Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 11893203
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods and user interfaces for establishing communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Pablo F. Caro, Gregory M. Apodaca, Kristin M. Canavan, Kaely Coon, William B. Easley, III, Craig M. Federighi, Travis Jones, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Vitalii Kramar, Caelan G. Stack, Marcel Van Os, Aleksey Shlyapnikov
  • Patent number: 11893413
    Abstract: An embodiment of an apparatus includes a processing circuit and a system memory. The processing circuit may store a pending request in a buffer, the pending request corresponding to a transaction that includes a write request to the system memory. The processing circuit may also allocate an entry in a write table corresponding the transaction. After sending the transaction to the system memory to be processed, the pending request in the buffer may be removed in response to the allocation of the write entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Snyder, Ronald P. Hall, Deepak Limaye, Brett S. Feero, Rohit K. Gupta
  • Patent number: 11895346
    Abstract: Disclosure provides devices, methods, and computer-readable medium for secure frame management. Techniques disclosed herein provide an intelligent method for detecting triggering items in one or more frames of streaming video from an Internet Protocol camera. Upon detection, the camera transmits one or more frames of the video over a network to a computing device. Upon detecting a triggering item in a frame of the video stream, the computing device begins a streaming session with a server and stream the one or more frames of video and accompanying metadata to the server. The frames, metadata, and associated keys can all be encrypted prior to streaming to the server. For each subsequent segment of video frames that includes the triggering item, the server can append the frames of that segment to the video clip in an encrypted container. Once the triggering item is no longer detected, the streaming session can be closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Anush G. Nadathur, Keith W. Rauenbuehler, Kenneth A. York, Varinder Singh, Nicholas M. Fraioli
  • Patent number: 11893964
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, an exemplary process for dynamically controlling the size of a display based on a moving of a visual object meeting a criterion in a computer-generated reality (CGR) environment is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Mackay Burns, Alexis H. Palangie, Pol Pla I Conesa, David M. Schattel
  • Patent number: 11893185
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are described that may mitigate pixel and touch crosstalk noise. A touch processing system may compensate touch scan data to reduce the noise based on a luminance value. An image processing system may determine the luminance value based on image data and a display brightness value of an electronic display. Using the compensated touch scan data, the touch processing system may determine a proximity of a capacitive object to at least one touch sense region of the electronic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Salman Latif, Si Mohamed Aziz Sbai, Mahesh B Chappalli, Marc J DeVincentis, Timothy M Henigan, Sanjay Mani, Rohit Natarajan, Paolo Sacchetto, Rohit K Gupta, Meir Harar
  • Patent number: 11893212
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces that include application widgets. In some embodiments, a computer system displays a home screen, where displaying the home screen includes displaying a set of user interface elements based on whether an account that was used to set up the computer system is associated with a first type of content. In some embodiments, a computer system displays a user interface in response to detecting a request to change the orientation of the user interface. Displaying the user interface includes displaying an arrangement of application widgets and application icons, where a set of application widgets has a same spatial organization as in a previous arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christian X. Dalonzo, William M. Tyler, Shubham Kedia
  • Patent number: 11895064
    Abstract: At an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display, display a message transcript, where the message transcript includes at least one message from at least a first user. Determine, based at least in-part on the at least one message, a plurality of suggested one or more characters. Display, on the touch-sensitive display, the plurality of suggested one or more characters. Detect an input on the touch-sensitive display. Determine whether the input represents user selection of one of the plurality of suggested one or more characters. Display the selected one of the plurality of suggested one or more characters in the message transcript. Send the selected one or more characters to the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Y. Yang, Giulia Pagallo, Linden B. Siahaan, Justin Wood, Roberto Garcia, Jerome Rene Bellegarda, Tiffany S. Jon
  • Patent number: 11893925
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display panel. When content of an image frame is expected to consume relatively higher amounts of power, a controller of the electronic device may operate a switch to change a power supply of the display panel to be a power management integrated circuit of the electronic device. However, when content of an image frame is expected to consume relatively less amounts of power, the controller may operate the switch to change the power supply of the display panel to be a power supply of an electronic display, such as a power supply used to power driver circuitry of the electronic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Peter F Holland, Christopher P Tann, Ramana V Rachakonda
  • Patent number: 11892632
    Abstract: A method includes sensing a plurality of light superposition characteristic values associated with ambient light from a physical environment. The ambient light emanates from the physical environment towards one side of a translucent display. The plurality of light superposition characteristic values quantifies interactions with the ambient light. The method includes determining a plurality of display correction values associated with the electronic device based on a function of the plurality of light superposition characteristic values and predetermined display characteristics of a computer-generated reality (CGR) object. The method includes changing one or more display operating parameters associated with the electronic device in accordance with the plurality of display correction values in order to satisfy the predetermined display characteristics of the CGR object within a performance threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Anselm Grundhoefer, Michael J. Rockwell
  • Patent number: 11895589
    Abstract: An interface circuit in an electronic device (such as an access point) may receive a setup request associated with the recipient electronic device. The setup request may specify a group address for which the recipient electronic device wants to receive associated frames and a proposed transmission interval. Based at least in part on the proposed transmission interval, the electronic device may determine a transmission schedule and/or may assign, based at least in part on the group address, the recipient electronic device to an aggregated group having a flexible multicast service identifier (FMSID). Then, the electronic device may provide a wake-up frame for the recipient electronic device, where the wake-up frame includes an identifier of the aggregated group for which a group-addressed frame will subsequently be transmitted by the electronic device. Moreover, the wake-up frame may be provided at a transmission time based at least in part on the transmission schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christiaan A. Hartman, Guoqing Li, Yong Liu, Su Khiong Yong, Jarkko L. Kneckt
  • Patent number: 11895689
    Abstract: An electronic device may receive, from a radio node, a measurement configuration associated with a wireless communication system. In response, the electronic device may perform measurements using narrow beam patterns based at least in part on a network configuration, where the narrow beam patterns are narrower than a wide beam pattern of the electronic device. Furthermore, performing the measurements using the narrow beams pattern may include performing a beam-pattern search up to the network configuration. Then, the electronic device may perform an SCell activation procedure of an SCell with the radio node. Note that the SCell activation procedure may include reporting, to the radio node, CSI of a narrow beam pattern of the SCell that is to be activated, where the narrow beam pattern is narrower than the wide beam pattern of the electronic device, and the narrow beam pattern is based at least in part on the measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rui Huang, Zhibin Yu, Qiming Li, Jie Cui, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Yang Tang, Andre Janssen
  • Patent number: 11894600
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. A display cover layer and a transparent inner display member may overlap a display pixel layer. The display pixel layer may have an array of display pixels for displaying images for a user. A touch sensor layer may be interposed between the display pixel layer and the transparent display member. A ferromagnetic shielding layer may be mounted below the display pixel layer. A flexible printed circuit containing coils of metal signal lines that form a near-field communications loop antenna may be interposed between the ferromagnetic shielding layer and the display pixel layer. A non-near-field antenna such as an inverted-F antenna may have a resonating element mounted on an inner surface of the display cover layer. The resonating element may be interposed between the transparent display member and the display cover layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Miroslav Samardzija, Yiren Wang, Yuehui Ouyang, Joseph Hakim, Qingxiang Li, Robert W. Schlub, Ruben Caballero, Siwen Yong, Erik G. de Jong
  • Patent number: 11891015
    Abstract: During operation, an electronic device may provide, to a second electronic device, an invitation to share a digital car key associated with a user of the electronic device and a vehicle, where the invitation includes information for creating another instance of the digital car key on the second electronic device. Then, the electronic device may receive, from the second electronic device, a message accepting the invitation, where the message includes a certificate associated with the other instance of the digital car key on the second electronic device. Moreover, the electronic device may provide, to the second electronic device, an approved version of the certificate with a digital signature of the user. Next, the electronic device may provide, to the computer, an instruction to share the digital car key with a set of electronic devices, which is associated with a second user of the second electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Matthias Lerch, Alexander D Pelletier, Florian Galdo, Gordon Y Scott, Oren M Elrad, Yogesh D Karandikar
  • Patent number: 11892886
    Abstract: A portable electronic device is disclosed. The portable electronic device may include a laptop computing device that includes a base portion and a display housing rotationally coupled to the base portion. The base portion includes a fan designed to drive heated air out of the base portion, thus cooling the portable electronic device. A dynamic (movable) air diverter is integrated into the base portion near the fan's outlet. The air diverter is designed to direct airflow from the fan outlet. Moreover, the air diverter can be repositioned by, for example, rotating the display housing relative to the base portion. As a result of the repositioned air diverter, the airflow from the fan outlet is redirected out of the portable electronic device through a different location. The air diverter can be positioned in different discrete locations, or alternatively, can move continuously with the rotational movement of the display housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Brett W. Degner
  • Patent number: 11895082
    Abstract: A device implementing the subject system may include at least one processor configured to receive, by a first system process, a first network address that corresponds to a domain name that was resolved by a second system process, the resolving having been responsive to a resolution request therefor by an application process. The at least one processor may be further configured to receive, by the first system process, a second network address for which a network connection was opened by the application process. The at least one processor may be further configured to, responsive to determining that the application process opened a network connection for a network address for which the application process did not provide, to the second system process, a resolution request for the corresponding domain name, provide, by the first system process, an indication of the network address in conjunction with an indication of the application process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Amitabha Ghosh, Franco Travostino, Henri S. Berger, Philip W. Flack, Timothy A. McCoy, Maciej Stachowiak, Beth M. Dakin
  • Patent number: 11893207
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method includes obtaining environmental data corresponding to a physical environment. In some implementations, the method includes determining, based on the environmental data, a bounding surface of the physical environment. In some implementations, the method includes detecting a physical element located within the physical environment based on the environmental data. In some implementations, the method includes determining a semantic label for the physical element based on at least a portion of the environmental data corresponding to the physical element. In some implementations, the method includes generating a semantic construction of the physical environment based on the environmental data. In some implementations, the semantic construction of the physical environment includes a representation of the bounding surface, a representation of the physical element and the semantic label for the physical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Drummond, Bo Morgan, Siva Chandra Mouli Sivapurapu
  • Patent number: 11895883
    Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels. Display driver circuitry may supply data and control signals to the pixels. Each pixel may have seven transistors, a capacitor, and a light-emitting diode such as an organic light-emitting diode. The seven transistors may receive control signals using horizontal control lines. Each pixel may have first and second emission enable transistors that are coupled in series with a drive transistor and the light-emitting diode of that pixel. The first and second emission enable transistors may be coupled to a common control line or may be separately controlled so that on-bias stress can be effectively applied to the drive transistor. The display driver circuitry may have gate driver circuits that provide different gate line signals to different rows of pixels within the display. Different rows may also have different gate driver strengths and different supplemental gate line loading structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Cheng-Ho Yu, Chin-Wei Lin, Shyuan Yang, Ting-Kuo Chang, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Warren S. Rieutort-Louis, Shih-Chang Chang, Yu Cheng Chen, John Z. Zhong
  • Patent number: 11895532
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) passively determines the presence of a cellular network bottleneck in a downlink channel and may take appropriate actions to mitigate the bottleneck. The UE may analyze the transport block size (TBS) of slots of received downlink traffic and assign states the to various slots based on this analysis. Based on these assigned states, the UE may identify a burst of network traffic from network traffic received from the cellular network, and the UE may also determine the burst duration as well as a busy estimation. The UE may determine that the cellular network is experiencing a bottleneck based at least in part on the burst duration and the busy estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ioannis Pefkianakis, Madhusudan Chaudhary, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Ajay Singh, Deepankar Bhattacharjee, Gaurav Pathak, Carola Faronius, Franco Travostino, Raghuveer Mallikarjunan, Harshit Chuttani, Sreevalsan Vallath, Rajesh Ambati, Jia Tang, Ishwinder Singh
  • Patent number: 11895114
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for a satellite device that can be associated with a user account of a minor aged (e.g., child or adolescent) user that does not have a smartphone that can be used as a companion device to the satellite device. The satellite device can be configured to be used as a primary device, without reliance upon a paired smartphone. Certain information can be synchronized with the satellite device via the association with the family account. During initial configuration, a set of cryptographic keys can be generated to associate the account of the satellite device with the set of accounts in the family. The satellite device can then access calendars, media, or other data that is shared with user accounts within a family of user accounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Dmitry V. Belov, Justin K. Bennett, David S. Clark, Kalyan C. Gopavarapu, David G. Knipp, Robert F. Lee, Sudhakar N. Mambakkam, Nagarjuna Thottempudi, Tyler D. Hawkins, Reed E. Olsen, Paul W. Salzman
  • Patent number: 11892701
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may have optical modules that present images to the user's left and right eyes. The optical modules may move with respect to each other to accommodate different user interpupillary distances. Each optical module may have a lens barrel, a display coupled to the lens barrel that generates an image, and a lens mounted to the lens barrel through which the image is viewable from an eye box. The lens may be a multi-element lens formed from molded lens elements such as molded polymer lens elements. A lens element may be provided with protrusions that form lens tabs. The lens tabs may have coplanar lens tab surfaces that mate with corresponding coplanar mounting surfaces in the lens barrel. Alignment marks may be formed on the protrusions and/or other portions of the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan S. Maric, Forrest C. Wang, Jan K. Quijalvo, John N. Border, Steven M. Scardato, Wey-Jiun Lin