Patents Assigned to Apple
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Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating user interfaces based on unlock inputs
Patent number: 11768575Abstract: An electronic device with a display and a fingerprint sensor displays a fingerprint enrollment interface and detects, on the fingerprint sensor, a plurality of finger gestures performed with a finger. The device collects fingerprint information from the plurality of finger gestures performed with the finger. After collecting the fingerprint information, the device determines whether the collected fingerprint information is sufficient to enroll a fingerprint of the finger. When the collected fingerprint information for the finger is sufficient to enroll the fingerprint of the finger, the device enrolls the fingerprint of the finger with the device. When the collected fingerprint information for the finger is not sufficient to enroll the fingerprint of the finger, the device displays a message in the fingerprint enrollment interface prompting a user to perform one or more additional finger gestures on the fingerprint sensor with the finger.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Byron Han, Matthew E. Shepherd, Imran Chaudhri, Gregory N. Christie, Patrick L. Coffman, Craig M. Federighi, Matthew H. Gamble, Brittany D. Paine, Brendan J. Langoulant, Craig A. Marciniak, Donald W. Pitschel, Daniel O. Schimpf, Andrew R. Whalley, Christopher R. Whitney, Jonathan R. Dascola, Lawrence Y. Yang -
Patent number: 11769305Abstract: In one implementation, a method includes: instantiating a first objective-effectuator (OE) associated with first attributes and a second OE associated with second attributes into a synthesized reality (SR) setting, wherein the first OE is encapsulated within the second OE; providing a first objective to the first OE based on the first and second attributes; providing a second objective to the second OE based on the second attributes, wherein the first and second objectives are associated with a time period between a first and second temporal points; generating a first set of actions for the first OE based on the first objective and a second set of actions for the second OE based on the second objective; and rendering for display the SR setting for the time period including the first set of actions performed by the first OE and the second set of actions performed by the second OE.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Ian M. Richter, Michael J. Rockwell, Amritpal Singh Saini, Olivier Soares
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Patent number: 11769940Abstract: An electronic device includes a display, and a housing at least partially surrounding the display and comprising a first housing member defining a first portion of an exterior surface of the electronic device and a second housing member defining a second portion of the exterior surface of the electronic device and configured to function as an antenna. The electronic device also includes a joining structure positioned between the first housing member and the second housing member including a reinforcement plate and a molded element at least partially encapsulating the reinforcement plate and engaged with the first housing member and the second housing member, thereby retaining the first housing member to the second housing member.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Nicholas A. Renda, Carlo Catalano, Chen Wang, David R. Cramer, Kellen M. Atom, Lindsay D. Corbet, Melody L. Kuna, Robert J. Durand, Stephanie L. Ternullo, Sunita Venkatesh, Suvrat Lele, Wang Chung Alston Cheung
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Patent number: 11770676Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing ranging wireless communication including prioritization. A first wireless device may transmit a request for ranging services to a second wireless device. The first wireless device may transmit an indication of a ranging priority to the second wireless device. The second wireless device may determine a granted ranging priority. The first and second wireless device may perform ranging communication according to the granted ranging priority.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Srinivas Burugupalli, Qi Wang, Oren Shani, Christiaan A. Hartman, Danlin Li, Aniruddha S. Diwan
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Patent number: 11770198Abstract: A wireless device can perform non-line-of-sight detection. The wireless device may establish a wireless link with another wireless device using a wireless channel. The wireless device may perform one or more channel measurements for the wireless channel. The wireless device may determine whether a line-of-sight path is available for the wireless channel based at least in part on the one or more channel measurements. The wireless device may determine whether to trigger beamforming selection, antenna selection, and/or any other link maintenance operations based at least in part on the determined line-of-sight availability.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ioannis Pefkianakis, Weiping Dou, David B. Cheung, Ye Sun, Faraz Faheem
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Patent number: 11768590Abstract: In some implementations, a method includes obtaining a set of preselected attribute values for an objective-effectuator. In some implementations, the method includes while displaying a user interface including a plurality of configuration control affordances provided to effect configuration of one or more attributes characterizing the objective-effectuator, in response to receiving an input indicative of manipulation of a first configuration control affordance, setting a corresponding first attribute to a particular preselected attribute value, and modifying display of the plurality of configuration control affordances in order to change the number of the plurality of configuration control affordances displayed. In some implementations, the method includes configuring the objective-effectuator at least based on the particular preselected attribute value of the first attribute. In some implementations, the objective-effectuator is associated with a set of predefined actions.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Ian M. Richter, Jack Greasley, Brian E. Goldberg, Eric A. Soulvie, Jeremy R. Bernstein, Bradley Warren Peebler
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Patent number: 11768518Abstract: Systems of the present disclosure can provide a head-mountable device with a head securement element that is integrated with a light seal module, which provides effective and comfortable engagement with a face of the user. By providing the head securement element with a light seal module, both head securement and face engagement can be customized or otherwise selected for achieving the desired fit for a given user. Accordingly, the head securement element (e.g., band, arms, and the like) can be primarily or exclusively secured to an HMD module via a light seal module.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yoonhoo Jo, Paul X. Wang, Heidi Williamson, Trevor J Ness
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Patent number: 11769016Abstract: A method includes obtaining user input interaction data. The user input interaction data includes one or more user interaction input values respectively obtained from the corresponding one or more input devices. The user input interaction data includes a word combination. The method includes generating a user interaction-style indicator value corresponding to the word combination in the user input interaction data. The user interaction-style indicator value is a function of the word combination and a portion of the one or more user interaction input values. The method includes determining, using a semantic text analyzer, a semantic assessment of the word combination in the user input interaction data based on the user interaction-style indicator value and a natural language assessment of the word combination. The method includes generating a response to the user input interaction data according to the user interaction-style indicator value and the semantic assessment of the word combination.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Barry-John Theobald, Nicholas Elia Apostoloff, Garrett Laws Weinberg, Russell Y. Webb, Katherine Elaine Metcalf
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Patent number: 11768956Abstract: A first device coupled with a first display and an image sensor receives output data from a second device having a second display different from the first display. The output data represents content displayable by the second device on the second display. The first device determines, using the image sensor, a position of the second display relative to the first device and causes the first display to display content based on the output data received from the second device and the determined position of the second display relative to the first device.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Clément Pierre Nicolas Boissière, Timothy R. Oriol
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Patent number: 11768077Abstract: Some embodiments provide a map application that identities a transit mute that includes one or more transit legs between a starting location and a destination location. In response to a request to shirt navigating the identified transit route, the map application of some embodiments provides a first display area for displaying a set of navigation instructions, each of which describes a transit maneuver that is associated with a transit leg of the transit route. The map application also provides a second display area for displaying a map region presentation associated with the navigation instruction that is displayed in the first display area.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Usama M. Hajj, Marcel Van Os, Brian Andrich, Ian Leighton, Justin O'Beirne, David Hodge, Eleanor Cady Wachsman, Nathaniel V. Kelso, Aaron A. Reiner, Christine B. McGavran, Wesley Yue, Eric L. Grundstrom
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Patent number: 11768583Abstract: A computer readable media, a method, and a system registering a third party application providing an available communication system between a local user and a remote user identity, storing information related to the available communication system in a first database, obtaining contact information for the remote user identity from the third party application, determining a communication type for the third party application, pairing the remote user identity with a contact, and updating a graphical representation of contact information.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2016Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey D. Harris, Joseph H. Engel, Keith Stattenfield, John-Peter E. Cafaro, Colter S. Reed, Bruce M. Stadnyk, James C. Wilson, David A. McLeod, Alexander B. Brown
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Patent number: 11770619Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a method is performed at an image processing device with a processor and non-transitory memory. The method includes triggering light emission, over a first emission duration, having a characterizing intensity as a function of time. The method further includes obtaining respective pixel events, from an event camera, corresponding to reflections of the light emission during the first emission duration, each respective pixel event corresponding to a breach of a respective comparator threshold indicative of a brightness level, each respective pixel event characterized by a respective electrical threshold value and a timestamp at which the respective electrical threshold value was breached.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Aleksandr M. Movshovich, Arthur Yasheng Zhang
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Patent number: 11769497Abstract: Embodiments provide a context-aware digital assistant at multiple user devices participating in a video communication session by using context information from a first user device to determine a digital assistant response at a second user device. In this manner, users participating in the video communication session may interact with the digital assistant during the video communication session as if the digital assistant is another participant in the video communication session. Embodiments further describe automatically determining candidate digital assistant tasks based on a shared transcription of user voice inputs received at user devices participating in a video communication session. In this manner, a digital assistant of a user device participating in a video communication session may proactively determine one or more tasks that a user of the user device may want the digital assistant to perform based on conversations held during the video communication session.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Niranjan Manjunath, Willem Mattelaer, Jessica Peck, Lily Shuting Zhang
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Patent number: 11768690Abstract: A system may include a plurality of processors and a coprocessor. A plurality of coprocessor context priority registers corresponding to a plurality of contexts supported by the coprocessor may be included. The plurality of processors may use the plurality of contexts, and may program the coprocessor context priority register corresponding to a context with a value specifying a priority of the context relative to other contexts. An arbiter may arbitrate among instructions issued by the plurality of processors based on the priorities in the plurality of coprocessor context priority registers. In one embodiment, real-time threads may be assigned higher priorities than bulk processing tasks, improving bandwidth allocated to the real-time threads as compared to the bulk tasks.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Aditya Kesiraju, Andrew J. Beaumont-Smith, Brian P. Lilly, James Vash, Jason M. Kassoff, Krishna C. Potnuru, Rajdeep L. Bhuyar, Ran A. Chachick, Tyler J. Huberty, Derek R. Kumar
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Patent number: 11768535Abstract: A method is performed at an electronic device including one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, and a first input device. The method includes detecting, via the first input device, an input directed to a first location within a physical environment. The first location is identified by an extremity tracking function based on the input. The method includes determining an interaction event based on a function of a semantic identifier that is associated with a portion of the first location. The method includes presenting computer-generated content that is a function of the interaction event.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Bart Colin Trzynadlowski, Gregory Patrick Lane Lutter, Thomas G. Salter, Rahul Nair, Devin William Chalmers
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Patent number: 11768083Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device displays indications of safety characteristics of one or more navigational segments of a navigation route. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays navigation options. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents indications of navigation directions while navigation along a route.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Usama M. Hajj, Vincent Patrick Arroyo, Giovanni S. Luis, Hollie Renee Figueroa
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Patent number: 11769616Abstract: Cables are magnetically attracted to magnets in straps and other items such as electronic devices. The cables may contain signal lines to convey power and/or data. Magnetic material that is attracted to magnetic fields may be incorporated into the signal lines and/or other structures in the cables. The straps may have flexible magnets and/or other magnets extending along their lengths. The magnets of the straps create magnetic fields that attract the cables. Electronic devices may also have housings that contain magnets to attract the cables. Using magnetic attraction, cables can be removably attached to straps and other items during operation of an electronic device, thereby helping to prevent tangling of the cables.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Toria F. Yan, Liam R. Martinez, Yi H. Hsieh, Yunhe Huang, Zebinah P. Masse
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Patent number: 11768546Abstract: In one implementation, a method for visually indicating positional/rotational information of a finger-wearable device. The method includes: determining a set of translational values and a set of rotational values for the finger-wearable device, wherein the finger-wearable device is worn on a finger of a user; displaying, via a display, a visual representation of a location of the finger-wearable device based on the set of translational values; generating a visual representation of a grasp region of the user based on the set of translational values and the set of rotational values; and concurrently displaying, via the display, the visual representation of the grasp region with the visual representation of the location of the finger-wearable device.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Adam Gabriel Poulos, Benjamin Rolf Blachnitzky, Nicolai Philip Georg, Arun Rakesh Yoganandan, Aaron Mackay Burns
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Patent number: 11770274Abstract: A decision feedback equalizer (DFE) sampler circuit is disclosed. The DFE sampler includes a front-end circuit configured to generate a filtered signal using a plurality of signals that encode a serial data stream that includes a plurality of data symbols and a summing circuit configured to generate an equalized signal by combining the filtered signal and an analog feedback signal based on a digital feedback signal. The DFE sampler further includes first and second samplers configured to sample the equalized signal and generate first and second regeneration signals, respectively, during first and second time periods. A compensation circuit is configured to generate the digital feedback signal using the first and second regeneration signals. The first and second samplers, in alternating time periods, cancel ISI from the equalized signal using the first and second regeneration signals, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Wing Liu, Sanjeev K. Maheshwari
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Patent number: D999775Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniele De Iuliis, Markus Diebel, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Joe Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer