Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 11842028
    Abstract: A computer system has a display area, wherein the display area at least partially encompasses a status region. The computer system detects a user input corresponding to the status region. In response to detecting the user input corresponding to the status region, the computer system, in accordance with a determination that the status region is associated with an active session of a respective application, performs an operation associated with the respective application and in accordance with a determination that the status region is not associated with an active session of a respective application, provides feedback associated with the user input without displaying information about a respective application in the status region and without performing an operation associated with a respective application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Chanaka G. Karunamuni
  • Patent number: 11842044
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to user interfaces for receiving handwriting input, accessing predictive text candidates, and accessing keyboards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Botao Zhu, Karan Misra, Chun Kin Minor Wong
  • Patent number: 11841899
    Abstract: A device with microphones can generate microphone signals during an audio recording. The device can store, in an electronic audio data file, the microphone signals, and metadata that includes impulse responses of the microphones. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan D. Sheaffer, Symeon Delikaris Manias, Gaetan R. Lorho, Peter A. Raffensperger, Eric A. Allamanche, Frank Baumgarte, Dipanjan Sen, Joshua D. Atkins, Juha O. Merimaa
  • Patent number: 11842011
    Abstract: A touch screen or touch sensor panel can detect touches by conductive objects (e.g., fingers) and an active stylus and can mitigate noise in the sensed stylus signal from multiple noise sources. In some examples, the touch sensor panel includes a plurality of touch electrodes that can be used to sense touch data indicative of a proximate conductive object and to sense stylus data. The stylus data can include noise from one or more sources, for example. In some examples, the electronic device uses the touch data to determine a characteristic of one of the sources of noise and the stylus data to determine another characteristic of the source of noise and one or more characteristics of another source of noise. After modeling the noise, the electronic device can remove the noise from the stylus data to improve the accuracy of the stylus scan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yonathan Morin, Apexit Shah
  • Patent number: 11843992
    Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless communications circuitry that receives location information from tags that are coupled to different items. The electronic device may keep track of the different items using the tags. The electronic device may include control circuitry that analyzes historical tracking data from the tags to identify patterns and relationships between the tags. Based on the historical tracking data, the control circuitry may classify some tagged items as bags for other tagged items and may automatically alert the user when a tagged item is missing from its bag. The control circuitry may generate rules based on the historical tracking data, such as rules regarding acceptable ranges between tagged items and acceptable ranges between tagged items and the electronic device. The control circuitry may determine when to provide real-time location information and other notifications for a tagged item based on the historical tracking data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Paul G. Puskarich
  • Patent number: 11840177
    Abstract: A system for securing a user device to a body includes a magnet and an attraction plate. One of the magnet or the attraction plate is mechanically coupled to the body, and the other of the magnet or the attraction plate is mechanically coupled to the user device. The magnet is selectively activated to hold the attraction plate and, thereby, secure the user device to the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Sawyer I. Cohen, Jack J. Wanderman, Romain A. Teil, Mikael P. Sedlacek, Jorge C. Fialho, Kirill Kalinichev, Robert D. Silfvast, Justin D. Crosby
  • Patent number: 11843788
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to data compression. In some embodiments, compression circuitry determines, at least partially in parallel for multiple different lossless compression techniques, amounts of data needed to represent, using a given lossless compression technique of the multiple lossless compression techniques, individual pixels in a set of pixels being compressed. The compression techniques may include neighbor, origin, and gradient techniques, for example. The compression circuitry may select one of the compression techniques based on comparison, among the compression techniques, of sums of: the determined amount of data for an individual pixel for a given lossless compression technique and compression metadata size for a given lossless compression technique. The compression circuitry may generate and store information that encodes values for the set of pixels using the selected compression technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tyson J. Bergland, Anthony P. DeLaurier, Karthik Ramani, Stephan Lachowsky
  • Patent number: 11843265
    Abstract: A wireless power system may include power transmitting devices, power receiving devices, and power transmitting and receiving devices. Control circuitry in the power transmitting and receiving device may determine whether to operate in a power receiving mode or a power transmitting mode. The preferred mode for the power transmitting and receiving device may depend on the types of devices within the system, the state of charge of the batteries of the devices in the system, whether or not one or more devices in the system are connected to a wired power source, etc. Each power transmitting and receiving device may have a default mode. Upon detection of an adjacent device, the wireless power transmitting and receiving device enters a configuration phase in its default mode. Before or during a power transfer phase, the power transmitting and receiving device may swap roles from its default mode to another mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Zaid A AbuKhalaf, Alexei E. Kosut
  • Patent number: 11842005
    Abstract: In some examples, a touch screen includes resistors between the touch electrodes and routing traces. In some examples, the resistors can include a transparent conductive material included in the touch electrodes of the touch screen. The resistors can be located in a border region of the touch screen that can surround an active area of the touch screen that can include the touch electrodes and display pixels of the touch screen, for example. In some examples, the resistors included in the touch screen can have different resistances from each other and the same outer dimensions as one another. The resistors can reduce the variation in resistance from channel to channel in the touch screen, which can improve touch screen performance, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Zhou Lu, Isaac Wing-Tak Chan, Justin Zachary Wu, Rangarajan Krishnan, Qingbo Guo, Chao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11843387
    Abstract: An optoelectronic system includes a transmit side and a receive side. The transmit side and the receive side each include an oversampled phase locked loop configured to receive a decimated system clock signal. Each phase-locked loop is configured to output a high frequency sampling clock signal that, in the case of the transmit side, may be leveraged to generate an arbitrary current waveform that, in turn, can be delayed by a delay-locked loop before being applied to a current-controlled light emitting element. The receive side can generate a clock signal at the same high frequency as the transmit side and can be configured to trigger a reset of the transmit side so that the high frequency clock signals between the transmit and receive sides are synchronized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Susan A. Thompson, Anup K. Sharma, Christopher G Zeleznik, Harish Venkataraman
  • Patent number: 11844123
    Abstract: A wireless communication device establishes voice communication between a supported user and a selected remote device supporting another user via a point-to-point wireless ad hoc network link. The device selects a particular remote device, establishes an ad hoc network link with the selected remote device, and communicates voice communication signals with the selected remote device. Selection can be based upon a user interaction with the device which specifies the particular remote device. The user interaction can include interaction with a graphical representation of the particular remote device presented in a graphical user interface. The user interaction can include an audio command received via an audio interface of the device. The device can include one or more headset devices, including a pair of headset devices which can be switched between providing audio signals to a single user to supporting communication between separate users via an ad hoc network link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Esge B. Andersen, Cedrik Bacon
  • Patent number: 11842236
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that select colors for visual markers that include colored markings encoding data. In some implementations, the colors are automatically or semi-automatically selected. In some implementations, the colors are selected to remain sufficiently detectable despite changes in lighting conditions or printing/display conditions. In some implementations, a set of colors selectable for use in a visual marker is obtained. Then, measures of distance between a plurality of colors of the set of colors is determined, and a subset of the set of colors for the visual marker is selected based on the measure of distance between colors of the subset of colors. In some implementations, the visual marker appearance includes graphical elements encoding data using the subset of colors. In some implementations, input is received using a GUI on a display to determine multiple colors based on a source image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Arun Srivatsan Rangaprasad, Anselm Grundhoefer, Dhruv A. Govil
  • Patent number: 11842708
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with an array of pixels. The device may have an array of components such as an array of light sensors for capturing fingerprints of a user through an array of corresponding transparent windows in the display. A capacitive touch sensor, proximity sensor, force sensor, or other sensor may be used by control circuitry in the device to monitor for the presence of a user's finger over the array of light sensors. In response, the control circuitry can direct the display to illuminate a subset of the pixels, thereby illuminating the user's finger and causing reflected light from the finger to illuminate the array of light sensors for a fingerprint capture operation. The display may have display driver circuitry that facilitates the momentary illumination of the subset of pixels with uniform flash data while image data is displayed in other portions of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Koorosh Aflatooni, Minhyuk Choi, Mohammad Ali Jangda, Sang Y. Youn, Yafei Bi, Jean-Pierre Guillou, Wei H. Yao
  • Patent number: 11843559
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may establish communication with a plurality of transmission reception points (TRPs) and determine one or more beam failures associated with a first or second TRP based on reference signals received from the first and second TRPs. The UE may then transmit a scheduling request requesting resources for indicating the beam failures associated with the first TRP or second TRPs. Upon receiving a response to the scheduling request allocating resources, the UE may then transmit, using allocated resources, a beam failure indication of the first one or more beam failures associated with the first TRP or second TRP. After receiving a beam failure response from the first or second TRP, the UE may then communicate with the first TRP and the second TRP using one or more new beams based on the beam failure indication and the beam failure response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng
  • Patent number: 11842786
    Abstract: A memory controller includes an interface and a processor. The interface communicates with a plurality of memory cells. The processor produces one or more readouts by reading a group of the memory cells using one or more Read Voltages (RVs). Based on the readouts, the processor calculates for a given RV among the RVs a sample of an error signal indicative of a deviation between the given RV and an optimal RV that results in a minimal number of errors in reading the memory cells in the group. The processor applies a filter to the sample of the error signal so as to produce an updated value of the given RV, the filter includes one or more filter taps storing data related to previous samples of the error signal, and reads a second group of the memory cells using the updated value of the given RV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Nir Tishbi, Ilia Benkovitch, Ruby Mizrahi
  • Patent number: 11839279
    Abstract: Accessories that can add new functionality to an electronic device. These accessories can provide additional functionality that allow for the replacement of a physical object that would otherwise be carried in addition to and separate from the electronic device. These accessories can further provide improvements, such as a reduction in size or improvement in functionality over the physical object to be replaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy C. Wulff, Yang Zhou, James C. Wu, Tao Pan, Leon Zilun Zhang, Geng Luo
  • Patent number: 11841986
    Abstract: A device in an automated environment can detect patterns in the user's interactions with accessories in the automated environment and can provide feedback to the user based on the patterns. Examples include: suggesting automation of particular actions based on the patterns; suggesting actions that conform to the pattern when the user performs part of the pattern; or suggesting changes to a pattern to conform to a preferred pattern. A state of the group of accessory devices can be changed together based on the pattern of accessory state changes for the group of accessory devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lukas M. Marti, Ronald Keryuan Huang
  • Patent number: 11841726
    Abstract: A power detect circuit is disclosed. A power detect circuit includes a voltage multiplier that receives an external supply voltage and generates a second supply voltage that is greater than the former. A voltage regulator is coupled to receive the second supply voltage and outputs a regulated supply voltage. A bandgap circuit is coupled to receive the second supply voltage when a first switch is closed, and the regulated supply voltage when a second switch is closed. The bandgap circuit generates a reference voltage for the voltage regulator, as well as one or more output voltages. A comparator circuit is coupled to receive the one or more output voltages from the bandgap circuit, and may compare these one or more output voltages to the regulated supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Seyedeh Sedigheh Hashemi, Vahid Majidzadeh Bafar, Ali Mesgarani, Mansour Keramat
  • Patent number: D1007506
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Marine C. Bataille, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Alexandre B. Girard, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Richard P. Howarth, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Clement Tissandier
  • Patent number: D1007507
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Marine C. Bataille, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Alexandre B. Girard, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Richard P. Howarth, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Marc A. Newson, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Clement Tissandier