Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 11828940Abstract: Systems and methods for computer-generated reality user hailing are described. Some implementations may include accessing sensor data captured using one or more sensors; detecting a person within a distance of a head-mounted display based on the sensor data; detecting a hail event based on the sensor data; and responsive to the hail event, invoking an alert using the head-mounted display.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Golnaz Abdollahian
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Patent number: 11832077Abstract: A method performed a local device that is communicatively coupled with several remote devices, the method includes: receiving, from each remote device with which the local device is engaged in a communication session, an input audio stream; receiving, for each remote device, a set parameters; determining, for each input audio stream, whether the input audio stream is to be 1) rendered individually or 2) rendered as a mix of input audio streams based on the set of parameters; for each input audio stream that is determined to be rendered individually, spatial rendering the input audio stream as an individual virtual sound source that contains only that input audio stream; and for input audio streams that are determined to be rendered as the mix of input audio streams, spatial rendering the mix of input audio streams as a single virtual sound source that contains the mix of input audio streams.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sean A. Ramprashad, Peter D. Callaway, Jae Woo Chang, Martin E. Johnson, Daniel K. Boothe, Kostyantyn Komarov, Patrick Miauton, Christopher M. Garrido, Austin W. Shyu, Karthick Santhanam
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Patent number: 11829756Abstract: A vector cumulative sum circuit can include a set of input registers, a carry-forward data source, a set of output registers, and a network of adder circuits coupling the input registers to the output registers such that the output value in a given output register is the sum of a value provided by the carry-forward data source and the input values from all of the input registers (in logical order) up to (and including) the corresponding input register. The value in the last output register can be carried forward to enable cumulative summing of a larger number of input values. The vector cumulative sum circuit can be implemented in a programmable processor, and a vector cumulative sum instruction can be defined in the instruction set. Using the vector cumulative sum circuit and instruction, filtering operations can be accelerated.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: On Wa Yeung, Seydou N. Ba
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Patent number: 11831090Abstract: An electronic device may include a conductive housing with a rear wall and a sidewall. A display may be mounted to the sidewall and may include a conductive display structure separated from the sidewall by a slot. An antenna arm may be interposed between the conductive display structure and the rear wall. A first inductor may couple the conductive display structure to the housing and may compensate for a distributed capacitance between the antenna arm and the conductive display structure. A second inductor may couple the antenna arm to the rear wall and may compensate for a distributed capacitance between the antenna arm and the rear wall. A speaker may be co-located with the antenna. A third inductor may couple the antenna arm to the rear wall to allow antenna currents to bypass the speaker.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Forhad Hasnat, David Garrido Lopez, Harish Rajagopalan, Mikal Askarian Amiri, Rodney A. Gomez Angulo, Lu Zhang
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Patent number: 11831368Abstract: A wireless communication system comprises a base station and one or more relay docks and transmits directional wave signals between components using high frequency waves, such as millimeter waves. A beam forming decision engine utilizes position information collected from one or more position or motion sensors of a user device to determine a direction in which to form a directional wave signal being transmitted between components of the wireless communication system.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yi Jiang, Mattia Pascolini, Jiangfeng Wu, Siwen Yong, Lijun Zhang
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Patent number: 11829576Abstract: Systems and processes for manipulating a graphical user interface are disclosed. One process can include receiving user input through a crown to rotate a virtual object. The process includes selecting a surface of the object from among the multiple surfaces of the object in response to determining that the crown rotation exceeded a speed threshold.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Zambetti, Gary Ian Butcher, Imran Chaudhri, Jonathan R. Dascola, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Patrick Foss, Aurelio Guzman, Jonathan P. Ive, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Duncan Robert Kerr, Stephen O. Lemay, Natalia Maric, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson, Lawrence Y. Yang
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Patent number: 11831479Abstract: Devices and methods of using xSS are generally disclosed. A UE receives an xPSS with (Nrep) symbols each with a subcarrier spacing of K×a PSS subcarrier spacing and a duration of a PSS symbol/K. PSD subcarriers surround the xPSS and the ZC sequence is punctured to avoid transmission on a DC subcarrier. Guard subcarriers separate the xPSS and PSD when the ZC sequence is less than the occupied BW of the xPSS and at least one element in the ZC sequence is punctured for xPSS symbol generation otherwise. One or more xSSSs and xS-SCHs may follow the xPSS. The xSS may be omnidirectional, each having a same xPSS and different xSSS or xS-SCH or a different xPSS and same xSSS or xS-SCH or beamformed, each having different xPSSs and xSSSs or xS-SCHs or a same xPSS and different xSSS or xS-SCH.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Seunghee Han, Gang Xiong, Jong-Kae Fwu, Huaning Niu, Utsaw Kumar
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Patent number: 11828857Abstract: A device implementing a system for estimating device position includes at least one processor configured to receive a first sensor measurement of a device at a first time, the first sensor measurement having a first variance in measurement error, and to receive a second sensor measurement of the device at a second time, the second sensor measurement having a second variance in measurement error. The at least one processor is further configured to determine a speed of the device based on at least one of the first or second sensor measurements, and adjust the second variance in measurement error based on the determined speed. The at least one processor is further configured to estimate a device position based at least in part on the first variance in measurement error and the adjusted second variance in measurement error.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Mark G. Petovello, Isaac T. Miller, Kenneth M. Pesyna, Jr.
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Patent number: 11832086Abstract: Channels of audio data in a spatial audio object are associated with any one or more of a direction and a location of one or more recorded sounds, which channels are to be reproduced as spatial sound. A visualized spatial sound object represents a snapshot/thumbnail of the spatial sound. To preview the spatial sound (by experiencing its snapshot or thumbnail), a user manipulates the orientation of the visualized spatial sound object, and a weighted downmix of the channels is rendered for output as a spatial preview sound, e.g., a single output audio signal is provided to a spatial audio renderer; one or more of the channels that are oriented toward the user are emphasized in the preview sound, more than channels that are oriented away from the user. Other aspects are also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher T. Eubank, Matthew S. Connolly, Stephen E. Pinto
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Patent number: 11829720Abstract: Systems and methods for analysis and validation of language models trained using data that is unavailable or inaccessible are provided. One example method includes, at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory, obtaining a first set of data corresponding to one or more tokens predicted based on one or more previous tokens. The method determines a probability that the first set of data corresponds to a prediction generated by a first language model trained using a user privacy preserving training process. In accordance with a determination that the probability is within a predetermined range, the method determines that the one or more tokens correspond to a prediction associated with the user privacy preserving training process and outputs a predicted token sequence including the one or more tokens and the one or more previous tokens.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jerome R. Bellegarda, Bishal Barman, Brent D. Ramerth
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Patent number: 11829787Abstract: A multi-process model to support compiling applications for multiple platforms is described. In one embodiment, applications designed for execution on a mobile platform can be ported to and/or compiled for execution on a desktop/laptop platform without requiring modification of the core program code of the mobile application. The mobile application is executed using a multi-process (e.g., two or more process) model in which the core mobile application program generates content that is displayed by a host process. The host process enables automatic translation of program calls to generate mobile user interface elements into program calls that generate user interface elements of the host platform. The translation can be performed using a multi-process (e.g., two or more process) model in which the core application program generates content that is displayed by a host process.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ali T. Ozer, Russell A. Bishop, Aaditya Chandrasekhar, Christopher A. Dreessen, Kristin M. Forster, Jeremiah R. Sequoia
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Patent number: 11831770Abstract: A relay service can relay messages between controllers and electronically controllable accessory devices that may be located remotely from the controllers. Relaying of messages by the relay service can be decoupled from any knowledge of the functionality of the accessory or the content of the messages. Device identification and relaying of messages can be managed using “relay aliases” that are meaningful only to the relay service and the endpoint devices (the controller and accessory). The endpoint devices can implement end-to-end security for messages transported by the relay service.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kevin P. McLaughlin, Andrew Burks, Matthew C. Lucas, Gokul P. Thirumalai, Anush G. Nadathur
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Patent number: 11832231Abstract: Techniques for grouping multiple serving component carriers (CCs) are disclosed. In one example, a frequency separation that defines a frequency range from a lower bound frequency to a higher bound frequency for each CC group of a plurality of CC groups may be determined, wherein a difference between the lower bound frequency and the higher bound frequency of each CC group may be equal to the frequency separation. A frequency of a first CC from a collection of CCs may be determined. The first CC may be assigned to a first CC group, of the plurality of CC groups, wherein the first CC group may have a frequency range that includes the frequency of the first CC.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jie Cui, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Manasa Raghavan, Yang Tang
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Patent number: 11831061Abstract: An electronic device may include one or more radios and one or more antennas. Radio-frequency transmission lines may couple a radio to a corresponding antenna. To more efficiently form a radio-frequency transmission line, the radio-frequency transmission line may be formed from interconnected conductive traces distributed between a plurality of printed circuits. By integrating transmission line structures onto printed circuits that also serve other functions, the device can require less space to implement a radio-frequency transmission line. While one or more of these printed circuits may individually be unsuitable to implement a radio-frequency transmission line with a particular impedance, the composite impedance of these transmission line structures across the printed circuits, when properly configured, may provide a radio-frequency transmission line with the particular impedance.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alireza Pourghorban Saghati, Mohammed W. Mokhtar, Ali N. Ergun, Oren S. Levy, Arman Samimi-Dehkordi, Sean T. McIntosh
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Patent number: 11832262Abstract: Technology for a user equipment (UE) operable to multiplex uplink control information (UCI) on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) is disclosed. The UE can determine a symbol duration of the PUSCH. The UE can select a UCI transmission rule in accordance with the symbol duration of the PUSCH when a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource carrying UCI overlaps with more than one PUSCH resource in time within a PUCCH group. The UE can multiplex the UCI on a selected PUSCH resource from the more than one PUSCH resource in accordance with the UCI transmission rule.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Gang Xiong, Yushu Zhang, Guotong Wang
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Patent number: D1005855Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Francesca Amor Delle Cese, Lorraine Y. Tang, Mark T. Uyeda
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Patent number: D1005870Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: 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
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Patent number: D1006022Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
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Patent number: D1006026Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Duncan Robert Kerr, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
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Patent number: D1006032Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Chowdhury, Markus Diebel, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer