Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 11625136
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing collaboration on a virtual work of art between multiple electronic devices are provided. A first graphical display system of a first device may generate an input command in response to receiving user information through a user interface of the first device, and may then share this input command with a second graphical display system of a second device. The first graphical display system may process the shared input command to generate pixel array data in a canvas of the first device while the second graphical display system may process the shared input command to generate pixel array data in a canvas of the second device. By sharing input commands rather than pixel array data, system latency may be reduced. Despite operating on the same artwork, the user interfaces and graphical processing capabilities of each device may vary, thereby providing the user greater expressiveness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Matthew Jacob Sarnoff
  • Patent number: 11626047
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for testing and compensating for pixel degradation in an electronic display based on current and voltage values sensed in a reference array. An electronic display includes an active array, a reference array, and sensing circuitry. A compensation manager obtains current data values of the reference array from the sensing circuitry. The compensation manager generates a current-voltage curve based on the current data and adjusts the current-voltage curve to compensate for variations in temperature and/or pixel brightness. In this way, the compensation manager may improve performance of the electronic display by, for example, by reducing visible anomalies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shengchang Cai, Hasan Akyol, Xuebei Yang, Sheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11626901
    Abstract: Techniques for automatically configuring and controlling a digital media device are described. A digital media device can be configured or controlled by a mobile device, e.g., a smart mobile phone. When the digital media device is being configured, the digital media device can broadcast a signal, indicating that the digital media device is requesting configuration information from a mobile device. A mobile device located in proximity of the digital media device, upon detecting the signal, can perform various security checks to determine that the request is legitimate, and then open a communication channel with the digital media device. The mobile device can provide user preferences of the mobile device, as well as credentials for accessing and downloading remote content, to the digital media device through the communication channel. Upon receiving the configuration information, the digital media device can use parameters in the configuration information as its settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andy Belk, Augustin Prats, Joakim Linde, Lucas Newman, Nicholas J. Paulson, Thomas Matthieu Alsina
  • Patent number: 11624667
    Abstract: An interface pressure sensor includes a fluid pressure sensor disposed in a volume defined by a shear wall. The volume is enclosed, and the fluid pressure sensor is encapsulated by, an infill material. The infill material defines a sensing surface that, when pressed, can impart a force that is detectable by the fluid pressure sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Robert K. Montgomery, II, Chin San Han
  • Patent number: 11625098
    Abstract: Contact or movement gestures between a first body part and a second body part can be detected. Sense circuitry can be configured to sense a signal at the sense electrode (e.g., configured to contact the second body part) in response to a drive signal applied to the drive electrode (e.g., configured to contact the first body part). Processing circuitry can be configured to detect contact in accordance with a determination that one or more criteria are met (e.g., an amplitude criterion and a non-distortion criterion). Additionally or alternatively, processing circuitry can be configured to detect a movement gesture in accordance with a determination that one or more criteria are met (e.g., a contact criterion and a movement criterion).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Michael J. Beyhs
  • Patent number: 11627244
    Abstract: Various embodiments include synchronization of camera focus movement control with frame capture. In some embodiments, such synchronization may comprise synchronized focus movement control that is based at least in part on integration timing and/or region of interest (ROI) timing. According to some examples, an actuator of a camera module may be controlled such that a lens group and/or an image sensor of the camera module move towards a focus position during one or more time periods (e.g., a non-integration time period in which the image sensor is not being exposed, a non-ROI time period in which a ROI of the image sensor is not being exposed for image capture, and/or a blanking interval, etc.). Additionally, or alternatively, the actuator may be controlled such that the lens group and the image sensor do not move relative to each other in a focus direction during one or more other time periods (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Abhishek Dhanda, Gregory Guyomarc'h, Michael W. Chin, Mark N. Gamadia, Ling Xiao Wang
  • Patent number: 11627343
    Abstract: In communication applications, aggregate source image data at a transmitter exceeds the data that is needed to display a rendering of a viewport at a receiver. Improved streaming techniques that include estimating a location of a viewport at a future time. According to such techniques, the viewport may represent a portion of an image from a multi-directional video to be displayed at the future time, and tile(s) of the image may be identified in which the viewport is estimated to be located. In these techniques, the image data of tile(s) in which the viewport is estimated to be located may be requested at a first service tier, and the other tile in which the viewport is not estimated to be located may be requested at a second service tier, lower than the first service tier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Xiaohua Yang, Alexandros Tourapis, Dazhong Zhang, Hang Yuan, Hsi-Jung Wu, Jae Hoon Kim, Jiefu Zhai, Ming Chen, Xiaosong Zhou
  • Patent number: 11625165
    Abstract: An electronic device displays a messaging user interface of a message application, including a conversation transcript of a messaging session between a user of the electronic device and at least one other user, a message-input area, the conversation transcript including a plurality of messages and a plurality of message regions, each message region containing a respective message of the plurality of messages. In response to a first input corresponding to a first respective message in the conversation transcript, displaying an indication that the first respective message has been selected. In response to one or more second inputs, including message composition inputs, displaying in a second message region in the conversation transcript a second message corresponding to the message composition inputs, and displaying a grouping indicia that connects the first respective message region with the second message region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Imran A. Chaudhri, Freddy A. Anzures, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Nicholas V. King, Wan Si Wan, Bethany Bongiorno, Justin N. Wood, Roberto Garcia
  • Patent number: 11627416
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to a device comprising a moving-coil speaker including a diaphragm to play low-frequency signals from an audio-signal source, and a piezoelectric transducer coupled to the diaphragm to play high-frequency signals from the audio-signal source. A coupler couples the diaphragm to a housing of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aneesh R. Kudekar, Onur I. Ilkorur, Pablo Seoane Vieites, Stuart M. Nevill
  • Patent number: 11626692
    Abstract: Connector receptacles that can provide audible feedback to inform a user that a card has been properly inserted, and can include structures to protect contacts in a connector receptacle from damage due to an improper card insertion. An example can provide a connector receptacle having a click module to provide audible feedback indicating that a card has been fully inserted. Another example can provide a connector receptacle having movable contacts that can remain out of an insertion path until the card is at least partially inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mahmoud R. Amini, George Tziviskos, Bartley K. Andre, Ayoub Yari Boroujeni, James E. Harper, Davood Mousanezhad Viyand, Rui Zhou, Daniel A. Bergvall, Nikhil S. Pansare
  • Patent number: 11625857
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that tracks an electronic device by fusing tracking algorithms. In some implementations, at an electronic device having a processor, a method obtains pairs of first position data corresponding to a position of the electronic device in a first coordinate system obtained using a first technique and second position data in a second coordinate system obtained using a second technique. In some implementations, transformations for the respective pairs are determined that provide a positional relationship between the first coordinate system and the second coordinate system. In some implementations, a subset of the pairs is identified based on the transformations, and a combined transformation is determined based on the subset of the transformations. In some implementations, content is provided on the electronic device based on the combined transformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Lipski, David A. McLaren
  • Patent number: 11626809
    Abstract: Systems and methods for power conversion are described. For example, a system may include a transformer including a plurality of secondary windings; a first set of switches connecting respective taps of the plurality of secondary windings to a first terminal; a second set of switches connecting the respective taps of the plurality of secondary windings to a second terminal; and an electrical load connected between the first terminal and the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Ashish K. Sahoo, Brandon Pierquet, Jie Lu
  • Patent number: 11627613
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for a wireless device to perform low latency communication using historical beam information. The wireless device may establish a radio resource control connection, and may subsequently release the resource control connection. The wireless device may store antenna element and beam information for the resource control connection. The wireless device may determine whether to use the stored antenna element and beam information when establishing another radio resource control connection. If the wireless device determines to do so, the wireless device may use the stored antenna element and beam information when establishing that radio resource control connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Li Su, Vijay Venkataraman, Rohit R. Matolia
  • Patent number: 11625131
    Abstract: Touch input devices are provided with the capability of sensing a capacitive load in a two-dimensional array while also being able to sense deflection or movement of the input device in multiple different locations under an input pad. A touch input device can beneficially be used in a remote control device and can be used with multiple input buttons or platforms overlaying multiple capacitive touch input regions on a capacitive touch sensor substrate. Movement and position of a capacitive load can be tracked and calculated via output signals from a set of electrodes or other capacitance sensors with irregular shapes, with inconsistent distances from the capacitive load, and which are positioned below variable materials and material compositions. Thus, tracking gestures and taps can be detected using the capacitance sensing devices, and deflection input can be detected using switches or other actuators situated under the capacitance sensing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Reuben J. Williams, Clark E. Waterfall, Eng Eow Goh, Karan S. Jain
  • Patent number: 11627079
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an address generator module that generates a source address for each traffic class to be sent using a network interface. The source address includes a Unique Local Address (ULA) prefix and an interface identifier having a traffic class identifier as one or more most significant bits and a randomly generated remainder. The address generator module generates a destination address having the ULA prefix and the traffic class identifier. When a processor of the electronic device is selecting a source address for the traffic class according to rules of a network layer protocol (e.g., IPv6), including a rule that a longest matching address of possible source addresses to the given destination is selected as the source address, the generated source address is selected due to the one or more most significant bits of the interface identifier matching with the traffic class identifier of the destination address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Prabhakar Lakhera, David Schinazi
  • Patent number: 11625124
    Abstract: A touch controller is disclosed. The touch controller can include sense circuitry configured to sense, during a self-capacitance portion of a touch frame, first one or more self-capacitances associated with a first plurality of touch pixels on a touch sensor panel, and sense, during a mutual capacitance portion of the touch frame, first one or more mutual capacitances associated with the first plurality of touch pixels. A touch processor can be configured to, based on the first one or more self-capacitances and the first one or more mutual capacitances, sense a single touch event associated with the touch frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yingxuan Li, Marduke Yousefpor, Weijun Yao
  • Patent number: 11627001
    Abstract: Various features and processes related to document collaboration are disclosed. In some implementations, animations are presented when updating a local document display to reflect changes made to the document at a remote device. In some implementations, a user can selectively highlight changes made by collaborators in a document. In some implementations, a user can select an identifier associated with another user to display a portion of a document that includes the other user's cursor location. In some implementations, text in document chat sessions can be automatically converted into hyperlinks which, when selected, cause a document editor to perform an operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Keng Fai Lee, Wang Chiu Chan, Charles J. Migos, M. Frank Emanuel
  • Patent number: 11626898
    Abstract: An electronic device housing may be formed from housing members. A first housing member may form a display cover layer that overlaps pixels. During operation, the pixels may display an image that is viewable through the display cover layer. The second housing member may have a rear wall portion and a sidewall. A band may be coupled to the sidewall or other portion of the second housing member. The first and second housing members may be attached together using a housing member attachment structure. The housing member attachment structure may have layers of adhesive and printed circuit structures. The printed circuit structures may include metal traces that form an antenna and that form capacitive force sensor electrodes on opposing sides of a compressible member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: James G. Horiuchi, Tyler S. Bushnell, Brad G. Boozer, Mario Martinis, YoungHoon Kim
  • Patent number: D983173
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Brunner, Rhys Bonahoom
  • Patent number: RE49490
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples is a method for providing a HARQ response in an LTE network for a PUCCH format 1b. The method includes receiving one or more downlink assignments of a bundling window over a wireless downlink control channel; setting a reception status for each sub-frame of a downlink data channel in the bundling window based on whether the sub-frame on the downlink data channel was associated with a particular one of the received downlink assignments and based upon whether the sub-frame was successfully received; setting a reception status of sub-frames of the downlink data channel in the bundling window that did not have a corresponding downlink assignment to a predetermined value; and transmitting a response, the response based upon the reception statuses set by the response module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Seunghee Han, Hong He, Jong-Kae Fwu