Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 12216897Abstract: An example method occurring at a device with a touch-sensitive display. The method includes that while displaying a first user interface of a first application on the touch-sensitive display, the device receives a gesture at the touch-sensitive display. The method includes that in response to receiving the gesture on the touch-sensitive display and in accordance with a determination that the gesture is from an edge region of the touch-sensitive display, the device ceases to display the first user interface of the first application and displaying a second user interface of a second application that is different from the first application. The method also includes that in response to receiving the gesture on the touch-sensitive display and in accordance with a determination that the gesture begins at a non-edge region of the touch-sensitive display, the device performs an operation within the first application while continuing to display the first user interface.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2024Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Lawrence Yang, Alessandro Sabatelli, Brian Schmitt
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Patent number: 12219720Abstract: A handheld computing device that includes an enclosure having structural walls formed from a glass material that can be radio-transparent. The enclosure can be formed from a hollow glass tube or two glass members bonded together. A laser frit bonding process may be used to hermetically seal the two glass members together to create a water resistant electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Christopher Prest, Emery A. Sanford
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Patent number: 12219003Abstract: A device implementing a system for multipath connection management may include first and second local communication interfaces, and a processor configured to establish a primary connection for communicating between the first local communication interface and a first remote communication interface of an other device, and a secondary connection for communicating between the second local communication interface and a second remote communication interface. The processor may be configured to transmit application and control data over the primary connection and concurrently transmit a copy of control data over the secondary connection. The processor may be configured to determine that a degradation of the quality of the primary connection is attributable to the other device. The processor may be configured to switch the secondary connection to the first local communication interface and the second remote communication interface.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Daniel B. Pollack, Padmavathy Bhooma, Jingyao Zhang, Chieh Lu, Karthick Santhanam, Christopher M. Garrido, Bradley F. Patterson, Kevin Arthur Robertson, Hsien-Po Shiang, Qian Sun, Erik Vladimir Ortega Gonzalez
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Patent number: 12219368Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for beam reporting to facilitate multiple transmission and reception points, multi-TRPs, transmission schemes. A UE may receive, from a base station a configuration to report a beam quality based on at least one of a first reporting scheme and a second reporting scheme or a configuration of measurement resources for each TRP of a plurality of TRPs. The UE may report the beam quality based on the configuration or L1 measurements for multiple beam pairs and a recommended and/or assumed transmission scheme based on the configured measurement resources. The first reporting scheme may include the UE reporting at least one L1 measurement for multiple beams and the second reporting scheme may include the UE reporting at least one L1 measurement for multiple beam pairs. The recommended and/or assumed transmission scheme may be a non-coherent-joint transmission (NC-JT) transmission scheme and/or a single frequency network (SFN) transmission scheme.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Weidong Yang, Yakun Sun, Qiming Li, Jie Cui, Hong He, Chunhai Yao
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Patent number: 12218904Abstract: The subject technology provides an in-place encoding of a network identifier that compresses the network identifier without mapping the network identifier to a another server or service, such as URL shortening service. The network identifier may be compressed using segmented encoding operations that segment the network identifier, and encode the characters of the network identifier using a first set of encoding operations for a first portion of the network identifier and a second set of encoding operations for a second portion of the network identifier. Template encoding may also be provided for network identifiers that conform to a predefined template format.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Reza Abbasian, Charles H. Ying, Steven J. Falkenburg
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Patent number: 12217060Abstract: Techniques are disclosed that relate to executing pairs of instructions. A processor may include fusion detector circuitry configured to detect a pair of fetched instructions and fuse the pair of fetched instructions into a fused instruction operation, and execution circuitry coupled to the fusion detector circuitry and configured to execute the fused instruction operation. In some embodiments the pair of instructions is executable to generate a remainder of a division operation. In some embodiments the pair of instructions is executable to compare two operands and perform a write operation based on the comparison. In some embodiments the pair of instructions is executable to perform an operation and apply a mask bit sequence to the result. The fusion detector circuitry may also be configured to obtain first and second portions of a constant value from first and second instructions and store the first and second portions in a destination register.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Francesco Spadini, Skanda K. Srinivasa, Reena Panda, Brian T. Mokrzycki, Haoyan Jia, Zhaoxiang Jin
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Patent number: 12218767Abstract: Techniques, described herein, include solutions for managing hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes and communications for non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) (e.g., a wireless communication network that includes a satellite network component). A user equipment (UE) may connect to an NTN and determine hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) capabilities regarding NTNs. The UE may also communicate a HARQ disablement message to the NTN and communicate with NTN without HARQ procedures. The HARQ disablement message may provide the HARQ disablement capabilities of the UE and/or be a request for the network to disable HARQ. The HARQ disablement message may include a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message and may address HARQ disablement per logical channel identifier (LCID) or dedicated radio bearer (DRB).Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Haijing Hu, Sarma V Vangala, Alexander Sirotkin, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata, Pavan Nuggehalli, Ralf Rossbach, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
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Patent number: 12219267Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bosheng Zhang, Angelo M Alaimo, Bryan Dang
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Patent number: 12214258Abstract: A method of generating a calibration factor is described. In an example, the method may include establishing a wireless communication connection with a fitness machine. The method may also include obtaining first machine data from the fitness machine. The first machine data may specify a type of the fitness machine. The method may also include initiating a workout session on the wearable computer based on the first machine data. During the workout session, the method may also include obtaining sensor data, obtaining second machine data, and determining the calibration factor based on the second machine data and the sensor data. The method may also include generating a workout session summary based on the calibration factor.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jay Blahnik, Meghna Lav, Aidan O'Loan, Jorge Morinigo, Gordon Scott, Siji Rachel Tom, Kevin Sheridan, Craig Dooley, Chen Ganir, Catherine B. B. Morrison, Kevin M. Lynch
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Patent number: 12219256Abstract: A flexure for a camera module is provided. The flexure includes a dynamic platform to which an image sensor is connected such that the image sensor moves with the dynamic platform. The flexure also includes a static platform connected to a static portion of the camera. The flexure further includes a plurality of flexure arms that mechanically connect the dynamic platform to the static platform. The plurality of flexure arms includes a first flexure arm including one or more signal traces having a first impedance and a base layer having a first width. The plurality of flexure arms includes a second flexure arm including one or more signal traces having a second impedance and a base layer having a second width. The first impedance is greater than the second impedance. The first width is less than the second width. The second flexure arm routes image data from the image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Himesh Patel, Qiang Yang, Peng Chen
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Patent number: 12217350Abstract: Disclosed techniques relate to acceleration data structure for ray intersection testing. In some embodiments, storage circuitry stores node data for a spatially organized acceleration data structure, including to store the following node information for a given node: origin coordinates for the node and, for a given child node of multiple child nodes, child information that includes: quantized bounding region information for a bounding region corresponding to the child node, where the quantized bounding region information encodes bounding region coordinates as offsets relative to the origin coordinates. Traversal circuitry may traverse multiple nodes of the data structure and determine whether a ray intersects a bounding region indicated by given a node of the data structure based on the node information. Disclosed techniques may provide substantial improvements to performance, data size, and power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ali Rabbani Rankouhi, Christopher A. Burns, Justin A. Hensley, Luca Iuliano, Jonathan M. Redshaw
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Patent number: 12219631Abstract: A wireless communication device may wirelessly control an object, such as a physical device, directly or through interaction with a virtual representation (or placeholder) of the object situated at a predefined physical location. In particular, the wireless communication device may identify an intent gesture performed by a user that indicates intent to control the object. For example, the intent gesture may involve pointing or orienting the wireless communication device toward the object, with or without additional input. Then, the wireless communication device may determine the object associated with the intent gesture using wireless ranging and/or device orientation. Moreover, the wireless communication device may interpret sensor data from one or more sensors associated with the wireless communication device to determine an action gesture corresponding to a command or a command value. The wireless communication device may then transmit the command value to control the object.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: James H. Foster, Duncan R. Kerr
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Patent number: 12219657Abstract: A method is performed by a set of one or more servers and includes receiving, from a first user equipment (UE) to be activated with a cellular carrier for a user, and at the set of one or more servers, information identifying a second UE of the user and authentication information for authenticating the user with the cellular carrier. The method further includes authenticating the user using the authentication information; transmitting a password to the second UE at least partly in response to authenticating the user; receiving, from the first UE and at the set of one or more servers, the password; validating the password received from the first UE; and initiating a transfer of an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) subscription, from the second UE to the first UE, at least partly in response to validating the password.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2024Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Raj S. Chaugule, Alex M. Was, Avinash Narasimhan, Damien R. Holzapfel, He Zheng, Li Li, Timothy M. Sheridan, Vikram B. Yerrabommanahalli
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Patent number: 12217342Abstract: A computer-generated environment may include a virtual agent and a plurality of targets. Movements of the virtual agent to the plurality of targets can be defined and the movements of the virtual agent to the plurality of targets may be interpolated, such that to generate an interpolated animation path of movement of the virtual agent to the first target and to the second target.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gregory Duquesne, Arnold H. Cachelin
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Patent number: 12219648Abstract: This disclosure relates to performing data communication while in an inactive state in a cellular communication system.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Dawei Zhang, Longda Xing, Murtaza A. Shikari, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Sree Ram Kodali, Srinivasan Nimmala, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Xu Ou, Yuqin Chen
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Patent number: 12217371Abstract: Techniques are disclosed, whereby graphical information for a first image frame to be rendered is obtained at a first device, the graphical information comprising at least depth information for at least a portion of the pixels within the first image frame. Next, a regional depth value may be determined for a region of pixels in the first image frame. Next, the region of pixels may be coded as either a “skipped” region or a “non-skipped” region based, at least in part, on the determined regional depth value for the region of pixels. Finally, if the region of pixels is coded as a non-skipped region, a representation of the region of pixels may be rendered and composited with any other graphical content, as desired, to a display of the first device; whereas, if the region of pixels is coded as a skipped region, the first device may avoid rendering the region.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Seyedkoosha Mirhosseini
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Patent number: 12219500Abstract: User equipment may configure a transmitter or receiver to conform to regulations or standards of a geographical region to communicate with non-terrestrial networks (e.g., satellite networks). In one embodiment, the user equipment may receive an indication of a regulation or standard to which to conform to from a terrestrial communication node, and apply an emission mask to the transmitter based on the regulation or standard. The user equipment may additionally or alternatively configure the receiver to be compliant with a noise level tolerance of a received signal specified by the regulation or standard. In some embodiments, the user equipment may implement a frequency offset between the received signal and an interfering signal associated with the noise level tolerance that is scaled based at least on a channel bandwidth associated with the desired signal. Moreover, the user equipment may scale the noise level tolerance based on the frequency offset.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Anatoliy S Ioffe, Elmar Wagner, Daniel Popp, Fucheng Wang, Camila Priale Olivares, Alexander Sayenko
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Patent number: 12217598Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for displaying a visual indication of audibility of an audible signal. In various implementations, a device includes a display, an audio sensor, a processor and a non-transitory memory. In various implementations, a method includes receiving, via the audio sensor, an audible signal and converting the audible signal to electronic signal data. In various implementations, the method includes obtaining environmental data that indicates audio response characteristics of a physical environment in which the device is located. In various implementations, the method includes displaying, on the display, an indicator that indicates a distance from a source of the audible signal at which the audible signal is audible. In some implementations, the distance is based on an amplitude associated with the electronic signal data and the audio response characteristics of the physical environment.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Devin William Chalmers, Dhruv Aditya Govil, Rahul Nair
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Patent number: D1060224Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
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Patent number: D1060347Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Alexandre B. Girard, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Marc A. Newson, Peter Riering-Czekalla, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Robert V. Tang, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang