Patents Assigned to Apple
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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: 11782531Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods and apparatuses for detecting gestures on a reduced-size electronic device at locations off of the display, such as gestures on the housing of the device or on a rotatable input mechanism (e.g., a digital crown) of the device, and responding to the gestures by, for example, navigating lists of items and selecting items from the list; translating the display of an electronic document; or sending audio control data to an external audio device.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2017Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Colin M. Ely
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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: 11783499Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a technique that enables an electronic device with a camera to automatically gather and generate requisite data from the real-world environment to allow the electronic device to quickly and efficiently determine and provide accurate measurements of physical spaces and/or objects within the real-world environment is described.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Alexandre da Veiga
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Patent number: 11783508Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress and encode data for a three-dimensional mesh using a video encoding technique. To compress the three-dimensional mesh, the encoder determines sub-meshes and for each sub-mesh: texture patches and geometry patches. Also the encoder determines patch connectivity information and patch texture coordinates for the texture patches and geometry patches. The texture patches and geometry patches are packed into video image frames and encoded using a video codec. Additionally, the encoder determines boundary stitching information for the sub-meshes. A decoder receives a bit stream as generated by the encoder and reconstructs the three-dimensional mesh.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Khaled Mammou, Alexandros Tourapis, Jungsun Kim
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Patent number: 11785387Abstract: An electronic device, with a display device, a communication device, one or more processors and memory, displays a first representation of a first controllable external device, where the first controllable external device is situated at a location. The device detects a first input corresponding to a selection of the first representation of the first controllable external device. In response to detecting the first input, the device transmits instructions, using the communication device, to the first controllable external device to perform a function if the first controllable external device is of a first type or displays, using the display device, a user interface for controlling characteristics of the first controllable external device.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Taylor G. Carrigan, Patrick L. Coffman, Christopher Patrick Foss
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Patent number: 11782580Abstract: The invention is directed to an electronic device. The electronic device generates for presentation on a display a user interface including a plurality of groups of icons. A plurality of the icons have been grouped based at least in part on metadata of applications associated with the icons. The electronic device receives input selecting a respective icon. In response to receiving the input selecting a respective icon, the electronic device invokes an instance of an application associated with the respective icon.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2023Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Elbert D. Chen, Joe Howard, Joshua McGlinn, Jonathan Lochhead, Benjamin W. Keighran, Marcel Van Os, William M. Bachman, Jeffrey L. Robbin, Jennifer L. C. Folse, Lynne Kress
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Patent number: 11782240Abstract: A folded telephoto lens system may include multiple lenses with refractive power and a light path folding element. Light entering the camera through lens(es) on a first path is refracted to the folding element, which changes direction of the light on to a second path with lens(es) that refract the light to form an image plane at a photosensor. At least one of the object side and image side surfaces of at least one of the lens elements may be aspheric. Total track length (TTL) of the lens system may be 14.0 mm or less. The lens system may be configured so that the telephoto ratio (TTL/f) is less than or equal to 1.0. Materials, radii of curvature, shapes, sizes, spacing, and aspheric coefficients of the optical elements may be selected to achieve quality optical performance and high image resolution in a small form factor camera.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Romeo I. Mercado
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Patent number: 11782699Abstract: Implementations described herein provide systems and methods for a non-interruptive software update for a device. In one implementation, a software update for a critical node of a node system network of a controller of the device is detected. The node system network utilizes a publisher-subscriber framework. The software update is installed, and the critical node continues to operate in the publisher-subscriber framework during the software update. The software update creates an updated node. The updated node is subscribed to the publisher-subscriber framework, and the critical node is replaced with the updated node within the publisher-subscriber framework by switching subscriber information from the critical node to the updated node.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Libo Cao Meyers
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Patent number: 11783444Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include a method performed at an electronic device including one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, an image sensor, and a display device. The method includes obtaining, via the image sensor, an input image that includes an object. The method includes obtaining depth information characterizing the object, wherein the depth information characterizes a first distance between the image sensor and a portion of the object. The method includes determining a distance warp map for the input image based on a function of the depth information and a first offset value characterizing an estimated distance between eyes of a user and the display device. The method includes setting an operational parameter for the electronic device based on the distance warp map and generating, by the electronic device set to the operational parameter, a warped image from the input image.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Tobias Eble, Pedro Manuel Da Silva Quelhas, Raffi A. Bedikian
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Patent number: 11785577Abstract: An electronic device determines a position of a communicaiton hub of a wireless network. In response to determining a position of a communication hub of a wireless communication network, the electronic device may operate one or more actuators to move the device to adjust the orientation of the device relative to the communication hub. As such, the mobile communicating device may adjust the orientation of the device relative to the communication hub to provide more reliable and/or more efficient communication of data.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Anjaneyulu Maganti, Dhruv Khati, Krishna Myneni, Shiva Krishna Narra, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian
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Patent number: 11782288Abstract: A head-mounted device includes a first device portion and a second device portion. A first coupler portion of the first device portion is connectable to a second coupler portion of the second device portion to define a connected position in which the first device portion is connected to the second device portion and a disconnected position in which the first device portion is disconnected from the second device portion. A second adjuster portion of the second device portion causes a first adjuster portion of the first device portion to move a first optical module and a second optical module in response to movement of the first device portion and the second device portion from the disconnected position to the connected position.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Anna V. Mirabella, Wey-Jiun Lin, Jia Tao, Aidan N. Zimmerman, Jason C. Sauers, Anthony S. Montevirgen, Andrew Gallaher, Phil M. Hobson, Yoonhoo Jo
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Patent number: 11783548Abstract: In various implementations, methods of presenting an audio/SR experience are disclosed. In one embodiment, while playing an audio file in an environment, in response to determining that the respective temporal criterion and the respective environmental criterion of an SR content event is met, the SR content event is displayed in association with the environment. In one embodiment, SR content is obtained and displayed in association with an environment based on an audio file and a 3D point cloud of the environment. In one embodiment, SR content is obtained and displayed in association with an environment based on spoken words of a real sound of the environment.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Ian M. Richter
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Patent number: 11785719Abstract: A display assembly for an electronic device can include a printed circuit board, a display panel, and a support structure affixed to the display panel and disposed between the display panel and the printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Sameer Pandya, Kiran S. Pillai, Kyle M. Zampaglione
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Patent number: 11781919Abstract: An electronic device housing encloses a temperature sensing system including a temperature sensor and a differential temperature probe. The differential temperature probe includes a flexible substrate defining two ends. A first end is thermally coupled to the temperature sensor and a second end is thermally coupled to a surface, volume, or component of the electronic device. The temperature probe is an in-plane thermopile including a series-coupled set of thermocouples extending from the first end to the second end. A temperature measured at the temperature sensor can be a first measured temperature and a voltage difference across leads of the differential temperature probe can be correlated to a differential temperature relative to the first measured temperature. A sum of the differential temperature and the first measured temperature is a second measured temperature, quantifying a temperature of the second end of the differential temperature probe.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: James C. Clements, Chad A. Bossetti, Habib S. Karaki, Paul Mansky
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Patent number: 11783022Abstract: A method and apparatus of a device that converts an account associated with an application to use a single sign-on service is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives an indication of a weak password associated with the account. The device further sends a request to verify an account credential for a user associated with the device. In addition, the device receives the verification of the account credential. The device additionally requests a single sign-on credential for the account and receives the single sign-on credential. Furthermore, the device sends a message to a server associated with a service for the application that the application is registered for the single sign-on service.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Richard J. Mondello, Jay S. Mulani, Jonathan Birdsall, Dmitry V. Belov, Reza Abbasian, David P. Quesada, Patrick L. Coffman
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Publication number: 20230319688Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for privacy enhancement (PE) beacon frames. A PE station (STA) can receive a PE beacon frame comprising a media access control (MAC) header that includes a first random identifier (ID) and a first checksum ID, determine that configured beacon parameters are satisfied, and then receive the PE beacon frame. When the first random ID and the first checksum ID correspond to an affiliated PE access point (AP) of a PE AP multilink device (MLD), to identify the PE AP MLD the PE STA can determine a checksum value using a AP MLD ID of the PE AP MLD and the first random ID, and based on a comparison of the determined checksum value with the first checksum ID, identify the PE AP MLD. In some embodiments, a location of a change sequence number adjacent to the MAC header enables early termination of the PE beacon frame reception.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jarkko L. KNECKT, Yong LIU, Charles F. DOMINGUEZ, Daniel R. BORGES, Debashis DASH, Elliott S. BRIGGS, Sidharth R. THAKUR, Su Khiong YONG
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Publication number: 20230319706Abstract: A base station can include a transceiver and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The transceiver can enable wireless communication with a user equipment (UE) by a first component carrier (CC) in a first cell managed by the base station in a carrier aggregation (CA) wireless communication system. The processor can generate a system scheduling message to be transmitted on the first CC to the UE in the first cell, where the system scheduling message comprises a schedule of monitoring occasions for system information of a second CC by the UE in a second cell. Afterwards, the processor can transmit the system scheduling message on the first CC to the UE.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hong HE, Dawei ZHANG, Chunxuan YE, Sigen YE, Weidong YANG, Wei ZENG, Oghenekome OTERI, Haitong SUN, Yushu ZHANG, Huaning NIU
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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