Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 11785420Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for enhanced angle-based positioning calculations.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang
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Patent number: 11783550Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology provide for image composition for extended reality systems. Image composition may include combining virtual content from virtual images with physical content from images captured by one or more cameras. The virtual content and the physical content can be combined to form a composite image using depth information for the virtual content and the physical content. An adjustment mask may be generated to indicate edges or boundaries between virtual and physical content at which artifact correction for the composite image can be performed.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Daniele Casaburo, Adrian P. Lindberg
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Patent number: 11785593Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus are presented for providing enhanced scheduling requests, e.g., in an IEEE 802.11 network. A client station (STA) may determine one or more minimum quality of service (QoS) metrics for supporting an application being implemented by the STA, and may determine minimum scheduling parameters to be implemented by an access point (AP) to achieve the minimum QoS. The STA may transmit to the AP a specific scheduling request indicating the minimum scheduling parameters. In response, the AP may schedule communication resources for the STA in accordance with the minimum scheduling resources.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Guoqing Li, Brajesh K. Dave, Shehla S. Rana, Yang Yu, Rajneesh Kumar
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Patent number: 11785379Abstract: An acoustic device comprising an enclosure having an enclosure wall that defines an enclosure volume; a first mass movably coupled to the enclosure, the first mass comprising a sound radiating surface, a voice coil and a first suspension member; a second mass movably coupled to the enclosure, the second mass comprising a magnet assembly and a second suspension member, and wherein the first suspension member couples the first mass to the second mass, the second suspension member couples the magnet assembly to the enclosure wall, and the second suspension member is tuned to reduce enclosure vibrations caused by a movement of the first mass and the second mass relative to the enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Jason D. Silver
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Patent number: 11782503Abstract: An electronic device may have a display for displaying image content. Head-mounted support structures in the device may be used to support the display. The electronic device may have an eye monitoring system that detects eye saccades and eye blinks. Control circuitry in the electronic device may coordinate operation of the display with periods of suppressed visual sensitivity that are associated with the saccades and blinks. By making adjustments to display circuitry and image content during periods of suppressed visual sensitivity, potentially visually obtrusive changes to displayed images can be hidden from a user of the electronic device. Adjustments to display operation may help reduce burn-in effects, may help reduce power consumption, and may otherwise improve device performance.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Mehmet N. Agaoglu, Andrew B. Watson
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Patent number: 11784731Abstract: Circuits, methods, and apparatus that provide improved data encoding for data transmitted through a channel of limited bandwidth. One example can provide circuits, signaling methods, and apparatus that can encode data to more fully utilize a bandwidth of a physical channel. This encoding can help to increase a data rate through the physical channel.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: William P. Cornelius, Seungyong Baek
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Patent number: 11785372Abstract: An earphone comprising: a device housing that defines an internal cavity within the device housing; an acoustic port formed through a wall of the device housing and having an opening at an exterior surface of the device housing; an audio driver disposed within the device housing and aligned to emit sound through the acoustic port; and a mesh disposed within the acoustic port and having an outer periphery spaced apart from the device housing wall, wherein the mesh forms a portion of an exterior surface of the earphone that is recessed from the opening at the exterior surface of the device housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Lee M. Panecki, Michael B. Minerbi, Sean T. McIntosh
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Patent number: 11784746Abstract: An electronic device (such as an access point) that receives one or more block acknowledgments is described. This electronic device may transmit an extremely high-throughput (EHT) physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) to a recipient electronic device, where the EHT PPDU is transmitted in multiple non-contiguous sub-bands that are separated by a punctured sub-band. Moreover, the electronic may receive the one or more block acknowledgments from the recipient electronic device, where the one or more block acknowledgments exclude the punctured sub-band. Note that the EHT PPDU may exclude transmitted energy in the punctured sub-band. Moreover, the punctured sub-band may have a bandwidth of at least 20 MHz and may be different from a primary sub-band.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lochan Verma, Yong Liu, Jarkko L. Kneckt, Qi Wang, Jinjing Jiang, Su Khiong Yong, Tianyu Wu
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Patent number: 11784511Abstract: A personal electronic device (e.g., a tablet computer) may be configured to wirelessly charge an accessory (e.g., a stylus) through a display face of the device. At least a portion of the display face may be transparent to facilitate display viewing. A wireless charging assembly disposed within the enclosure may include a core having one or more windings disposed thereon, which may be configured to generate a magnetic flux above the display face to couple to the accessory. The core may be a pot core, a modified pot core, or may have another shape, such as a PQ core. The one or more windings may be disposed on one or more posts of a pot core, or additionally or alternatively, may be disposed on another portion of the core. A metallic shield may be disposed about the wireless charging assembly, thereby surrounding multiple sides of the wireless charging assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nan Liu, Madhusudanan Keezhveedi Sampath, Robert Scritzky, Gianpaolo Lisi, Saining Ren, Kunal Bhargava, Zaki Moussaoui, Zelin Xu
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Patent number: 11785540Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for managing UE upgrade requests using UE assistance information (UAI), including network controlled upgrade support, UE initiated upgrade requests, and/or budget based upgrade requests.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Birgit Breining, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Rama Diwakara Rao Noolu, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
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Patent number: 11784394Abstract: A wireless communication system may include an electronic device having a wireless communication module. The wireless communication module may include an antenna radiating element on a first surface, a ground ring surrounding the antenna radiating element on the first surface, and a radio component mounted to a second surface. The wireless communication module may be incorporated into a system package that also includes other components. Encapsulation material may cover the wireless communication module and other components. A shielding material may cover the encapsulation material and be coupled to the ground ring. An opening in the shielding material may be aligned with the antenna radiating element. If desired, the wireless communication system may include external equipment having a wireless communication module communicatively coupled to the wireless communication module to convey firmware testing, debugging, restore, and/or other data.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Xiaofang Mu, Annie Manuja, Christopher D. Guichet, Erik G. de Jong, Jorge L. Rivera Espinoza, Patrick J. Crowley, Steven C. Roach, Venkatesh Rajendran, William C. Lukens, Woojin Jung, Yue Chen, Zhiwei Gu, Derek Iwamoto, Siddharth Nangia, Scott D. Morrison, Kevin A. Klenk, Neeloy Roy
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Patent number: 11784863Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are disclosed for generating demodulation reference signals (DM-RS). In one example, a method for a user equipment (UE), includes receiving a configuration of a plurality of bandwidth parts (BWPs) configured with respective numerologies; generating a first pseudo-random sequence based at least in part on one or more of a physical cell ID, a virtual cell ID, a symbol index, a slot index, a frame index, a scrambling ID, or a UE ID for generation of a first DM-RS sequence, wherein a initialization seed for the first pseudo-random sequence is based on a scrambling ID and a slot index, wherein, for the plurality of BWPs a respective scrambling ID is associated with each BWP, and wherein the slot index is defined in accordance with the numerology of the associated BWP; and mapping, for a first BWP, the first DM-RS sequence to at least one DM-RS symbol.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2023Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gang Xiong, Debdeep Chatterjee, Yushu Zhang, Alexei Davydov, Wook Bong Lee, Dae Won Lee, Sameer Pawar, Jeongho Jeon, Hong He
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Patent number: 11784302Abstract: Lithium-metal batteries with improved dimensional stability are presented along with methods of manufacture. The lithium-metal batteries incorporate an anode cell that reduces dimensional changes during charging and discharging. The anode cell includes a container having a first portion and a second portion to form an enclosed cavity. The first portion is electrically-conductive and chemically-stable to lithium metal. The second portion is permeable to lithium ions and chemically-stable to lithium metal. The anode cell also includes an anode comprising lithium metal and disposed within the cavity. The anode is in contact with the first portion and the second portion. The cavity is configured such that volumetric expansion and contraction of the anode during charging and discharging is accommodated entirely therein.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bernd J. Neudecker, Shawn W. Snyder, Richard M. Mank
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Patent number: 11783739Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for testing and repairing various aspects of an electronic display. The electronic display includes a reference array and an active array. The electronic display also includes test circuitry used to test individual or any combination of pixels of the electronic display. Switches may be disposed between the pixels and the test circuitry to be to repair the various components of the electronic display.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hasan Akyol, Xuebei Yang, Chung-Lun Edwin Hsu, Henry C. Jen, John T. Wetherell
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Patent number: 11785005Abstract: The disclosed technology provides for establishment of a secure tunnel with implicit device identification. The implicit device identification can be provided during establishment of a secure tunnel with a server by performing a mutual authentication with the server using a device-specific private key of the device. The device-specific private key may be provisioned during manufacturing of the device and stored by a secure hardware component of the device. Establishing the secure tunnel using implicit device identification can be helpful for operations in which a server is configured to only establish secure communications with one or more particular types of device, and can be performed without the use additional device identification communications.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Srinivas Vedula, Joel N. Kerr
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Patent number: 11785465Abstract: A host device can establish a verified session with a wearable device. The host device can determine whether the verified session is in progress. In accordance with a determination that the verified session is in progress, the host device can provide a user interface to request confirmation that the identifier is to be provided to the wearable device. The host device can receive an input at the user interface and, in accordance with a determination that the input indicates a confirmation that the identifier is to be provided to the wearable device, the host can identify a user identifier to provide to the wearable device, and transmit the user identifier to the wearable device.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jesse W. Boettcher, Craig M. Federighi, Bryan J. James, James Eric Mason
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Patent number: 11783926Abstract: A computer system may generate a curated health sub-ontology. This may include receiving a set of selection criteria corresponding to a curated health ontology. A subset of concept nodes may be determined using the set of selection criteria. Generating the curated health sub-ontology may include identifying the subset of concept nodes and combining the subset of concept nodes to define the curated health sub-ontology. The curated health sub-ontology may be transmitted to a consuming system.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2023Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Patrick W. Granvold, Jason B. Morley, Zhe Li
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Patent number: 11782548Abstract: Detecting a touch includes receiving image data of a touching object of a user selecting selectable objects of a target surface, determining a rate of movement of the touching object, in response to determining that the rate of movement satisfies a predetermined threshold, modifying a touch detection parameter for detecting a touch event between the touching object and the target surface, and detecting one or more additional touch events using the modified touch detection parameter.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lejing Wang, Benjamin R. Blachnitzky, Lilli I. Jonsson, Nicolai Georg
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Patent number: 11784673Abstract: An electronic device component including a thermoset composite material is described herein. The electronic device component may be a structural component of the housing and define an exterior surface of the housing. The electronic device component may also be transparent to radio-frequency signals.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Daniel R. Bloom, Chelsea E. Wojeski, Edward Siahaan, Nathan Morris, Ryan S. Haley, Tian Shi Li, Toni Ristoski
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Patent number: 11785545Abstract: Methods related to an inactive state of a user equipment (UE). In one example, when an amount of data in an uplink buffer is less than a threshold, the data is sent to the network while remaining in the inactive state. In another example, when reselecting to a different cell, the UE attempts to reselect to the different cell and remain in the inactive state. When transitioning to a connected state at the reselected cell, the UE sends a resume request including an identification of the first cell. In another example, when a high priority or a background PLMN search is performed in the inactive state, the results are cached and implemented the earlier of when a timer expires or the UE enters an idle state. In another example, a cell reselection criteria is altered in the inactive state to make it less likely that a cell reselection will occur.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Li Su, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Vijay Venkataraman, Srinivas Burugupalli