Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 11907420Abstract: One or more techniques for managing virtual objects between one or more displays are described. In accordance with some embodiments, exemplary techniques for displaying a virtual object are described.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Devin W. Chalmers, Gregory L. Lutter, Jonathan C. Moisant-Thompson, Rahul Nair
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Patent number: 11904789Abstract: A body structure defines a passenger cabin. An interior portion is located in the passenger cabin, and a support portion that includes a surface and an adjustable support assembly is located in the passenger cabin. The surface is located adjacent to the interior portion, the adjustable support assembly includes actuators, and the adjustable support assembly is configured to move the surface with respect to the interior portion. Sensors are configured to generate sensor outputs, and a controller detects an event based on the sensor outputs. In response to the detection of the event, the controller outputs a control signal that controls the adjustable support assembly so that the adjustable support assembly moves at least part of the surface away from the interior portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Arturo Llamazares Domper, Nicholas A. White, Alexander M. Zoellner
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Patent number: 11905205Abstract: Methods for chemically strengthening a cover for an electronic are disclosed. The methods include removing material from a mounting surface of the cover to counteract warping of the mounting surface due to ion exchange. The chemically strengthened covers have a high bend strength and allow a strong seal to be formed between the cover and an enclosure component.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Richard A. Davis, Christopher D. Jones
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Patent number: 11907016Abstract: A portable electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture and a display positioned in the aperture. The portable electronic device can include a number of components that can provide desired functionalities and levels of performance. For example, the device can include one or more couplers that interconnect various portions of the housing together. Additionally or alternatively, the portable electronic device can include one or more millimeter-wave antennas. Additionally, or alternatively, the electronic device can include one or more grounding elements or layers that reliably and electrically ground the display to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Thomas O. Henry, Trevor M. Cardiff, Jason A. U. De Souza, Sayooj R. Pillai, Jason Bakhshi, Erik A. Uttermann, Wei Lv, Wenyong Zhu, Lee B. Hamstra, Daniel J. Hoff
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Patent number: 11910156Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology provide an acoustic module with fins integrated within the acoustic module to reduce acoustic noise. Airflow caused by pressure changes due to an oscillating diaphragm can be diverted by the fins within the acoustic module. The diverted airflow provide a more uniform airflow distribution within the acoustic module, which leads to a lower peak velocity and less unwanted noise. Fins may include a curved or crescent shape and may be spaced in a certain manner to divert the airflow.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marco Baratelli, Claudio Notarangelo, Matthew A. Donarski, Mo C. Chan
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Patent number: 11907270Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for retrieving local information on a user device include detecting itinerary information stored by a first application on a user device, and identifying a travel destination based on the detected itinerary information. The travel destination is communicated to a second application executable on a user device, and the travel destination is stored in association with the second application. The second application is adapted to retrieve local information based on an identified geographic location, and local information for the travel destination is provided through the second application in response to a user interaction with the second application and based on a triggering threshold associated with the itinerary information.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Devrim Varoglu, Swapnil R. Dave
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Patent number: 11909171Abstract: An optical sensor system includes a set of epitaxial layers formed on a semiconductor substrate. The set of epitaxial layers defines a semiconductor laser having a first multiple quantum well (MQW) structure. Electromagnetic radiation is generated by the first MQW structure, emitted from the first MQW structure, and self-mixed with a portion of the emitted electromagnetic radiation that is returned to the first MQW structure. The set of epitaxial layers also defines a second MQW structure operable to generate a first photocurrent responsive to detecting a first emission of the semiconductor laser, and a third MQW structure operable to generate a second photocurrent responsive to detecting a second emission of the semiconductor laser. The optical sensor system also includes a circuit configured to generate a self-mixing interferometry (SMI) signal by combining the first photocurrent and the second photocurrent.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Tong Chen, Fei Tan, Mingzhou Jin
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Patent number: 11909406Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry having mixer circuitry configured to receive an oscillator signal from phase-locked loop circuitry. The phase-locked loop circuitry may include a digital or analog phase-locked loop having a first frequency divider, a ring oscillator, and an auxiliary phase noise cancellation loop coupled to the ring oscillator. The auxiliary phase noise cancellation loop may include at least a time-to-digital converter, a second frequency divider, an amplifier, and a bandpass filter configured to reject thermal and quantization noise associated with the time-to-digital converter. The first frequency divider may have a first division ratio, whereas the second frequency divider may have a second division ratio that is less than the first division ratio to provide faster phase noise correction.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ahmed I Hussein, Mahdi Forghani, David M Signoff
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Patent number: 11909125Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and control circuitry. The wireless circuitry may communicate with a wireless base station using a 5G New Radio (NR) communications protocol. The wireless circuitry may include a phased antenna array. The electronic device may perform antenna scaling operations in which the active antennas in the phased antenna array change over time to optimize wireless performance and power consumption. The electronic device may inform the base station when antenna scaling operations have occurred. This may allow the base station to compensate for power density discontinuities associated with the antenna scaling operations. If desired, the base station may break transmit and receive signal beam correspondence and the electronic device may use different antenna scaling settings for transmitting and receiving signals.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Anatoliy S. Ioffe, Amit Freiman, Jan M. Zaleski, Ozgur Inac
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Patent number: 11908143Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for establishing an activity zone within video captured by a camera. A user device may establish an activity zone or an exclusion zone within video representing a physical view captured by the camera. An automatic monitoring system may analyze the video of the camera with respect to the activity zone or exclusion zone and trigger notifications that are associated with a zone so as to limit notifications transmitted to the user device to those notifications that are relevant to the user. With activity or exclusion zones video from a camera may be automatically monitored to reduce a volume of notifications transmitted to the user device.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Sara Bolouki, Yah Yah Cason, Jonghoon Jin, Nils Ängquist, Hendrik Dahlkamp, Patrick L Coffman
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Patent number: 11909697Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for remote interference management (RIM) in wireless networks, including RIM reference signals (RIM-RS) transmitted to assist victim radio access network (RAN) nodes to identify aggressor RAN nodes due to, for example, atmospheric ducting. The RIM-RS is also flexibly configured. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hassan Ghozlan, Qian Li, Dawei Ying, Geng Wu
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Patent number: 11909587Abstract: Systems and methods of managing creation and configuration for 5G networks, NFs and NSSIs are provided. An instantiation or configuration request received from a managed entity respectively instantiates or configures the appropriate element. For NF instantiation, when the NF has a virtualized part to be instantiated by a VNF, interaction with an NFV MANO system instantiates the VNF is followed by NF instantiation notification and MOI creation for the NF. For NF configuration, the NF is configured and notification provided thereof. For network instantiation, after reception of a network creation request, interaction with the system to instantiate a NS that realizes the network is followed by determination that a new VNF associated with the NS has been instantiated, creation of a NF (constituting the network) MOI is realized by the new VNF, and NF configuration. For NSSI creation, a NF constituting the NSSI is created and configured.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yizhi Yao, Joey Chou
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Patent number: 11908998Abstract: Liquid electrolytes for a lithium metal battery comprise an aprotic solvent, an ionic liquid, a lithium salt, 8 mol % to 30 mol % hydrofluoroether and up to 5 mol % additives. A molar ratio of the hydrofluoroether to the lithium salt is 0.22:1 to 0.83:1. The liquid electrolytes achieve at least a 50% improvement in cycle life over conventional electrolytes, extend capacity retention and delay increases in internal resistance.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Alan A. Ritchie, Bernd Jurgen Neudecker, Karl M. Brown, Andrew Basile
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Patent number: 11910690Abstract: An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The display may be mounted on a front side of the device and the housing may have a housing wall on the rear side of the device. The display may be formed from an array of pixels configured to display an image for a user. Pixel-free border areas that run along the edges of the array of pixels may be provided with an edge illuminator. The edge illuminator may provide illumination to the border areas during operation of the device. The edge illuminator may have crystalline semiconductor light-emitting diode dies, backlit liquid crystal devices or electrophoretic display components, or may have a light guide that is supplied with illumination from a light-emitting diode.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Paul X Wang, Dinesh C. Mathew
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Patent number: 11908343Abstract: Exercise-based watch faces and complications for use with a portable multifunction device are disclosed. The methods described herein for exercise-based watch faces and complications provide indications of time and affordances representing applications (e.g., a workout application or a weather application). In response to detecting a user input corresponding to a selection of the affordance (e.g., representing a workout application), a workout routine can optionally be begun. Further disclosed are non-transitory computer-readable storage media, systems, and devices configured to perform the methods described herein, as well as electronic devices related thereto.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher Wilson, Aled Hywel Williams, Kevin Will Chen, Chester H. Chipperfield, Stanley Carl Ng
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Patent number: 11907823Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing device includes an input sensor providing an input data; a programmable logic device (PLD) implementing a convolutional neural network (CNN), wherein: each compute block of the PLD corresponds to one of a multiple of convolutional layers of the CNN, each compute block of the PLD is placed in proximity to at least two memory blocks, a first one of the memory blocks serves as a buffer for the corresponding layer of the CNN, and a second one of the memory blocks stores model-specific parameters for the corresponding layer of the CNN.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Saman Naderiparizi, Mohammad Rastegari, Sayyed Karen Khatamifard
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Patent number: 11909677Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing physical uplink shared channel transmissions with improved reliability in a wireless communication system. The wireless device may establish a wireless link with a cellular base station. The wireless device may receive uplink data transmission configuration information from the cellular base station. The uplink data transmission configuration information may configure an uplink data transmission to multiple transmission-reception-points. The wireless device may perform the uplink data transmission to the multiple transmission-reception-points.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang, Hong He, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Weidong Yang, Chunhai Yao, Jie Cui, Yang Tang
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Patent number: 11909532Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate successful decoding of Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) based on a reduced number of retransmissions. Based on a given PDSCH, embodiments discussed herein can communicate feedback (e.g., Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) feedback, Channel State Information (CSI) feedback) that indicates an amount of additional information that can allow a User Equipment (UE) to successfully decode the PDSCH. In some embodiments, the feedback can indicate a requested Redundancy Version (RV) sequence that can allow the UE to successfully decode the PDSCH. In other embodiments, the feedback can indicate the amount of additional information, based on which a receiving Base Station (BS) can select a RV sequence.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jie Cui, Weidong Yang, Yuchul Kim, Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Oghenekome Oteri, Yushu Zhang, Yang Tang, Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez, Haitong Sun, Ziyang Ju
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Patent number: 11910551Abstract: The disclosure provides textured glass components as well as electronic device cover assemblies and enclosures which include the textured glass components. In some cases, a protruding portion of the glass component includes a textured region provided over a camera assembly of the electronic device. One or more openings may be provided in the textured region. The textured region may be configured to provide a translucent or hazy appearance to the electronic device while providing a desirable “feel” to the electronic device and level of cleanability.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jason P. Shannon, Andi M. Limarga
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Patent number: D1015341Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Graham R. Clarke