Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Publication number: 20240097667
    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: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Charles L. WANG, Yi-Hsiu E. CHEN, Pranavi SUNKARA
  • Publication number: 20240098746
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide reduced sensing schemes to facilitate sidelink transmissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Jia Tang, Oghenekome Oteri, Weidong Yang, Zhibin Wu, Wei Zeng
  • Publication number: 20240098644
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for Wake up signal monitoring in a radio resource control connected (RRC) mode. An example method can include a user equipment (UE) determining capability information associated with wake-up signal (WUS) monitoring, the capability information to include an indication that the UE supports WUS monitoring in a radio resource control (RRC) connected mode. The UE can transmit, to a base station, an indication of the capability. The UE can perform, while in a sleep state in which transmitting and receiving by a main radio is suspended, WUS monitoring to detect a trigger. The UE can transition from the sleep state to the awake state based on the trigger. The UE can monitor for a downlink (DL) transmission in the awake state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sigen Ye, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Ankit Bhamri, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Weidong Yang, Huaning Niu, Chunhai Yao, Oghenekome Oteri
  • Publication number: 20240098690
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for paging timing collision control, with respect to exchange of offset values (e.g., IMSI offset values) between a user equipment and a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Vivek G. Gupta, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Sridhar Prakasam
  • Publication number: 20240096275
    Abstract: A electronic display device designed to calibrate brightness levels in a flat-panel display by using adjacent code calibration for a variable electroluminescence voltage supply in the flat-panel display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Shubham A. Gandhi, Jonathan H. Beck, Koorosh Aflatooni, Mohammad Ali Jangda, Graeme M. Williams, Kingsuk Brahma, Snehal T. Jariwala, Salman Kabir, Josiah Smith
  • Publication number: 20240097244
    Abstract: A battery may include an enclosure and an electrode cell disposed within the enclosure. A first pair of notches may be formed in the enclosure. Each notch of the first pair of notches may include a protrusion that extends into the enclosure. A second pair of notches may be formed in the electrode cell. The first pair of notches may be aligned with the second pair of notches. The protrusions may be configured to engage with the second pair of notches when the cell moves within the enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Zuqin Liu, Shabab Amiruddin, Aswin Karthik Manohar, Hongxia Zhou
  • Publication number: 20240097248
    Abstract: A battery may include an enclosure that defines an interior volume, an electrode cell disposed within the interior volume, and a pair of retaining elements. The electrode cell may include a pair of notches formed therein. The pair of retaining elements may be disposed within volumes defined by the pair of notches. The pair of retaining elements may be connected to the enclosure and may be configured to engage with a respective notch of the pair of notches to arrest movement of the electrode cell with respect to the enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Zuqin Liu, Shabab Amiruddin, Aswin Karthik Manohar, Hongxia Zhou
  • Publication number: 20240098571
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein can mitigate transmitting latency to improve the quality of a voice or the video call. These systems, methods, and apparatuses reset a transmitting latency timer upon retrieving a packet from a transmitting buffer. Thereafter, these systems, methods, and apparatuses start the count of the transmitting latency timer as the packet is being processed. And these systems, methods, and apparatuses compare the transmitting latency timer e with a transmitting latency threshold as these systems, methods, and apparatuses are processing a packet for transmission. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can drop the packet and/or can select another packet for processing in response to the transmitting latency timer exceeding the transmitting latency threshold to mitigate the transmitting latency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kai ZHANG, Lele CUI, Deepankar BHATTACHARJEE
  • Publication number: 20240097767
    Abstract: Herein described are apparatuses, systems, and methods for measurement and reporting of channel state information within wireless network systems. In embodiments, an apparatus for a user equipment (UE) may include memory to store a rank indicator (RI), a precoding matrix index (PMI), and a channel quality indicator (CQI) of channel state information (CSI) for the UE. The apparatus may further include circuitry to concatenate the RI, the PMI, and the CQI to produce a concatenated CSI element, generate a CSI report that includes the concatenated CSI element, and cause the CSI report to be transmitted to a base station within a single slot. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexei DAVYDOV, Sameer PAWAR, Wook Bong LEE, Yushu ZHANG, Victor SERGEEV, Joonyoung CHO, Dmitry DIKAREV
  • Publication number: 20240096199
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for facilitating disabling an alarm in response to particular types of activity-indicative data. More specifically, activity-indicative data (e.g., measurements obtained by an electronic device) can be detected prior to a preset alarm time. Upon determining, based on the activity-indicative data, that a wakefulness condition is satisfied, the alarm can be disabled such that the alarm stimuli is not to be presented at the preset alarm time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bharath Narasimha Rao, Kevin Will Chen, Reed E. Olsen, Umamahesh Srinivas, Kevin M. Lynch, John-Peter E. Cafaro
  • Publication number: 20240094023
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for an application executing on a mobile device. The method renders an animated navigation presentation for output to an external display screen not part of the mobile device. The navigation presentation includes an animated map showing at least a portion of a route to a destination. The method simultaneously displays information regarding a maneuver along the route on a display screen of the mobile device without displaying a same animated map on the mobile device. In some embodiments, the displayed information regarding the maneuver comprises a graphical instruction and a text instruction for a next maneuver along the route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bradford A. Moore, Emanuele A. Vulcano, Jorge Fino, Marcel Van Os
  • Publication number: 20240098645
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for Wake up signal monitoring in a radio resource control connected (RRC) mode. An example method can include a base station receiving an indication from a user equipment (UE) of a capability for wake-up signal (WUS) monitoring in a radio resource control (RRC) connected mode while in a sleep state. The base station can configure the UE with a first frequency domain resource for WUS monitoring in the RRC connected mode while in the sleep state. The base station can transmit a WUS using the first frequency domain resource and a first time domain resource, wherein a main radio of the UE is configured to transmit and receive based on the WUS. The base station can transmit a first downlink (DL) transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sigen Ye, Ankit Bhamri, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Publication number: 20240095958
    Abstract: Methods for performing a calibration process for outward-facing cameras on devices such as head-mounted display devices are disclosed. Extrinsic parameters of the camera are first estimated using inputs to the calibration process such as information from an inertial measurement unit and points of interest within images captured by the camera that are tracked with time. Then, extrinsic and intrinsic parameters are concurrently determined in an optimization problem such that updated values of said parameters may be stored and used by applications that run on the device and make use of the camera. The calibration process may be extended to concurrently calibrate multiple cameras based, at least in part, on information from the inertial measurement unit that is local to the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shuntaro Yamazaki, Ravi Teja Sukhavasi, Oleg Naroditsky, Stergios Roumeliotis, Daniel C Byrnes
  • Publication number: 20240097807
    Abstract: Some aspects relate to apparatuses and methods for calculating an uplink pathloss in a wireless communication system. A user equipment (UE) can be configured to perform operations for calculating the uplink pathloss. The operations can include determining a transmission power of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission for a UE, TxpPUSCH, where the PUSCH transmission is from the UE to a base station. The operations can further include determining a receiving power of a sounding reference signal (SRS) by the base station, Rxpsrs; and further calculating the uplink pathloss based on the transmission power of the PUSCH transmission TxpPUSCH and the receiving power of the SRS Rxpsrs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dongzhou YANG, Lijie ZHANG, Kai ZHANG, Zhiwei WANG, Qiang MIAO, Lele CUI
  • Publication number: 20240097937
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to including information in a data packet transmitted by a transmitting integrated circuit (e.g., SOC) to account for a time delay associated with an unsuccessful arbitration attempt to send the data packet over a multi-drop bus. The unsuccessful arbitration attempt by the integrated circuit may delay the transmission of the data packet until the multi-drop bus becomes available for the integrated circuit to send the data packet. The data packet includes a data field to include time delay information caused by the unsuccessful arbitration attempt. A receiving integrated circuit may determine the time that the data packet would have been sent out from the transmitting integrated circuit absent the unsuccessful arbitration attempt based on the delay information. Embodiments also relate to a synchronization generator circuit in an integrated circuit that generates timing signals indicating times at which periodic events occur at another integrated circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Helena Deirdre O'SHEA, Matthias SAUER, Jorge L. RIVERA ESPINOZA
  • Publication number: 20240098655
    Abstract: Techniques described herein are directed toward smart external interference detection and avoidance. An example method includes determining a first received signal strength indicator (RSSI) value of a received first signal across a radio band, wherein the first RSSI value is based at least in part on a second signal transmitted by an interfering device. The first received RSSI value is compared with a threshold value. A first gain adjustment value is determined for a receiver chain of the first computing device and a second gain adjustment value of a transmitter chain based at least in part on the comparison. A first gain of a first amplifier of the receiver chain is adjusted based at least in part on the first gain adjustment value. A second gain of a second amplifier of the transmitter chain is adjusted based at least in part on the second gain adjustment value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sathish Shanbhag Kota, Vijay Kumar Ramamurthi, Vijaykrishnan Ramakrishnan
  • Patent number: D1019121
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Markus Diebel, M. Evans Hankey, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1019218
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Gady, Gabriel J. Lamb, Seung Chae Kang, Angela M. Estepa, Jake A. Nelson, Adrian E. Magrina
  • Patent number: D1019449
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Marc A. Newson, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1019686
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor Gerard Carrigan, Aled Williams