Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 11849291
    Abstract: A plurality of microphone signals can be captured with a plurality of microphones of the device. One or more echo dominant audio signals can be determined based on a pick-up beam directed towards one or more speakers of a playback device. Sound that is emitted from the one or more speakers and sensed by the plurality of microphones can be removed from plurality of microphone signals, by using the one or more echo dominant audio signals as a reference, resulting in clean audio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mehrez Souden, Jason Wung, Ante Jukic, Ramin Pishehvar, Joshua D. Atkins
  • Patent number: 11847375
    Abstract: In some implementations, a user device can coordinate adjustments to a composite GUI generated in cooperation with an accessory device that presents the composite graphical user interface. For example, the user device can receive configuration data that defines the maximum GUI display area (e.g., size, dimensions) of the accessory device, various view areas within the GUI display area of the accessory device into which the user device can render GUIs, and/or transitions between the various view areas. The user device can generate a display buffer based on the maximum GUI display area, generate a graphical user interface in an area of the buffer corresponding to a current view area specified by the accessory device, and send to the accessory device video frames corresponding to the display buffer. The accessory device can generate a composite GUI based on the received video frames that include the user device generated GUI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brian D. Pietsch, Jianhong Jiang, Kevin W. Mar, Thomas R. Powell, Glenn A. Anderson
  • Patent number: 11849472
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are presented to facilitate coexistence between multiple wireless communication protocols implemented by a wireless communication device, by dynamically adjusting priority between the two protocols. The wireless communication device may typically favor a first protocol (e.g. Bluetooth/BTLE), prioritizing resource requests by the first protocol. In certain use cases, the first protocol may demand high resource usage for an extended time, particularly for newer tracking and wearable devices, such as location tags, watches, headsets, etc. Such applications can disrupt existing use cases for a second protocol (e.g., Wi-Fi). Therefore, the wireless communication device may dynamically determine whether the second protocol is performing critical operations, such as latency-sensitive applications or high-performance operations. If so, the wireless communication device may allocate resources accordingly in real time, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nohee Ko, Camille Chen, Kenneth Victa, Sanjay Mani, Balaji Ravindran, Yang Yu
  • Patent number: 11846525
    Abstract: An optical sensing system can be integrated into a camera module. In particular, an optical element of an optical sensing system can be disposed entirely or partly within a barrel of a camera module. The optical element can be oriented toward a reflective surface, such as an infrared cut filter, such that an optical path is defined between free space and the optical element via at least one reflection off the reflective surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tong Chen, Mehmet Mutlu, Mark T. Winkler
  • Patent number: 11848767
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology provide for privacy-preserving electronic publication and subscription. A publisher device may establish a publication channel with a publication server and receive a channel identifier and a channel ownership token for the channel. The publisher device may provide the channel identifier and a key for the publication channel to a subscriber device. The publisher device may publish data encrypted using the key to the publication server, the subscriber device may obtain the encrypted published data from the server using the channel identifier, and may decrypt the published data using the key obtained from the publisher device. The published data may include status information for a user of the publisher device, in some examples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas J. Circosta, Elliot T. Garner, Aniket A. Zamwar, Yevgeni Pekurovsky, Jared A. Crawford, Frederic Jacobs, Justin S Titi, Matthew E. Shepherd, Jose A. Lozano Hinojosa, Sean Geiger, Ahmed M. Bashir
  • Patent number: 11848680
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed towards systems and methods that improve bandwidth shifting operations of an ADPLL without losing a lock of the ADPLL and having the benefit of being able to change the bandwidth an unlimited amount of times. Indeed, a processor may transmit amplification parameters to the ADPLL to implement a bandwidth shift. The shift may occur in response to a enable signal, such as a gear trigger control signal (gear_retime signal) or a enable signal generated to cause alignment of the shifting with a clock signal (e.g., enable signal generated by AND logic gates). These systems and methods described herein many enable multiple bandwidth changing operations to occur without compromising the complexity and footprint of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Parsa, Ahmed I Hussein
  • Patent number: 11848888
    Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, apparatus of an evolved NodeB (eNB) comprises circuitry to configure one or more parameters for a 5G master information block (xMIB). The xMIB contains at least one of the following parameters: downlink system bandwidth, system frame number (SFN), or configuration for other physical channels, or a combination thereof. The apparatus of the eNB comprises circuitry to transmit the xMIB via a 5G physical broadcast channel (xPBCH) on a predefined resource, the xPBCH comprising a xPBCH. The xPBCH may use a DM-RS based transmission mode, and a beamformed xPBCH may be used for mid band and high band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Hyejung Jung, Ralf Bendlin, Jong-Kae Fwu, Alexei Davydov
  • Patent number: 11847576
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a technique for implementing a framework that enables application developers to enhance their applications with dynamic adjustment capabilities. Specifically, the framework, when utilized by an application on a mobile computing device that implements the framework, can enable the application to establish predictive models that can be used to identify meaningful behavioral patterns of an individual who uses the application. In turn, the predictive models can be used to preempt the individual's actions and provide an enhanced overall user experience. The framework is configured to interface with other software entities on the mobile computing device that conduct various analyses to identify appropriate times for the application to manage and update its predictive models. Such appropriate times can include, for example, identified periods of time where the individual is not operating the mobile computing device, as well as recognized conditions where power consumption is not a concern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Binu K. Mathew, Kit-Man Wan, Gaurav Kapoor
  • Publication number: 20230400670
    Abstract: An optical system for a camera may include a lens group having a plurality of lenses, a prism, and an image sensor. The prism may be positioned, optically, between the plurality of lenses and the image sensor along the optical transmitting path of the light. The prism may include at least four surfaces, which may fold the light within the prism at least four times to guide the light from the plurality of lenses passing through the prism to the image sensor. The prism may include multiple prisms joined together using an optical cement. The prism may include one or more aperture masks inside the prism to reduce flare.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Takeyoshi Saiga, Yoshikazu Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20230403552
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure include a shared session key generation scheme. A method for a shared session key generation scheme includes retrieving, by a first device, a public key of a second device. The first device can generate a first session key, based at least in part on the public key of the second device and a private key of the first device. The first device can establish a secure session with the second device based at least in part on generating the first session key. The first device can receive a message from the second device via the secure session, the message being encrypted by a second session key generated by the second device, the first session key being a duplicate of the second session key. The first device can decrypt the message using the first session key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Ryuji Ishiguro
  • Publication number: 20230403650
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing cell search based on battery conditions of a user equipment (UE). For example, some aspects of this disclosure relate to a UE. The UE includes a transceiver configured to enable wireless communication with a base station and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to perform a cell search cycle in response to a determination that a connection with the base station has been lost. In response to a determination that UE is in a no-service mode or in a limited-service mode after the cell search cycle, the processor further configures a sleep timer value based at least on one of a charge level of a battery of the UE or a capacity level of the battery. The processor further performs a second cell search cycle after the configured sleep timer value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ehsan Ahmed Quadri SYED, FNU Srinivas Kote Narasimhamurthy, Mohamed Lamine Haidara, Mohammad H. Akhtar, Syed A. Rahim, Muthukumaran Dhanapal
  • Publication number: 20230401751
    Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress and encode data for a three-dimensional mesh using a video encoding technique. To compress the three-dimensional mesh, the encoder determines sub-meshes and for each sub-mesh: texture patches and geometry patches. Also the encoder determines patch connectivity information and patch texture coordinates for the texture patches and geometry patches. The texture patches and geometry patches are packed into video image frames and encoded using a video codec. Additionally, the encoder determines boundary stitching information for the sub-meshes. A decoder receives a bit stream as generated by the encoder and reconstructs the three-dimensional mesh.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Khaled Mammou, Alexandros Tourapis, Jungsun Kim
  • Publication number: 20230401755
    Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress and encode data for a three-dimensional mesh. To compress the three-dimensional mesh, the encoder determines sub-meshes and for each sub-mesh: texture patches and geometry patches. Also, the sub-meshes may be grouped into patches, patch-groups, and/or tiles. Different encoding parameters may be used for such different coding units (e.g., patches, patch-groups and/or tiles). However, the encoding parameters are adjusted for vertices that are shared between coding units to avoid introduction of artefacts. A decoder receives a bit stream as generated by the encoder and reconstructs the three-dimensional mesh.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Khaled Mammou, Alexandros Tourapis, Jungsun Kim, Dimitri Podborski
  • Publication number: 20230400574
    Abstract: A technique for determining a presence of a person in a room may include an electronic device transmitting an electromagnetic wireless signal of a first sensor. The technique may include receiving an electromagnetic return signal from the electromagnetic wireless signal. The technique may include detecting a potential target in the room based on the electromagnetic return signal. The technique may include determining that the potential target is in the room using a second sensor. Responsive to determining the potential target is in the room, the technique may include saving a training signature of the electromagnetic return signal for training a machine learning model. This technique can be repeated to obtain a set of training signatures corresponding to potential targets. The technique may include training, using the set of training signatures, the machine learning model to detect when a target is in the room using the first sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Barak Baum, Yoav Feinmesser, Naftali Sommer
  • Publication number: 20230403312
    Abstract: In some embodiments, during the SIP registration, the UE indicates in the REGISTER requests its support for ANBR as defined by “ANBR” attribute in the SDP and the P-CSCF indicates its support for the “ANBR” attribute in the SDP in the response for registration. In some embodiments, the P-CSCF serving a PLMN passes through the “ANBR” attribute in the SDP when the P-CSCF recognizes that the PLMN supports ANBR functionality. In some embodiments, the UE can include “ANBR” attribute in the SDP offer and answers when the P-CSCF indicates its support for the “ANBR” attribute in the SDP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Ozgur OYMAN, Jerome PARRON, Thomas LUETZENKIRCHEN, Sudhir Shankar POLA, Ralf ROSSBACH
  • Publication number: 20230402139
    Abstract: A user interface may be used to present a graph that represents observable values from health record data stored on a user device. A personal health ontology stored on the user device may be accessed. At least one observable value of the observable values may be determined to be of a type of data for which a filter exists by at least accessing the personal health ontology. A filter may be added to the least one observable value. The user interface including the graph may be presented and the filter may be applied to the at least one observable value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick W. Granvold, Jason B. Morley, Zhe Li
  • Publication number: 20230403142
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure include a shared session key generation scheme. A method for a shared session key generation scheme includes retrieving, by a first device, a public key of a second device. The first device can generate a first session key, based at least in part on the public key of the second device and a private key of the first device. The first device can establish a secure session with the second device based at least in part on generating the first session key. The first device can receive a message from the second device via the secure session, the message being encrypted by a second session key generated by the second computing device, the first session key being a duplicate of the second session key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Ryuji Ishiguro
  • Patent number: 11843838
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a user interface associated with an episodic series. In some embodiments, the user interface includes representations of episodes that are downloaded on the device, does not include a representation of a given not-yet-downloaded episode, and optionally includes a download affordance that is selectable to initiate a process for downloading not-yet-downloaded episodes. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a user interface associated with an episodic series, wherein the user interface associated with the episodic series of content includes representations of episodes of the episodic series. In some embodiments, in response to receiving the user input selecting a respective representation, the device either initiates a process to display the respective episode or displays a user interface associated with the respective episode without displaying the respective episode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Ellingford, Lucio Moreno Rufo
  • Patent number: D1008260
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniele De Iuliis, Markus Diebel, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1008281
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Butcher, Alan C. Dye, Aurelio Guzmán, Brian Andrew Schmitt, Wan Si Wan