The UE monitors a frequency band during a discovery reference signal (DRS) window for a synchronization signal block (SSB) transmitted by a cell of the network, determines an SSB index based on information received from the cell of the network and synchronizes with the cell based on the SSB index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12262392
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, system and machine-readable medium. The apparatus may be an apparatus of a New Radio (NR) gNodeB or of a NR User Equipment (UE), and may include a memory and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry for the apparatus of the gNodeB is to: configure a plurality of bandwidth parts (BWPs) associated with respective numerologies; determine a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) including downlink control information (DCI), the DCI including information on scheduled resources including BWP index for a data transmission to or from a User Equipment (UE), the data transmission to occupy one of the plurality of BWPs or multiple ones of the plurality of BWPs; encode the PDCCH for transmission; and process the data transmission based on the DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Jeongho Jeon, Joonyoung Cho, Debdeep Chatterjee, Sergey Panteleev, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12262395
    Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) capable wireless device configured to perform sidelink cellular communications. The wireless device performs sidelink communications using a two-stage sidelink control information (SCI) protocol including Stage 1 SCI messaging carried on a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), and Stage 2 SCI messaging carried on a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH). The SCI messaging may be encoded using polar codes. Channel interleaving is utilized on the SCI to interleave the SCI between two or more layers of a MIMO transmission system. Scrambling for Stage 2 SCI messaging is performed based on the result of a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) performed on Stage 1 SCI messaging. Collisions between sidelink HARQ feedback to be transmitted to a base station and other transmissions are avoided based on a priority analysis of the sidelink HARQ feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chunxuan Ye, Weidong Yang, Oghenekome Oteri, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Jie Cui, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12261892
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) that is registered to a stand-alone non-public network (SNPN) can also access services on a public land mobile network (PLMN). The UE accesses the PLMN by transmitting a first signal to a data network, receiving a second signal from the data network in response to the first signal, wherein the second signal identifies a PLMN that is configured to be accessed by the UE via the data network and transmitting a session initiation protocol (SIP) registration request to the PLMN via the data network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rohit R. Matolia, Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Han Pu, Krisztian Kiss, Mohammed Mehdi Ait Tahar, Mohammed Sadique, Nitin A. Naik, Vijay Venkataraman
  • Patent number: 12261671
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for multiplexing of PUCCH for beam failure recovery and other signals. A UE may determine a transmission dropping rule and a transmission power scaling rule for a PUCCH which is dedicatedly configured for secondary BFR transmission, such as a PUCCH-BFR, when it is multiplexed with at least one other signal. The PUCCH-BFR and the at least one other signal may be multiplexed in a CC or in multiple CCs. The UE may determine a transmission dropping rule, e.g., so that UE can transmit an uplink signals with higher priority and drop the other uplink signal with lower priority to avoid beam collisions. The UE may determine a transmission power scaling rule, e.g., so the UE may scale transmission power within a CC and/or across CCs. The UE may multiplex the PUCCH-BFR with the at least one other signal according to the rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Gang Xiong, Alexei Davydov, Yingyang Li, Guotong Wang
  • Patent number: 12261449
    Abstract: An accessory for improving wireless power transfer efficiency in a wireless power transfer system can include a magnetic (e.g., ferrite) core dimensioned and positioned so as to reduce flux coupling from the PTx winding into friendly metal of the PRx and/or to enhance flux coupling from the PTx winding to the PRx winding. The core may define an aperture corresponding to an outer dimension (e.g., outer diameter) of the PRx winding. The core may further have an outer dimension selected to intercept sufficient flux to reduce flux coupling into the friendly metal of the PRx, such as an outer dimension corresponding to an outer dimension (e.g., outer diameter) of the PTx winding. The accessory may be a case for the PRx device or may be configured to be affixed to the face of the PTx device and may also include one or more alignment fixtures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ruiyang Lin, Matthew J Chabalko, Zaki Moussaoui, Adam L Schwartz
  • Patent number: 12262334
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media are described for random access procedures triggered based on physical downlink control channel (PDDCH) orders. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yongjun Kwak, Daewon Lee, Gregory Morozov, Seunghee Han
  • Patent number: 12262349
    Abstract: A base station may transmit beam indication information to one or more user equipment (UE) devices. For each of a plurality of time units (e.g., symbols) in a time interval (e.g., spanning one or more slots), the beam indication information indicates a corresponding beam that the base station will use to transmit or receive. A UE device may have knowledge of the beam in which it currently resides, e.g., by performing power measurements during a beam scan procedure. Thus, the beam indication information enables the UE to perform transmissions and/or receptions (e.g., configured transmissions and/or receptions) during the appropriate time unit(s). The beam indication information may be dynamically transmitted as part of downlink control information. This transmission may omni-directional, wide beam, or narrow beam. Various schemes of encoding the beam indication information are contemplated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sigen Ye, Oghenekome Oteri, Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang, Weidong Yang, Wei Zeng, Huaning Niu, Chunxuan Ye, Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12261841
    Abstract: A computing device may receive, from an electronic device and via a wireless connection, a request to securely transmit user information using a secure data exchange module of the computing device. The computing device may configure the secure data exchange module for conducting a secure transmission of the user information and transmit a notification to the electronic device. The computing device may provide a user interface on the computing device for conducting the secure transmission of the user information. The computing device may receive and/or send, via the secure data exchange module, the user information. The computing device may transmit, via the wireless connection, the user information to the electronic device. The computing device may receive, from the electronic device, confirmation of a successful processing of the user information. The computing device may provide an indication of the confirmation of the successful processing of the user information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Olivier Martin de la Bastide, Frank Andries van den Berg, Jean-Christophe A. Raynon
  • Patent number: 12257078
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device includes a body, a housing component, a band operable to attach the body to a body part of a user, and a force sensor coupled to the housing component. The force sensor is operable to produce a force signal based on a force exerted between the body part of the user and the housing component. A processing unit of the wearable electronic device receives the force signal from the force sensor and determines the force exerted on the housing component based thereon. The processing unit may use that force to determine a tightness of the band, determine health information for the user, adjust determined force exerted on a cover glass, and/or to perform various other actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler S. Bushnell, Steven J. Martisauskas, Erik G. de Jong, Andrzej T. Baranski, Serhan O. Isikman, Steven J. Banaska, Todd K. Whitehurst, Ming L. Sartee
  • Patent number: 12257028
    Abstract: An electronic device may include body composition analysis circuitry that estimates body composition based on captured images of a face, neck, and/or body (e.g., depth map images captured by a depth sensor, visible light and infrared images captured by image sensors, and/or other suitable images). The body composition analysis circuitry may analyze the image data and may extract portions of the image data that strongly correlate with body composition, such as portions of the cheeks, neck, waist, etc. The body composition analysis circuitry may encode the image data into a latent space. The latent space may be based on a deep learning model that accounts for facial expression and neck pose in face/neck images and that accounts for breathing and body pose in body images. The body composition analysis circuitry may output an estimated body composition based on the image data and based on user demographic information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gopal Valsan, Thilaka S Sumanaweera, Liliana I Keats, David J Feathers, Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu
  • Patent number: 12262262
    Abstract: Techniques to configure a user equipment (UE) for a multi-connectivity handover with a source base station (SBS) and a target base station (TBS) include encoding a measurement report for transmission to the SBS. The measurement report is triggered based on a measurement event configured by the SBS. Radio resource control (RRC) signaling from the SBS is decoded, the RRC signaling including a handover command in response to the measurement report. The handover command includes an indication for multi-connectivity support by the SBS and the TBS during the handover. A first protocol stack associated with the SBS and a second protocol stack associated with the TBS are configured at the UE. A packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) protocol data unit (PDU) received at the UE during the handover is processed using the first protocol stack or the second protocol stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Candy Yiu, Yujian Zhang, Yi Guo, Jaemin Han
  • Patent number: 12260234
    Abstract: Systems and processes for application integration with a digital assistant are provided. In accordance with one example, a method includes receiving an audio input including a natural-language user input and identifying an intent object of a set of intent objects. The intent object may be derived from the natural-language user input. The method further includes identifying a software application associated with the intent object of the set of intent objects, providing the intent object to the software application to cause the software application to perform a task associated with the intent object, receiving a result response indicating whether the task was successfully performed, and providing an output indicating whether the task was performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Carey E. Radebaugh, Brandon J. Newendorp, Corey J. Peterson, Rohit Dasari, Trungtin Tran, Vineet Khosla
  • Patent number: 12262111
    Abstract: While an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface is in a locked, passcode-protected state, the device displays a lock screen user interface on the display. The lock screen user interface includes a plurality of restricted application launch icons, each restricted application launch icon corresponding to an application. The device also detects user input to activate a respective restricted application launch icon; and, in response to detecting the user input to activate the respective restricted application launch icon, starts a restricted session for a respective application that corresponds to the respective restricted application launch icon, wherein the respective application is configured to generate one or more content items while in the restricted session, and maintains the device in the locked, passcode-protected state for applications in the device other than the respective application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Richard R. Dellinger, Nikhil Bhogal, Greg Christie, Scott J. Forstall
  • Patent number: 12260059
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing shared-content sessions. In some embodiments, content is shared with a group of users participating in a shared-content session. In some embodiments, the content is screen-share content that is shared from one device to other participants of the shared-content session. In some embodiments, the content is synchronized content for which output of the content is synchronized across the participants of the shared-content session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Woo Chang, Marcel Van Os, Marcos Weskamp, Elliot A. Barer, Kyle William Horn, Kaely Coon
  • Patent number: 12259560
    Abstract: A system may include an electronic device such as a head-mounted device and a handheld controller for controlling the electronic device. The handheld controller may have a housing with an elongated shaft extending between first and second tip portions. The handheld controller may have power receiving circuitry configured to receive power from a power source. The power source may be incorporated into an electronic device such as a wireless charging dock or stick, a battery case, or a head-mounted device. The power source may supply power through terminals that form ohmic contacts with mating terminals in the finger device or may transmit power wirelessly using capacitive coupling or inductive charging arrangements. Magnets may be used to hold and align the elongated shaft of the handheld controller on the power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Paul X Wang, Ian P Colahan, Christopher T Eubank, Christopher K Ewy, Patrick T Ryan, Emery A Sanford, Robert D Silfvast
  • Patent number: D1067925
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mani Amini, Chanaka Karunamuni