Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 12238237Abstract: A method includes, at a computer system with a display, a housing, and an attachment mechanism, detecting attachment of an accessory to the computer system, where the accessory, while attached, has a predetermined orientation relative to the attachment mechanism, and in response to detecting the attachment of the accessory to the computer system in accordance with a determination that the accessory is a first accessory with first physical dimensions, displaying, on the display, a first visual indication that the accessory has been attached to the computer system, wherein the first visual indication indicates at least one property of the first physical dimensions, and in accordance with a determination that the accessory is a second accessory with second physical dimensions that are different from the first physical dimensions, displaying, on the display a second visual indication that the accessory has been attached to the computer system, wherein the second visual indication indicates at least one property oType: GrantFiled: January 9, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Thomas S. Hulbert, Jeremy D. Bataillou, Brian T. Gleeson, David C. Graham, Deena Khattab, Gemma A. Roper, Arian Behzadi, Alan C. Dye
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Patent number: 12236560Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for per-pixel filtering. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining an image data frame. In some implementations, the image data frame includes a plurality of pixels. In some implementations, the method includes generating a respective pixel characterization vector for each of the plurality of pixels. In some implementations, each pixel characterization vector includes an object label indicating an object type that the corresponding pixel of the plurality of pixels represents. In some implementations, the method includes modifying corresponding pixel data of the plurality of pixels having a first object label. In some implementations, the method includes synthesizing a first modified image data frame that includes modified pixel data for the plurality of pixels having the first object label and unmodified pixel data for the plurality of pixels not having the first object label.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Jack Greasley
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Patent number: 12238469Abstract: This disclosure includes several different features suitable for use in circumaural and supra-aural headphones designs. Designs that include earpad assemblies that improve acoustic isolation are discussed. User convenience features that include automatically detecting the orientation of the headphones on a user's head are also discussed. Various power-saving features, design features, sensor configurations and user comfort features are also discussed.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2024Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Edward Siahaan, Daniel R. Bloom, Jason J. LeBlanc, Phillip Qian
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Patent number: 12237884Abstract: Methods and systems are for configuring multi-user multiple-input multiple output (MU-MIMO) operation by a base station and a plurality of UEs include requesting sounding reference signals (SRS) or channel state information (CSI) data from each UE of the plurality; configuring, based on the SRS or CSI data from each UE, a precoder matrix, the precoder matrix allocating a plurality of precoded CSI-reference signal (CSI-RS) resources for each UE; scheduling, for each UE, the precoded CSI-RS resources; receiving, from each UE, a CQI report that is based on the precoded CSI-RS resources received by that respective UE; generating a CQI matrix from the CQI reports of each UE; selecting a subset of UEs from the plurality based on the CQI matrix; and scheduling DL resources for the subset of UEs, the DL resources including reference signals.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Louay Jalloul, Ghaith N. Hattab
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Patent number: 12232878Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to displaying atrial fibrillation data. A computer system concurrently displays a first representation of atrial fibrillation data for a first period of time and a first representation of non-heart data the first period of time.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Felton, Heather E. Daniel, Vera Carr, Patrick Okechukwu Eronini, Jr., Eamon Francis Gilravi, Ruchi Goswami, Ava Baunoo Rezvani, David Tsay
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Patent number: 12236130Abstract: In an embodiment, a system may support programmable hashing of address bits at a plurality of levels of granularity to map memory addresses to memory controllers and ultimately at least to memory devices. The hashing may be programmed to distribute pages of memory across the memory controllers, and consecutive blocks of the page may be mapped to physically distant memory controllers. In an embodiment, address bits may be dropped from each level of granularity, forming a compacted pipe address to save power within the memory controller. In an embodiment, a memory folding scheme may be employed to reduce the number of active memory devices and/or memory controllers in the system when the full complement of memory is not needed.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Steven Fishwick, Lior Zimet, Harshavardhan Kaushikkar
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Patent number: 12238418Abstract: A camera may comprise a sensor-shift structure including a substrate to allow an image sensor to be movable relative to one or more lenses of the camera in one or more directions. During a drop or shock event, the substrate may experience unwanted movement and collide with a base structure in the vicinity. The camera may include one or more protection structures to prevent the substrate from directly colliding with the base structure to protect the base structure from potential damages. The protection structures may be implemented using components placed at the substrate and/or the base structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Qiang Yang, Aurelien R Hubert, Vijay Kumar
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Patent number: 12237881Abstract: Devices and systems useful in concurrently receiving and transmitting Wi-Fi signals and Bluetooth signals in the same frequency band are provided. By way of example, an electronic device includes a transceiver configured to transmit data and to receive data over channels of a first wireless network and a second wireless network concurrently. The transceiver includes a plurality of filters configured to allow the transceiver to transmit the data and to receive the data in the same frequency band by reducing interference between signals of the first wireless network and the second wireless network.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hsin-Yuo Liu, Peter M. Agboh, Mohit Narang, Indranil S. Sen, Nicholas M. McDonnell, Chia Yiaw Chong
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Patent number: 12236080Abstract: A computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a computing device with a touch screen display comprises: detecting one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display, applying one or more heuristics to the one or more finger contacts to determine a command for the device, and processing the command. The one or more heuristics comprise: a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a one-dimensional vertical screen scrolling command, a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a two-dimensional screen translation command, and a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a command to transition from displaying a respective item in a set of items to displaying a next item in the set of items.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Stephen O. Lemay, Richard Williamson
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Patent number: 12238514Abstract: An example technique for security key derivation in a wireless system includes: sending a radio resource control (RRC) suspend message from a first node, to a first user device, the RRC suspend message including a first next hop (NH) chaining counter (NCC) value; releasing access stratum (AS) resources associated with the first user device; deriving a first node key based on the first NCC value; receiving a first uplink message from the first user device without allocating AS resources to the first user device; and unscrambling the first uplink message based on the first NCC value.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Fangli Xu, Shu Guo, Yuqin Chen, Haijing Hu, Huarui Liang, Dawei Zhang
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Patent number: 12237855Abstract: An amplifier of a transmitter includes an input that receives an input signal and generates an amplified signal at an output. A digital power meter is coupled to the input of the amplifier, generates an estimated amplified signal, and determines peak and average powers of the estimated amplified signal. An output power detector coupled to the output of the amplifier determines peak and average powers of the amplified signal. A controller coupled to the digital power meter and the output power detector determines an estimated crest factor based on the peak and average powers of the estimated amplified signal, an amplified crest factor based on the peak and average powers of the amplified signal, and an error vector magnitude based on the estimated and amplified crest factors. The controller, which is also coupled to the amplifier, then adjusts operation of the amplifier based on the error vector magnitude.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Andrea Camuffo
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Patent number: 12237923Abstract: Embodiments may relate to group addressed frame delivery over multi-link systems. Systems and methods are configured for identifying, by an access point (AP) multilink device (MLD) in a wireless network, a first sequence number space (SNS) that is to be used by the AP MLD to transmit data to a non-AP MLD over a first communications link and a second communications link, wherein frames with identical data that are transmitted over the first and second communications links will have an identical first SN based on the first SNS; identifying, by the MLD in the wireless network, the first SN based on the first SNS; and transmitting, by the AP MLD in the wireless network, a frame that includes the data to the non-AP MLD based on the first SN.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Qi Wang, Yong Liu, Jarkko Lauri Sakari Kneckt, Jinjing Jiang, Yoel Boger, Guoquing Li, Tianyu Wu, Su Khiong Yong
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Patent number: 12236850Abstract: To reduce image artifacts induced by temperature variations associated with display pixels of an electronic display, processing circuitry may process temperature sensing data to obtain an average temperature and a temperature distribution of the electronic display. Based on the processed temperature data, the processing circuit may adjust a reference voltage applied to the display pixels to compensate for the average temperate. To further correct for the image artifacts, the processing circuitry may transform image data to luminance domain. Based on the processed temperature data, the processing may adjust luminance vales of the image data to compensate for the temperature distribution.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sunmin Jang, Ce Zhang, Hopil Bae, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Pablo Moreno Galbis, Paolo Sacchetto, Yaser Azizi, Young Don Bae
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Patent number: 12238686Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 6, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Zhibin Wu
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Patent number: 12238909Abstract: An electronic cooling assembly includes a heat-generating electronic component and a fan. In some examples the fan includes a housing defining an internal volume, the housing thermally coupled to the heat-generating electronic component, and a plurality of blades disposed in the internal volume. In some examples, the fan housing is thermally coupled directly to the heat-generating component via a thermal paste disposed between the heat-generating component and the housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: David J. Dunsmoor, Enoch Mylabathula, Jason C. Sauers, Jesse T. Dybenko, Laura M. Campo
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Patent number: 12238342Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress video data using an in-loop noise generation process that generates noise in the compression loop at a sub-image portion level of granularity, such as at a block level. The encoder includes noise model and/or noise model input parameter information in an encoded bit stream. Also, a system includes a decoder configured to receive such a bit stream and decompress the video using an in-loop noise generation process that generates noise in the decompression loop at a sub-image portion level of granularity.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hye-Yeon Cheong, David W. Singer, Alexandros Tourapis
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Patent number: 12237956Abstract: A wireless device may use 2.5 MHz narrow band channel spacing. In some embodiments, clear channel assessment based listen before talk may be used to determine if a channel is idle or busy. In some embodiments, randomized channel access may be achieved using a pseudo random number generator on an allowed list of channels. In some embodiments, an avoid loitering mechanism may be employed to reduce interference with transmitters using the same frequency bands.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Alexander Krebs, Yong Liu, Lochan Verma, Jinjing Jiang, Su Khiong Yong
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Patent number: D1063924Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Chowdhury, Markus Diebel, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
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Patent number: D1063934Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Marine C. Bataille, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviéve Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Alexandre B. Girard, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Richard P. Howarth, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Robert V. Tang, Clement Tissandier
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Patent number: D1063944Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, 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 Sung Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer