Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 11921368Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may be overlapped by an antiglare film. The antiglare film may have a rough surface to diffuse incident light, thereby reducing glare. Additionally, the antiglare film may have a smooth portion that forms a transparent window and allows light to pass through undiffused. The electronic device may include a light-based component, such as a camera, that receives undiffused light through the transparent window. By overlapping the light-based component with the transparent window, the light-based component may receive the light in an unimpeded manner, thereby making more accurate measurements of the light. The display may have one or more display layers, such as opaque masking layers or polarizers, with openings that are aligned with the transparent window. The light-based component may receive the light through these openings so that the light is not absorbed or polarized before reaching the component.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Zhijian Lu, Jun Qi, Xiangtong Li, Xinyu Zhu
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Patent number: 11922588Abstract: To reduce this amount of bandwidth needed to share 3D map images between mobile devices, according to some embodiments, a user's mobile device (i.e., a host device) may identify its origin in a 3D map and a current virtual camera position relative to the origin based on the physical position of the mobile device. The mobile device may send both the origin and the virtual camera position to another mobile device (i.e., a client device) for use in rendering a corresponding image. Separately, the client device may download the 3D map images from a server, e.g., in preparation for a meeting. In this manner, the host device may send the origin to the client device once, as well as send a data stream of the current virtual camera position for use in accessing the corresponding 3D map images at the client device.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nathan L. Fillhardt, Syed Mohsin Hasan, Adrian P. Lindberg
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Patent number: 11924317Abstract: A method performed by a first electronic device. The method generates, at the first electronic device that is sharing a global clock with a second electronic device, a first timebase information that includes a first timebase that defines a relationship between the shared clock and an internal clock of the first electronic device, the first timebase information for synchronizing playback of a first piece of media content associated with a first application between the first and second electronic devices. The method receives, from a second application, a second timebase information that includes a second timebase that defines a relationship between the first timebase and a second piece of media content, generates a third timebase information that includes the first timebase and the second timebase, and transmits the third timebase information to the second electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Stephen E. Pinto, Yasser Rihan
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Patent number: 11922518Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to contact management and communication with contacts. On a portable electronic device having a display a plurality of affordances associated with a plurality of contacts are displayed. A first user input is received selecting a first affordance of the plurality of affordances for a first contact of the plurality of contacts. In response to receiving the first user input and in accordance with a determination that a first communication application is in a set of communication applications installed on the portable electronic device, a contact information interface is displayed for the first contact. The contact information interface includes a first contact identification field for the first contact. The first contact identification field is associated with the first contact and the first communication application.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marcel Van Os, Sebastian Bauer, Tiffany S. Jon, Nicole R. Ryan
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Patent number: 11922006Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device displays, on a display, a screensaver. In some embodiments, while displaying the screensaver, the electronic device receives an input detected on a touch-sensitive surface of one or more input devices. In some embodiments, in response to the input, if the electronic device is in a music playback mode when the input is received and if the input is a click input at a first region of a plurality of regions of the touch-sensitive surface, then the electronic device displays, on the display, a representation of the music playing in response to the input overlaid on the screensaver. In some embodiments, in response to the input, if the input is a click input at a second region of a plurality of regions of the touch-sensitive surface, then the electronic device ceases displaying the screensaver.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Tergel Purevdorj
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Patent number: 11923904Abstract: An electronic device may include a photonics-based phased antenna array that conveys wireless signals at frequencies greater than 100 GHz. In a transmit mode, the array may transmit signals using the first and second optical signals. In a receive mode, the array may receive signals using the optical signals. In a passive mode, the array may reflect incident wireless signals as reflected signals. Photodiodes in the array may be controlled to exhibit output impedances that are mismatched with respect to input impedances of radiating elements in the array. Different mismatches can be used across the array or as a function of time to impart different phase and/or frequency shifts on the reflected signals. The phase shifts may be used to encode information into the reflected signals and/or to form a signal beam of the reflected signals.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bertram R Gunzelmann, Zdravko Boos
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Patent number: 11923917Abstract: An electronic device may have a power system. The power system may receive power such as wireless power or wired power and may use a portion of the received power to charge a battery. Power consumption by control circuitry in the device can be adjusted by deactivating or activating processor cores in the control circuitry and by selectively starting or stopping software activities. By selectively reducing power consumption by circuitry in the electronic device other than battery charging circuitry in the power system that is charging the battery, additional power may be made available to charge the battery and/or battery capacity can be extended. The electronic device may reduce non-battery-charging activities in the device in response to information gathered with sensors such as motion and temperature information, information from the power system, information on device location, information on software settings, and other information.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kartik R. Venkatraman, Shardul S. Mangade, Alessandro Pelosi, Cyril de la Cropte de Chanterac
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Patent number: 11922665Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. To compress the attribute and/or spatial information, the encoder is configured to convert a point cloud into an image based representation. Also, the decoder is configured to generate a decompressed point cloud based on an image based representation of a point cloud.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Khaled Mammou, Fabrice A. Robinet, Alexandros Tourapis, Yeping Su
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Patent number: 11924806Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for user equipment (UE) idle mode operations. In embodiments, a UE wakes up more than once during a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) cycle. Inter-frequency measurement requirements may be relaxed based on DRX cycle length. Some embodiments include radiofrequency (RF) circuitry warm-up overhead reduction by on-duration separation with RF circuitry switching pattern adaption. Some embodiments include and RF circuitry warm-up overhead reduction by adaptive synchronization signal block (SSB) reference symbol down-selection. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rui Huang, Zhibin Yu, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Hua Li
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Patent number: 11921839Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to sharing a user credential between computing devices. In some embodiments, a first computing device stores a set of user credentials usable to authenticate a user and receives, from a second computing device, a request for a user credential to be provided responsive to an authentication prompt associated with the second computing device. In such an embodiment, the request includes an indication of a service for which the authentication prompt is being presented. Based on the indication, the first computing device determines whether the stored set of user credentials includes a user credential relevant to the authentication prompt and presents a selection prompt asking a user of the first computing device to select a one of the stored set of user credentials to provide to the second computing device for authentication to the service, the relevant user credential being identified in the selection prompt.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Richard J. Mondello, Chelsea E. Pugh, Maureen G. Daum, Morgan H. Winer, Shuchen Li
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Patent number: 11924898Abstract: Some embodiments include utilizing a multilink media access control (MAC) address structure to support multilink devices (MLDs) that can operate concurrently in more than one link such as extremely high throughput (EHT) access points (APs) and EHT stations (STA), where the multilink MAC address structure is compatible with legacy devices. An EHT AP can utilize a multilink basic service set (BSS) identification (BSSID) MAC address to communicate with an EHT STA identified by a multilink MAC address. Values of the multilink BSSID and the multilink MAC address of the EHT STA are independent of which of the multiple links are used in the communication. In addition, to utilizing a multilink BSSID, the EHT AP can also support unique link-specific MAC addresses to concurrently support legacy and MLD stations. The EHT STA can also utilize unique link-specific MAC addresses that can be different than the EHT AP's link-specific MAC addresses.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jarkko L. Kneckt, Gaurav Jain, Yong Liu, Jinjing Jiang, Tianyu Wu, Su Khiong Yong, Guoqing Li, Charles F. Dominguez
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Patent number: 11918857Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to navigating, viewing, and sharing activity and workout data and interacting with workout and/or activity applications. In some examples, scrolling of activity data is based on the content being displayed. In some examples, friends' activity data may be viewed. In some examples, a notification and workout data for a friend's completed workout is received and displayed. In some example, the activity data received from friends is viewed and managed. In some examples, workout data for a multi-segment workout is displayed in a three-dimensional stack on a map. In some examples, a workout application operates in a limited mode until a touch input is received with a characteristic intensity that is greater than a threshold intensity.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Aled Hywel Williams, David Chance Graham, Christopher Wilson
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Patent number: 11921286Abstract: This disclosure describes a novel lens system having an entrance pupil at a location matching, or nearly matching, the eye's optical system entrance pupil. The described lens system is significantly thinner than a single-aperture lens with matched entrance pupil and is achieved by using an array of camera elements. Each camera element contains camera optics called “lenslets” and a sensor (e.g., an image or depth sensor), where a lenslet can include one or more lens elements (e.g., a compound lens). Individual camera elements can be arranged such that THEIR optical axes intersect at, or near, the eye's entrance pupil location. In addition, each camera element's field-of-view (FOV) corresponds to a small sector of a large FOV. The FOVs of adjacent camera elements can be non- or slightly-overlapping so that a wide-angle image can be formed by concatenation of the individual camera element images.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Noah D. Bedard, Branko Petljanski, Kathrin Berkner Cieslicki, Ricardo J. Motta
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Publication number: 20240073856Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for one-to-many and many-to-many ranging using narrowband assisted (NBA)-multi-millisecond (MMS) ultra wideband (UWB) protocols. Some embodiments include an initiator device that communicates with many responder devices. For example, the initiator device can transmit a control/initialization poll message via NB signaling that identifies a ranging cycle, and transmit a first set of MMS segments corresponding to the control/initialization poll message. The initiator device can receive a plurality of report frames from two or more responder devices via NB signaling subsequent to transmitting the first set of MMS segments, and transmit within the ranging cycle, a ranging results report message based at least on the plurality of report frames via narrowband signaling.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jinjing JIANG, Robert GOLSHAN, Yong LIU, Alexander KREBS, Lochan VERMA, Xiliang LUO, Su Khiong YONG
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Publication number: 20240073707Abstract: Aspects are described for a user equipment (UE) comprising a transceiver configured to enable wireless communication with a first transmission/reception point (TRP) and a second TRP and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The UE is in a multi-TRP mode. The processor is configured to perform a first beam failure detection (BFD) procedure for the first TRP and a second BFD procedure for the second TRP. The processor is further configured to perform a first beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure for the first TRP responsive to a result of the first BFD procedure and a second BFR for the second TRP responsive to a result of the second BFD procedure. The processor is further configured to receive a configuration message, a BFD configuration, and a BFR configuration. The UE switches to a single-TRP mode upon receiving the configuration message.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Haitong SUN, Wie ZENG, Huaning NIU, Hong HE, Chunxuan YE, Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN, Oghenekome OTERI, Dawei ZHANG, Yushu ZHANG
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Publication number: 20240073812Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing a hibernation mode for multi-link wireless communication networks such as a wireless local area network (WLAN). For example, some aspects relate to a multi-link device (MLD) including a first station (STA) associated with a first link of a wireless network and configured to communicate with a second MLD over the first link. The MLD also includes a second STA associated with a second link of the wireless network. The second STA is in a hibernation mode. The MLD also includes one or more processors communicatively coupled to the first and second STAs and configured to control operations of the first and second STAs.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yong LIU, Su Khiong YONG, Qi WANG, Tianyu WU, Lochan VERMA, Jinjing JIANG, Jarkko L. KNECKT
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Patent number: D1016782Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher Wiita, Robert Boyd, Duy P. Le, Carlos M. Santana
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Patent number: D1016811Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: 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, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Marc A. Newson, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
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Patent number: D1016837Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jae Woo Chang, Patrick Lee Coffman, Nathan de Vries, Christopher P. Foss, Robert Garcia, III, Heena Ko, Stephen O. Lemay, Marcel van Os
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Patent number: D1016853Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lee Broughton, Gary Butcher, Kevin Will Chen, Nathan De Vries, Christopher Foss, Aled Williams, Christopher Wilson