Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 11620768
    Abstract: An encoder is configured to compress point cloud geometry information using an octree geometric compression technique that utilizes node groups. Nodes within a node group are scanned according to a breadth first scan order. Sequential node groups to evaluate may be selected according to a breadth first scan order or a depth first scan order based on whether or not the breadth first scan order or the depth first scan order is indicated in a flag in a preceding node group evaluated. In some embodiments, evaluation orders for node groups may be implicit without being signaled via flags. A decoder is configured to reconstruct a point cloud based on a bit stream encoded by the encoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: David Flynn
  • Patent number: 11622337
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for determining dynamic power sharing in a dual connectivity network. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Hong He, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11619830
    Abstract: To enable a display to display different content to different viewers, a display may include a time-sequential directional backlight unit. The backlight unit may emit light in different directions in different configurations. In a first state, the backlight unit emits light at maximum brightness in a first direction. In a second state, the backlight unit emits light at maximum brightness in a second direction that is different than the first direction. The backlight unit may repeatedly and rapidly switch between the different states. The first direction may be towards a first viewer whereas the second direction may be towards a second, different viewer. Therefore, each viewer receives backlight in one of the configurations and does not receive backlight in the other configuration. In synchronization with the backlight unit, the liquid crystal display panel may repeatedly switch between displaying content for the first viewer and displaying content for the second viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hao Chen, Juan He, Rong Liu, ByoungSuk Kim, Jun Qi, Yi Huang
  • Patent number: 11620946
    Abstract: A sensing circuit includes at least a first gain stage and a controller for controlling the operation of the first gain stage. The first gain stage includes an amplifier having at least one input and one output, and a feedback loop coupled between the input and the output of the amplifier. The feedback loop includes a first capacitor coupled between the input and the output of the amplifier, and a second capacitor having a first terminal coupled to the input of the amplifier through a first switch and a second terminal coupled to the output of the amplifier through a second switch. The second capacitor is configured to be coupled in parallel to the first capacitor during a first portion of a measurement cycle, and disconnected from the first capacitor during a second portion of the measurement cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hasan Akyol, Xuebei Yang
  • Publication number: 20230095487
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for signaling unused channel occupancy time (COT) to the gNB for COT sharing among other UEs. Upon determining that a portion of the maximum COT (MCOT) provided to the UE will be unused, the UE can generate COT sharing information for transmission back to the gNB. The COT sharing information identifies a starting point and a duration (e.g., a number of consecutive slots) of the unused portion of the MCOT. This information is then encoded into configured grant uplink control information (UG-UCI) and transmitted to the gNB as part of the uplink transmission. In aspects, the unused portion may begin part-way through a slot. In this instance, a starting symbol of the unused portion or an ending symbol of the used portion may also be encoded into the uplink transmission. In this manner, unused COT is not wasted, but rather repurposed by the gNB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong HE, Chunhai YAO, Chunxuan YE, Dawei ZHANG, Haitong SUN, Jie CUI, Oghenekome OTERI, Wei ZENG, Wei ZHANG, Weidong YANG, Yang TANG, Yuchul KIM, Yushu ZHANG, Zhibin WU
  • Publication number: 20230094988
    Abstract: An approach is described for a wireless device comprising a transceiver and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. In a thread-based mesh network, a transmitting device occasionally transmits various multicast messages to the network for the purpose of maintaining the network. Of these messages, the mesh link establishment (MLE) advertisement message is particularly important as it notifies neighbor routers as to the presence and function of the transmitting device. Therefore, the transmitting device of the present disclosure transmits its MLE advertisement message to the network multiple times within a given time window. Additionally, the message is transmitted each time with a same identifier. A recipient device stores the identifier of each most recent MLE advertisement message. The identifier of each subsequently received MLE advertisement is compared to the stored identifier. This allows the recipient device to determine whether the message has been previously received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Venkateswara Rao MANEPALLI, Manuel Roman CUESTA, Yaranama Venkata Ramana DASS, Sarvesh Kumar VARATHARAJAN
  • Publication number: 20230098699
    Abstract: A light source module includes an array of illumination elements and an optional projecting lens. The light source module is configured to receive or generate a control signal for adjusting different ones of the illumination elements to control a light field emitted from the light source module. In some embodiments, the light source module is also configured to adjust the projecting lens responsive to objects in an illuminated scene and a field of view of an imaging device. A controller for a light source module may determine a light field pattern based on various parameters including a field of view of an imaging device, an illumination sensitivity model of the imaging device, depth, ambient illumination and reflectivity of objects, configured illumination priorities including ambient preservation, background illumination and direct/indirect lighting balance, and so forth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bosheng Zhang, Angelo M Alaimo, Kathrin Berkner Cieslicki, Paul M Hubel, Frederic Cao, Bryan Dang
  • Publication number: 20230095543
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to share a credential for accessing a secured entity between an origination device and a recipient device. In some embodiments, the sharing may be cross platform where the recipient device executes a different platform than the origination device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yousuf H. Vaid, Christopher Sharp, Matthew C. Byington, Sunil Nair
  • Publication number: 20230097664
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for direct discovery or solicitation messages that include indications of types of user equipment-to-network relays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Shu GUO, Dawei ZHANG, Haijing HU, Huarui LIANG, Sudeep MANITHARA VAMANAN
  • Publication number: 20230095473
    Abstract: 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. A point cloud attribute transfer algorithm may be used to determine distortion between an original point cloud and a reconstructed point cloud. Additionally, the point cloud attribute transfer algorithm may be used to select attribute values for a reconstructed point cloud such that distortion between an original point cloud and a reconstructed version of the original point cloud is minimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Khaled Mammou, Yeping Su, Alexandros Tourapis, Jungsun Kim, Valery G. Valentin, Fabrice A. Robinet
  • Publication number: 20230101347
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, methods, and computer-readable medium to utilize quick response (QR) codes for performing a data transfer between accounts. Embodiments may provide protection from improper use of the QR codes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew C. Byington, Anton K. Diederich, Jenna Yi, Luojie Xiang
  • Publication number: 20230102706
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatuses, systems, and methods for technologies for signaling related to quality of service flow to data radio bearer mapping updates in wireless networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ralf Rossbach, Bobby Jose, Fangli Xu, Francois E. Deparis, Haijing Hu, Martin Kugler, Murtaza A. Shikari, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Pavan Nuggehalli, Sarma V. Vangala, Srinivasan Nimmala, Vijay Venkataraman
  • Publication number: 20230097512
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for configuring and using multicast or broadcast services resource sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Chunhai YAO, Chunxuan YE, Dawei ZHANG, Fangli XU, Haijing HU, Haitong SUN, Hong HE, Wei ZENG, Weidong YANG, Yushu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230094734
    Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial information for volumetric visual content and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the volumetric visual content. The encoder is configured to convert a 3D representation of the visual volumetric content into a 2D image based representation. The encoder is further configured to scale the patch in 2D space independent of any scaling in 3D space. Auxiliary information is signaled for use in identifying 2D scaled or unscaled patches in an image frame, mapping the patches into 3D space, and adjusting for any scaling factors applied at the encoder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jungsun Kim, Khaled Mammou, Alexandros Tourapis
  • Publication number: 20230097691
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for uplink power control for channels having repetitions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yushu ZHANG, Chunhai YAO, Chunxuan YE, Dawei ZHANG, Haitong SUN, Hong HE, Huaning NIU, Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN, Sigen YE, Wei ZENG, Weidong YANG
  • Publication number: 20230095363
    Abstract: A cellular modem processor can include dedicated processing engines that implement specific, complex data processing operations. The processing engines can be arranged in pipelines, with different processing engines executing different steps in a sequence of operations. Flow control or data synchronization between pipeline stages can be provided using a hybrid of firmware-based flow control and hardware-based data dependency management. Firmware instructions can define data flow by reference to a virtual address space associated with pipeline buffers. A hardware interlock controller within the pipeline can track and enforce the data dependencies for the pipeline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Hengchen Hsu, Thirunathan Sutharsan, Mohanned Omar Sinnokrot, On Wa Yeung
  • Publication number: 20230098097
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to share a credential for accessing a secured entity between an origination device and a recipient device. In some embodiments, the sharing may be cross platform where the recipient device executes a different platform than the origination device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yousuf H. Vaid, Christopher Sharp, Matthew C. Byington, Sunil Nair
  • Publication number: 20230095000
    Abstract: A light source module includes an array of illumination elements and an optional projecting lens. The light source module is configured to receive or generate a control signal for adjusting different ones of the illumination elements to control a light field emitted from the light source module. In some embodiments, the light source module is also configured to adjust the projecting lens responsive to objects in an illuminated scene and a field of view of an imaging device. A controller for a light source module may determine a light field pattern based on various parameters including a field of view of an imaging device, an illumination sensitivity model of the imaging device, depth, ambient illumination and reflectivity of objects, configured illumination priorities including ambient preservation, background illumination and direct/indirect lighting balance, and so forth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bosheng Zhang, Angelo M Alaimo, Bryan Dang
  • Publication number: 20230093947
    Abstract: Aspects are described for a user equipment (UE) comprising a transceiver configured to enable wireless communication with a serving cell and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to determine a reference signal sequence that comprises a primary synchronization signal (PSS) sequence and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) sequence of a target cell. The processor is further configured to receive a signal sequence from the target cell and calculate an overall correlation value based on the reference signal sequence and the received signal sequence. The processor is further configured to determine that the overall correlation value is above a threshold and detect a synchronization signal block (SSB) of the target cell based on the received signal sequence. Finally, the processor is configured to establish a wireless connection with the target cell based on the SSB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yihong QI, Herbert R. DAWID, Pouyan PARVAZI
  • Publication number: 20230095412
    Abstract: Power adapters having a small-form factor, are capable of delivering a large amount of power, can charge multiple electronic devices, and can allocate power between the multiple electronic devices in an efficient manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ricardo Luis Janezic Pregitzer, Andrew C. O'Connell