Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 11789528Abstract: Calibration of eye tracking is improved by collecting additional calibration pairs when user is using apps with eye tracking. A user input component is presented on a display of an electronic device, detecting a dwelling action for user input component, and in response to detecting the dwelling action, obtaining a calibration pair comprising an uncalibrated gaze point and a screen location of the user input component, wherein the uncalibrated gaze point is determined based on an eye pose during the dwelling action. A screen gaze estimation is determine based on the uncalibrated gaze point, and in response to determining that the calibration pair is a valid calibration pair, training a calibration model using the calibration pair.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey P. Bigham, Mingzhe Li, Samuel C. White, Xiaoyi Zhang, Qi Shan, Carlos E. Guestrin
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Patent number: 11791824Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) includes an Input/Output (I/O) interface, first-domain circuitry and second-domain circuitry. The I/O interface is coupled to a first voltage domain and is configurable by a set of control bits. The second-domain circuitry is coupled to a second voltage domain and is configured to generate a bit value for a control bit among the control bits, to generate a multi-bit identifier (ID) of the control bit, and to transmit the bit value and the multi-bit ID. The first-domain circuitry is coupled to the first voltage domain and is configured to receive the bit value and the multi-bit ID, to identify the control bit from the multi-bit ID, and to configure the control bit of the I/O interface with the bit value.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Sharon D Mutchnik
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Patent number: 11792531Abstract: A processing pipeline and method for mixed reality systems that utilizes selective auto-exposure for a region of interest in a scene based on gaze and that compensates exposure for the rest of the scene based on ambient lighting information for the scene. Images may be generated for display that provide an exposure-compensated, foveated high dynamic range (HDR) experience for the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Robert K Molholm
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Patent number: 11792599Abstract: A device, e.g. a wireless communication device may obtain information associated with private cellular networks from a provisioning server. The information may provide an indication of coverage area(s) of available private cellular network(s). The device may communicate over a commercial cellular network, and determine, based at least on the information, whether the device is located within the coverage area of any available private cellular networks. The device may connect to a first private cellular network (FPCN) of the available private cellular networks and switch from communicating over the commercial cellular network to communicating over the FPCN at least in response to the determination indicating that the device is located within the indicated coverage area. The device may disconnect from the FPCN in response to a determination that the signal level of the FPCN is below a specified value and the device is not using a wallet garden application.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Farouk Belghoul, Cesar Perez, Rafael L. Rivera-Barreto
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Patent number: 11789688Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for presenting content based on environmental data. In various implementations, a device includes a display, a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the display and the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining environmental data associated with a physical environment in which the device is located. In some implementations, the method includes selecting, from a plurality of presentation modes, a first presentation mode for content based on the environmental data. In some implementations, the method includes presenting the content in accordance with the first presentation mode.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Shruti Singhal, Pal Kristian Engstad, Tobias Eble, Norman Nuo Wang, Ivan Gavrenkov, Olivier Denis Roger Gutknecht, Sabine Webel
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Patent number: 11792498Abstract: Portable electronic devices having I/O assemblies that can include optical and audio components are described. An exemplary I/O assembly can include a first camera module and a second camera module that can be carried within a camera module housing. A flex connector can carry a strobe that can be positioned between the first camera module and the second camera module. A trim can enclose the first camera, the second camera and the strobe and optically isolates the optical components. An exemplary portable electronic device can include a side wall retainer that defines its perimeter, a front cover glass and a rear cover glass that cooperate to form an enclosure. The I/O assembly can be secured to the enclosure both from inside and outside of the rear cover glass. I/O assembly can also include an audio transducer that can record sound when the camera module are recording videos.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Daniel W. Jarvis, Michael D. Quinones
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Patent number: 11790871Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that enable a first device to obtain two-dimensional (2D) content referenced by a webpage and a second device in communication with the first device to display 3D content referenced by the webpage. In an example, it is detected that the webpage references 3D content associated with 2D content and detected that a second device, capable of displaying the 3D content referenced by the webpage, is linked to or in communication with the first device. In one example, the second device receives input corresponding to a user selection to view the 3D content, and in response, displays an 3D environment including the 3D content.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Long H. Ngo
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Patent number: 11792142Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to implementing an operational safety mode that manages the output of notifications at an electronic device when a user of the device is operating a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Emily Clark Schubert, Todd Blocksom, Andre MJ Boule, Richard R. Dellinger, Craig M. Federighi, Matthew Elliot Shepherd, Garrett L. Weinberg
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Patent number: 11792309Abstract: An enclosure and a method for forming an enclosure are disclosed. The enclosure may be formed from metal, such as aluminum, and further include a non-metal portion allowing for transmission and receipt of electromagnetic waves. The non-metal portion may be interlocked to the enclosure and in particular, to a region within the enclosure including a first material having a relatively high strength and stiffness compared to the non-metal portion. Interlocking means may include forming dovetail cuts into the enclosure to receive the non-metal portion, a hole or cavity drilled into the enclosure which includes internal threads, and a rod inserted into the first material to provide a tension to the non-metal portion. Methods of assembling internal components using anodization are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Matthew D. Hill, Derek C. Krass, Benjamin Shane Bustle, Lucy Elizabeth Browning, Michael Benjamin Wittenberg, James B. Smith, Ashutosh Y. Shukla, Scott A. Myers
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Patent number: 11791792Abstract: A high-order filter with a capacitive inner tapping technique is disclosed. The filter includes an inductor and a first resonant circuit including a first portion of the inductor and a first capacitor. The first resonant circuit is configured to attenuate first frequency components of an input signal above a cutoff frequency to generate a filtered signal. The filter further includes a second resonant circuit coupled in parallel with the first resonant circuit and including the first portion of the inductor and a second capacitor. The second resonant circuit is configured to attenuate the first frequency components of the input signal to generate the filtered signal. A third resonant circuit includes a second portion of the inductor and a third capacitor, wherein the third resonant circuit is configured to attenuate second frequency components of the filtered signal above the cutoff frequency to generate an output signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Ahmed F. Aref Mahmoud
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Patent number: 11790113Abstract: A user device may share encrypted health data with an electronic health record (EHR) system associated with a health institution. A unique data identifier that identifies a portion of the health data and a cryptographic key may be shared with the EHR system. The encrypted health may be shared with a service provider and a unique data identifier. To access the health data, the EHR system may query the service provider with the unique data identifier.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Pablo Antonio Gonzalez Cervantes, Mohan Singh Randhava, Jorge F. Pozas Trevino, Samuel A. Mussell, Isaac Pinol Catadau, Steven A. Myers, Dongsheng Zhang, Suhail Ahmad, Zhengjun Jiang, Yannick L. Sierra, Amir H. Jadidi
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Patent number: 11789529Abstract: An electronic device that includes a display and an eye tracker configured to collect eye tracking data regarding a gaze of one or more of a user's eyes across the display is disclosed herein. The electronic device includes processing circuitry that is operatively coupled to the display and configured to foveate one or more areas of the display according to the eye tracking data. If the eye tracking data input is lost, the processing circuitry is configured to recover from the loss of eye tracking data by changing one or more aspects of the foveated areas (e.g., size, resolution, etc.) until a threshold is satisfied. As time elapses since loss of eye tracking, the foveated areas move toward a center or a salient region of the display.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yashas Rai Kurlethimar, Can Jin, Nicolas Pierre Marie Frederic Bonnier, Jiaying Wu, Andrew B. Watson
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Patent number: 11787368Abstract: In some exemplary processes for accessing a vehicle, a transit request is initiated. The transit request summons a vehicle towards a location of a user device. Information generated in response to the transit request is received. The information includes first authentication information and second authentication information. Third authentication information from the vehicle is received using a first wireless communication protocol. A determination is made as to whether the third authentication information corresponds to the first authentication information. In accordance with determining that the third authentication information corresponds to the first authentication information, a wireless communication connection is established with the vehicle using a second wireless communication protocol and the second authentication information. The second wireless communication protocol is different from the first wireless communication protocol.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Benjamin B. Lyon, Donald J. Novotney, James J. Reuther, Birju N. Shah, Kurt R. Stiehl
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Patent number: 11791856Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a baseband processor, a transceiver, and an antenna. The transceiver may include a mixer that outputs signals to a transimpedance amplifier. The mixer has an output impedance that varies depending on the frequency of operation. An adjustable resistance can be coupled to the input of the transimpedance amplifier. A control circuit can tune the adjustable resistance to compensate for changes in the output impedance of the mixer as the transceiver operates across a wide range of frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sang Hyun Woo, Florian Mrugalla
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Patent number: 11790119Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to application verification. In various embodiments, a computing device includes a secure circuit configured to maintain a plurality of cryptographic keys of the computing device. In such an embodiment, the computing device receives, from an application, a request for an attestation usable to confirm an integrity of the application, instructs the secure circuit to use one of the plurality of cryptographic keys to supply the attestation for the application, and provides the attestation to a remote computing system in communication with the application. In some embodiments, the secure circuit is configured to verify received metadata pertaining to the identity of the application and use the cryptographic key to generate the attestation indicative of the identity of the application.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hervé Sibert, Eric D. Friedman, Erik C. Neuenschwander, Jerrold V. Hauck, Thomas P. Mensch, Julien F. Freudiger, Alan W. Yu
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Patent number: 11790873Abstract: An electronic display may include a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit may include memory storage to store data values representative of image data to be depicted via the pixel circuit. The memory storage may also include memory components for storing bits of the data value. The pixel circuit may also include a light-emitting device for emitting light based at least in part on the data value and a controller. The controller may receive the data value and store the bits based on a mapping between the bits and the memory components. The mapping may be determined based on routing one or more of the bits associated with one or more defective memory components of the memory components to one or more other memory components of the memory components. The controller may also drive the light-emitting device to emit light based on the bits stored in accordance with the mapping.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Stanley Bo-Ting Wang, Derek Keith Shaeffer, Ivan Knez, Jose Antonio Dominguez-Caballero, Tien-Chien Kuo
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Patent number: 11792748Abstract: A transmitter (e.g. a packet data convergence protocol, PDCP, in the transmitter), which may be a base station for downlink communications or a user equipment device for uplink communications, may control timing of the delivery of duplicate (same) packets to multiple (e.g. two) wireless links (e.g. radio link control links) for transmission to a receiver, based at least on synchronization information received from the receiver. The duplicate packets may be transmitted over the multiple wireless links to the receiver, which may receive the duplicate packets over the multiple wireless links. The receiver may collect and/or generate synchronization information indicative of the timing or latency between the multiple wireless links, based at least on the respective receive timings of the duplicate packets over the multiple wireless links. The receiver may transmit a report containing the synchronization information to the transmitter periodically and/or in response to a trigger event.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2018Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Dawei Zhang, Longda Xing, Murtaza A. Shikari, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Sree Ram Kodali, Srinivasan Nimmala, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Xu Ou, Yuqin Chen
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Patent number: 11792575Abstract: An electronic device may be formed from acoustically permeable textile layers and voice coil layers. The voice coil layers may output sound through the textile layers. The textile layers and voice coil layers may be foldable or bent in one or more directions to allow the electronic device to be placed in expanded, collapsed, or folded configurations to allow for improved portability. Additionally, the textile layers and voice coil layers may be folded or bent to place the electronic device in cylindrical, conical, and other configurations to allow for improved sound output from the voice coil layers. The electronic device may also include light-emitting components between the textile layers that emit light through one of the textile layers to form indicators or images for a user of the device. The electronic device may have a plurality of sensors to allow user interactions to control the output of the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yue Chen, Joshua A. Hoover, Daniel A. Podhajny, Nicholas R. Trincia, Seul Bi Kim, Chad J. Miller, Kristen L. Cretella, Yi Zou, William Leith
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Patent number: 11792726Abstract: Systems, methods, and processors are provided for flexibly configuring network slices in device to device communication. In one example, a baseband processor for a relay user equipment (UE) is configured to cause the UE to receive a UE route selection policy (URSP) from a network. The URSP includes respective URSP rules for routing UE traffic through respective network slices to the network. A first URSP rule indicates whether an associated first network slice is designated for remote UE traffic, relay UE traffic, or both remote UE traffic and relay UE traffic. The baseband processor is configured to cause the UE to establish a device to device (D2D) connection with a remote UE to relay remote UE traffic from the remote UE to a base station and assign the remote UE traffic to at least one network slice based on the URSP.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ahmed M Soliman, Krisztian Kiss, Yu-Ting Yu, Sudeep Manithara Vamanan
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Patent number: D1001828Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2023Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Yeo Been Chung, Andrew Patrick Clymer, Alan C. Dye, Aurelio Guzmán