Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Mobile device with predictive routing engine
    Patent number: 11934961
    Abstract: A mobile device with a route prediction engine is provided that can predict current/future destinations or routes to destinations for the user, and can relay prediction information to the user. The engine includes a machine-learning engine that facilitates the formulation of predicted future destinations and/or future routes to destinations based on user-specific data. The user-specific data includes data about (1) previous destinations traveled, (2) previous routes taken, (3) locations of calendared events, (4) locations of events for which the user has electronic tickets, and/or (5) addresses parsed from e-mails and/or messages. The prediction engine relies on one or more of user-specific data stored on the device and data stored outside of the device by external devices/servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christine B. McGavran, Bradford A. Moore, Gregory D. Bolsinga, Michael P. Dal Santo, Lukas Marti, Seejo K. Pylappan, Marcel van Os
  • Uplink OFDMA processing in WLANs
    Patent number: 11936580
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) communication in wireless local area networks (WLANs). According to some embodiments, a downlink OFDMA frame may be transmitted. An uplink OFDMA frame including acknowledgements associated with the downlink OFDMA frame may be received. The uplink OFDMA frame may be processed, in some instances including determining which devices receiving the downlink OFDMA frame transmitted an acknowledgement associated with the downlink OFDMA frame in the uplink OFDMA frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joonsuk Kim, Yuchul Kim
  • Spiral wound conductor for high current applications
    Patent number: 11935671
    Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a cable configured for high current applications. The cable includes a conducting member having a conductor surrounded by an insulating layer, and a cooling conduit having a tubular portion and a coolant. The coolant is configured to flow within the tubular portion to cool the conductor. The conducting member is spiral wound around the cooling conduit along a length of the cooling conduit to increase a contact area between the conducting member and the cooling conduit to thereby improve a transfer of heat from the conducting member to the cooling conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guan Che Ting, Jacob F. Gowan, Venus K. Garg, Tyson B. Manullang
  • Shock limiters and dampers for improved camera reliability
    Patent number: 11936983
    Abstract: A camera including a camera enclosure; a fixed optics portion having a prism fixedly coupled to the camera enclosure by a voice coil motor base; a moving sensor portion having an image sensor package coupled to the camera enclosure by a voice coil motor carrier that extends around the image sensor package and is operable to cause a displacement of the image sensor package relative to the fixed optics portion; and a damper coupled to the fixed optics portion or the moving sensor portion to absorb an impact between the fixed optics portion and the moving sensor portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nitin Kumar Chennupati, Nicholas D. Smyth, Justin C. Brunnett, Hiran R. Rathnasinghe
  • Spatial relation and pathloss reference signal for multi-TRP operation
    Patent number: 11937098
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) in a multiple transmission and reception point (multi-TRP) configuration having simultaneous connections with a first next generation node B (gNB) and at least one second gNB over a same carrier. The UE divides uplink (UL) resources into a plurality of groups, determines a spatial relation and a pathloss reference signal (RS) for each one of the plurality of groups based on a transmission configuration indication (TCI) indicating a quasi-co-location (QCL) source RS for a downlink channel and transmits UL data on the UL resources corresponding to each one of the plurality of groups to a respective one of the first gNB or the at least one second gNB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Wei Zeng
  • Adaptive content delivery
    Patent number: 11936951
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a user focus indicator value that is associated with a subject. A plurality of filter values for a respective set of media content filters are determined based on the subject and contextual data. The method includes delivering, based on a first combination of the filter values, a first set of media content items associated with a first combination of content delivery mediums. The method includes delivering, based on a second combination of the filter values that is different from the first combination, a second set of media content items that is associated with a second combination of content delivery mediums that is different from the first combination of content delivery mediums. The second set is different from the first set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Ian M. Richter
  • Privacy preserving data sharing for campaigns
    Patent number: 11936627
    Abstract: A framework associated with an online store is configured to enable privacy preserving data sharing for invitational campaigns by limiting the amount of data that is shared to a content delivery network for the campaign until a sufficient number of interactions have occurred to provide crowd anonymity to participants in the campaign.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Garrett T. Reid, John Wilander
  • Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for an email client
    Patent number: 11936607
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is disclosed fix use with a portable electronic device having a display. The method enables switching between electronic inboxes that can be accessed from the electronic device. In some configurations, the method includes, while the device is displaying emails in a first inbox, detecting user selection of a first icon. The method further includes, in response to user selection of the first icon, displaying a set of inbox selection icons; and, in response to user selection of one of the inbox selection icons, displaying emails in a second inbox corresponding to the inbox selection icon selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen O. Lemay, Marcel Van Os
  • Camera with folded optics having moveable lens
    Patent number: 11934090
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with folded optics and lens shifting capabilities. Some embodiments include voice coil motor (VCM) actuator arrangements to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. Some embodiments include suspension arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott W. Miller, Alfred N. Mireault, Brad V. Johnson, Nicholas D. Smyth, Rummel R. Adriano, Shashank Sharma, Steven Webster
  • Adaptive quantizer design for video coding
    Patent number: 11936867
    Abstract: Improved video coding and decoding techniques are described, including techniques to derive quantization step sizes adaptively with quantization step size table templates. Quantization techniques described provide finer-grained control over quantization with a more flexible quantization step size especially at higher degrees of quantization. This may result in improved overall compression quality. Other coding parameters, such as in-loop filtering parameters, may be derived based on the more flexible quantization parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Krishnakanth Rapaka, Jaehong Chon, Alexandros Tourapis, David W. Singer
  • Asynchronous task execution for neural processor circuit
    Patent number: 11934941
    Abstract: A neural processor circuit includes one or more planar engine circuits that perform non-convolution operations in parallel with convolution operations performed by one or more neural engine circuits. The neural engine circuits perform the convolution operations on neural input data corresponding to one or more neural engine tasks to generate neural output data. The planar engine circuits perform non-convolution operations on planar input data corresponding to one or more planar engine tasks to generate planar output data. A data processor circuit in the neural processor circuit addresses data dependency between the one or more neural engine tasks and the one or more planar engine tasks by controlling reading of the neural output data as the planar input data by the planar engine circuits or reading of the planar output data as the neural input data by the neural engine circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Christopher L. Mills, Kenneth W. Waters
  • Context driven routine prediction assistance
    Patent number: 11934160
    Abstract: A mobile device can provide predictive user assistance based on various sensor readings, independently of or in addition to a location of the mobile device. The mobile device can determine a context of an event. The mobile device can store the context and a label of the event on a storage device. The label can be provided automatically by the mobile device or by the external system without user input. At a later time, the mobile device can match new sensor readings with the stored context. If a match is found, the mobile device can predict that the user is about to perform the action or recognize that the user has performed the action again. The mobile device can perform various operations, including, for example, providing user assistance, based on the prediction or recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lukas M. Marti, Lili Cao, Michael P. Dal Santo
  • Semantic-based image mapping for a display
    Patent number: 11935503
    Abstract: A method includes sensing a plurality of luminance values associated with ambient light from a physical environment. The plurality of luminance values quantifies the ambient light arriving at a see-through display. The method includes obtaining a plurality of semantic values respectively associated with a plurality of portions within image data. The plurality of portions includes a first portion of the image data and a second portion of the image data. The method includes identifying a first one of the plurality of semantic values that satisfies a criterion. The first one of the plurality of semantic values is associated with the first portion of the image data. The method includes mapping, based on a function of a portion of the plurality of luminance values, the image data to predetermined display characteristics of the first portion of the image data within a performance threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Sivalogeswaran Ratnasingam, Anselm Grundhoefer, Ralf Habel
  • Synchronized shared playlists
    Patent number: 11934444
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to synchronized sharing of playlists from a source client device to a listening client device. To facilitate synchronized sharing, a current playlist of one or more tracks of digital content is obtained from the source client device. A current playback location within the currently playing playlist is also obtained from the source client device. A shared queue accessible by the listener client device is generated. Further, a shared queue context for the listener client device is identified based in part upon the current playback location. This enables the listener client device to start playback synchronized with the source client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Arvind S. Shenoy, Thomas M. Alsina, Paul C. Irvine
  • Representing traffic along a route
    Patent number: 11935190
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a mapping application that has a novel way of displaying traffic congestion along roads in the map. The mapping application in some embodiments defines a traffic congestion representation to run parallel to its corresponding road portion when the map is viewed at a particular zoom level, and defines a traffic congestion representation to be placed over its corresponding road portion when the map is viewed at another zoom level. The mapping application in some embodiments differentiates the appearance of the traffic congestion representation that signifies heavy traffic congestion from the appearance of the traffic congestion representation that signifies moderate traffic congestion. In some of these embodiments, the mapping application does not generate a traffic congestion representation for areas along a road that are not congested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher D. Moore, Aroon Pahwa, Yaohua Hu
  • Method and system for maintaining track length for pre-rendered spatial audio
    Patent number: 11937063
    Abstract: A method performed by a programmed processor of an audio system, the method includes receiving a sound track that has a track length, producing a binaural audio version of a sound track, the binaural audio version having an extended track length performing a fading operation upon the binaural audio version to gradually reduce a signal level of the binaural audio version to below a signal threshold level at a time along the extended track length that corresponds to an end time of the track length of the sound track; and storing the binaural audio version having the track length of the sound track in memory for later transmission to an audio playback device for driving one or more speakers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Juha O. Merimaa, Abdullah Fahim, Andrey D. Del Pozo, Joshua D. Atkins
  • Component for a headphone
    Patent number: D1018499
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 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, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Electronic device
    Patent number: D1018505
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D1018588
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Allison W. Dryer, Alan C. Dye, Stephen O. Lemay, Richard D. Lyons, Grant R. Paul, Giancarlo Yerkes
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D1018594
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Hanwen Fan, Aurelio Guzmán, Lauren Kim Trottier, Christopher I. Wilson