Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12236540
    Abstract: A computer system concurrently displays a view of a physical environment; and a computer-generated user interface element overlaid on the view of the physical environment. An appearance of the computer-generated user interface element is based on an appearance of the view of the physical environment on which the computer-generated user interface element is overlaid. In response to an appearance of the physical environment changing, the appearance of the computer-generated user interface element is updated at a first time based on a graphical composition of the appearance of one or more portions of the physical environment at different times prior to the first time, including: an appearance of a first portion of the physical environment at a second time that is before the first time; and an appearance of a second portion of the physical environment at a third time that is before the second time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Miquel Estany Rodriguez, Wan Si Wan, Gregory M. Apodaca, William A. Sorrentino, III, James J. Owen, Pol Pla I. Conesa, Alan C. Dye
  • Patent number: 12234962
    Abstract: A system may have lights for providing illumination. The lights may be electrically adjustable so that the color and pattern of the illumination may be varied. Sensor data and/or other data may be used in determining how to adjust the lights. A light may have a light source such as a white light source or multicolored light source, a light collimator that receives light from the light source, and an adjustable lens array that receives collimated light from the light collimator and outputs corresponding adjustable vehicle illumination. The adjustable lens array may have fixed and/or adjustable lens elements and corresponding electrically adjustable light modulator elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Clarisse Mazuir, Christopher P Child, Xiaofeng Tang
  • Patent number: 12238808
    Abstract: Systems and methods related to “on/off” determinations regarding the performance of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring during connected mode discontinuous reception (CDRX) on duration windows are disclosed herein. In some cases, a radio access network (RAN) predicts whether a downlink (DL) packet for a UE will arrive at a buffer of the RAN prior to an end of a CDRX on duration window of the UE, and sends a downlink control information (DCI) with a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled by a power-saving radio network temporary identifier (PS-RNTI) (DCP) for the CDRX on duration window indicating whether or not the UE should perform PDCCH monitoring during the CDRX on duration window based on the prediction. In some cases, a UE determines a current state of DL traffic and adaptively uses DCP monitoring based on the current state of the traffic. Aggregation level adaptation by the RAN is also discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Lijie Zhang, Lele Cui, Xiaolong Tu, Dongzhou Yang, Tao Tao, Lei Zhou, Zihuan Xu
  • Patent number: 12235703
    Abstract: An integrated circuit may include multiple instances of a component (e.g. a processor) and a control circuit. The instances may be configured to operate in various modes. Some of the modes are incapable of presenting a worst-case load on the power supply. The control circuit may be configured to monitor the instances and detect the modes in which the instances are operating. Based on the monitoring, the control circuit may request to recover a portion of the voltage margin established for worst-case conditions in the instances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: John H. Mylius, Conrad H. Ziesler, Daniel C. Murray, Jong-Suk Lee, Rohit Kumar
  • Publication number: 20250063417
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to perform measurements on reference signals or synchronization signal. In an example, timing requirements for performing such measurements can be dynamically changed depending on, at least, a measurement on one of the reference signal or the synchronization signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Manasa Raghavan, Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Javier Mauricio Paredes Riano, Jianshu Zhang, Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Shengshan Cui, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Publication number: 20250063479
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems, and methods for slice prioritization implementation for frequency re-selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Rohit R. Matolia, Vijay Venkataraman
  • Publication number: 20250063562
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide rate matching for inter-cell, multiple transmit-receive point operation in wireless communication systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu ZHANG, Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN, Chunhai YAO, Haitong SUN, Wei ZENG, Dawei ZHANG, Hong HE, Huaning NIU, Sigen YE, Weidong YANG, Chunxuan YE, Oghenekome OTERI
  • Publication number: 20250060226
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a commute application that provides a first presentation of several stops along a route. The commute application also receives a selection of a stop from the several stops along the route. The commute application further provides a second presentation for displaying several different routes that traverse through the selected stop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: May-Li Khoe, Joseph A. Hagedorn, Marcel van Os
  • Publication number: 20250062939
    Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for use in a wireless network for generating and using slot format indicator (SFI) and channel occupancy time (COT) structure in new radio (NR) systems operating on unlicensed spectrum. For example, some embodiments are directed to a base station that includes radio front end circuitry and processor circuitry. The processor circuitry can be configured to generate a slot format indicator (SFI) associated with a channel occupancy time (COT) structure. The SFI indicates whether one or more slots associated with the COT structure are to be used for downlink (DL) symbols, uplink (UL) symbols, or flexible symbols. The flexible symbols form one or more gaps in the COT structure in response to the flexible symbols not being overridden as a DL transmission or a UL transmission. The processor circuitry can further be configured to transmit the SFI to a user equipment (UE).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yingyang LI, Salvatore TALARICO, Yongjun KWAK
  • Publication number: 20250063289
    Abstract: This application relates to earbuds configured with one or more biometric sensors. At least one of the biometric sensors is configured to be pressed up against a portion of the tragus for making biometric measurements. In some embodiments, the housing of the earbud can be symmetric so that the earbud can be worn interchangeably in either a left or a right ear of a user. In such an embodiment, the earbud can include a sensor and circuitry configured to determine and alter operation of the earbud in accordance to which ear the earbud is determined to be sitting in.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Phillip Qian, Edward Siahaan, Erik L. Wang, Christopher J. Stringer, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Daniel Max Strongwater, Jason J. LeBlanc
  • Publication number: 20250063463
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for network slice availability based de-prioritization. An example, method includes receiving user equipment (UE) routing selection policy (URSP) information. The method further includes starting an application associated with a network slice while registered with a standalone (SA) network. The method further includes evaluating routing selection descriptor information in the URSP information to determine an availability of the network slice of the SA network. The method further includes determining whether to de-prioritize the SA network based on a determination of availability of the network slice as indicated by the routing selection descriptor information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Muthukumaran Dhanapal
  • Publication number: 20250060939
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes an in-memory computing (IMC) circuit including a first set of IMC cells having a first number of IMC cells and a second set of IMC cells having the first number of IMC cells. The first set of IMC cells can generate a first bit-product of a weight number having a first number of bits and a first bit of an input number having a second number of bits. The second set of IMC cells can generate a second bit-product of the weight number and a second bit of the input number. A first IMC cell of the first set of IMC cells includes a first bit-wise multiplication circuit configured to multiply a first bit of the weight number and the first bit of the input number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yildiz SINANGIL, Lei WANG, Michael L LIU, Jaewon SHIN
  • Patent number: 12228411
    Abstract: Location information is used to build a database of locations having associated audio, video, image, or text data. In some implementations, a device includes a touch-sensitive display and collects data associated with a geographic location of interest. The geographic location of interest can be displayed on a map using an indicator. A touch selection of the indicator provides access to the data through an interface displayed on the touch-sensitive display. One or more locations of interest can be displayed and grouped together by an attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Forstall, Gregory N. Christie, Robert E. Borchers, Imran A. Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 12231787
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to image signal processors (ISP) that include binner circuits that down-sample an input image. An input image may include a plurality of pixels. The output image of the binner circuit may include a reduced number of pixels. The binner circuit may include a plurality of different operation modes. In a bin mode, the binner circuit may blend a subset of input pixel values to generate an output pixel quad. In a skip mode, the binner circuit may select one of the input pixel values as the output pixel pixel. The selection may be performed randomly to avoid aliasing. In a luminance mode, the binner circuit may take a weighted average of a subset of pixel values having different colors. In a color value mode, the binner circuit may select one of the colors in a subset of pixel values as an output pixel value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Sheng Lin, D. Amnon Silverstein, David R. Pope
  • Patent number: 12228973
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may have a flexible display layer covered by a protective display cover layer. The flexible display layer may be an organic light-emitting diode display layer or other layer with a flexible substrate. The flexible display layer may have a central region with peripheral edges. The central region may be rectangular, may be octagonal, or may have other shapes. Strip-shaped protrusions may extend along each of the peripheral edges of the central region. The strip-shaped protrusions may be bent to provide the protrusions with curved surface profiles. The display cover layer may have a cushion shape with bowed edges that overlap parts of the strip-shaped protrusions, may have curved inner and outer surfaces and/or planar surfaces, may have rounded corners with compound curvature, may have edges with curved surface profiles, and/or may have other configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Tyler S. Bushnell
  • Patent number: 12231156
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to techniques for controlling Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) of radio energy transmission. In particular, the disclosure relates to a radio device and a method for controlling radio energy transmission of a plurality of radio entities to comply with a predefined SAR requirement. Such a radio device includes: a plurality of radio entities configured to transmit radio energy; and a controller configured to control the radio energy transmission of the plurality of radio entities to comply with a predefined Specific Absorption Rate, SAR, requirement, wherein the controller is configured to enable at least two radio entities of the plurality of radio entities operating concurrently based on a shared SAR transmission power restriction which allows the at least two radio entities transmitting concurrently at a predefined duty cycle, in particular at 100% duty cycle, without violating the SAR requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Oren Kaidar, Ehud Reshef, Nir Balaban, Wilfrid D'Angelo, Yuval Elad
  • Patent number: 12229557
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a processor comprises an atomic predictor circuit to predict whether or not an atomic operation will complete successfully. The prediction may be used when a subsequent load operation to the same memory location as the atomic operation is executed, to determine whether or not to forward store data from the atomic operation to the subsequent load operation. If the prediction is successful, the store data may be forwarded. If the prediction is unsuccessful, the store data may not be forwarded. In cases where an atomic operation has been failing (not successfully performing the store operation), the prediction may prevent the forwarding of the store data and thus may prevent a subsequent flush of the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brian R. Mestan, Gideon N. Levinsky, Michael L. Karm
  • Patent number: 12231837
    Abstract: An in-ear listening device having a device housing including a speaker housing and an elongated tube protruding away from the speaker housing, an audio port formed through the speaker housing, a speaker disposed in the speaker housing and aligned to emit sound through the audio port, a microphone port formed through the elongated tube, a microphone disposed in the elongated tube and operatively coupled to receive sound through the microphone port, a rechargeable battery and a wireless antenna disposed within the device housing, wireless circuitry coupled to the wireless antenna and configured to input and output radio frequency signals for wireless communications, a user-interface touch control disposed on the device housing and operable to control a function of the earbud, and battery charging circuitry coupled to the rechargeable battery and positioned within the device housing and operable to charge the rechargeable battery when coupled to receive power from an external power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: M. Evans Hankey, Emery A. Sanford, Christopher D. Prest, Way Chet Lim
  • Patent number: 12229657
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a neural processor that include a plurality of neural engine circuits and one or more planar engine circuits. The plurality of neural engine circuits can perform convolution operations of input data of the neural engine circuits with one or more kernels to generate outputs. The planar engine circuit is coupled to the plurality of neural engine circuits. The planar engine circuit generates an output from input data that corresponds to output of the neural engine circuits or a version of input data of the neural processor. The planar engine circuit can be configured to multiple modes. In a pooling mode, the planar engine circuit reduces a spatial size of a version of the input data. In an elementwise mode, the planar engine circuit performs an elementwise operation on the input data. In a reduction mode, the planar engine circuit reduces the rank of a tensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Christopher L. Mills, Kenneth W. Waters, Youchang Kim
  • Patent number: D1062726
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    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, Alexandre B. Girard, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang