Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 11785420
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for enhanced angle-based positioning calculations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11783550
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniele Casaburo, Adrian P. Lindberg
  • Patent number: 11785593
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guoqing Li, Brajesh K. Dave, Shehla S. Rana, Yang Yu, Rajneesh Kumar
  • Patent number: 11785379
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Jason D. Silver
  • Patent number: 11782503
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mehmet N. Agaoglu, Andrew B. Watson
  • Patent number: 11784731
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: William P. Cornelius, Seungyong Baek
  • Patent number: 11785372
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Lee M. Panecki, Michael B. Minerbi, Sean T. McIntosh
  • Patent number: 11784746
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lochan Verma, Yong Liu, Jarkko L. Kneckt, Qi Wang, Jinjing Jiang, Su Khiong Yong, Tianyu Wu
  • Patent number: 11784511
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nan Liu, Madhusudanan Keezhveedi Sampath, Robert Scritzky, Gianpaolo Lisi, Saining Ren, Kunal Bhargava, Zaki Moussaoui, Zelin Xu
  • Patent number: 11785540
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: 11784394
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: 11784863
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Debdeep Chatterjee, Yushu Zhang, Alexei Davydov, Wook Bong Lee, Dae Won Lee, Sameer Pawar, Jeongho Jeon, Hong He
  • Patent number: 11784302
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bernd J. Neudecker, Shawn W. Snyder, Richard M. Mank
  • Patent number: 11783739
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hasan Akyol, Xuebei Yang, Chung-Lun Edwin Hsu, Henry C. Jen, John T. Wetherell
  • Patent number: 11785005
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Srinivas Vedula, Joel N. Kerr
  • Patent number: 11785465
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse W. Boettcher, Craig M. Federighi, Bryan J. James, James Eric Mason
  • Patent number: 11783926
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick W. Granvold, Jason B. Morley, Zhe Li
  • Patent number: 11782548
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lejing Wang, Benjamin R. Blachnitzky, Lilli I. Jonsson, Nicolai Georg
  • Patent number: 11784673
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Daniel R. Bloom, Chelsea E. Wojeski, Edward Siahaan, Nathan Morris, Ryan S. Haley, Tian Shi Li, Toni Ristoski
  • Patent number: 11785545
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Li Su, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Vijay Venkataraman, Srinivas Burugupalli