Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 11798481
    Abstract: A pixel circuit for an electronic display may include a memory to store a digital data signal indicative of a value within a data range. The pixel circuit may also include a light-emitting diode to emit light based at least in part on the digital data signal. The pixel circuit may also include an initialization transistor to initialize the pixel circuit before the light-emitting diode emits light and a driving transistor to activate based at least in part on the digital data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yingkan Lin, Tien-Chien Kuo, Bilin Wang, Kanghoon Jeon, Ivan Knez, Chun-Yao Huang
  • Patent number: 11799225
    Abstract: Connectors that provide a large number of connections between a flexible circuit board and a printed circuit board, can easily and securely connect the flexible circuit board to the printed circuit board, are readily manufactured, and can be used in an assembly of an electronic device without excessive warpage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: George Tziviskos, Aaron N. Miletich, Eric S. Jol
  • Patent number: 11799986
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for thread-level execution in non-kernel space. Most modern consumer usage scenarios are focused on user experience for only a few network connections; in many such cases, background network applications and/or stale network connections could be de-prioritized and/or even terminated without adverse effect. The exemplary “polylithic” non-kernel space networking architecture concurrently runs multiple instances of a network stack in non-kernel space. Thread execution for each instance can be individually managed by the operating system (OS). Disclosed embodiments dynamically determine receive (RX) mitigation and/or receive side scaling with consistent hashing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Cahya Adiansyah Masputra, Eric Tze Leung Cheng, Sandeep Nair, Wei Shen
  • Patent number: 11800209
    Abstract: A camera may include an image sensor attached with a substrate configured to move relative to one or more lenses of the camera in one or more directions. The camera may include one or more actuators to control movement of the image sensor, which may include at least one magnet and at least one corresponding coil. The magnet of the actuators may be attached with the substrate, outside a perimeter of the substrate or on the substrate but close to the perimeter of the substrate. The magnet may cause the adjacent portion of the substrate to become cantilevered with only partial support. The camera may include a frame structure having one or more raised regions towards the magnet to reduce a stress on the cantilevered portion of the substrate, e.g., during a drop or shock event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas D Smyth, Hiran R Rathnasinghe, Nitin Kumar Chennupati
  • Patent number: 11799429
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for operating transceiver circuitry to transmit or receive signals on various frequency ranges. To do so, a transmitter or a receiver of the transceiver circuitry is selectively coupled to or uncoupled from an antenna of the transceiver circuitry. Additionally, radio frequency filters may be individually or collectively coupled to and/or uncoupled from the antenna to filter different frequencies in the transmitting or receiving signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Saihua Lin, Hongrui Wang, Sohrab Emami-Neyestanak
  • Patent number: 11797146
    Abstract: A computer system displays an annotation placement user interface that includes a representation of a field of view of one or more cameras that is updated over time based on changes in the field of view, and a placement user interface element indicating a virtual annotation placement location. While the placement user interface element indicates a first location in the representation of the field of view, receiving a first annotation placement input; and, in response, displaying an annotation at the first location in the representation of the field of view, and displaying one or more first guides that extend from the first location in the representation of the field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Allison W. Dryer, Giancarlo Yerkes, Grant R. Paul, Lisa K. Forssell
  • Patent number: 11797934
    Abstract: A user having multiple electronic devices may receive notifications at each of the devices. When it is determined that a first device is in an active state and that a notification has been viewed on that device, an indication that the notification has been viewed may be communicated by the first device to a synchronization server. It may then be determined whether the viewed notification is also present on one or more of the user's other devices. Based on the determination, an indication that the notification has been viewed may be sent from the synchronization server to each of the user's devices on which the notification is present. Upon receipt of the indication from the synchronization server, the viewed notification may be removed from each of the devices, thereby avoiding a redundant display of the notification on multiple devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Stephen Lemay, Elizabeth Caroline Furches Cranfill, Ron Huang
  • Patent number: 11800405
    Abstract: An electronic device discussed herein may include radio frequency communication circuitry for communication on a radio frequency network according to a communication configuration, a processor, and memory. The memory may store instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to perform operations including receiving, a first muting configuration indicating when the radio frequency communication circuitry is to communicate using a first type of communication on a first frequency band and when the radio frequency communication circuitry is to communicate using a second type of communication on a second frequency band, where the first frequency band may overlap with the second frequency band. The memory may store instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to perform operations including transmitting or receiving a data packet using the radio frequency communication circuitry according to the communication configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anatoliy Sergey Ioffe, Lydi Smaini, Rastislav Vazny, Ronald William Dimpflmaier, Alexander Sayenko
  • Patent number: 11795564
    Abstract: This application relates to an enclosure for a portable electronic device. The enclosure includes an aluminum alloy substrate and an anodized layer overlaying and formed from the aluminum alloy substrate. The anodized layer includes pores, where the pores include (i) dye particles that impart the anodized layer with a color, and (ii) divalent metal cations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: James A. Curran, James A. Dean, Todd S. Mintz
  • Patent number: 11799565
    Abstract: A wireless power system has a wireless power transmitting device and a wireless power receiving device. A clock signal may be provided to inverter circuitry in wireless power transmitting circuitry at a power transmission frequency. The clock signal may cause transistors in the inverter circuitry to turn on and off to create AC current signals through the wireless power transmitting coil. The clock signal may be processed to mitigate electromagnetic interference in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sujeet Milind Patole, Cheung-Wei Lam, Vaneet Pathak
  • Patent number: 11798462
    Abstract: Light emitting diode display panels with an open loop amplifier resulting in better brightness accuracy and matching between multiple light emitting diode strings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Mohammad J. Navabi-Shirazi, Ming Gu, Alejandro Lara Ascorra, James E. Brown
  • Patent number: 11800649
    Abstract: An electronic device including a housing defining an aperture, a display component positioned in the aperture, and a filler material at least partially surrounding a periphery of the display component. The filler material can contact the display component and a portion of the housing defining the aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Kodiak D. Burke, John J. Baker, Tyler B. Cater, Christopher J. Durning, Benjamin J. Pope, Richard H. Dinh
  • Patent number: 11798242
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of providing contextual computer-generated reality (CGR) digital assistant is performed at a device provided to deliver a CGR scene, the device including one or more processors, non-transitory memory, and one or more displays. The method includes obtaining image data characterizing a field of view captured by an image sensor. The method further includes identifying in the image data a contextual trigger for one of a plurality of contextual CGR digital assistants. The method additionally includes selecting a visual representation of the one of the plurality of contextual CGR digital assistants, where the visual representation is selected based on context and in response to identifying the contextual trigger. The method also includes presenting the CGR scene by displaying the visual representation of the one of the plurality of contextual CGR digital assistants, where the visual representation provides information associated with the contextual trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Avi Bar-Zeev, Golnaz Abdollahian, Devin William Chalmers, David H. Y. Huang, Banafsheh Jalali
  • Patent number: 11797113
    Abstract: In response to a first press input, a device displays a control corresponding to a control function with a first size and with a value indicator representing that a current value of the control function. After displaying the control with the first size and the value indicator, if a subsequent press input has not been detected within a threshold time, the device ceases to display the control; and if a second press input is detected on the same input region within the threshold time: the device adjusts the current value of the control function in accordance with the second press input; the device adjusts a size of the first control from the first size to a second size; and the device changes an appearance of the value indicator to represent that the current value of the control function is the second value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Nathan de Vries, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, William M. Tyler
  • Patent number: 11797766
    Abstract: Systems and processes for word prediction using multiple contexts are provided. For example, a plurality of words are received. A first word context including a first plurality of received words, and a second word context corresponding to the first plurality of received words and a second plurality of received words, are obtained. A first current word probability is determined based on a first language model using the first word context. A second current word probability is determined based on a second language model using the second word context. A third current word probability is determined based on the second language model using the first word context. A fourth current word probability is determined based on the first current word probability, the second current word probability, and the third current word probability. An output is provided, to a user, including a current word prediction based on the fourth current word probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome R. Bellegarda, Richard Harry Starfield
  • Patent number: 11800746
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided with a display and a light sensor that receives light that passes through the display. The display includes features that increase the amount of light that passes through the display. The features may be translucency enhancement features that allow light to pass directly through the display onto a light sensor mounted behind the display or may include a light-guiding layer that guides light through the display onto a light sensor mounted along an edge of the display. The translucency enhancement features may be formed in a reflector layer or an electrode layer for the display. The translucency enhancement features may include microperforations in a reflector layer of the display, a light-filtering reflector layer of the display, or a reflector layer of the display that passes a portion of the light and reflects an additional portion of the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, Paul S. Drzaic, Erik G. de Jong, Fletcher R. Rothkopf
  • Patent number: D1002589
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1002641
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor Gerard Carrigan, Patrick Lee Coffman, Thalia Jimena Echevarria Fiol, Christopher P. Foss, Bon Min, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D1002660
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Christopher Foss, Wan Si Wan, Christopher Wilson
  • Patent number: D1002671
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Aled Williams