Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 11595754
    Abstract: Audio processing for a headworn device can include obtaining ear geometry of a user. A frequency response or transfer function can be determined, based on the ear geometry of the user and a model of the headworn device, where the frequency response or transfer function characterizes an effect of a path between a speaker of the headworn device and an ear canal entrance of the user on sound. An equalization filter profile can be generated based on the based on the frequency response or transfer function. The equalization filter profile can be applied to an audio signal, and the audio signal can be used to drive the speaker of the headworn device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Martin E. Johnson, Darius A. Satongar, Antti J. Vanne, Tomi A. Huttunen
  • Patent number: 11594330
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for health applications. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing health and safety features on an electronic device are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing the setup of a health feature on an electronic device are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing background health measurements on an electronic device are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing a biometric measurement taken using an electronic device are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for providing results for captured health information on an electronic device are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing background health measurements on an electronic device are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Felton, Pablo F. Caro, Matthew W. Crowley, Allison Dryer, Eamon Francis Gilravi, Tiffany S. Jon, Charmian Bondoc Naguit, Kevin Lynch
  • Patent number: 11595067
    Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a baseband processor, a digital transmitter, a digital-to-analog-converter (DAC), and an antenna. The baseband processor may produce baseband signals. The digital transmitter may generate self-interference-compensated signals based on the baseband signals. The DAC may generate radio-frequency signals for transmission by the antenna based on the self-interference-compensated signals and square-wave local oscillator waveforms. The digital transmitter may include a self-interference canceller that generates the self-interference-compensated signals. The self-interference-compensated signals may mitigate the creation of self-interferer repetition replicas that land on the carrier frequency of the radio-frequency signals. This may allow the radio-frequency signals to be free from error vector magnitude degradation and spectral regrowth that would otherwise be produced due to self-interference in the radio-frequency signals output by the DAC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Yen-Ling Huang
  • Patent number: 11594815
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and a housing with upper and lower ends. The upper end may include first and second inverted-F antennas formed from portions of conductive peripheral housing structures separated from an antenna ground by a slot. The upper end may include an open slot antenna formed from a portion of the slot. The upper end may include an additional inverted-F antenna that overlap the slot. A parasitic element may be disposed between the open slot antenna and the additional inverted-F antenna and coupled to the antenna ground at a proximal end. A tuning component may be coupled between the parasitic element and the antenna ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Erdinc Irci, Enrique Ayala Vazquez, Hongfei Hu, Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 11595069
    Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a baseband processor, a transceiver, and an antenna. The transceiver may include a mixer that outputs signals to a transimpedance amplifier. The mixer has an output impedance that varies depending on the frequency of operation. An adjustable resistance can be coupled to the input of the transimpedance amplifier. A control circuit can tune the adjustable resistance to compensate for changes in the output impedance of the mixer as the transceiver operates across a wide range of frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sang Hyun Woo, Florian Mrugalla
  • Patent number: 11593995
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for generating variations of an object. In various implementations, a device includes a display, a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the display and the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining a request to populate an environment with variations of an object characterized by at least one visual property. In some implementations, the method includes generating the variations of the object by assigning corresponding values for the at least one visual property based on one or more distribution criterion. In some implementations, the method includes displaying the variations of the object in the setting in order to satisfy a presentation criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Stuart Hari Ferguson, Richard Ignatius Punsal Lozada, James Graham McCarter
  • Patent number: 11594199
    Abstract: An electronic device such as a cellular telephone or other device may have a housing with front and rear faces joined by a sidewall. A display may be mounted on the front face. The electronic device may include multiple ambient light sensors such as a front ambient light sensor on the front face and one or more supplemental ambient light sensors on the rear face and/or on the sidewall. The front ambient light sensor gathers a front ambient light intensity measurement and the supplemental ambient light sensor gathers a supplemental ambient light intensity measurement. During operation, control circuitry in the electronic device adjusts the display brightness based on data from the ambient light sensors. The control circuitry may implement power saving restrictions that limit when the supplemental ambient light intensity measurement is taken into account and/or that impose a brightness cap on the display brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Amanda K Yung, Paul V Johnson, Daniel P Kumar, Jiaying Wu
  • Patent number: 11593082
    Abstract: The subject technology provides a portion of the functionality of an application on an electronic device on which the application is not installed. The portion of the functionality of the application is provided by a clip of the application that can be obtained, installed, and launched on the user device, at the time the functionality is desired by a user, and without authenticating information for the user. The clip of the application can provide the user with access to a purchase function, an ordering function, or any other sub-function of the application. When the application itself is installed on the device, the clip of the application can be deleted while preserving access, by the application, to data generated on the device by the clip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Reza Abbasian, Steven J. Falkenburg, Yongjun Zhang, Charles H. Ying, Nyla Khan, Grant Ritchie, Patrick L. Coffman
  • Patent number: 11594957
    Abstract: A dual-stage boost converter is disclosed. The boost converter includes a charge pump and a boost stage. The charge pump is coupled between an input voltage source and the boost stage. The charge pump is coupled to receive the input voltage and configured to generate an intermediate voltage that is greater than the input voltage received from the input voltage source. The boost stage includes an inductor coupled to receive the intermediate voltage and is configured to generate an output voltage that is greater than or equal to the intermediate voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bogdan-Eugen Matei, Cristian Grecu, Fabio Ongaro, Giovanni Saccomanno, Siarhei Meliukh, Yesim Inam
  • Patent number: 11595582
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a dynamic flex circuit that may be used in a camera with a moveable image sensor. The dynamic flex circuit may include one or more fixed end portions, a moveable end portion, and an intermediate portion. In some embodiments, the fixed end portion may be connected to another flex circuit of the camera. The moveable end portion may be coupled with the moveable image sensor. The intermediate portion may be configured to allow the moveable end portion to move with the moveable image sensor. Some embodiments include a reinforcement arrangement that reinforces one or more portions of the dynamic flex circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas D. Smyth, Jian Ouyang, Scott W. Miller, Samuel M. Hyatt, Martin Auclair, Phillip R. Sommer
  • Patent number: 11596016
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform a method including a user equipment device (UE) receiving from a network entity, a configuration message, wherein the configuration message includes a parameter specifying out-of-order delivery of data units from lower layers to upper layers of a protocol stack implemented on the UE, configuring a radio link control (RLC) layer of a protocol stack for out-of-order delivery based on the received configuration message, and notifying the network entity of the configuration of the RLC layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Murtaza A. Shikari, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Sree Ram Kodali, Srinivasan Nimmala, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Xu Ou, Yuqin Chen
  • Patent number: 11593982
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method for generating a blended animation. The method includes: obtaining a motion input vector for a current time period; generating a motion output vector and pose information for the current time period based on the motion input vector; selecting an animated motion from a bank of animated motions for the current time period that matches the pose information within a threshold tolerance value; obtaining a blending coefficients vector for the current time period; generating a blended animation for the current time period by blending the motion output vector with the animated motion based on the blending coefficients vector; and generating a reward signal for the blended animation for the current time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Behrooz Mahasseni, Aashi Manglik, Mark Drummond, Edward S. Ahn, Shaun Budhram, Siva Chandra Mouli Sivapurapu
  • Patent number: 11592864
    Abstract: In one implementation, an apparatus includes a display having a front surface and a back surface. The display includes a plurality of pixel regions that emit light from the front surface to display a displayed image and a plurality of apertures that transmit light from the front surface to the back surface. The apparatus includes a camera disposed on a side of the back surface of the display. The camera is configured to capture a captured image. The apparatus includes a processor coupled to the display and the camera. The processor is configured to receive the captured image and apply a first digital filter to a first portion of the captured image and a second digital filter, different than the first digital filter, to a second portion of the captured image to reduce image distortion caused by the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Manohar B. Srikanth, Marduke Yousefpor, Ting Sun, Kathrin Berkner-Cieslicki, Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost, Ricardo J. Motta
  • Patent number: 11592948
    Abstract: A device that can autonomously scan a sensor panel is disclosed. Autonomous scanning can be performed by implementing channel scan logic. In one embodiment, channel scan logic carries out many of the functions that a processor would normally undertake, including generating timing sequences and obtaining result data; comparing scan result data against a threshold value (e.g., in an auto-scan mode); generating row count; selecting one or more scanning frequency bands; power management control; and performing an auto-scan routine in a low power mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Minh-Dieu Thi Vu, Thomas James Wilson, Christoph H. Krah
  • Patent number: 11595941
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for coverage improvements in wireless communication devices. A wireless communication device may be configured to selectively receive one of a plurality of paging signals, or a portion thereof, based on measured or expected coverage quality of communications from a base station. In some scenarios, the wireless communication device may provide an indication to the base station of which paging signal the wireless communication device will attempt to receive, such that the base station may include paging information directed to that UE only in the indicated paging signal. In some scenarios, the base station may include paging information directed to that UE in a plurality of paging signals, each of the paging signals including a different number of repetitions of the paging information. In some scenarios, the UE may receive only a portion of a paging signal including a plurality of repetitions of the paging information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Li Su, Tarik Tabet, Wei Zeng, Yuchul Kim
  • Patent number: 11589761
    Abstract: An electronic device such as a wearable device may have an optical sensor. The optical sensor may have a light source such as one or more visible-light light-emitting diodes or other light-emitting devices and may have a light detector formed from one or more photodetectors. The wearable device may have a wearable housing in which the optical sensor is mounted. During operation, light from the light source may pass through a transparent portion of the housing, may reflect from an external object such as a wrist or other body part of a user, and may be received by the photodetectors after passing through light control members. The light control members may be arranged in a ring with a center and may have curved shapes with concave surfaces that face the center. Each light control member may be formed from a stack of laminated bent light control films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Tyler S. Bushnell
  • Patent number: 11592946
    Abstract: A capacitive gap force sensor includes a first electrode, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, a first layer of dielectric material positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a second layer of conductive material positioned between the first layer and the second electrode. The first layer has a first compression resistance less than a second compression resistance of the second layer. An effective capacitive sensing gap is defined between the first electrode and the second layer. The first layer is configured to compress or deform and alter the effective capacitive sensing gap when a force is received at the first electrode or the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Bechstein, Nahid Harjee, Travis N. Owens
  • Patent number: 11595942
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems, apparatuses, and methods for coordinating communication and avoiding and/or mitigating collisions for multi-subscriber identity module devices in a wireless communication system. A wireless device may coordinate communication associated with different subscriber identity modules and/or may mitigate collisions between communications associated with different subscriber identity modules. A network may provide information to improve coordination and/or mitigate collisions. A network may adjust paging schedules and/or provision of alert messages to improve coordination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Murtaza Shikari, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Sree Ram Kodali, Srinivasan Nimmala, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Vijay Venkataraman, Yaoqi Yan, Yuqin Chen, Zhiwei Wang
  • Patent number: 11595517
    Abstract: Systems and processes for integrating a digital assistant with telephony are provided. For example, an incoming call may be received, from a caller, at an electronic device. A communication session may be established between the caller and the digital assistant of the electronic device. In accordance with a determination that the identification of the caller is unknown, determination is made whether the caller corresponds to an automated calling system. In accordance with a determination that the identification of the caller is known, a response is provided by the digital assistant to the caller. An output including information corresponding to the communication is provided at the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Madhusudan Chinthakunta, Ping Wen Ong, Timothy S. Paek, Lauren Elise Tappana, Marcel Van Os
  • Patent number: 11595559
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to a tamper-resistant indicator of recording by a camera. Electronic devices are disclosed that include a camera, an indicator light for the camera, and a light sensor. The light sensor is disposed proximate to the indicator light so that blocking or masking the indicator light also prevents light from reaching the light sensor. In this way, the light sensor can be used to detect tampering with, masking, blocking, destroying, or otherwise preventing the indicator light from indicating when the camera is recording.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Srinivas Vedula