Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 11588492Abstract: An analog to digital converter (ADC) receives first and second analog input signals. A charge sampling demultiplexer includes multiple capacitors that sample the first and second analog input signals, and generates multiple input samples representative of charge stored on the capacitors. A plurality of sub-ADCs each include first and second charge-to-time converters, which receive from the charge sampling demultiplexer respective first and second input sample of the first and second analog input signals and output respective first and second pulse-width-modulated (PWM) signals responsively to the respective first and second input samples. Temporal processing circuitry processes the PWM signals to generate a digital value indicative of a temporal difference between the first and second PWM signals. Output reordering circuitry receives the digital value from each of the sub-ADCs and generates a digital output indicative of a difference between the first and second analog input signals.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Andrei Levi, Tiberiu Carol Galambos
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Patent number: 11588969Abstract: An electronic device obtains one or more images of a scene, and displays a preview of the scene. If the electronic device meets levelness criteria, the electronic device provides a first audible and/or tactile output indicating that the camera is obtaining level images of the scene. In some embodiments, the electronic device detects, using one or more sensors, an orientation of a first axis of the electronic device relative to a respective vector, and the levelness criteria include a criterion that is met when the first axis of the electronic device moves within a predefined range of the respective vector. In some embodiments, if the orientation of the first axis of the electronic device moves outside of the predefined range of the respective vector, a second audible and/or tactile output, indicating that the camera is not obtaining level images of the scene, is provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Christopher B. Fleizach, Darren C. Minifie, Eryn R. Wells, Nandini Kannamangalam Sundara Raman
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Patent number: 11586690Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 5, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Saurabh V. Pendse, Giacomo Saccardo, Jason Dizon, Bernard K. Huang, Manmeet Singh, Sayantini Nag, Usama M. Hajj
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Patent number: 11587209Abstract: Embodiments relate to axial chromatic aberration (ACA) reduction of raw image data generated by image sensors. A chromatic aberration reduction circuit performs chromatic aberration reduction on the raw image data to correct the ACA in the full color images through sharpening that has been clamped to reduce sharpening overshoot.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Sheng Lin
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Patent number: 11588804Abstract: A device implementing a system for using a verified claim of identity includes at least one processor configured to receive a verified claim including information to identify a user of a device, the verified claim being signed by a server based on verification of the information by an identity verification provider separate from the server, the verified claim being specific to the device. The at least one processor is further configured to send, to a service provider, a request for a service provided by the service provider, and receive, from the service provider and in response to the sending, a request for the verified claim. The at least one processor is further configured to send, in response to the receiving, the verified claim to the service provider.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rupamay Saha, Brandon K. Leventhal, Christopher Sharp, Vishnu Janardhanan Pillai, Gianpaolo Fasoli, Augustin J. Farrugia
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Patent number: 11588903Abstract: User switching for multi-user devices is provided. Each of multiple users of the multi-user device can have multiple external accounts that are each associated with one or more applications installed at the device. The user switching is provided such that each application installed at the device can be operated using user-specific data for the correct account of the correct user. The user switching is provided such that an app developer of an application for the multi-user device does not have to manage multiple data stores for multiple users.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Vijay Sundaram, Caleb M. Davenport, Patrick L. Coffman
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Patent number: 11585892Abstract: A method includes generating emitted signals using transmitter elements and measuring received signals using receiver elements. The received signals are reflected portions of the emitted signals and the received signals correspond to one or more targets. The method also includes applying a first matched filter to the received signals to determine range information for the received signals, filtering the received signals based on the range information to define filtered signals, and determining calibration parameters using the filtered signals. The method also includes correcting the received signals using the calibration parameters to define calibrated signals and determining angle of arrival information for the received signals using the calibrated signals.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jonathon D. Spaulding, Gregory E. Rogers, Jian Wang
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Patent number: 11588930Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for delivery/read receipts for electronic messaging are disclosed. During one-on-one electronic messaging sessions in a conversation view format, only a single read receipt is shown only for the most recent message transmitted in the conversation. In some implementations, a delivery receipt is shown which then can be replaced or morphed into a read receipt. In a group conversation, a read receipt can be displayed for the recipient who most recently caught up in the ongoing conversation.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Richard R. Dellinger
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Patent number: 11587353Abstract: An electronic device may include a display layer including light transmissive portions and non-transmissive portions. The electronic device may also include a palm biometric image sensor layer beneath the display layer and configured to sense an image of a user's palm positioned above the display layer based upon light reflected from the user's palm passing through the light transmissive portions of the display layer. The electronic device may further include a controller configured to capture image data from the user's palm in cooperation with the palm biometric image sensor layer and determine a surface distortion of the user's palm based upon the image data. The controller may also be configured to perform a biometric authentication of the user's palm based upon the image data and the surface distortion.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Dale R. Setlak, Giovanni Gozzini, Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost
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Patent number: 11586451Abstract: A method and apparatus of a device for resource management by using a hierarchy of resource management techniques with dynamic resource policies is described. The device terminates several misbehaving application programs when available memory on the device is running low. Each of those misbehaving application programs consumes more memory space than a memory consumption limit assigned to the application program. If available memory on the device is still low after terminating those misbehaving application programs, the device further sends memory pressure notifications to all application programs. If available memory on the device is still running low after sending the memory pressure notifications, the device further terminates background, idle, and suspended application programs. The device further terminates foreground application programs when available memory on the device is still low after terminating the background, idle, and suspended application programs.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Andrew D. Myrick, Dmitriy B. Solomonov, Lionel D. Desai
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Patent number: 11586427Abstract: An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) comprises a memory to store a Unified Radio Application and to store one or more configuration parameters for the Unified Radio Application, and one or more baseband processors to receive a radio application update from a remote server, and to update the Unified Radio Application via a Multiradio Interface (MURI) “updateRadioApps” operation with the received radio application update. One or more of the configuration parameters are maintained in the memory after the update.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2018Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Markus Dominik Mueck
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Patent number: 11583018Abstract: A metallic mesh material used to form a portion of a band or securing strap for a wearable electronic device. The band may include a magnetic tab for securing a wearable device to the wrist of a user. The tab may include one or magnetic elements that are configured to engage a surface of the mesh to secure the wearable device to the wrist of a user.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Stephen E. Dey, Xingyu Wan, Justin T. Sawyer, Matthew N. Van Dyke, Hsiang Hung Chen
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Patent number: 11589358Abstract: Technology for user equipment (UE) operable for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) repetition communication is disclosed. The UE can comprise one or more processors configured to: decode information from a first transmission from a PDSCH and information from one or more repeated transmissions from the PDSCH; decode a repetition parameter value; and determine whether a first transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state for the first transmission and one or more additional TCI states for the one or more repeated transmission are different based on the repetition parameter value.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Honglei Miao
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Patent number: 11586251Abstract: An electronic device may have a flexible display. The electronic device may have housing portions that are rotatably coupled to each other so that the flexible display may fold along one or more bend axes. A device may have rollers that store a flexible display and that help deploy the display from within a housing when additional display area is desired. A touch screen in a housing may be overlapped by a flexible display that has been scrolled outwardly from the housing. Wireless transmitter and receiver circuitry may be used to convey image data to display driver circuitry. The display driver circuitry may display images on a pixel array in a flexible display based on the image data. Magnets may be used to outwardly bias edge-mounted bistable support structures to help prevent a rolled flexible display from wrinkling.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Scott A. Myers
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Patent number: 11588356Abstract: A wireless power transmission system comprising a wireless power transmitting device and a wireless power receiving device. The wireless power receiving device is configured to regulate power drawn during a power transfer phase to maintain a substantially steady power level that is less than or equal to a power consumption level demanded by an associated load. The wireless power transmitting device is configured to determine the presence of a foreign object by monitoring the power transmitted or the power received and identifying a characteristic change in steady state power indicative of the presence of a foreign object.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey Douglas Louis
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Patent number: 11587559Abstract: Systems and processes for intelligent device identification are provided. In one example process, audio input may be sampled with a microphone at each of two or more of the plurality of electronic devices. A first electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices for determining a task associated with sampled audio input may be identified. The process may determine the task based on the sampled audio input with the first electronic device and identify identifying a second electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices for performing the task. The task be performed with the second electronic device. The second electronic device is not the first electronic device in some examples.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2016Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Brandon J. Newendorp, Lia T. Napolitano
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Patent number: 11588223Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas and transceiver circuitry such as millimeter wave transceiver circuitry. The antennas may be formed from metal traces on printed circuits. A flexible printed circuit may have an area on which the transceiver circuitry is mounted. Protruding portions may extend from the area on which the transceiver circuitry is mounted and may be separated from the area on which the transceiver circuitry is mounted by bends. Antenna resonating elements such as patch antenna resonating elements and dipole resonating elements may be formed on the protruding portions and may be used to transmit and receive millimeter wave antenna signals through dielectric-filled openings in a metal electronic device housing or a dielectric layer such as a display cover layer formed from glass or other dielectric.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Matthew A. Mow, Basim H. Noori, Ming-Ju Tsai, Xu Han, Victor C. Lee, Mattia Pascolini
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Patent number: 11589183Abstract: During an initialization of a head pose tracker for a spatial audio system, a spatial audio ambience bed is rotated about a boresight vector to align the boresight vector with a center channel of the ambience bed. The boresight is computed using source device motion data and headset motion data. The ambience bed includes the center channel and one or more other channels. An ambience bed reference frame is aligned with a horizontal plane of a headset reference frame, such that the ambience bed is horizontally level with a user's ears. A first estimated gravity direction is fixed (made constant) in the ambience bed reference frame. During head pose tracking, the ambience bed reference frame is rolled about the boresight vector to align a second estimated gravity direction in the headset reference frame with the first estimated gravity direction fixed in the ambience bed reference frame.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Xiaoyuan Tu, Margaret H. Tam, Alexander Singh Alvarado, Johahn Leung, Simon Woollard
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Patent number: 11589035Abstract: Embodiments relate to correcting pixels of images captured using a quadra image sensor. A defect detection circuit analyzes the pixels in the captured image and determines whether a pixel is defective. The defect detection circuit generates a first defect indication by determining whether pixel data of a pixel under test is brighter or darker by a first threshold value than pixel data of pixels in pixel tiles surrounding the pixel tile corresponding to the pixel under test. Moreover, the defect detection circuit generates a second defect indication by determining whether pixel data of the pixel under test is brighter or darker by a second threshold value than pixel data of other pixels in the pixel tile corresponding to the pixel under test. Using the first and second defect indications, the defect detection circuit identifies whether the pixel data of the pixel under test is defective.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Sheng Lin
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Patent number: D978887Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2022Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Pablo F. Caro, Dmitri Cavander, Matthew Wagner Crowley, Allison W. Dryer, Alan C. Dye, Nicholas Felton, Charmian Naguit