Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 11635334
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein are directed to a temperature measurement device that includes a sensor body configured to be placed on a skin of a user. The temperature measurement device can include a first section defining a first lower surface and having a first thickness, a second section defining a second lower surface and having a second thickness, and a channel separating the first lower surface from the second lower surface. The temperature measurement device can also include a first set of temperature sensors positioned across the first thickness, a second set of temperature sensors positioned across the second thickness, and a processor configured to estimate a tissue temperature of the user based on comparing temperature signals from the first set of temperature sensors with temperature signals from the second set of temperature sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Helia Rahmani, Anthony D. Minervini, Wanfeng Huang, James C. Clements, Jiandong Yu, Zijing Zeng, Charley T. Ogata
  • Patent number: 11636702
    Abstract: A method of temperature compensation in an optical-fingerprint detection system includes acquiring a first reading associated with one or more pixels of an array. The first reading is a baseline reading. The method further includes acquiring a second reading associated with the one or more pixels of the array. The second reading includes the baseline plus a signal. Producing a temperature compensated signal reading by subtracting the first reading from the second reading. The array is an optical-fingerprint array, and each pixel of the array is coupled to a readout circuit via a pixel switch. The method includes row-based and frame-based schemes and a blind pixel scheme. Readout circuit improvements including multiplexed analog front-end (AFE), charge magnifier with column charge offset compensation and a low-noise gate driver circuit are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christoph H. Krah, Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost
  • Patent number: 11637886
    Abstract: A device implementing cellular communication protocol aware multimedia streaming may include at least one processor configured to establish a link for communicating with another device, wherein the link utilizes at least one of a first cellular communication protocol or a second cellular communication protocol. The at least one processor may be configured to determine a bit rate for a video stream to be provided to the other device based at least in part on whether the link utilizes the first cellular communication protocol or the second cellular communication protocol, wherein a first bit rate is determined when the link utilizes the first cellular communication protocol and a second bit rate is determined when the link utilizes the second cellular communication protocol. The at least one processor may be configured to provide, for transmission over the link to the other electronic device, the video stream at the determined bit rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel B. Pollack, Karthick Santhanam, Christopher M. Garrido, Jingyao Zhang, Ming Jin, Hyeonkuk Jeong
  • Patent number: 11638290
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing downlink control for multi-TRP transmission. A cellular base station may provide a downlink control information transmission to a wireless device scheduling downlink transmissions to the wireless device from multiple transmission reception points. The downlink control information may include information that can be used by the wireless device to determine any or all of physical resource block bundling sizes, frequency domain resource allocations, modulation and coding schemes, redundancy versions, phase tracking reference signal configurations, and any of various other possible types of configuration information for the downlink transmissions. The wireless device may receive the downlink transmissions from the plurality of transmission reception points in accordance with the downlink control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Hong He, Yuchul Kim, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Yakun Sun
  • Patent number: 11634167
    Abstract: In one aspect of the present disclosure, a combined suspension and steering module is disclosed that is positionable between an in-hub motor and a body of a vehicle. The module includes a housing, an actuator connected to the housing and including first and second components, and a steering system that is in mechanical cooperation with the actuator to rotate at least one of the first and second components in relation to the housing. The second component is axially movable in relation to the first component and is configured for connection to the in-hub motor to transmit rotational force from the actuator to the in-hub motor to cause angular displacement of the in-hub motor to thereby steer the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: James J. Dowle, Philipp J. Wolf, Dan-Sverker A. Fhyr, Neal M. Lackritz
  • Patent number: 11635938
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing spatial audio. Some exemplary techniques include user interfaces for transitioning between visual elements. Some exemplary techniques include user interfaces for previewing audio. Some exemplary techniques include user interfaces for discovering music. Some exemplary techniques include user interfaces for managing headphone transparency. Some exemplary techniques include user interfaces for manipulating multiple audio streams of an audio source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stuart John Wood, Martin E. Johnson, Darius A. Satongar
  • Patent number: 11635876
    Abstract: An electronic device provides, to a display, data to present a user interface that includes a plurality of user interface objects, and a current focus on a first user interface object. While the display is presenting the user interface, the electronic device receives an input that corresponds to a movement of a contact across on a touch-sensitive surface. The electronic device, in response to receiving the input and in accordance with a determination that a first axis is a dominant axis, moves the current focus along the first axis by a first amount and along the second axis by a second amount. The amount of movement of the current focus along the second axis is reduced to a first non-zero amount by a scaling factor that is based on one or more inputs received prior to receiving the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Nicole M. Wells, Justin T. Voss, Blake R. Seely, Matthew D. Ricketson, Henrique D. Penha, Grace H. Hwang, Graham R. Clarke, Jeffrey L. Robbin, William M. Bachman, Benjamin W. Keighran, Jennifer L. C. Folse, Jonathan Lochhead, Joe R. Howard, Joshua K. McGlinn
  • Patent number: 11636348
    Abstract: At a centralized model trainer, one or more neural network based models are trained using an input data set. At least a first set of parameters of a model is transmitted to a model deployment destination. Using a second input data set, one or more adaptive parameters for the model are determined at the model deployment destination. Using the adaptive parameters, one or more inferences are generated at the model deployment destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yichuan Tang, Nitish Srivastava, Ruslan Salakhutdinov
  • Patent number: 11636192
    Abstract: Techniques for managing secure login with authentication while viewing a unique code are described. In some examples, a requesting device displays a visual representation of data. An authenticating device detects the presence of the visual representation of data. The authenticating device prompts a user to provide authorization information at the authenticating device. The authenticating device receives a set of one or more inputs. The authenticating device transmits information authorizing access to content on the requesting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent P. Arroyo, Ramiro Calvo, Max M. Gunther, Hannah S. Story, Onar Vikingstad, Lin Yang
  • Patent number: 11638059
    Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. In one example process, information associated with media playback is received from one or more user devices. A speech request for a media item is received from a user. At least the speech request and the information associated with media playback is transmitted to a second electronic device. Based on at least the speech request and the information associated with media playback, an instruction for media playback on a secondary user device is received. At least one task is performed based on the instruction for media playback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan Hansen, Vince Lane, Benjamin S. Phipps, Karl Ferdinand Schramm, Andrew J. Sinesio, Jaireh Tecarro
  • Patent number: 11636927
    Abstract: Information about a medical provider's locations, brands, and gateways can be received (e.g., via an online portal). This information can be used to generate a data object that represents relationships between the locations, the brands, and the gateways. This data object can be maintained in a database base that is searchable by a user device. For example, a user of the user device may search the database to identify a medical provider where the user obtains care. Once identified, other systems can be used to connect the user device to a gateway associated with the medical provider in order to download electronic health record data associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Todd D. Power, Mark E. Pennell, Eric K. Kimn, Sean R. Moore, Sangeeth Sridharan, Mohan Singh Randhava, Jorge F. Pozas Trevino, Pablo Antonio Gonzalez Cervantes, Kevin M. Lynch
  • Patent number: 11636578
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that complete content for a missing part of an image of an environment. For example, an example process may include obtaining an image including defined content and missing parts for which content is undefined, determining a spatial image transformation for the image based on the defined content and the missing parts of the image, altering the image by applying the spatial image transformation, and completing the altered image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Kurz, Gowri Somanath, Tobias Holl
  • Patent number: 11635597
    Abstract: Compact folded lens systems are described that may be used in small form factor cameras. Lens systems are described that may include three lens elements with refractive power, with a light folding element such as a prism, located between a first lens element on the object side of the lens system and a second lens element, that redirects the light refracted from the first lens element from a first axis onto a second axis on which the other lens elements and a photosensor are arranged. The lens systems may include an aperture stop located behind the front vertex of the lens system, for example at the first lens element, and an optional infrared filter, for example located between the last lens element and a photosensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhong Yao, Yoshikazu Shinohara
  • Patent number: 11636801
    Abstract: An exemplary computer console can generate one or more video streams having image data relating to an image or a series of images, also referred to as video, to be presented by an electronic display device. The exemplary computer console can provide the one or more video streams to the electronic display device over one or more transport streams. The exemplary computer console can effectively throttle a video stream bitrate of the one or more video streams to be less than of the standard defined transport stream bitrate of the one or more transport streams to allow the transport of the one or more video streams over the one or more transport streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Reese A. Schreiber, Carlos M. Calderon, Collin L. Pieper, Ian P. Shaeffer, Jeffrey R. Wilcox, Robert L. Ridenour
  • Patent number: 11637153
    Abstract: A display may have an array of light-emitting pixels that display an image in an active area of the display. These light-emitting pixels may be visible light pixels such as red, green, and blue thin-film organic light-emitting diode pixels. The display may also have a border region that runs along a peripheral edge of the active area. The border region may be free of pixels that display image light, whereas the active area may be free of light detectors. A non-optical touch sensor such as a capacitive touch sensor may overlap the active area to gather touch input from the active area. The non-optical touch sensor may not overlap any portion of the border region. In the border region, an optical sensor formed from infrared light-emitting pixels and infrared light-sensing pixels or other optical sensing circuitry may serve as an optical touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christoph H. Krah, Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost
  • Patent number: 11636931
    Abstract: A computer system may generate a curated health ontology. The curated health ontology may be used by a requesting system. The curated health ontology generated from on a set of standard health codes combined with augmentation information, which supplements and/or otherwise changes the standard health codes. Once generated, the curated health ontology may be transmitted to the requesting system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick W. Granvold, Jason B. Morley, Zhe Li
  • Patent number: 11637656
    Abstract: Provided herein are method and apparatus for channel coding in the fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) system. An embodiment provides an apparatus for a Next Generation NodeB (gNB), including circuitry, which is configured to: generate Downlink Control Information (DCI) payload for a NR-Physical Downlink Control Channel (NR-PDCCH); attach Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) to the DCI payload; mask the CRC with an Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI) using a bitwise modulus 2 addition operation, wherein the number of bits for the RNTI is different from the number of bits for the CRC; and perform polar encoding for the DCI payload with the masked CRC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Debdeep Chatterjee, Hong He, Gang Xiong, Ajit Nimbalker, Dmitry Dikarev, Yongjun Kwak
  • Patent number: D984167
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher M. Green, Sam Brown, Kully Kraig Mandon, Casey Feeney, Jean-Marc Gady, Bridget Cinquegrano, Taylor Hoff, Kristen Ernst
  • Patent number: D984462
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Butcher, Alan C. Dye, Chance Graham, Jonathan P. Ive
  • Patent number: D984477
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Teofila Connor, Lynnette Lucille Galloway, Aurelio Guzmán, Andre Ricardo Jointe, Michael Tettey Nartey, Oladapo Onikuyide, Shedrick Wallace Turner, Jr.