Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 11816876Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an input video comprising a plurality of image frames including an object of interest. Based on the plurality of image frames, a motion associated with the object of interest is determined, and the plurality of image frames are classified using a machine-learning model to identify one of the plurality of image frames that indicates detection of the determined motion.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hessam Bagherinezhad, Carlo Eduardo Cabanero Del Mundo, Anish Jnyaneshwar Prabhu, Peter Zatloukal, Lawrence Frederick Arnstein
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Patent number: 11816776Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to display devices. In some embodiments, a display device includes a display system configured to display three-dimensional content to a user. The display device is configured to discover, via a network interface, one or more compute nodes operable to facilitate rendering the three-dimensional content and receive information identifying abilities of the one or more compute nodes to facilitate the rendering. Based on the received information, the display device evaluates a set of tasks to identify one or more of the tasks to offload to the one or more compute nodes for facilitating the rendering and distributes, via the network interface, the identified one or more tasks to the one or more compute nodes for processing by the one or more compute nodes.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ranjit Desai, Michael J. Rockwell
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Patent number: 11818672Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Next Generation Node-B (gNB), Evolved Node-B (eNB) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The UE may determine, based on one or more detected synchronization signals, a reference timing to be used for a common synchronization of Long Term Evolution (LTE) sidelink communication on an LTE PC5 interface and New Radio (NR) sidelink communication on an NR PC5 interface in accordance with time division multiplexing (TDM) operation, wherein subframe boundaries of the LTE PC5 interface and the NR PC5 interface are aligned in time. If the UE detects, during a time period, an in-device conflict between a service configured for the LTE PC5 interface and a service configured for the NR PC5 interface, the UE may determine which of the services to support during the time period based on corresponding priorities.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alexey Khoryaev, Ansab Ali, Kyeongin Jeong, Mikhail Shilov, Sergey Panteleev
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Patent number: 11817823Abstract: To prevent an undesired operating mode of voltage-controlled oscillation (VCO) circuitry from dominating a desired operating mode (e.g., an in-phase operating mode or an out-of-phase operating mode), a supply reset and ramp pulse may be provided to the VCO circuitry when switching to a new mode, such that supply voltage to the VCO circuitry is reset (e.g., set to 0 V or another reference voltage), and gradually increased or ramped up back to a steady-state voltage (e.g., used to maintain a mode) within a time duration. Additionally or alternatively, a switch control bootstrap pulse may be provided to the VCO circuitry that is bootstrapped to (e.g., applied instantaneously or concurrently with) switching the VCO circuitry to the new mode. After a time duration, the VCO circuitry may switch back to a steady-state voltage (e.g., used to maintain the new mode).Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hongrui Wang, Abbas Komijani
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Patent number: 11817065Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods to control brightness or color in foldable displays. An electronic device may include a foldable electronic display and processing circuitry. The foldable electronic display may have a first part and a second part that are foldable at a folding angle with respect to one another. The processing circuitry may provide image data to the foldable electronic display that varies based at least in part on the folding angle.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Xingfeng He, Byoungsuk Kim, Yifan Zhang, Hoon Sik Kim, Yun Liu, Hao Chen, Paul S Drzaic, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi
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Patent number: 11817916Abstract: A first device such as a wristwatch may include a front face at which a display is disposed and a rear face at which a rear housing wall is mounted. Antenna structures may overlap the rear housing wall and may be operable to transmit and receive relatively high frequency signals through the rear housing wall to a communication with a second device such as a wireless power transmitting device for the wristwatch. The second device may also include antenna structures that overlap a top surface housing. Respective sets of magnetic structures may be provided in the first and second devices to align the two devices and to form a reliable wireless communication link between the two devices. The first and second devices may include respective antenna arrays that include pairs of antenna elements that are selectively used to form a reliable wireless communication link.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Daniel J. Hiemstra, Jorge L. Rivera Espinoza, Timothy B. Ogilvie, Timothy M. Johnson
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Patent number: 11816820Abstract: A multi-layer low-pass filter is used to filter a first frame of video data representing at least a portion of an environment of an individual. A first layer of the filter has a first filtering resolution setting for a first subset of the first frame, while a second layer of the filter has a second filtering resolution setting for a second subset. The first subset includes a data element positioned along a direction of a gaze of the individual, and the second subset of the frame surrounds the first subset. A result of the filtering is compressed and transmitted via a network to a video processing engine configured to generate a modified visual representation of the environment.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Can Jin, Nicolas Peirre Marie Frederic Bonnier, Hao Pan
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Patent number: 11812842Abstract: A wirelessly locatable tag may be configured to transmit a wireless signal to an electronic device to facilitate localization of the wirelessly locatable tag by the electronic device. The wirelessly locatable tag may include an antenna assembly comprising an antenna frame defining a top surface and a peripheral side surface and an antenna positioned along the peripheral side surface and configured to transmit the wireless signal. The wirelessly locatable tag may further include a frame member coupled to the antenna assembly and defining a battery cavity configured to receive a button cell battery and an enclosure enclosing the antenna assembly and the frame member. The enclosure may include a first housing member formed from a unitary polymer structure and defining a top wall defining an entirety of a top exterior surface of the wirelessly locatable tag.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Ryan C. Perkins, Tatsuya Sano, Christopher J. Walton, Erik L. Wang, Christopher M. Werner
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Patent number: 11816858Abstract: Embodiments relate to an image processing circuit comprising a noise reduction circuit configurable to perform bilateral filtering on demosaiced and resampled image data, or on raw image data, based on the operating mode of the image processing circuit. The noise reduction circuit filters received image data based upon directional taps, by selecting, for each pixel, a set of neighbor pixels, and comparing values of the set of neighbor pixels to determine whether the pixel lies on a directional edge. For raw images, the noise reduction circuit selects the set of neighbor pixels to include a plurality of pixels of the same color channel as the pixel, and one or more additional pixels of a different color channel, where color values for the one or more additional pixels are determined by interpolating color values of two or more adjacent pixels of the same color channel as the pixel.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Maxim Smirnov, Sheng Lin
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Patent number: 11817958Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for a media access control (MAC) level operation that enables a transmitter and a receiver to select low-density parity check (LDPC) codewords that are HARQ retransmitted. The operations described herein provide for reducing the number of codewords that need to be retransmitted, minimizing the overhead needed to signal the feedback from a receiver to a transmitter, and allowing a transmitter to control which codewords are retransmitted.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jarkko L. Kneckt, Yong Liu, Jinjing Jiang, Su Khiong Yong, Tianyu Wu
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Patent number: 11812831Abstract: A cover for an electronic device may be formed from fabric. The cover may include a front cover portion and a rear cover portion that rotate relative to one another about a first bend axis. The front cover portion may have first and second panels that rotate relative to one another about a second bend axis. The cover may have flexible hinge regions along the first and second bend axes. The flexible hinge regions may include spacer fabric having first and second warp knit fabric layers and spacer strands coupled between the first and second warp knit fabric layers. Stiffeners may be used to stiffen portions of the cover between the flexible hinge regions. An inlay strand may be located in the flexible hinge region in the front cover portion to restrict the range of motion of the first panel relative to the second panel.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: William Leith, Travis C. Pedley, Mark W. Townsend, Camille I. Henrot, Austin S. Glover
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Patent number: 11818579Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to allowing unauthenticated UEs to gain restricted access to an operator network to access network access subscription service. Once the unauthenticated UE successfully downloads a subscription profile for accessing the operator network, the unauthenticated UE can disconnect and can, thereafter, authenticate to the operator network using the subscription profile. Embodiments disclosed herein can perform one-way authentication to the operator network for obtaining a limited connectivity to reduce DoS attacks on the operator network. More specifically, these embodiments can support unauthenticated UEs to allow unauthenticated UEs to access the operator network for RLOS while minimizing DoS attack.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Abhijeet Kolekar, Farid Adrangi
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Patent number: 11816866Abstract: Devices, methods, and non-transitory program storage devices (NPSDs) are disclosed to compensate for the predicted color changes experienced by camera modules after certain amounts of time of real world use. Such color changes may be caused by prolonged exposure of optical components of the camera module to one or more of: solar radiation, high temperature conditions, or high humidity conditions, each of which may, over time, induce deviation in the color response of optical components of the camera module. The techniques disclosed herein may first characterize such predicted optical change to components over time based on particular environmental conditions, and then implement one or more time-varying color models to compensate for predicted changes to the camera module's color calibration values due to the characterized optical change. In some embodiments, optical changes in other types of components, e.g., display devices, caused by prolonged environmental stresses may also be modeled and compensated.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Miguel Angel Lopez Alvarez, Yonghui Zhao
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Patent number: 11818394Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for coding video data predictively based on predictions made from spherical-domain projections of input pictures to be coded and reference pictures that are prediction candidates. Spherical projection of an input picture and the candidate reference pictures may be generated. Thereafter, a search may be conducted for a match between the spherical-domain representation of a pixel block to be coded and a spherical-domain representation of the reference picture. On a match, an offset may be determined between the spherical-domain representation of the pixel block to a matching portion of the of the reference picture in the spherical-domain representation. The spherical-domain offset may be transformed to a motion vector in a source-domain representation of the input picture, and the pixel block may be coded predictively with reference to a source-domain representation of the matching portion of the reference picture.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jae Hoon Kim, Xiaosong Zhou, Dazhong Zhang, Hang Yuan, Jiefu Zhai, Chris Y. Chung, Hsi-Jung Wu
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Patent number: 11817025Abstract: An electronic device may have pixels. The pixels may form one or more displays. The displays may be flexible organic light-emitting diode displays or other displays. The electronic device may have first and second display layers that face away from each other and display images in different directions. Image transport layers may overlap the display layers and may have curved edges that overlap a sidewall portion of the electronic device. Image transport layers receive images at input surfaces and transport the received images to corresponding output surfaces. Image transport layers may be provided with hemispherical shapes and other shapes having output surfaces of compound curvature. A folding device may have first and second displays that are overlapped by respective first and second image transport layers that join over a hinge to block the hinge from view. A wristwatch device may have links or other structures with an image transport layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ying-Chih Wang, Michael J. Brown, Michael B. Wittenberg, Paul C. Kelley, Rasamy Phouthavong, Tyler R. Kakuda, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Marwan Rammah, Richard H. Dinh
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Patent number: 11817383Abstract: Temperature sensor packages and methods of fabrication are described. The temperature sensor packages in accordance with embodiments may be rigid or flexible. In some embodiments the temperature sensor packages are configured for touch sensing, and include an electrically conductive sensor pattern such as a thermocouple or resistance temperature detector (RTD) pattern. In some embodiments, the temperature sensor packages are configured for non-contact sensing an include an embedded transducer.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Pierpaolo Lupo, Bilal Mohamed Ibrahim Kani, Kishore N. Renjan, Kyusang Kim, Manoj Vadeentavida
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Patent number: 11818793Abstract: Devices, methods, user equipment (UE), base stations, storage media, and other embodiments are provided for managing associations in a communication network. In one example embodiment, a Next Generation (NG) core network device is configured for an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) with an NG-Radio Access Network (NG-RAN) node. The network device may be configured to access a plurality of Transport Network Link (TNL) associations and generate an AMF configuration update using the TNL associations, the AMF configuration update comprising AMF transport layer address information for the plurality of TNL associations. The network device may then initiate transmission of the AMF configuration update comprising the AMF transport layer address information to the NG-RAN node. Additional embodiments may involve binding updates or setup response messaging for managing associations, along with additional operations.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2018Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alexander Sirotkin, Alexandre Saso Stojanovski
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Patent number: 11818419Abstract: A mobile device includes a display, at least one sensor, and a wireless transceiver. The mobile device also includes control circuitry coupled to the display, the at least one sensor, and the wireless transceiver. The control circuitry is configured to obtain content primitives from the at least one sensor, to perform content provisioning operations to obtain content based at least in part on the content primitives, and to display the obtained content on the display, wherein at least some of the content is virtual content. In response to a bandwidth condition of the wireless communication channel being less than a threshold, the control circuitry is configured to perform adjusted content provisioning operations that involve increasing an amount of image processing operations performed by the mobile device to obtain the content.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Moinul H. Khan, Katharina Buckl, Venu M. Duggineni, Aleksandr M. Movshovich, Sreeraman Anantharaman, Phillip N. Smith
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Patent number: 11816329Abstract: A method for performing multi-touch (MT) data fusion is disclosed in which multiple touch inputs occurring at about the same time are received to generating first touch data. Secondary sense data can then be combined with the first touch data to perform operations on an electronic device. The first touch data and the secondary sense data can be time-aligned and interpreted in a time-coherent manner. The first touch data can be refined in accordance with the secondary sense data, or alternatively, the secondary sense data can be interpreted in accordance with the first touch data. Additionally, the first touch data and the secondary sense data can be combined to create a new command.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Wayne Carl Westerman, John Greer Elias
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Patent number: 11818502Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for perspective shifting in a video conferencing session. In one exemplary method, a video stream may be generated. A foreground element may be identified in a frame of the video stream and distinguished from a background element of the frame. Data may be received representing a viewing condition at a terminal that will display the generated video stream. The frame of the video stream may be modified based on the received data to shift of the foreground element relative to the background element. The modified video stream may be displayed at the displaying terminal.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jae Hoon Kim, Chris Y. Chung, Dazhong Zhang, Hang Yuan, Hsi-Jung Wu, Xiaosong Zhou, Jiefu Zhai