Patents Assigned to Apple
  • 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: 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: 11635818
    Abstract: An electronic device, in response to an input directed to a first user interface displays a second user interface, and in response to continuously detecting a contact on a button while displaying the second user interface, including detecting an increase in a characteristic intensity of the contact above a first intensity threshold, displays a beginning of a transition from the second user interface back to the first user interface. If the contact on the button is part of an input sequence that meets first criteria, the device ceases to display the second user interface and redisplays the first user interface on the display; and if the input sequence meets second criteria, the device reverses the beginning of the transition from the second user interface back to the first user interface, and redisplays the second user interface on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Camille Moussette, Jean-Pierre Mouilleseaux, Joshua B. Kopin, Imran A. Chaudhri, Sebastian J. Bauer, Kenneth L. Kocienda, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Daniel T. Preston
  • 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: 11638329
    Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE) and methods of communication are generally described herein. The UE may, if a regular buffer status report (BSR) is triggered and a logical channel scheduling request (SR) delay timer is not running, and if available uplink shared channel (UL-SCH) data resources do not meet one or more logical channel prioritization (LCP) mapping restrictions configured for a logical channel of uplink data: trigger a scheduling request to request UL-SCH data resources for a new transmission of uplink data. Currently pending SRs and BSRs may not be cancelled after assembly of a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU), but may be cancelled at a later time when a MAC PDU including a BSR is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bharat Shrestha, Yujian Zhang
  • Patent number: 11638158
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device performs techniques related to displaying personalized workout suggestions based on completed workouts. In some embodiments, an electronic device performs techniques related to starting an audio-based workout. In some embodiments, an electronic device performs techniques related to displaying information about a workout during playback of workout content. In some embodiments, an electronic device performs techniques related to displaying information about physical activity of a user relative to a group of users. In some embodiments, an electronic device performs techniques related to coordinating display of workout content among multiple devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lynne Devine, Joel Angelone, Julie A. Arney, Niharika Milind Bedekar, Jay Blahnik, Gary Ian Butcher, Edward Chao, David Clark, Niel Cormican, Eryn Hales, Zheng X. Hong, Parry Panesar, Dennis S. Park, Christopher John Sanders, Matthew J. Sundstrom, Jeff Tan-Ang, Molly Pray Wiebe, Policarpo Bonilla Wood, Jr.
  • 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: 11638246
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for a user equipment (UE) device that includes one or more processors configured to identify a search space for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates by: determining whether the search space is a group common search space or a UE specific search space; determining a number of PDCCH candidates per aggregation level (AL); determining a PDCCH monitoring periodicity and a PDCCH monitoring offset for the search space, each including a plurality of slots; determining monitored slots in the monitoring periodicity; determining, for each monitored slot, a monitoring pattern including a set of selected symbols; and determining a set of monitoring occasions corresponding to the set of selected symbols in each monitored slot of each monitoring periodicity. The one or more processors are configured to decode downlink signals received in the set of monitoring occasions to search for PDCCH information for the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr, Debdeep Chatterjee, Toufiqul Islam, Sergey Panteleev
  • Patent number: 11636656
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that create additional depth frames where a depth camera runs at a lower frame rate than a light intensity camera. Rather than upconverting the depth frames by simply repeating a previous depth camera frame, additional depth frames are created by adjusting some of the depth values of a prior frame based on the RGB camera data (e.g., by “dragging” depths from their positions in the prior depth frame to new positions for a new frame). Specifically, a contour image is generated, and changes in the contour image are used to determine how to adjust (e.g., drag) the depth values for the additional depth frames. The contour image may be based on a mask (e.g., occlusions masks identifying where the hand occludes the virtual cube).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniele Casaburo, Adrian P. Lindberg
  • Patent number: 11636869
    Abstract: A method for operating a voice trigger is provided. In some implementations, the method is performed at an electronic device including one or more processors and memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors. The method includes receiving a sound input. The sound input may correspond to a spoken word or phrase, or a portion thereof. The method includes determining whether at least a portion of the sound input corresponds to a predetermined type of sound, such as a human voice. The method includes, upon a determination that at least a portion of the sound input corresponds to the predetermined type, determining whether the sound input includes predetermined content, such as a predetermined trigger word or phrase. The method also includes, upon a determination that the sound input includes the predetermined content, initiating a speech-based service, such as a voice-based digital assistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Binder, Samuel D. Post, Onur Tackin, Thomas R. Gruber
  • Patent number: 11638041
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving determination of encoded image data using a video encoding pipeline, which includes a first transcode engine that entropy encodes a first portion of a bin stream to determine a first bit stream including first encoded image data that indicates a first coding group row and that determines first characteristic data corresponding to the first bit stream to facilitate communicating a combined bit stream; and a second transcode engine that entropy encodes a second portion of the bin stream to determine a second bit stream including second encoded image data that indicates a second coding group row while the first transcode engine entropy encodes the first portion of the bin stream and that determines second characteristic data corresponding to the second bit stream to facilitate communicating the combined bit stream, which includes the first bit stream and the second bit stream, to a decoding device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jim C. Chou, Syed Muhammad A. Rizvi
  • Publication number: 20230124380
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for triggering an update to a machine-learning model upon detecting that a distribution of particular (e.g., recently collected) input data set is sufficiently different from a distribution training input data set used to train the model. The distributions may be determined to be sufficiently different when a classifier can identify to which distribution individual data elements belong (e.g., to at least a predetermined degree). An update to the machine-learning model can include morphing weights used by the model and/or retraining the model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Moises Goldszmidt, Anatoly D. Adamov, Juan C. Garcia, Julia R. Reisler, Timothy S. Paek, Vishwas Kulkarni, Yu-Chung Hsiao, Pavan Chitta
  • Publication number: 20230121471
    Abstract: In some implementations, a user device (e.g., a computing device) can perform client-side personalization of search results. For example, a computing device can obtain search results matching user specified search parameters from a server device and/or from various services on the user device. The user device can score the search results based on various search result item attributes. After scoring, the user device can promote or demote search results items based on whether the search results item is relevant to recent user behavior. The promotion and/or demotion of search results items can cause search results items scores to be adjusted to generate a personalized score for each search result. The search results can then be ordered and/or presented based on the personalized score for each search results item. When presenting search results items, the user device can present information indicative of the source of the search results items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Saurabh V. Pendse, Giacomo Saccardo, Jason Dizon, Bernard K. Huang, Manmeet Singh, Sayantini Nag, Usama M. Hajj
  • Publication number: 20230124864
    Abstract: A graph representation of a tactical map representing a plurality of static components of an environment of a vehicle is generated. Nodes of the graph represent static components, and edges represent relationships between multiple static components. Different edge types are used to indicate respective relationship semantics among the static components. Individual nodes are represented as having the same number and types of edges in the graph. Using the graph as input to a neural network based model, a set of results is obtained. A motion control directive based at least in part on the results is transmitted to a motion-control subsystem of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Levihn, Jürgen Wiest, Pekka Tapani Raiko, Anayo Kenechukwu Akametalu
  • Publication number: 20230122528
    Abstract: The systems described herein provide a remote keyboard service for a media device on a computing device without having to invoke an application or unlock the computing device. The computing device can receive a message indicating that a text input field on the other device is selected and present a notification to the user prompting the user to invoke the virtual keyboard on the computing device to provide text input to the selected text input field. The computing device can receive user input selecting the notification and present a virtual keyboard for providing text input to the other device. The computing device can receive keyboard input from the user selecting characters and send the characters to the other device. The other device can then user the characters as text input to the selected text input field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander D. Sanciangco, Bob Bradley, Marc Krochmal, Graham Clarke
  • Publication number: 20230117977
    Abstract: Provided is a method by a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving one or more messages comprising sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration information from a based station (BS), the SRS configuration information comprises a partial frequency sounding indicator and additional information associated with the partial frequency sounding indicator, and determines SRS resource allocation; and sending a SRS to the BS in accordance with the SRS configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Jie Cui, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang
  • 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: D984440
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 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, Marc A Newson, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • 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: D984480
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Aled Williams