Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 11870442
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a control circuit configured to selectively activate, based on an operating mode signal, either a local clock signal or a pulse signal. The apparatus further includes a data storage circuit that is coupled to a data signal, the local clock signal, and the pulse signal. The data storage circuit may be configured to sample the data signal using the local clock signal during a first operating mode, and to sample the data signal using the pulse signal during a second operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vivekanandan Venugopal, Raghava Rao V. Denduluri, Ajay Bhatia, Suparn Vats, Suresh Balasubramanian, Gopinath Venkatesh, Teng Wang
  • Patent number: 11871474
    Abstract: Coordinated leaving for a UE having a first SIM and a second SIM may include decoding, at a baseband processor, an RRC reconfiguration message associated with the first SIM received from a first network. A communication corresponding to the second SIM received from a second network is decoded while the baseband processor is processing the received RRC reconfiguration message. The communication received from the second network is determined to comprise a higher priority than the RRC reconfiguration procedure. Based on determining, a UAI message corresponding to the first SIM is encoded by the baseband processor for transmission to the first network. The UAI message is configured to inform the first network of coordinated leaving and abortion of the RRC reconfiguration procedure. The first SIM is transitioned to an idle mode. An RRC request corresponding to the second SIM is encoded by the baseband processor for transmission to the second network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Srirang A. Lovlekar, Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim Hassan, Amr Mostafa, Birgit Breining, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Yuqin Chen
  • Patent number: 11871098
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for selecting a lens control mode for a camera in external magnetic fields or other types of non-magnetic interference. In embodiments, when the camera is activated, a test of a position sensor for the camera lens is performed by moving the camera lens through a range of positions and collecting values from the sensor. In embodiments, the sensor readings are analyzed to determine conditions such as (a) whether the sensor is saturated by an external magnetic field or non-magnetic interference, (b) whether the sensor's readings are within an error margin, and (c) whether a computed position offset for the sensor is valid. Based on the analysis, the camera is placed into a first control mode where movement of the lens is controlled using the position sensor, or a second control mode where lens movement is controlled without the position sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Abhishek Dhanda, Andrew D. Fernandez, Arathi S. Bale, David C. Beard, Santiago Alban
  • Patent number: 11871461
    Abstract: Relay service is enabled between a residential gateway and a remote user. For example, a 5G residential gateway (5G-RG) may include a relay user equipment (UE) to enable relay service for a 5G core (5GC)-capable UE behind the 5G-RG to connect to the 5GC. The relay UE of the 5G-RG may provide a trusted/untrusted non-3GPP access network for L2 or L3 transport connection to the 5GC-capable UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Ching-Yu Liao, Meghashree Dattatri Kedalagudde, Alexandre Saso Stojanovski
  • Patent number: 11867424
    Abstract: A thermal control system includes a housing defining an intake flow path for travel of intake airflow and an exhaust flow path for travel of exhaust airflow. An intake door is disposed along the intake flow path and has first and second positions blocking and allowing intake airflow through the intake door. An exhaust door is disposed along the exhaust flow path and has first and second positions blocking and allowing exhaust airflow through the exhaust door. A mode door is disposed in the housing between the intake flow path and the exhaust flow path with a first position blocking the intake airflow and allowing the exhaust airflow to pass through a heat exchanger, a second position blocking the exhaust airflow and allowing the intake airflow to pass through the heat exchanger, and a third position allowing the intake airflow and the exhaust airflow to pass through the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Scott Wujek, Kegan J. Connick, Paul D. Yeomans
  • Patent number: 11868939
    Abstract: A server system may facilitate and participate in operations relating to physical activity goals being performed at user devices. For example, the server system may receive a physical activity goal from a first user device associated with a first user profile. The server system may also receive a reward corresponding to the physical activity goal from the first user device. The server system may also transmit at least the physical activity goal to a second user device associated with a second user profile. The server system may also receive, from the second user device, first information associated with the physical activity goal. The server system may also transmit second information associated with the reward to the second user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Jay Blahnik
  • Patent number: 11868601
    Abstract: A computer system displays a first user interface for changing a wake user interface. While displaying the first user interface, the device displays a first representation of the wake user interface and a first representation of a home user interface. The first representation of the wake user interface corresponds to first user interface settings including a first wake user interface background. The first representation of the home user interface corresponds to first home user interface settings including a first home user interface background. The system detects selection of a respective representation of the wake user interface. When the first representation of the wake user interface is selected, the system sets the wake user interface to the first wake user interface settings and sets the home user interface of the computer system to the first home user interface settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Graham R. Clarke, Eric Lance Wilson, Caelan G. Stack, Christopher P. Foss
  • Patent number: 11868461
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to displaying a user interface for sharing an account associated with a first user identity with a second user identity. The user interface includes a first sharing option and a second sharing option. One or more inputs corresponding to a request to share the account are detected. If the one or more inputs include a selection of the first sharing option, a request to invite the second user identity to become a joint owner of the account is transmitted. If the one or more inputs include a selection of the second sharing option, a request to invite the second user identity to become a participant of the account without becoming a joint owner of the account is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mischa McLachlan, Steven Eastcott, Brian Jett, Katie McIndoe, Thomas John Miller, Ashish Chandrakant Nagre, Rachel Reddy, Marcel Van Os, Vinay Venkatesh, Haya Iris Villanueva Gaviola, Nicole Marie Weaver, Jennifer Bailey, Corey Fugman, Richard Heard, Akila Suresh
  • Patent number: 11867917
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that enable improved display of virtual content in computer generated reality (CGR) environments. In some implementations, the CGR environment is provided at an electronic device based on a field of view (FOV) of the device and a position of virtual content within the FOV. A display characteristic of the virtual object is adjusted to minimize or negate any adverse effects of the virtual object or a portion of the virtual object falling outside of the FOV of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Luis R. Deliz Centeno
  • Patent number: 11868592
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a virtual keyboard, wherein the virtual keyboard includes a plurality of selectable representations of a plurality of graphical objects. In some embodiments, the electronic device receives a user input selecting a first selectable representation of a first graphical object, wherein the first graphical object is associated with a first customizable visual element and a second customizable visual element. In some embodiments, in response to receiving the user input and in accordance with a determination that one or more first criteria are satisfied, the electronic device displays, via the display device, a customization user interface, including a first section for customizing the first customizable visual element, a second section for customizing the second customizable visual element, and a third section for displaying a first respective representation of the first graphical object that indicates a current state of customization of the first graphical object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christian X. Dalonzo, Patrick L Coffman
  • Patent number: 11868192
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a system includes multiple power management mechanism operating in different time domains (e.g., with different bandwidths) and control circuitry that is configured to coordinate operation of the mechanisms. If one mechanism is adding energy to the system, for example, the control circuitry may inform another mechanism that the energy is coming so that the other mechanism may not take as drastic an action as it would if no energy were coming. If a light workload is detected by circuitry near the load, and there is plenty of energy in the system, the control circuitry may cause the power management unit (PMU) to generate less energy or even temporarily turn off. A variety of mechanisms for the coordinated, coherent use of power are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph T. DiBene, II, Inder M. Sodhi, Keith Cox, Gerard R. Williams, III
  • Patent number: 11871346
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to using a wake up signal in conjunction with cellular communication in unlicensed spectrum. A cellular base station may provide a wake up signal on an unlicensed frequency channel after successful completion of a listen-before-talk procedure. The wake up signal may include a preamble configured for coherent detection, and information indicating channel occupancy time for a cellular communication by the cellular base station and a cell identifier for the cellular base station. A wireless device may monitor the unlicensed frequency channel for a wake up signal, and may determine whether to monitor the unlicensed frequency channel for control channel signaling based on whether a wake up signal is received, and potentially also based on the contents of the wake up signal if a wake up signal is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Wei Zhang, Tianyan Pu, Yuchul Kim, Yuqin Chen, Farouk Belghoul, Haijing Hu, Fangli Xu, Sami M. Almalfouh
  • Patent number: 11868611
    Abstract: The systems described herein provide a remote keyboard service for a media device on a computing device without having to invoke an application or unlock the computing device. The computing device can receive a message indicating that a text input field on the other device is selected and present a notification to the user prompting the user to invoke the virtual keyboard on the computing device to provide text input to the selected text input field. The computing device can receive user input selecting the notification and present a virtual keyboard for providing text input to the other device. The computing device can receive keyboard input from the user selecting characters and send the characters to the other device. The other device can then user the characters as text input to the selected text input field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander D. Sanciangco, Bob Bradley, Marc Krochmal, Graham Clarke
  • Patent number: 11869223
    Abstract: An example method includes receiving (502) a plurality of points that represent a point cloud; representing a position of the point in each dimension of a three-dimensional space as a sequence of bits (504), where the position of the point is encoded according to a tree data structure; partitioning (506) at least one of the sequences of bits into a first portion of bits and a second portion of bits; quantizing (508) each of the second portions of bits according to a quantization step size, where the quantization step size is determined according to an exponential function having a quantization parameter value as an input and the quantization step size as an output; and generating (510) a data structure representing the point cloud and including the quantized second portions of bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David Flynn, Khaled Mammou, Fabrice A. Robinet
  • Patent number: 11868109
    Abstract: A universally-designed control circuit for communicating with multiple types of sensors is disclosed. For example, a control circuit may communicate with either ring oscillator-based sensors or BJT-based sensors based on programming implemented in the control circuit. The control circuit may include programmable communication protocol circuits for communicating with the sensors and conversion circuits that convert a particular type of sensor data packet into a generic format. The generic format sensor data may then be utilized by a power management unit or other device to control operation of an integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Robert S. Brandt, II, Bruno W. Garlepp, Ke Yun, Navin Kumar, Jafar Savoj
  • Patent number: 11871003
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to systems and methods of rate control in multiple pass video encoding. The video encoder may complete multiple encoding passes for slices of an image. Rate control algorithms may be implemented that scale the quantization step size and quantization matrix values depending on the determined size of the image slices. This may enable the size of slices to be adjusted based on size parameters for the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sorin C Cismas, Ganesh G Yadav
  • Patent number: 11869165
    Abstract: An avatar editing environment is disclosed that allows users to create custom avatars for use in online games and other applications. Starting with a blank face the user can add, rescale and position different elements (e.g., eyes, nose, mouth) on the blank face. The user can also change the shape of the avatar's face, the avatar's skin color and the color of all the elements. In some implementations, touch input and gestures can be used to manually edit the avatar. Various controls can be used to create the avatar, such as controls for resizing, rotating, positioning, etc. The user can choose between manual and automatic avatar creation. The avatar editing environment can be part of a framework that is available to applications. One or more elements of the avatar can be animated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel Van Os, Thomas Goossens, Laurent Baumann, Michael Dale Lampell, Alexandre Carlhian
  • Patent number: 11870716
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) over an OFDMA-based uplink. In some embodiments, UCI symbols are mapped to resource elements (REs) in the time/frequency resource grid to maximize frequency diversity. In some embodiments, UCI is mapped in a manner that takes into account channel estimation performance by mapping UCI symbols to those REs that are closest (in terms of OFDM subcarriers/symbols) to REs that carry reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ralf Matthias Bendlin, Gang Xiong, Jong-Kae Fwu, Hong He, Yushu Zhang, Seunghee Han, Yuan Zhu
  • Patent number: 11867650
    Abstract: Optical component integrity monitoring circuitry monitors an optical component integrity sensing path in an optical component. If a rise in resistance of the sensing path is detected, the circuitry prevents the optical component from emitting light. The optical component may have a light-emitting device that emits light through an optical element. The sensing path may have a first path that is used to detect damage to the optical element and a second path that is coupled to a package covering the optical element and light-emitting device. The first path may have a segment formed from a metal trace on the optical element and a segment formed from a wire bond, providing mechanical compliance to tolerate strains expected in the use case. The second path ensures that the package is present to constrain movement of the optical element and its wires within a safe envelope defined by the package interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael K. McCord, Stacy H. Mo
  • Patent number: D1010366
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Allison Inouye, Jean-Marc Gady, Ismael Flores Trujano, Gregory Guillaume Lespinard, Mi Zou, Po Huang, Wesley Bryan Hamm, Russell John Kaaihue Heirakuji, Joshua Robert Edwards, Nicholas E. Corti, Manuel Dejesus, Alice Marlin Brugger