Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12238401
    Abstract: A tablet computing system may include a housing member defining a first portion of a back exterior surface of the tablet computer, at least a portion of a side exterior surface of the tablet computer, a raised rim extending from the back exterior surface and at least partially defining a sensor assembly hole extending through the housing member, and a support ledge positioned in the sensor assembly hole. The tablet computing system may also include a frame member positioned at least partially in the sensor assembly hole and coupled to the support ledge, a camera bracket coupled to the frame member, a first camera module coupled to the camera bracket, aa second camera module coupled to the camera bracket, the camera bracket fixing the relative positions of the first camera module and the second camera module, and a cover member positioned in the sensor assembly hole and attached to the frame member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: John K. Queeney, James A. Stryker, Jeremy Hill, Kienan D. McCarty, Lee B. Hamstra, Tavys Q. Ashcroft, Trevor M. Cardiff
  • Patent number: 12238716
    Abstract: Techniques for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) processing for multiple transmission and reception point (multi-TRP) are disclosed. In some embodiments, determining PDSCH hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) processing timing may include determining that a user equipment (UE) is configured for single downlink control information (single-DCI) multi-TRP PDSCH operation, determining a first PDSCH and a second PDSCH within a slot, wherein the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH are used in the single-DCI multi-TRP PDSCH operation, and determining a minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing for the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH using one or more symbols of the first PDSCH or one or more symbols of both the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Jia Tang, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Wei Zhang, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 12236634
    Abstract: In accordance with some implementations, a method is performed at an electronic device with one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, an image sensor, and a positional sensor. The method includes capturing image data of an eye using the image sensor. The method includes, while the electronic device is in a first position, determining a gaze vector based on the image data. The method includes detecting, based on positional sensor data from the positional sensor, a positional change of the electronic device from the first position to a second position. The method includes, in response to detecting the positional change, updating the gaze vector based on the positional sensor data. In some implementations, updating the gaze vector includes repositioning the gaze vector. In some implementations, updating the gaze vector includes increasing a targeting tolerance associated with the gaze vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Anshu K. Chimalamarri
  • Patent number: 12236938
    Abstract: Systems and processes for providing and modifying an output of an electronic document using a digital assistant of an electronic device are provided. An example method includes, receiving, at a first electronic device, a user input requesting an audible output of an electronic document including text; and in accordance with a determination to provide the audible output of the electronic document: generating a media item based on the text of the electronic document; after generating the media item, outputting, based on a semantic structure of the electronic document, the media item; while outputting the media item, receiving a second user input; and in accordance with a determination that the second user input is associated with an intent to modify the output: modifying, based on the second user input and the semantic structure of the electronic document, the output of the media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel A. Castellani, Didier Guzzoni, Pierre-Louis Jallerat
  • Patent number: 12238744
    Abstract: An apparatus of an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node includes processing circuitry coupled to a memory. To configure the IAB node for resource allocation within an IAB network, the processing circuitry is to decode radio resource control (RRC) signaling from a central unit (CU) function of an IAB donor node. The RRC signaling configures first time-domain resources for a parent backhaul link between a mobile termination (M) function of the IAB node and a distributed unit (DU) function of a parent IAB node, and second time-domain resources for a child backhaul link between a DU function of the IAB node and a MT function of a child IAB node. Uplink data is encoded for transmission to the parent IAB node based on the first time-domain resources. Downlink data is encoded for transmission to the child IAB node based on the second time-domain resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dawei Ying, Lili Wei, Qian Li, Hassan Ghozlan, Geng Wu
  • Patent number: 12238286
    Abstract: A video decoding method according to the present disclosure may include partitioning a current picture into a plurality of tiles, decoding partitioning information representing a slice type, wherein the partitioning information represents whether a rectangular slice is applied and decoding first width information and first height information of a slice when the partitioning information represents that the rectangular slice is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Bae Keun Lee
  • Patent number: 12238311
    Abstract: A video encoding system in which pixel data is decomposed into frequency bands prior to encoding. The frequency bands are organized into blocks that are provided to a block-based encoder that encodes the blocks and passes the encoded blocks to a wireless interface that packetizes the blocks for transmittal over a wireless connection. The encoder may categorize the encoded frequency bands into multiple priority levels, and may tag each frequency block with metadata indicating the frequency band represented in the block, the priority of the frequency band, and timing information. The wireless interface may then transmit or drop packets according to the priority levels of the encoded frequency blocks in the packets and/or according to the timing information of the frequency blocks in the packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sorin C. Cismas, Jim C. Chou, Ling Su, Keangpo R. Ho
  • Patent number: 12237585
    Abstract: A wireless system may include a central processor and an access point. The central processor may generate an optical signal on an optical fiber. The optical signal may include an optical local oscillator (LO) signal and one or more carriers. The central processor may modulate different combinations of transverse optical modes, orbital angular momentum, polarization, and/or carrier frequency of the optical signal to concurrently convey respective wireless data streams. The orthogonality of the transverse optical modes, orbital angular momentum, polarization, and carrier frequency may allow many wireless data streams to be modulated onto the optical signal and concurrently transmitted and propagated on the optical fiber independent of each other for transmission to one or more external devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Bertram R Gunzelmann
  • Patent number: 12236038
    Abstract: A computer system detects an input that is directed, when the input starts, to a location within a view in a user interface, and consequentially: sends to a software element associated with the view a plurality of input events, wherein each input event comprises a data structure including a phase field that describes a state of the input at a respective time, and the phase field of one of the plurality of input events is set to an input phase began value indicating that the input is new; determines whether or not the input should be ignored by the electronic device; and, in accordance with a determination that the input should be ignored by the electronic device, includes in the plurality of input events an input event whose phase field is set to an input phase cancel value indicating that the input has been cancelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jason Clay Beaver, Andrew Platzer
  • Patent number: 12238783
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include methods and apparatuses that enable the UE to transmit message 3 in an NTN network. A gNB can include, a time duration indicating the time at which the UE should transmit message 3. The network can ensure that the UE has adequate time to apply the timing advance, assemble and transmit message 3. The UE can compute time of UL grant application based on a timing advance. The time of application of the UL grant can be determined by the UE and by the gNB according to a specified rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Murali Narasimha
  • Patent number: 12238475
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to electronic devices having microphones. An electronic device may include a microphone and a resonator for the microphone. The resonator may be formed in a device structure that is spatially separated from the microphone. The resonator may be formed in an interior wall of a housing of the electronic device, or in a support structure within an enclosure of the electronic device. A resonator and/or one or more damping features, may reduce a resonance effect, on the microphone, of a resonant cavity within the enclosure of the electronic device and adjacent the microphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Justin D. Crosby, Kevin M. Froese, Tzu Hung Huang
  • Patent number: 12236563
    Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display to display an image based on processed image data. The electronic device may also include image processing circuitry to generate the processed image data. The image processing circuitry may receive input image data corresponding to an image in a first perspective and warp the input image data from the first perspective to a second perspective, generating warped image data. Additionally, the image processing circuitry may determine one or more occluded regions in the second perspective and determine fill-data corresponding to the occluded regions. The processed image data may be generated by combining the warped image data and the fill-data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jim C. Chou, Jian Zhou
  • Patent number: 12238763
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to providing MsgA PO validation. An embodiment of a user equipment (UE) user equipment (UE), comprising a processor to determine an initial uplink/downlink (UL/DL) slot configuration for communication with the UE, receive, from a base station, a cell-specific uplink/downlink configuration slot for communication with the UE, generate a MsgA physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) occasion (PO), and implement a validation test to determine whether the MsgA PO is configured on at permissible slot in a transmission frame structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Weidong Yang, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12238685
    Abstract: Systems and methods for sidelink (SL) power control within wireless communication systems are disclosed herein. A user equipment (UE) selects a parameter set to use to calculate a transmit power of one or more channels to be transmitted according to an SL session with a peer UE from a plurality of parameter sets each configured for use according to a distance between the UE and the peer UE. A UE determines whether an SL pathloss based calculation is to be used to calculate a transmit power of a channel according to an SL session with a peer UE, wherein that calculation is configured to be used depending on a distance between the UE and the peer UE. UE selection of a number of physical SL feedback channel (PSFCH) transmissions to match a UE capability and determinations regarding whether to perform PSFCH reception or PSFCH transmission are also discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 12238717
    Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for configuring a cellular sidelink control channel with frequency hopping and multi-beam diversity. A cellular base station may select a cellular sidelink control channel configuration that includes one or more of frequency hopping or multi-beam diversity. The cellular base station may provide cellular sidelink control channel configuration information to a wireless device. The cellular sidelink control channel configuration information may indicate the selected cellular sidelink control channel configuration that includes one or more of frequency hopping or multi-beam diversity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Zhibin Wu, Haijing Hu
  • Patent number: 12238954
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a hinge that allows the device to be flexed about a bend axis. A display may span the bend axis. To facilitate bending about the bend axis, the display may have layers such as a display cover layer with grooves or other recesses. The recesses form a flexible portion in the display layer. The display layer may be formed from glass or other materials that are transparent. Elastomeric material, fluids, and other materials may be placed in the recesses in the display layer. The material in the display layer may have an index of refraction that is matched to the index of refraction of the display layer. A hinge may be formed between rigid planar layers that are separated by a gap. Flexible layers that lie flush with opposing surfaces of the rigid planar layers may be used to span the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jiang Ai, Erik A. Uttermann, Soyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 12236526
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that determines generates a three-dimensional (3D) model based on depth data and a segmentation mask. For example, an example process may include obtaining depth data including depth values for pixels of a first image, obtaining a segmentation mask associated with a second image, the segmentation mask identifying a portion of the second image associated with an object, and generating a 3D model based on the depth data and the mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Praveen Gowda Ippadi Veerabhadre Gowda, Quinton L. Petty
  • Patent number: 12237891
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for storing a codebook in an integrated circuit. One of the methods includes storing, for an integrated circuit that comprises a memory, first data for a codebook in the memory; determining second data for the codebook using the first data; and sending, over a bus, the second data for the codebook to an antenna module separate from the integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kexin Ma, Jennifer M. Edwards
  • Patent number: 12238551
    Abstract: A base station configures a user equipment (UE) to monitor a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH). The base station receives, from the UE, a reduced PDCCH monitoring capability for at least one group of search space sets (SSS) of a PDCCH, determines a reduced monitoring capability (MO) configuration for the UE based on the reported reduced PDCCH monitoring capability and transmits the reduced MO configuration to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12236515
    Abstract: Three-dimensional data can be synchronized between a first electronic device and a second electronic device. A content creation application may be running on the first electronic device and may utilize a data file describing a three-dimensional content item. A two-dimensional representation of the content item may be displayed on the first electronic device. A user may request to preview the two-dimensional representation of the content item in three-dimensions. The first electronic device may initiate a data transfer with the second electronic device. The three-dimensional data of the data file may be transferred, via a communication link, from the content creation of the first electronic device to a three-dimensional graphic rendering application at the second electronic device. The three-dimensional graphic rendering application may generate a preview of the content item in three-dimensions based on the received three-dimensional data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Peter G. Zion, Tyler L. Casella, Omar Shaik, Benjamin B. Loggins, Eric S. Peyton, Christopher H. Dempsey