Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 11818502
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jae Hoon Kim, Chris Y. Chung, Dazhong Zhang, Hang Yuan, Hsi-Jung Wu, Xiaosong Zhou, Jiefu Zhai
  • Patent number: 11818528
    Abstract: Wireless earbuds may be provided with adjustable-shape housings. The housings may have bendable portions. Bendable metal members, hinges, or other flexible structures may be used in forming bendable structures for the earbuds. Electrical components may be covered by a layer of molded foam. A cover such as a fabric cover may be used to cover the molded foam. Spacer fabric or other soft material may be interposed between the fabric cover and the foam. The housing may be bent or otherwise adjusted between two or more states such as a normal, non-sleep, walking state in which the housing is expanded for normal operation while a user is sitting or walking and a sleep state in which the housing is bent to enhance comfort while sleeping. The wireless earbuds may have illumination systems, sensors, and other components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yi Zou, Chad J. Miller, Daniel A. Podhajny, Joshua A. Hoover, Kristen L. Cretella, Nicholas R. Trincia, Seul Bi Kim, William Leith, Yue Chen
  • Patent number: 11815677
    Abstract: Image projection apparatus includes an image generating assembly, which is configured to project a sequence of line images extending in a first direction. A scanning mirror is positioned to receive and to reflect the line images while rotating about a mirror axis parallel to the first direction. A pupil expander has an edge positioned to receive the line images reflected by the scanning mirror and a face extending in a second direction non-parallel to the first direction and to the edge, and which is configured to direct simultaneously through the face multiple, parallel replicas of the expanded line images arrayed along the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Arman Hajati, Alexander Shpunt, Robert S. Upton, Yuval Gerson
  • Patent number: 11818419
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Moinul H. Khan, Katharina Buckl, Venu M. Duggineni, Aleksandr M. Movshovich, Sreeraman Anantharaman, Phillip N. Smith
  • Patent number: 11818912
    Abstract: A display may have organic light-emitting diode pixels formed from thin-film circuitry. The thin-film circuitry may be formed in thin-film transistor (TFT) layers and the organic light-emitting diodes may include anodes and cathodes and an organic emissive layer formed over the TFT layers between the anodes and cathodes. The organic emissive layer may be formed via chemical evaporation techniques. The display may include moisture blocking structures such as organic emissive layer disconnecting structures that introduce one or more gaps in the organic emissive layer during evaporation so that any potential moisture permeating path from the display panel edge to the active area of the display is completely terminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tsung-Ting Tsai, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Chuan-Sheng Wei, HanChi Ting, Jae Won Choi, Jianhong Lin, Nai-Chih Kao, Shih Chang Chang, Shin-Hung Yeh, Takahide Ishii, Ting-Kuo Chang, Yu Hung Chen, Yu-Wen Liu, Yu-Chuan Pai, Andrew Lin
  • Patent number: 11818281
    Abstract: A portable electronic device includes a housing, a display at least partially within the housing, and a front cover and rear cover coupled to the housing. The rear cover defines a first portion of a rear exterior surface of the portable electronic device, a protrusion defining a sensor array region of the rear cover and a second portion of the rear exterior surface, and an internal surface opposite the second portion of the rear exterior surface. The portable electronic device also includes a sensor array mounted within the housing along the sensor array region and comprising a frame member coupled to the rear cover, a camera module positioned in the first container region, and a depth sensor module positioned in the second container region and attached to the internal surface of the rear cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Kallman, Luman Zhang, Hugh J. Jay, Trent Canales, Lindsay M. Alanen, Christopher B. Lyons, Brian A. Argyres, Sherry Cao, Jaden A. Barney, Lucy E. Browning, Sawyer I. Cohen, Benjamin J. Pope
  • Publication number: 20230362696
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for hybrid measurement gap operation. A network-side device may provide a hybrid measurement gap (MG) configuration to a wireless device, the hybrid measurement gap (MG) configuration scheduling measurement operation of the wireless device in accordance with hybrid measurement gap patterns. The wireless device may receive the hybrid measurement gap (MG) configuration, and thus perform measurement operation based on the hybrid measurement gap patterns as scheduled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qiming LI, Yang TANG, Dawei ZHANG, Jie CUI, Huaning NIU, Xiang CHEN, Manasa RAGHAVAN
  • Publication number: 20230362929
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing downlink control for multi-TRP transmission. A network-side device may provide a downlink control information transmission to a wireless device scheduling downlink transmission to the wireless device from multiple transmission reception points. The downlink transmission may relate to Hybrid automatic repeat request process and/or system information transmission. And the downlink control information may include information about scheduling of HARQ processes from different TRPs, and/or information about scheduling of SI transmission from different TRPs. The wireless device may receive the downlink transmissions from the plurality of transmission reception points in accordance with the downlink control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong SUN, Dawei ZHANG, Wei ZENG, Yushu ZHANG, Jia TANG, Amir FARAJIDANA, Wei ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230362697
    Abstract: A method for a network element is provided. The method comprises: determining multiple concurrent measurement gap (MG) patterns; encoding a message for transmission to a user equipment (UE) including MG configuration information that includes an indication of the multiple concurrent MG patterns, wherein the indication of the multiple concurrent MG patterns includes at least time offsets for respective MG patterns; and transmitting the message to the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qiming LI, Dawei ZHANG, Huaning NIU, Jie CUI, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Xiang CHEN, Yang TANG
  • Publication number: 20230361967
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for counting active resources for UE processing complexity related capability. A cellular base station may comprise at least one antenna; at least one radio coupled to the at least one antenna; and a processor coupled to the at least one radio. The cellular base station is configured to count a total number of active resources in a slot, wherein an active resource is defined for counting a number of CSI resources a UE needs to process simultaneously in a slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong SUN, Yeong-Sun HWANG, Dawei ZHANG, Wei ZENG, Yushu ZHANG, Ismael GUTIERREZ GONZALEZ
  • Publication number: 20230361632
    Abstract: A magnetic alignment system can include a primary annular magnetic alignment component and a secondary annular magnetic alignment component. The primary alignment component can include an inner annular region having a first magnetic orientation, an outer annular region having a second magnetic orientation opposite to the first magnetic orientation, and a non-magnetized central annular region disposed between the primary inner annular region and the primary outer annular region. The secondary alignment component can have a magnetic orientation with a radial component. Additional features, such as a rotational magnetic alignment component and/or an NFC coil and circuitry can be included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Karl Ruben F. Larsson, Aaron A. Oro, Timothy J. Rasmussen, Christopher S. Graham, Eric S. Jol, James C. Wu, Demetrios B. Karanikos, Miranda L. Daly, Paul J. Thompson
  • Publication number: 20230362798
    Abstract: An approach is described for a base station to generate a first message and a second message. The base station transmits the first message and the second message to a user equipment (UE). The first message is associated with a cell supported by the base station and includes a first public land mobile network (PLMN) identity index and a first list of one or more network slices supported by a first PLMN associated with the first PLMN identity index. The second message is associated with one or more neighboring cells, and includes the first PLMN identity index and a second list of one or more network slice data associated the first PLMN as supported by the one or more neighboring cells. In addition, at least one of the one or more network slice data in the second list includes a sub-list of one or more neighboring cell data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fangli XU, Ralf ROSSBACH, Sudeep Manithara VAMANAN, Mona AGNEL, Krisztian KISS, Sarma V. VANGALA, Naveen Kumar R PALLE VENKATA, Zhibin WU, Haijing HU, Dawei ZHANG, Yuqin CHEN, Huarui LIANG
  • Publication number: 20230361938
    Abstract: Some embodiments include an apparatus, method, and computer program product for enhanced Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ)-ACK in a fifth generation (5G) wireless communications system. A user equipment (UE) can receive, during a HARQ-ACK window, a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) transmission or a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) transmission corresponding to a SPS PDSCH release. The UE can generate a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ)-ACK information bit corresponding to the reception. The UE can be configured with an offset value, k, and a length, l, of the HARQ-ACK window associated with an uplink transmission slot n, of a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) transmission, and determine a starting slot of the HARQ-ACK window as n?k. When a corresponding valid uplink transmission slot is not available, the UE can transmit the HARQ-ACK information bit in the uplink transmission slot n of the PUCCH transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong HE, Dawei ZHANG, Wei ZENG, Haitong SUN, Yushu ZHANG, Chunhai YAO, Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN, Chunxuan YE, Huaning NIU, Oghenekome OTERI, Sigen YE, Weidong YANG, Yang TANG, Jie CUI
  • Publication number: 20230361946
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing downlink control for multi-TRP transmission. A wireless device, comprising: at least one antenna; at least one radio coupled to the at least one antenna; and a processor coupled to the at least one radio and configured to cause the wireless device to: determine a gap period is to be applied between a first uplink transmission to a cellular base station via a first transmission reception point (TRP) and a second uplink transmission to the cellular base station via a second TRP; and perform the first and second uplink transmissions consecutively with the gap period applied between them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qiming LI, Dawei ZHANG, Huaning NIU, Jie CUI, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Xiang CHEN, Yang TANG, Yushu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230359557
    Abstract: A cache may include multiple request handling pipes, each of which may further include multiple request buffers, for storing device requests from one or more processors to one or more devices. Some of the device requests may require to be sent to the devices according to an order. For a given one of such device requests, the cache may select a request handling pipe, based on an address indicated by the device request, and select a request buffer, based on the available entries of the request buffers of the selected request handling pipe, to store the device request. The cache may further use a first-level and a second-level token stores to track and maintain the device requests in order when transmitting the device requests to the devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sandeep Gupta, Brian P. Lilly, Krishna C. Potnuru
  • Publication number: 20230360507
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for in-home health intercom and notification. In one example, a first device receives a message comprising a description of an event of a first person in an environment from a first user device using a first transmission protocol. The first device detects that the message is an event message. The first device transmits the event message to the second computing device in the environment using a second transmission protocol, where the first device and the second device are in operable communication using a local area network. The first device receives, using the second transmission protocol, a response from the second device that the second computing device has transmitted the event message to a second user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Kshitij S. Deshpande
  • Publication number: 20230359645
    Abstract: In some implementations, a user device can maintain a multi-device context store. For example, the user device can receive device and/or user context information from multiple devices and store the context information in a local data store. The user device can collect local device and/or user context information and store the context information in the local context store. The user device can receive user/device context queries from client processes and send the client processes user/device context information from multiple devices in response to the queries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kartik Venkatraman, Umesh Vaishampayan
  • Publication number: 20230362489
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera voice coil motor (VCM) actuator configured to shift an image sensor along multiple axes. Some embodiments include a magnet and coil arrangement. Some embodiments include a position sensing arrangement. Some embodiments include a flexure arrangement. Some embodiments include a coil structure and coil carrier assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shashank Sharma, Scott W. Miller
  • Publication number: 20230356692
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a vehicle navigation system which can navigate a vehicle through an environment based on driving commands received from a remote control system based on manual operator interaction with an interface of the remote control system. Remote driving control can be engaged based on determination, via processing vehicle sensor data, of a health emergency associated with one or more occupants of the vehicle, and the remote control system can generate remote driving commands which cause the vehicle to be navigated to a particular location without requiring the occupant associated with the health emergency to manually navigate the vehicle. The remote control system can monitor the occupant via communicated vehicle sensor data and can control remote control devices included in the vehicle to provide external indication that the vehicle is being navigated according to remote driving control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bartholomeus C. Nabbe, Tie-Qi Chen, Benjamin B. Lyon
  • Publication number: 20230362937
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing techniques for a user equipment (UE) to transmit a configured grant (CG) physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) including an uplink control information (UCI) without transmitting a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). The UE determines, based on a configuration received from the base station, a first set of CG PUSCHs. Each CG PUSCH of the first set of CG PUSCHs overlaps with the PUCCH, and is configured to transmit data from the UE to the base station. The UE further determines a second set of CG PUSCHs by excluding a third set of CG PUSCHs from the first set of CG PUSCHs. and select a CG PUSCH from the second set of CG PUSCHs to carry the UCI contained in the PUCCH. The UE further transmits the selected CG PUSCH including the UCI without transmitting the PUCCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wenshu ZHANG, Weldong YANG, Fangli XU, Wei ZENG, Dawei ZHANG, Chunhai YAO, Yushu ZHANG, Oghenekome OTERI, Seyed Ali Akbar FAKORIAN, Sigen YE, Raif ROSSBACH