Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Determining relevant information based on third party information and user interactions
    Patent number: 11604661
    Abstract: A system for determining relevant information based on user interactions may include a processor configured to receive application data from one or more applications, the application data including features related to user activity from the one or more applications, the one or more application including applications local to the device that are stored in the memory and applications external to the device. The processor may be further configured to provide, using a machine learning (ML) model, a relevance score for each of one or more user interface (UI) elements based on each of the features. The processor may be further configured to sort one or more UI elements based on a ranking of the relevance scores. The processor may be further configured to provide, as output, the one or more UI elements based at least in part on the ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Giovanni M. Agnoli, Matthew J. Sundstrom, Conrad B. Kramer, Kyle T. Howarth, William C. MacCartney, Joshua R. Ford, Paul W. Salzman, Ari R. Weinstein, Roozbeh Mahdavian, Joshua C. Weinberg, Jared K. McGann
  • Force-balanced micromirror with electromagnetic actuation
    Patent number: 11604347
    Abstract: A scanning device includes a planar scanning mirror disposed within a frame and having a reflective upper surface. A pair of flexures have respective first ends connected to the frame and respective second ends connected to the mirror at opposing ends of a rotational axis of the mirror. A rotor including a permanent magnet is disposed on the lower surface of the mirror. A stator includes first and second cores disposed in proximity to the rotor on opposing first and second sides of the rotational axis and first and second coils of wire wound respectively on the cores. A drive circuit drives the first and second coils with respective electrical currents including a first component selected so as to control a transverse displacement of the mirror and a second component selected so as to control a rotation of the mirror about the rotational axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Noel Axelrod, Raviv Erlich, Yuval Gerson
  • Methods and apparatus for flow-based batching and processing
    Patent number: 11606302
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for managing a user space protocol stack are disclosed herein. A nexus in a kernel space can receive a packet from a packet pool, and extract information from the packet to generate a flow key indicating a particular flow for the packet. The nexus can further look up the flow key in a flow table to determine whether there is an existing flow key stored in the flow table matching the flow key of the packet, and store the packet into a batch of packets of the existing flow when the existing flow key matches the flow key of the packet. When a release condition being met, the nexus can release the batch of packets of the existing flow to a user space protocol stack within a user space application through a channel communicatively coupled to the nexus and the user space protocol stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Shen, Sandeep Nair, Vidhi Goel, Francesco R. Dimambro, Eric Tsz Leung Cheng, Cahya Adiansyah Masputra
  • Speaker assembly
    Patent number: 11606633
    Abstract: An electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture and a display positioned in the aperture. The display and the housing can define an internal volume in which a speaker assembly is positioned. The speaker assembly can include a speaker module and a speaker enclosure in fluid communication, with the speaker enclosure at least partially defining a speaker volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Paul X. Wang, Chanjuan Feng, Christopher Wilk, Dinesh C. Mathew, Keith J. Hendren, Stuart M. Nevill, Daniel K. Boothe, Nicholas A. Rundle, Simon S. Lee, Xiang Zhang, Thomas H. Tsang, Rebecca J. Mikolajczyk
  • Self-adapting electronic device
    Patent number: 11605273
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed that allow an electronic device to autonomously adapt one or more user alerts of the electronic device. For example, some embodiments may include a method for operating a haptic device including driving a haptic device using a control signal, measuring a frequency related to the operation of the haptic device and comparing the measured frequency with a target frequency. A control signal is adjusted based on the comparison to drive the haptic device to the target frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Hill
  • Fall detection—audio looping
    Patent number: 11605274
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for contacting emergency response services when certain conditions are met. In some instances, it may be determined, by a wearable device, whether a user has responded to a first user interface prompt displayed in response to detection of a physical event associated with the user. In accordance with a determination that the user has not responded to the first user interface prompt after expiration of a first time period, certain actions may be performed. For example, a countdown timer may begin to run for a second timer period. During the second period, an audio alert and a haptic alert may be output by the wearable device. In accordance with a determination that the user has not responded to a second user interface prompt prior to expiration of the second time period, a communication channel request may be transmitted to an emergency response service by the wearable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Riley Howard, Catherine B. B. Morrison, Christopher P. Saari, Heather E. Daniel, Kevin M. Lynch, Ronald Keryuan Huang, Sherif Mohamed, Telford E. Forgety, III, Matthew W. Crowley, Eamon F. Gilravi
  • Devices and methods for ELAA multi-carrier LBT
    Patent number: 11606817
    Abstract: Devices, methods, user equipment (UE), evolved node B (eNB), and storage media are described suitable for coexistence operations for uplink communications on multiple unlicensed carriers. Various embodiments are implemented in LTE systems with license-assisted access (LAA) associated communications. In one embodiment, a UE processes one or more uplink grants from an eNB scheduling transmissions on multiple unlicensed carriers at a first time, and indicating a first channel access procedure. The UE then selects a first unlicensed carrier and performs the first channel access procedure, and performs a second channel access procedure on a second unlicensed carrier of the multiple unlicensed carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeongho Jeon, Abhijeet Bhorkar, Seunghee Han, Hwan-Joon Kwon
  • Wireless listening device
    Patent number: 11606637
    Abstract: A portable listening device comprising: a device housing defining an internal cavity; an acoustic port formed through the device housing; an audio driver disposed within the device housing and aligned to emit sound through the acoustic port; a multifunction input button coupled to the device housing, the multifunction input button having a distal end and a proximate end, a centerline between the distal and proximate ends and an axis of rotation located between the center line and the proximate end; an electronic circuit disposed within the device housing that requires power to operate and is configured to detect activation of the button; and a battery disposed within the device housing and operable to provide power to the electronic circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Duy P. Le, Ryan Ott, Robert A. Boyd, Christina J. Smiechowski, Kjell F. Ekman, Yufan Liao, Wenjie Zhuang
  • Machine learning assisted satellite based positioning
    Patent number: 11604287
    Abstract: A device implementing a system for estimating device location includes at least one processor configured to receive an estimated position based on a positioning system comprising a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) satellite, and receive a set of parameters associated with the estimated position. The processor is further configured to apply the set of parameters and the estimated position to a machine learning model, the machine learning model having been trained based at least on a position of a receiving device relative to the GNSS satellite. The processor is further configured to provide the estimated position and an output of the machine learning model to a Kalman filter, and provide an estimated device location based on an output of the Kalman filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin A. Werner, Brent M. Ledvina, Dennis P. Hilgenberg, Aarti Sathyanarayana
  • Behavioral curation of media assets
    Patent number: 11604818
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device may create a semantic mapping that includes identified features that appear in a particular percentage of assets in a subset of assets of a media library. Also, the computing device may analyze assets of the media library using the semantic mapping to generate semantic scores, which may be used to determine a first tier of assets from the media library that rate highest for semantic score out of all assets. The computing device may present at least one of the first tier assets prominently in a user interface when viewing assets of the media library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sabrine Rekik, Marcos Regis Vescovi, Eric Circlaeys
  • Thermal control systems for battery charging
    Patent number: 11603003
    Abstract: One thermal control system for use during electric vehicle battery charging includes a charging station thermally conditioning a fluid and sending the fluid to a vehicle charge inlet. The vehicle charge inlet thermally conditions the fluid and sends the fluid to one of a vehicle thermal loop or a vehicle heat exchanger. Another thermal control system includes a charging station thermally conditioning a fluid and sending the fluid to a vehicle charge inlet. The vehicle charge inlet thermally conditions the fluid and sends the fluid back to the charging station. In another thermal control system, a vehicle thermal loop supplies a fluid at a first temperature to a vehicle charge inlet. The vehicle charge inlet thermally conditions the fluid to a second temperature and returns the fluid to the vehicle thermal loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: William M. Price, Peteris K. Augenbergs, Wulfer de Bruijn
  • Multipoint touchscreen
    Patent number: 11604547
    Abstract: A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches or near touches that occur at the same time and at distinct locations in the plane of the touch panel and to produce distinct signals representative of the location of the touches on the plane of the touch panel for each of the multiple touches is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Hotelling, Joshua A. Strickon, Brian Q. Huppi
  • Structural support member for a data port of a device housing
    Patent number: 11606450
    Abstract: This disclosure describes features and methods of formation of a data port for a portable electronic device. The portable electronic device includes a device housing having a wall defining a data port opening. An anchoring feature is formed along a portion of the wall defining the data port opening. A structural support member is positioned within the data port opening and reinforces the data port opening. A polymer material fills a gap between the structural support member and a portion of the wall defining the data port opening. The polymer material engages the anchoring feature to retain the structural support member within the data port opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Logan M. Ames, Lucy E. Browning, Martin J. Auclair, Ricky C. Lee, Paul U. Leutheuser, Yaocheng Zhang, John J. Baker
  • Safety belt positioning and presentation systems
    Patent number: 11603074
    Abstract: A safety belt presentation system includes a safety belt presentation track extending from a first position to a second position spaced from the first position, a latch that includes a tongue disposed between a first side of the latch and second side of the latch and a first coupling portion, and a driving mechanism that includes a second coupling portion configured to releasably couple the first coupling portion of the latch. The driving mechanism is configured to control the latch to move from the first position to the second position along the safety belt presentation track when the first and second coupling portions are coupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Philipp Charopoulos, Lukas Satas, John J. Baker, Jonathon R. Folks, Andrew W. Kooker
  • Channel equalization
    Patent number: 11606230
    Abstract: Circuits, methods, and apparatus that provide improved data recovery for data transmitted through a channel of limited bandwidth. An example can provide circuits, methods, and apparatus that can equalize losses in a physical channel. This equalization can provide an overall channel response that is more consistent and uniform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: William P. Cornelius, Seungyong Baek
  • Editing interface
    Patent number: 11604559
    Abstract: A portable electronic device displays icons (e.g., graphical objects) in one or more regions of a user interface of a touch-sensitive display, and detects user input specifying an exchange of positions of icons in the user interface. In some aspects, the respective positions of two icons in a user interface can be selected to exchange positions in the one or more regions of the user interface, and one or both icons can change their visual appearance to indicate their selection status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran A. Chaudhri, Bas Ording, Steven P. Jobs
  • Multifunction magnetic and piezoresistive MEMS pressure sensor
    Patent number: 11605774
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to an apparatus including a housing, one or more piezoresistive elements and a magnetic actuator. The housing includes a membrane, and the piezoresistive elements are disposed on the membrane to sense a displacement due to a deflection of the membrane. The magnetic actuator is disposed inside a cavity of the housing. The magnetic actuator exerts a repulsive force onto the membrane to reduce the deflection of the membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Majid Khan, Roberto M. Ribeiro, Savas Gider
  • Efficient coding of source video sequences partitioned into tiles
    Patent number: 11606574
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for coding video data in which frames from a video source are partitioned into a plurality of tiles of common size, and the tiles are coded as a virtual video sequence according to motion-compensated prediction, each tile treated as having respective temporal location of the virtual video sequence. The coding scheme permits relative allocation of coding resources to tiles that are likely to have greater significance in a video coding session, which may lead to certain tiles that have low complexity or low motion content to be skipped during coding of the tiles for select source frames. Moreover, coding of the tiles may be ordered to achieve low coding latencies during a coding session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Dazhong Zhang, Peikang Song, Beibei Wang, Giribalan Gopalan, Albert E. Keinath, Christopher M. Garrido, David R. Conrad, Hsi-Jung Wu, Ming Jin, Hang Yuan, Xiaohua Yang, Xiaosong Zhou, Vikrant Kasarabada, Davide Concion, Eric L. Chien, Bess C. Chan, Karthick Santhanam, Gurtej Singh Chandok
  • Retail fixture
    Patent number: D980660
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Caleb Ferris, Kully Kraig Mandon, Julien Phillip Stockwell
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D980851
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Markus Hagele, Stephen O. Lemay, Wyatt R. Mitchell, Parthiban Mohanraj