Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 11784992Abstract: The present embodiments relate to entry and management of identifiers and credentials. The present embodiments display a credential affordance that, upon selection, provides a credential-assistance user interface for enabling swift access to various credential and management options. The credential affordance can be displayed based on a determination by electronic device that a webpage includes a text entry field associated with a set of one or more restricted resources (e.g., document and/or webpage).Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jessie Berlin, Steven Falkenburg, Adele Peterson, Alan Hshieh, Craig M. Federighi, Richard Mondello, Darin Adler, Patrick L. Coffman, Dan Bernstein
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Patent number: 11783174Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to splitting input data into smaller units for loading into a data buffer and neural engines in a neural processor circuit for performing neural network operations. The input data of a large size is split into slices and each slice is again split into tiles. The tile is uploaded from an external source to a data buffer inside the neural processor circuit but outside the neural engines. Each tile is again split into work units sized for storing in an input buffer circuit inside each neural engine. The input data stored in the data buffer and the input buffer circuit is reused by the neural engines to reduce re-fetching of input data. Operations of splitting the input data are performed at various components of the neural processor circuit under the management of rasterizers provided in these components.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2018Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Christopher L. Mills
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Patent number: 11782508Abstract: Some implementations disclosed herein present a computer-generated reality (CGR) environment in which a user participates in an activity, identify a cognitive state of the user (e.g., working, learning, resting, etc.) based on data regarding the user's body (e.g., facial expressions, hand movements, physiological data, etc.), and update the environment with a surrounding environment that promotes a cognitive state of the user for the activity.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Izzet B. Yildiz, Mary A. Pyc, Ronald J. Guglielmone, Jr., Sterling R. Crispin, Mikaela D. Estep, Grant H. Mulliken
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Patent number: 11784956Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for requesting assets be added to an asset account.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Pablo Pons Bordes, Venkata S. Akella, Benjamin D. Chester, Tyler Gentles, Laura M. Ragone
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Patent number: 11782571Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include a method performed by a device. While executing a CGR application, the method includes displaying a three-dimensional object in a three-dimensional space, wherein the three-dimensional space is defined by a three-dimensional coordinate system. The method also includes: detecting a first user input directed to the three-dimensional object; and in response to detecting the first user input, displaying a spatial manipulation user interface element including a set of spatial manipulation affordances respectively associated with a set of spatial manipulations of the three-dimensional object, wherein each of the set of spatial manipulations corresponds to a translational movement of the three-dimensional object along a corresponding axis of the three-dimensional space.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Gerald Louis Guyomard, Etienne H. Guerard, Adam Michael O'Hern, Michelle Chua, Robin-Yann Joram Storm, Adam James Bolton, Zachary Becker, Bradley Warren Peebler
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Patent number: 11784943Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for an electronic device. The method stores user data associated with a web-based third party service based on user interaction with a web domain for the third party service through a web browser. The method receives a request from a service-specific application to utilize the user data stored for the third party service. The method provides the user data to the application only when the application is verified by the web domain for receiving user data associated with the third party service.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Andrew R. Whalley, Bob Bradley, Kenneth C. McLeod
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Patent number: 11783629Abstract: A portable electronic device may include a housing, a display at least partially within the housing, a front cover coupled to the housing and positioned over the display, and a biometric sensor module configured to illuminate an object and capture an image of the object through the front cover. The biometric sensor module may include a first lens positioned below the front cover, a first light source positioned below the first lens and configured to project, through the first lens, a dot pattern on the object, a second light source positioned below the first lens and configured to illuminate, through the first lens, the object with a flood of light, a second lens positioned below the front cover, and a light sensor positioned below the second lens and configured to capture an image of the object.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher S. Tomasetta, Jason B. Neevel, Sara E. Salmon, Richard H. Koch, Jonathan M. Lee, Nicholas Merz, Daniel Jarvis, Jared P. Ostdiek, Michael B. Wittenberg, Rasamy Phouthavong, David A. Pakula, Ian A. Spraggs, Marwan Rammah
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Patent number: 11782151Abstract: An electronic device may include a voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) sensor disposed along a radio-frequency transmission line between a signal generator and an antenna. The VSWR sensor may gather VSWR measurements from radio-frequency signals transmitted by the signal generator over the transmission line. Control circuitry may identify a variation in the VSWR measurements over time and may compare the variation to a threshold value to determine whether an external object in the vicinity of the antenna is animate or inanimate. The control circuitry may reduce the maximum transmit power level of the antenna when the external object is animate and may maintain or increase the maximum transmit power level when the external object is inanimate. This may serve to maximize the wireless performance of the electronic device while also ensuring that the device complies with regulatory limits on radio-frequency energy exposure.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Joonhoi Hur, Andreas Menkhoff, Bernhard Sogl, Jochen Schrattenecker, Rastislav Vazny
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Patent number: 11785729Abstract: A handheld computing device that includes an enclosure having structural walls formed from a glass material that can be radio-transparent. The enclosure can be formed from a hollow glass tube or two glass members bonded together. A laser frit bonding process may be used to hermetically seal the two glass members together to create a water resistant electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Christopher Prest, Emery A. Sanford
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Patent number: 11782668Abstract: Devices for mitigating or stopping noise or surface current on a display are provided. An electronic device including a display may include a display substrate, a mid-support plate that is adjacent to the display substrate, and a lower support plate that is adjacent to the mid-support plate. A space exists between the mid-support plate and the lower support plate. The mid-support plate includes one or more electromagnetic band gap (EBG) structures formed through the mid-support plate, one or more electromagnetic band gap structures mounted onto the mid-support plate, or both. The one or more electromagnetic band gap structures may mitigate or stop surface current flow across the display.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Mahmoud N. Mahmoud, Cheung-Wei Lam, Ali Foudazi, Le Wang, Qianyi Zhao, Kedi Zhang, Xingchao C. Yuan, Jon F. Housour, Gary Chung
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Patent number: 11784512Abstract: A wireless power transmitter can receive the results of a characterizing signal transmitted by the wireless power receiver, compute at least two parameters of a model characterizing an in-band communications channel based on the received results of the characterizing signal transmitted by the wireless power receiver, compute a plurality of equalizing filter taps from the at least two parameters, and apply the computed equalizing filter to subsequent signals received by the wireless power transmitter via the in-band communications channel. A first parameter can correspond to a time constant of the channel, and a second parameter can correspond to a damping value of the communications channel. The wireless power transmitter can transmit to a wireless power receiver a request to transmit a characterizing signal through the in-band communication channel, wherein the characterizing signal transmitted by the wireless power receiver is sent in response to the transmitted request.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sriram Narayanan, Xing Zhou, Alireza Safaee, Zaid A AbuKhalaf
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Patent number: 11783827Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example process includes receiving an utterance including a user request, determining, based on the user request, a domain associated with the user request, determining, based on the domain, a first subsequent user action and a second subsequent user action, determining, based on the domain, a first parameter for the first subsequent user action and a second parameter for the second subsequent user action, in accordance with a determination that a first score associated with the first subsequent user action is higher than a score associated with the second subsequent user action, selecting the first subsequent user action as a suggested subsequent user action, and providing the suggested subsequent user action.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jamie Harry Drummie, Silvia Frias Delgado, Andrew J. Haines, Samuel E. Turnbull, Johan D. Forsell
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Patent number: 11783654Abstract: The techniques described herein provide for authentication of a reader device over a wireless protocol (e.g., NFC or Bluetooth, BLE). The mobile device can receive and store the static public key of the reader device and one or more credentials, each credential specifying access to an electronic lock. The mobile device can receive an ephemeral reader public key, a reader identifier, and a transaction identifier. The mobile device can generate session key using the ephemeral mobile private key and the ephemeral reader public key and send the ephemeral mobile public key to the reader device. The reader device can receive the ephemeral mobile public key and sign and transmit a signature message to the mobile device. The mobile device can validate a reader signature and generate an encrypted credential that the reader can use to access an electronic lock. The reader device can authenticate the mobile device for mutual authentication.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Oren M. Elrad, Florian Galdo
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Patent number: 11782575Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to managing and sharing contextually-relevant media content. In some embodiments, a device receives an input, and in response, displays a suggested collection of media items for sharing with a recipient, wherein the collection is relevant to a message conversation with the recipient. Subsequent to displaying the suggested collection, the device transmits a message to the recipient as part of the message conversation that provides access to the at least a portion of the suggested collection of media items. In some embodiments, a device receives an indication, from an external device, that a first user has shared a first collection of media items with a second user. Subsequent to receiving the indication that the first user has shared the first collection of media items with the second user, the device outputs a prompt to share, with the first user, one or more suggested media items.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lynne Devine, William A. Sorrentino, III, Gregg Suzuki, Michael Brandt, Eric M. G. Circlaeys, Chelsea Leblanc, Joar Wingfors
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Patent number: 11783305Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to the use of loyalty accounts, private label payment accounts, and general payment accounts using a wearable electronic device with an electronic wallet. Various accounts are linked to the electronic device. In some examples, the electronic device is NFC-enabled. The electronic device may be used to provide loyalty account information and payment account information to a payment terminal, such as an NFC-enabled payment terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marcel Van Os, Gregg Suzuki, Lawrence Y. Yang, Peter D. Anton, Donald W. Pitschel
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Patent number: 11785580Abstract: A process for performing a sidelink (SL) communication includes determining a configuration, for a communication zone of a set of communication zones, the configuration being indicative of at least one a resource configuration or at least one signaling configuration for a communication of data. The process includes generating SL control information (SCI) that indicates a transmitter (TX) location based on the configuration of the communication zone of the set of communication zones. The process includes communicating the SCI indicating the TX location.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Honglei Miao
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Patent number: 11782519Abstract: A computer input device can include a housing, a set of key switch mechanisms positioned in the housing, and a removable key structure that is operable between a first configuration positioned in the housing and a second configuration detached from the housing. The removable key can have a position sensor, wherein in the first configuration, the removable key structure is operable to provide a key-based typing input, and, in the second configuration, the removable key structure is operable as a computer pointing device using the position sensor. The removable key structure can therefore allow comfortable, portable, and precise pointer input for a computer input system.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Paul X. Wang
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Patent number: 11783815Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example process for determining user intent includes receiving a natural language input and detecting an event. The process further includes, determining, at a first time, based on the natural language input, a first value for a first node of a parsing structure; and determining, at a second time, based on the detected data event, a second value for a second node of the parsing structure. The process further includes in accordance with a determination that the first time and the second time are within the predetermined time: determining, using the parsing structure, the first value, and the second value, a user intent associated with the natural language input; initiating a task based on the determined intent; and providing an output indicative of the task.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Pierre P. Greborio, Didier Rene Guzzoni, Philippe P. Piernot
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Patent number: D1001134Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2011Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Eugene Cheung, Sean Stewart Corbin, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Stephen McClure, Shin Nishibori, Benjamin Mark Rappoport, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zorkendorfer
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Patent number: D1001150Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2023Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Teofila Connor, Alan C. Dye, Aurelio Guzmán, Vincenzo Vuono, Christopher I. Wilson