Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 11790914
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to voice-control for electronic devices. In some embodiments, the method includes, in response to detecting a plurality of utterances, associating the plurality of operations with a first stored operation set and detecting a second set of one or more inputs corresponding to a request to perform the operations associated with the first stored operation set; and performing the plurality of operations associated with the first stored operation set, in the respective order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Bartlett Aitken, Clare T. Kasemset
  • Patent number: 11792881
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a user equipment (UE) to perform frequency offset (FO) delta tracking. For an anchor component carrier (CC), the UE wakes up to perform tracking updates on a plurality of successive DRX cycles. For the non-anchor CC, the UE determines a minimum update interval ?tupd, and schedules wake-ups on a first subset of the plurality of successive DRX cycles based on the minimum update interval ?tupd. For the first subset of the plurality of successive DRX cycles with scheduled wake-ups, the UE performs the tracking updates on the non-anchor CC and updates an FO delta between the anchor CC and the non-anchor CC. For a second subset of the plurality of successive DRX cycles without the scheduled wake-ups on the non-anchor CC, the UE applies the FO delta to correct for a frequency error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: David Öhmann, Hongbo Yan, Amir Farajidana, Dietmar Gradl, Sami M. Almalfouh, Shengshan Cui
  • Patent number: 11790870
    Abstract: A processor or other circuitry may obtain emissive element strength information for an array of emissive elements of an electronic display. The processor or other circuitry may reconstruct backlight information at multiple locations within the electronic display. The processor or other circuitry also compensates display of image data based at least in part on the reconstructed backlight information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Mahesh B. Chappalli
  • Patent number: 11789276
    Abstract: A head-mounted device includes a device housing and a headband that is configured to support the device housing with respect to the user. A first connector part is connected to the headband, wherein the first connector part includes a first electrical connector portion. A second connector part is connected to the device housing, wherein the second connector part includes a second electrical connector portion. The first connector part and the second connector part are movable between a connected position, in which the first electrical connector portion is in engagement with the second electrical connector portion, and a disconnected position, in which the first connector part is spaced from the second connector part and the first electrical connector portion is not in engagement with the second electrical connector portion. The headband is able to rotate with respect to the device housing in the connected position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Darshan R. Kasar
  • Patent number: 11792630
    Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The UE may receive a narrowband physical downlink control channel (NPDCCH) that includes an uplink scheduling parameter. The UE may determine an uplink scheduling delay for transmission of a narrowband physical uplink shared channel (NPUSCH) in accordance with time-division duplexing (TDD). The uplink scheduling delay may be based on a sum of a predetermined first number of subframes and a variable second number of subframes. The second number of subframes may be based on a window of variable size that starts when the first number of subframes has elapsed since reception of the NPDCCH, and ends when a number of uplink subframes has elapsed since the start of the window. The number of uplink subframes may be indicated by the uplink scheduling parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qiaoyang Ye, Debdeep Chatterjee
  • Patent number: 11789584
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for indicating a distance to a selectable portion of a virtual surface. 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 displaying a graphical environment that includes a virtual surface, wherein at least a portion of the virtual surface is selectable. In some implementations, the method includes determining a distance between a collider object and the selectable portion of the virtual surface. In some implementations, the method includes displaying a depth indicator in association with the collider object. In some implementations, a visual property of the depth indicator is selected based on the distance between the collider object and the selectable portion of the virtual surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Adam Michael O'Hern, Mark Alan Ebbole, Justin Timothy Voss, Charles Magahern, Peter Louis Hajas, Michael E. Buerli
  • Patent number: 11792888
    Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Next Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The UE may be configured for carrier aggregation (CA) in which a plurality of component carriers (CCs) are aggregated. The UE may determine a mapping of the CCs to a plurality of antenna panels for downlink reception, wherein a subset of the CCs are mapped to each antenna panel. The UE may transmit, to the gNB, radio resource control (RRC) signaling that indicates information related to the mapping. The gNB may, based at least partly on the mapping, determine, for each CC: a first scheduled time period for transmit beam refinement, and a second scheduled time period for receive beam refinement at the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Zhibin Yu, Michael A. Ruder, Jie Cui, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 11790739
    Abstract: An electronic device, in response to detecting occurrence of a first condition at the device, generates a first alert that corresponds to a respective application in a first class of applications, the first alert including: a first haptic component and a first audio component composed from an audio waveform that is designated for use by the respective application in the first class of applications. In response to detecting occurrence of a second condition at the device, the device generates a second alert that corresponds to a respective application in a second class of applications different from the first class of applications, the second alert including: a second haptic component and a second audio component composed from an audio waveform that is designated for use by applications in the second class of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Camille Moussette, Gary I. Butcher, Hugo D. Verweij, Jonathan Ive
  • Patent number: 11790498
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for displaying augmented reality image content perceived as being overlaid on background image content viewed through a light-transmissive viewing surface. Image processing circuitry may receive input augmented reality image data corresponding with a pixel position on the display panel, determine a perceived background brightness metric indicative of background brightness level at the pixel position based at least in part on captured background image data and an ambient lighting metric, determine a target tone mapping based at least in part on the perceived background brightness metric, and determine display augmented reality image data to be used by a display panel to display the augmented reality image content least in part by applying the target tone mapping to the input augmented reality image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sheng Zhang, Mahnaz Mohammadi, Shuang Wang, José Antonio Dominguez-Caballero, Chaohao Wang, Tobias Jung, Jun Miao
  • Patent number: 11791974
    Abstract: An electrical balance duplexer (EBD) may be used to isolate a transmitter and receiver that share a common antenna. By using impedance gradients to provide impedances that cause balance-unbalance transformers (balun) of the EBD to cut-off access to the common antenna rather than duplicate the antenna impedance, the EBD is balanced. Such cut-offs may have a lower insertion loss than an EBD that merely duplicates the antenna impedance to separate the differential signals of the receiver/transmitter from the common mode signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nedim Muharemovic, Joonhoi Hur, Rastislav Vazny
  • Patent number: 11791939
    Abstract: A device implementing dynamic redundancy may include at least one processor configured to receive, from another device, packet reception data corresponding to video data previously provided for transmission from the device to the other device and determine, based at least in part on the packet reception data, an amount of redundancy to apply to video data provided for transmission to the other device. The at least one processor may be further configured to determine, based at least in part on the amount of redundancy, an encoding scheme for applying the redundancy to the video data. The at least one processor may be further configured to apply the amount of redundancy to the video data based at least in part on the encoding scheme to generate redundant data items and provide the video data and the redundant data items for transmission to the other device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel B. Pollack, Karthick Santhanam, Qian Sun, Kevin Arthur Robertson, Hsien-Po Shiang, Erik Vladimir Ortega Gonzalez, Christopher M. Garrido, Bradley F. Patterson
  • Patent number: 11789528
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey P. Bigham, Mingzhe Li, Samuel C. White, Xiaoyi Zhang, Qi Shan, Carlos E. Guestrin
  • Patent number: 11792531
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Robert K Molholm
  • Patent number: 11791824
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Sharon D Mutchnik
  • Patent number: 11792599
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Farouk Belghoul, Cesar Perez, Rafael L. Rivera-Barreto
  • Patent number: 11792726
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed M Soliman, Krisztian Kiss, Yu-Ting Yu, Sudeep Manithara Vamanan
  • Patent number: 11790113
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: 11790119
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hervé Sibert, Eric D. Friedman, Erik C. Neuenschwander, Jerrold V. Hauck, Thomas P. Mensch, Julien F. Freudiger, Alan W. Yu
  • Patent number: 11789529
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yashas Rai Kurlethimar, Can Jin, Nicolas Pierre Marie Frederic Bonnier, Jiaying Wu, Andrew B. Watson
  • Patent number: D1001800
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Marc A. Newson, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang