Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 12216161Abstract: An apparatus includes a plurality of circuit blocks, a plurality of scan-enabled flip-flop circuits, and a plurality of scan signature circuits. The plurality of scan-enabled flip-flop circuits may be coupled in a sequential manner across the plurality of circuit blocks, and be configured to shift a scan chain test signal from a test input interface to a test output interface. The plurality of scan signature circuits may be coupled to respective ones of a subset of the plurality of scan-enabled flip-flop circuits, and be configured to, in response to a particular test signal, concurrently load a known scan-chain pattern to the subset of the scan-enabled flip-flop circuits. The plurality of scan-enabled flip-flop circuits may be further configured to sequentially output at least a portion of the known scan-chain pattern to the test output interface.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bo Yang, Antonietta Oliva, Michael R. Seningen, Vasu P. Ganti, Vijay M. Bettada
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Patent number: 12218515Abstract: A wireless charging system having a power transmitting device may wirelessly transfer power to a power receiving device. The power receiving device may include a voltage regulator that operates independently from the power transmitting device. The voltage regulator may output a rectified voltage and may activate pull-down rectifier switches during zero voltage crossings to boost the rectified voltage. The power receiving device may send control error packets to the power transmitting device to direct the power transmitting device to adjust the transmit power level.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Alireza Safaee
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Patent number: 12218478Abstract: An optoelectronic device includes a semiconductor substrate having first and second faces. An emitter is disposed on the first face of the semiconductor substrate and is configured to emit a beam of radiation through the substrate. At least one curved optical surface is formed in the second face of the semiconductor substrate. A first reflector is disposed on the first face in proximity to the emitter, and a second reflector is disposed on the second face in proximity to the curved optical surface, such that the second reflector reflects the beam that was emitted through the semiconductor substrate by the emitter to reflect back through the semiconductor substrate toward the first reflector, which then reflects the beam to pass through the semiconductor substrate so as to exit from the semiconductor substrate through the curved optical surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Keith Lyon
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Patent number: 12216851Abstract: Electronic devices can include a textured exterior surface that is used for controlling functions associated with the electronic device or another electronic device when an object moves along the textured exterior surface. In some examples, the textured exterior surface can be a multi-directional textured surface to enable multi-directional touch functionality. In some examples, sensors of the electronic device can detect signal inputs generated by vibrations caused by the object moving along the textured exterior surface. The signal inputs can be processed to determine the directionality and/or speed of the movement input.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Travis N. Owens, Daniel J. Bechstein, Jeremy A. Bagnol, Daniell Dokko, Supratik Datta
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Patent number: 12219314Abstract: Systems and processes for user identification using headphones associated with a first device are provided. For example, first movement information corresponding to movement of a second electronic device is detected. Second movement information corresponding to movement of a third electronic device is detected. A similarity score is determined based on the first movement information and the second movement information. In accordance with a determination that the similarity score is above a threshold similarity score, a user is identified as an authorized user of the first electronic device and the second electronic device. Based on the identification, an output is provided to the second electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jun Gong, Gierad Laput
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Patent number: 12217474Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an input video comprising a plurality of image frames including an object of interest. Based on the plurality of image frames, a motion associated with the object of interest is determined, and the plurality of image frames are classified using a machine-learning model to identify one of the plurality of image frames that indicates a moment of perception of the determined motion.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hessam Bagherinezhad, Carlo Eduardo Cabanero Del Mundo, Anish Jnyaneshwar Prabhu, Peter Zatloukal, Lawrence Frederick Arnstein
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Patent number: 12219226Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing including a front cover opposite a back cover; a display viewable through the front cover; a light-bending mirror positioned between the front cover and the back cover and receiving light through one of the front cover or the back cover, the light-bending mirror redirecting received light along a light path parallel to the front cover and the back cover; a dichroic cube prism positioned in the light path, the dichroic cube prism receiving light through a first face of the dichroic cube prism, redirecting a visible light portion of the received light through a second face of the dichroic cube prism, and redirecting an infrared (IR) portion of the received light through a third face of the dichroic cube prism; a visible light image sensor positioned adjacent the second face; and an IR light image sensor positioned adjacent the third face.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Aditya Rayankula, Xiangli Li
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Patent number: 12219387Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs for adaptation layer enhancements in new radio (NR) integrated access and backhaul (IAB) networks. In one aspect, a method includes performing, by an adaptation layer of an IAB node of the IAB network, header compression on one or more headers of a packet for transmission in the IAB network; and transmitting the packet with the one or more compressed headers to a destination IAB node of the IAB network.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Honglei Miao
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Patent number: 12219567Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus of a machine-type communication (MTC) user equipment (UE) comprises baseband processing circuitry to establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection with an evolved Node B (eNB), and process a message from the eNB indicating a number of repetitions of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmissions to be used over multiple uplink subframes after the radio resource control connection is established.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Debdeep Chatterjee
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Patent number: 12219255Abstract: A ball bearing sensor shift arrangement for a camera may include one or more voice coil motor (VCM) actuators that include the fixed magnets, optical image stabilization (OIS) coils, and/or one or more autofocus (AF) coils. The ball bearing sensor shift arrangement may be coupled with an image sensor of the camera, and may include carrier frames configured to move on ball bearings so as to enable motion of the image sensor in multiple degrees-of-freedom (DOF). An OIS carrier frame(s) may be coupled with the OIS coils, which may be positioned proximate the fixed magnets and used for moving the image sensor in directions orthogonal to an optical axis of the camera. An AF carrier frame may be coupled with the AF coil(s), which may be positioned proximate the fixed magnets and used for moving the image sensor in at least one direction parallel to the optical axis.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bin Xu, Xu Wang, Aurelien R Hubert
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Patent number: 12219315Abstract: A method performed by an in-ear headphone. Coupled to the in-ear headphone is a first ear tip that is inserted into an ear canal of a user. The method obtains an audio signal from an audio source device paired with the in-ear headphone and uses the signal to drive a speaker of the headphone to output a sound into the ear canal. The method obtains a microphone signal that is responsive to the outputted sound. The method notifies the user to replace the first ear tip with a second ear tip in response to a parameter associated with the microphone signal being less than a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Esge B. Andersen, Andrew E. Greenwood, Tom-Davy W. Saux, Baptiste P. Paquier, Hanchi Chen, Raghavendra S. Prabhu
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Patent number: 12216387Abstract: Recording indicators for devices with cameras that provide protection from tampering so that the recording indicators cannot be easily disabled or masked. Recording indicators that are external to the camera lens and that emit visible light in an encrypted pattern are described. The device may process captured frames to detect the encrypted pattern; if the encrypted pattern cannot be detected, recording is disabled. In addition, modular accessories are described that the user has to attach to the device to enable recording; the presence of the modular attachment indicates to persons in the environment that they may be being recorded.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Justin J. Schwab, Nathanael D. Parkhill, Andrew McMahon, Jae Lee, Jerome Tu, DK Kalinowski, Nalaka Vidanagamachchi, Yohan Rajan, Cam Harder, Yoshikazu Shinohara
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Patent number: 12217620Abstract: A configuration for a breathing sequence may be defined using a user interface of a user device. The user interface may also be used to begin the breathing sequence. Prior to beginning the breathing sequence, the user device can determine a breath ratio for the breathing sequence based on a breathing profile. The breath ratio is based at least in part on inhale time and exhale time of a breath of the breathing sequence. During the breathing sequence, a fluctuating user interface element may fluctuate at a cyclic rate corresponding to the breath ratio. Such fluctuation may include repeated growing and repeated shrinking of the fluctuating user interface element.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2024Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jay Kriz Blahnik, Erno H. Klaassen, Julie A. Arney, Alan C. Dye, Gary I. Butcher, Kevin M. Lynch, Nader E. Bagherzadeh, Gracee Agrawal, Stephen J. Waydo, Christopher J. Brouse
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Patent number: 12218874Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to configure and used demodulation reference signals for device-to-device communications in, for example, new radio.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang, Zhibin Wu
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Patent number: 12216894Abstract: Systems and processes for user configurable task triggers are provided. In one example, at least one user input, including a selection of at least one condition of a plurality of conditions and a selection of at least one task of a plurality of tasks, is received. Stored context data corresponding to an electronic device is received. A determination is whether the stored context data indicates an occurrence of the at least one selected condition. In response to determining that the stored context data indicates an occurrence of the at least one selected condition, the at least one selected task associated with the at least one selected condition is performed.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Joseph E. Meyer, Kelan Champagne, Joao Pedro De Almeida Forjaz De Lacerda, Aleksandr Gusev, Conrad B. Kramer, Yuan Li, Ari Weinstein
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Patent number: 12216484Abstract: A voltage reference circuit included in a computer system includes an asymmetric amplifier circuit that includes two metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors with different threshold voltages. The voltage reference circuit also includes an output circuit that generates, using a control signal, a bias signal and an output current that is used by a divider circuit to generate a reference voltage and a feedback voltage. The reference voltage and bias signal are used by the amplifier circuit to generate the control signal, which is based on a difference between the transistors' threshold voltages.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sechang Oh, Soheil Golara, Denis C. Daly, Seyedeh Sedigheh Hashemi, Mansour Keramat
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Patent number: 12219877Abstract: Disclosed herein are monitoring systems and sensors for physiological measurements. The sensors can be multi-element piezo sensors capable of generating multiple electrical signals, whereby the monitoring systems can receive the multiple electrical signals to analyze the user's vital signs along multiple regions of the user's body. In some examples, the piezo sensor can include one or more corrugations, such as peaks and valleys, to create localized regions with increased mechanical response to force. The sensitivity and resolution of the piezo sensor can be enhanced by further locating electrode sections at the corrugations, where the electrode sections can be electrically isolated and independently operable from other electrode sections. Traces electrically connecting an electrode section to, e.g.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Chin San Han, German A. Alvarez, Santiago Quijano, Stuart W. Wenzel
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Patent number: D1060032Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2024Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
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Patent number: D1060389Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Andrew Patrick Clymer, Hanwen Fan, Lynnette Lucille Galloway, Aurelio Guzmán, Andre Ricardo Jointe, Bobby Cole Martin, Jr., Michael Tettey Nartey, Oladapo Onikuyide, Vincenzo Vuono
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Patent number: D1060407Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2024Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Nicholas D. Felton
