Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 11641460Abstract: A method includes displaying, on a display, a representation of a physical environment and a computer-generated object. The method includes generating a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud associated with the representation of the physical environment. The method includes obtaining depth information characterizing the physical environment. The method includes obtaining a capture event associated with a capture region within the representation of the physical environment. The capture region includes a portion of the computer-generated object. The method includes, in response to obtaining the capture event, disambiguating a group of points from the 3D point cloud, and generating, based on a function of the depth information and the group of points, a volumetric representation of the capture region. The group of points satisfies a spatial threshold with respect to the capture region. The volumetric representation includes a volumetric representation of the portion of the computer-generated object.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Eric John Geusz, Pravalika Avvaru
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Patent number: 11640768Abstract: A configuration for a breathing sequence may be defined using a hardware element of a user device. A user interface of the user device may be used to begin the breathing sequence. During the breathing sequence, a fluctuating progress indicator user interface element may fluctuate at a cyclic rate. Such fluctuation may include repeated growing and repeated shrinking of the fluctuating progress indicator user interface element. During the breathing sequence, heart rate data may be collected and used to present heart rate information at a conclusion of the breathing sequence.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jay Kriz Blahnik, Erno H. Klaassen, Julie A. Arney, Alan C. Dye, Gary I. Butcher, Kevin M. Lynch, Nader E. Bagherzadeh, Gracee Agrawal, Stephen J. Waydo, Christopher J. Brouse
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Patent number: 11641563Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for system and methods to crowdsource the location of wireless devices and accessories that lack a connection to a wide area network. One embodiment provides for a data processing system configured to perform operations comprising loading a user interface on an electronic device, the user interface to enable the determination of a location of a wireless accessory that is associated with the electronic device, generating a set of public keys included within a signal broadcast by the wireless accessory, the signal broadcast during a first period, sending the set of public keys to a server with a request to return data that corresponds with a public key in the set of public keys, decrypting the location data using a private key associated with the public key, and processing the location data to determine a probable location for the wireless accessory.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Scott Lopatin, Emmanuel Lalande, Lawrence T. Lu, Robert W. Mayor, Siva Ganesh Movva, Raghunandan K. Pai, Munish K. Poonia, Tommy Rochette, Sam Schaevitz, Yannick L. Sierra, Navin Bindiganavile Suparna, Langford Wasada
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Patent number: 11639307Abstract: A glass sheet having asymmetric chemical strengthening is disclosed and described. The examples described herein are directed to a cover glass for an electronic device and other glass components that may be used as enclosure elements or may form an enclosure. Within the glass component, localized compressive stress regions may be formed on opposite sides of the glass component, which may help arrest or redirect propagating cracks or defects in the glass. The opposing compressive stress regions may also help maintain the overall flatness of the component while increasing strength and/or impact resistance of the component.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: James R. Wilson, Christopher D. Jones, Christopher C. Bartlow, Aidan R. Doan
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Patent number: 11641724Abstract: An electronic device can include a housing component that can define an interior surface and an exterior surface of the device, a metallic film deposited on the interior surface and extending at least partially onto the exterior surface, and a ceramic film deposited on the exterior surface and at least partially over a portion of the metallic film on the exterior surface. The ceramic film can be in electrical communication with a portion of the metallic film deposited on the interior surface to form an electrical pathway from the exterior surface to the interior surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jiahui Liang, Anirban Das, Jungyup Kim, Martin Melcher, Srinivasan Varadharajan, Wolf Oetting
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Patent number: 11641299Abstract: A user equipment (UE) can include processing circuitry configured to decode downlink control information (DCI) from a base station, the DCI including a modulation coding scheme (MCS) index and physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) allocation. A demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) is encoded for transmission to the base station within a plurality of DM-RS symbols based on the PUSCH allocation. A phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) time domain density is determined based on the MCS index and a number count of the DM-RS symbols for the DM-RS transmission. The PT-RS is encoded for transmission using a plurality of PT-RS symbols based on the determined time domain density. The plurality of symbols includes one or both of front-loaded DM-RS symbols and additional DM-RS symbols.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov, Guotong Wang, Gang Xiong, Yushu Zhang
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Patent number: 11640708Abstract: Implementations disclosed herein provide systems and methods that match a current scene graph associated with a user's current environment to a prior scene graph for a prior environment to determine that the user is in the same environment. The current scene graph is compared with the prior scene graph based on matching the objects within the current scene graph with objects within the prior scene graph.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Angela Blechschmidt, Alexander S. Polichroniadis, Daniel Ulbricht
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Patent number: 11640237Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to handwriting on touch sensitive surfaces. In some examples, text suggestions strokes entered on a touch sensitive surface are viewed and selected in response to a rotatable input mechanism. In some examples, text determined from a set of strokes on the touch sensitive surface is revised based on a subsequently entered stroke on the touch sensitive surface. In some examples, a determination is made whether to include a stroke in a set of strokes based a time between the stroke and the previous stroke. In some examples, determining text based on a set of stroke is interrupted to determined revised text based on the set of strokes and a second stroke.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ryan S. Dixon, Imran Chaudhri, Bradley W. Griffin, Tiffany S. Jon
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Patent number: 11640144Abstract: A watch can include a user input component that employs an optical sensor to receive input from a user. The input components provide an ability for a user to interact with the watch in a manner similar to how a user would interact with a crown that is rotatable and/or translatable. The user can provide motions and gestures near the input component that the input component can detect and interpret and user inputs to control an aspect of the watch. The motions and gestures provided by the user can be directly detected with optical systems of the input component, so that the number of moving parts are reduced and space within the watch is more efficiently utilized. While providing these benefits, the input component provides a user experience that simulates user interactions with a crown that is rotatable and/or translatable.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Tyler S. Bushnell, Sameer Pandya, Steven P. Cardinali
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Patent number: 11641686Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for refreshing a Global Unique Temporary Identifier GUTI of a user equipment UE. The UE may receive a GUTI from an Access Mobility Function AMF as part of a registration process. After a timer has expired, the UE may receive a new GUTI from the AMF. The timer may be provided by the UE as a request for use by the AMF. Alternatively, the timer may be used by the UE and the UE may request the new GUTI upon expiry of the timer, e.g., using an existing message or a new message, as desired.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Shivani Suresh Babu, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Krisztian Kiss
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Patent number: 11640692Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Praveen Gowda Ippadi Veerabhadre Gowda, Quinton L. Petty
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Patent number: 11639998Abstract: A optical communication system including a source device and an endpoint device. The source device include an array of laser diodes and is configured to drive the laser diodes to project a sequence of patterns into the field of view of the source device to define a set of serially-projected codes, each of which isolated to one respective angular division of the field of view of the source device. The endpoint device receives a serially-projected code from the source device which varies based which angular division of the field of view of the source device is occupied by the endpoint device.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Tong Chen, Mark T. Winkler
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Patent number: 11640316Abstract: Embodiments relate to a compiler. The compiler decreases data fetch and read associated with storing data in a data buffer of a neural processor circuit to or from a system memory. The data buffer can store an input slice of data for processing by a neural engine(s) of the neural processor circuit, an output slice of data output from the neural engine(s), and/or an intermediate data slice of data.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2022Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Seungjin Lee, Sung Hee Park, Elaina Chai
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Patent number: 11640039Abstract: Various embodiments include a welded bracket structure for camera modules and techniques for forming such a welded bracket structure. In some embodiments, the welded bracket structure may include a first bracket and a second bracket that are welded to each other. Some embodiments include a weld joint arrangement comprising one or more weld joints for attaching the first bracket to the second bracket. Furthermore, some embodiments include an epoxy arrangement for a multi-camera system that includes the welded bracket structure and multiple camera modules.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Aurelien R. Hubert, Stoyan P. Hristov, Xiao Liao
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Patent number: 11640812Abstract: An augmented reality display system included in a vehicle generates an augmented reality display, on one or more transparent surfaces of the vehicle. The augmented reality display can include an indicator of the vehicle speed which is spatially positioned according to the speed of the vehicle relative to the local speed limit. The augmented reality display can include display elements which conform to environmental objects and can obscure and replace content displayed on the objects. The augmented reality display can include display elements which indicate a position of environmental objects which are obscured from direct perception through the transparent surface. The augmented reality display can include display elements which simulate one or more particular environmental objects in the environment, based on monitoring manual driving performance of the vehicle by a driver. The augmented reality display can include display elements which identify environmental objects and particular zones in the environment.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kjell F. Bronder, Scott M. Herz, Karlin Y. Bark
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Patent number: 11638556Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for estimating caloric expenditure using a heart rate model specific to a motion class. In an embodiment, a method comprises: obtaining acceleration and rotation rate from motion sensors of a wearable device; determining a vertical component of inertial acceleration and a vertical component of rotational acceleration from the acceleration and rotation rate, respectively; determining a magnitude of the rotation rate; determining a correlation between the inertial vertical acceleration component and rotational acceleration; determining a percentage of motion outside a dominant plane of motion; predicting a motion class based on a motion classification model that takes as input the motions, correlation and percentage; determining a likelihood the user is walking; in accordance with determining that the user is likely not walking, configuring a heart rate model based on the predicted motion class; and estimating, using the configured heart rate model, a caloric expenditure of the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Di Wu, James Ochs, Paige N. Stanley, Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram
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Patent number: 11641596Abstract: In some implementations, a computing system can perform crowd sourced access point mapping using privacy preserving techniques. For example, a server device can receive access point data reports from multiple user devices that includes various attributes and/or measurements with respect to access points with which the user devices have established connections. The access point data reports can be delivered without identifying the user devices, or users thereof, and their exact locations. Based on the access point data reports, the server device can map locations of access points and relationships between access points to generate network topologies, network locations, network quality scores, and various other characteristics of networks and/or access points. The generated access point data can be served to user devices so that the user devices can improve the efficiency of the interactions between user devices and the detected access points and/or networks.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rachid Kachemir, Krishna M. Behara, Ashok Kumar Harikumar, Christopher R. Purcell, Welly Kasten
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Publication number: 20230129821Abstract: Some embodiments provide a navigation application with a novel declutter navigation mode. In some embodiments, the navigation application has a declutter control that when selected, directs the navigation application to simplify a navigation presentation by removing or de-emphasizing non-essential items that are displayed in the navigation presentation. In some embodiments, the declutter control is a mode-selecting control that allows the navigation presentation to toggle between normal first navigation presentation and a simplified second navigation presentation, which below is also referred to as a decluttered navigation presentation. During normal mode operation, the navigation presentation of some embodiments provides (1) a representation of the navigated route, (2) representations of the roads along the navigated route, (3) representation of major and minor roads that intersect or are near the navigated route, and (4) representations of buildings and other objects in the navigated scene.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jonathan L. Berk, Bradley L. Spare, Edward J. Cooper
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Publication number: 20230125227Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. To compress the attribute and/or spatial information, the encoder is configured to convert a point cloud into an image based representation. Also, the decoder is configured to generate a decompressed point cloud based on an image based representation of a point cloud.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Khaled Mammou, Fabrice A. Robinet, Alexandros Tourapis, Yeping Su
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Patent number: D985020Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jay Christopher Capela, Damir Frkovic, Alexander Charles Maclean, Roger Rock Rosner, Mark Daniel Walczak