Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Digital identification credential user interfaces
    Patent number: 11663309
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to digital identification credential user interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haya Iris Villanueva Gaviola, Antonio A. Allen, Mayura D. Deshpande, Thomas John Miller, Policarpo Bonilla Wood, Jr., Ho Cheung Chung, Gianpaolo Fasoli, Vinay Ganesh, Irene M. Graff, Martijn Theo Haring, Ahmer A. Khan, Franck Farian Rakotomalala, Gordon Scott, Christopher Sharp, David W. Silver, Ka Yang
  • Defining a collection of media content items for a relevant interest
    Patent number: 11663261
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for defining a collection of media content items of a media library for a relevant interest are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Bessiere, Eric Circlaeys
  • Techniques for employing polar code in connection with NR (new radio)
    Patent number: 11664825
    Abstract: Techniques discussed herein facilitate polar coding and decoding for NR (New Radio) systems between UE(s) (User Equipment(s)) and/or gNB(s) (next generation Node B(s)) based on code block segmentation. One example embodiment employable at a UE comprises processing circuitry configured to determine one or more thresholds for code block segmentation, where the one or more thresholds for code block segmentation includes one or more of a payload threshold (Kseg) or a code rate threshold (Rseg); determine to perform code block segmentation based on the one or more thresholds and at least one of a current payload (K) of an information block or a current code rate (R) for the information block; segment the information block into a plurality of segments; and encode each segment of the plurality of segments via a polar encoder with a code size (N).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dmitry Dikarev, Grigory Ermolaev, Ajit Nimbalker, Alexei Davydov, Ashwin Chandrasekaran, Sathishkumar Chellakuttigounder Kulandaivel
  • Transmitting microphone audio from two or more audio output devices to a source device
    Patent number: 11665473
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments relate to implementing techniques for transmission of audio data from both of a pair of audio output devices to a user equipment (UE). A first wireless audio output device establishes a communication link to a source device using a wireless communication protocol, receives source audio data from the source device, receives secondary audio data from a second wireless audio output device and combines primary audio data from the first wireless audio output device with the secondary audio data into a consolidated audio packet. The consolidated packet is then transmitted to the source device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sriram Hariharan, Alon Paycher
  • Multimodal input processing system
    Patent number: 11663514
    Abstract: Controlling an automated agent in an environment includes obtaining high-quality data regarding a current state of the automated agent; identifying a behavior model; determining a trajectory estimate for the automated agent based on the current state of the automated agent and the behavior model; determining a final trajectory for the automated agent using the trajectory estimate; and controlling the automated agent according to the final trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Megan M. Maher, Barry-John Theobald, Nicholas E. Apostoloff
  • Contention window adjustment mechanisms for FELAA systems
    Patent number: 11659592
    Abstract: An apparatus of a Fifth Generation NodeB (gNB) to operate in a License Assisted Access (LAA) system configures a transmission initiation time interval contention window size (CWS) of N number of subframes between Category 4 Listen Before Talk (LBT) uplink (UL) transmissions by a user equipment (UE) operating in the LAA system, and a memory to store a value of N which can have a value 6 or greater or 10 or greater. An apparatus of a UE to operate in an LAA system decodes a configuration from the gNB of a transmission initiation time interval contention CWS of N number of subframes between Category 4 LBT UL transmissions in the LAA system. The CWS is increased to a next higher value when an UL grant or an autonomous UL (AUL) downlink feedback indicator (DFI) is not received before the expiration of a timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Salvatore Talarico, Jeongho Jeon, Wenting Chang, Huaning Niu
  • Mobile device including laser-pumped phosphor light source
    Patent number: 11658465
    Abstract: A mobile device includes a camera and a light source module embedded in the mobile device. The light source module includes at least a laser-pumped phosphor light source that includes a photoluminescent phosphor and a laser diode to generate laser light within a first wavelength range to pump the photoluminescent phosphor. Exposure of the photoluminescent phosphor to the laser light results in emission of visible light within a second wavelength range according to a laser-pumped emission spectrum associated with the photoluminescent phosphor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Angelo M. Alaimo, Richard L. Baer, Garam Young, Florian R. Fournier, Blake M. Coughenour, Bryan Dang
  • Radio control channel resource set design
    Patent number: 11659564
    Abstract: Embodiments herein may relate to transmission, in a first physical channel transmission, of an indication of a first set of parameters related to a control channel; and transmission, in a control channel transmission using the first set of parameters, of an indication of a second set of parameters related to the control channel. Further embodiments may relate to identifying a first parameter related to interleaving REGBs of a PDCCH transmission, wherein the first parameter is selected from a first plurality of parameters; interleaving the REGBs based on the first parameter to form a CCE; and transmitting the CCE in the PDCCH transmission. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yongjun Kwak, Honglei Miao, Debdeep Chatterjee, Gang Xiong, Hong He, Dae Won Lee
  • Enhanced reservation signal for cellular communication in unlicensed spectrum
    Patent number: 11659402
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to providing a reservation signal for cellular communication in unlicensed spectrum. A cellular base station may perform a listen-before-talk procedure on an unlicensed frequency channel. The cellular base station may transmit a reservation signal on the unlicensed frequency channel after successfully performing the listen-before-talk procedure. The cellular base station may perform carrier sensing on the unlicensed frequency channel at least once during the duration of the reservation signal. The cellular base station may perform cellular communication on the unlicensed frequency channel after ceasing transmitting the reservation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Deepankar Bhattacharjee, Prateek Sharma, Farouk Belghoul, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Sreevalsan Vallath
  • Fabric sensing device
    Patent number: 11656697
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive textile device that is configured to detect the occurrence of a touch, the location of a touch, and/or the force of a touch on the touch-sensitive textile device. In some embodiments, the touch-sensitive textile device includes a first set of conductive threads oriented along a first direction, and a second set of conductive threads interwoven with the first set of conductive threads and oriented along a second direction. The device may also include a sensing circuit that is operatively coupled to the first and second set of conductive threads. The sensing circuit may be configured to apply a drive signal to the first and second set of conductive threads. The sensing circuit may also be configured to detect a touch or near touch based on a variation in an electrical measurement using the first or second set of conductive threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel A. Podhajny, Kathryn P. Crews, Daniel D. Sunshine
  • Restraint system
    Patent number: 11654858
    Abstract: A deployable restraint system comprising a reaction panel, a panel actuator that deploys the reaction panel, a cushion, and a cushion actuator that deploys the cushion. When both the reaction panel and the cushion are deployed, the reaction panel is configured to transfer force from the cushion to a roof and only one of two sides of a compartment. A lower end of the reaction panel is configured to couple to the one of the two sides with a tether that is moved by the panel actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Philipp J. Wolf, Jesse T. Buehler, Adam J. Golman
  • User interface for manipulating user interface objects with magnetic properties
    Patent number: 11656751
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to user interfaces for manipulating user interface objects. A device, including a display and a rotatable input mechanism, is described in relation to manipulating user interface objects. In some examples, the manipulation of the object is a scroll, zoom, or rotate of the object. In other examples, objects are selected in accordance with simulated magnetic properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Zambetti, Imran Chaudhri, Jonathan R. Dascola, Alan C. Dye, Christopher Patrick Foss, Aurelio Guzman, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Duncan Robert Kerr, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson, Lawrence Y. Yang, Gary Ian Butcher, Nathan De Vries, Jonathan P. Ive
  • Latency reduction in analog-to-digital converter-based receiver circuits
    Patent number: 11658671
    Abstract: A serial data receiver circuit included in a computer system may include a front-end circuit, a sample circuit that includes multiple analog-to-digital converter circuits, and a recovery circuit. The front-end circuit may generate an equalized signal using multiple signals that encode a serial data stream of multiple data symbols. Based on a baud rate of the serial data stream, a determined number of the multiple analog-to-digital converter circuits sample, using a recovered clock signal, the equalized signal at the respective times to generate corresponding samples. The recovery circuit generates, using the samples, the recovered clock signal and recovered data symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan D. Bartling, Jafar Savoj, Brian S. Leibowitz, Shah M. Sharif
  • Location-based device automation
    Patent number: 11658841
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying a presence of a plurality of mobile devices at a geographic location, determining security system automation settings for the geographic location based on the identified plurality of mobile devices, and based on the determination, configuring a security system automation setting for the geographic location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Shoemaker, Michael I. Ingrassia, Jr., Nathaniel P. Hramits
  • Interacting with handwritten content on an electronic device
    Patent number: 11656758
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device selects and provides for interaction with handwritten content in a content entry region. In some embodiments, an electronic device generates normalized shapes based on handwritten inputs. In some embodiments, an electronic device identifies actionable text within handwritten content and updates the identified text to be actionable. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents tutorials for text manipulation operations. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays visual feedback of text manipulation operations. In some embodiments, an electronic device selects units of content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Woo Chang, Lee S. Broughton
  • Speaker
    Patent number: D986856
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Electronic device
    Patent number: D986886
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Electronic device
    Patent number: D987621
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Electronic device
    Patent number: D987625
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, 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, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Transaction card with label
    Patent number: D987718
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Jeremy Vanslette