Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12219408
    Abstract: An approach is described for a user equipment (UE) configured for a new radio (NR) system with unlicensed spectrum. The UE includes processor circuitry that performs a first channel load measurement at a first frequency of a serving cell and a second channel load measurement at a second frequency of a neighbor cell and associates a report with the first channel load measurement and the second channel load measurement. At least one of the first frequency and the second frequency is in the unlicensed spectrum. The UE also includes radio front end circuitry that is coupled to the processor circuitry and configured to transmit the report to an access node (AN).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Seau S. Lim, Anthony Lee, Jeongho Jeon, Youn Hyoung Heo
  • Patent number: 12219544
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to use multiple beams for transmission or reception. The UE receives, from a base station, at least one medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) that indicates multiple activated transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states, receives, from the base station, at least one downlink control information (DCI) indicating a subset of TCI states of the multiple activated TCI states, wherein the MAC CE and the DCI are part of a TCI configuration, and wherein the subset of TCI states corresponds to multiple transmission and reception points (TRPs) of a wireless network, maps the subset of TCI states to the corresponding multiple TRPs based on the TCI configuration and selects a beam used for transmission or reception based on one mapped TCI state of the mapped subset of TCI states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: 12218894
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for displaying and using avatars. In some embodiments, avatars are used to generate stickers for sending in a content-creation user interface. In some embodiments, avatars are used to generate a representation of a contactable user in a contactable user editing user interface. In some embodiments, a user interface can be used to create and edit an avatar. In some embodiments, a user interface can be used to display an avatar that is responsive to detected changes in pose of a face of a user. In some embodiments, contact information is transmitted or received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Allison Dryer, Marcel Van Os
  • Patent number: 12219344
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for adaptive audio centering for head tracking in spatial audio applications. In an embodiment, a method comprises: obtaining first motion data from an auxiliary device communicatively coupled to a source device, the source device configured to provide spatial audio content and the auxiliary device configured to playback the spatial audio content; obtaining second motion data from one or more motion sensors of the source device; determining whether the source device and auxiliary device are in a period of mutual quiescence based on the first and second motion data; in accordance with determining that the source device and the auxiliary device are in a period of mutual quiescence, re-centering the spatial audio in a three-dimensional virtual auditory space; and rendering the 3D virtual auditory space for playback on the auxiliary device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaoyuan Tu, Alexander Singh Alvarado
  • Patent number: 12216285
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display and a lens module through which the display is viewable. The lens module may include a tunable lens with an adjustable spherical power, cylindrical axis, and/or cylindrical power. To tune the tunable lens to compensate for a viewer's eyesight, the display may present at least one target. The optical power of the tunable lens may be set based on the point of gaze relative to the at least one target. Multiple targets with associated optical powers may be presented and the optical power of the tunable lens may be set depending on which target is aligned with the point of gaze. The display may present an image through a masking layer with a ring of pinhole pairs. The electronic device may include an input device that receives user input regarding a perceived image associated with the display and the masking layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: James E Pedder, Gareth D Hastings, Igor Stamenov, Matthew D Hollands
  • Patent number: 12214943
    Abstract: A hang tab assembly includes a paper outer layer and inner layer. The outer layer may include a hanging panel, a tear-away panel adjacent to the hanging panel, a first kiss-cut path on an upper surface of the outer layer, and a second kiss-cut path on a lower surface of the tear-away panel, the second kiss-cut path offset from the first. The assembly may include a first adhesive disposed on the lower surface of the tear-away panel, and a second adhesive disposed on a lower surface of the inner layer facing away from the outer layer. The outer layer may include a tear-away portion that tears transversely between offset kiss-cut paths to unseal a sealed package and expose internal paper material to provide visual indication that the package has been unsealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Manuel Hodrius, Jonathan M. McCarren
  • Patent number: 12218864
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide collision resolution procedures in wireless communication systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Huaning Niu, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye
  • Patent number: 12216515
    Abstract: A power converter circuit included in a computer system may include a phase circuit and a sample circuit. The phase circuit compares a voltage level of the regulated power supply node to a reference voltage to generate a demand current that is used to adjust the voltage level of the regulated power supply node. The phase circuit also digitizes the demand current and stores the resultant bit stream in a memory circuit. The sample circuit generates timestamp information that points to particular storage locations in the memory circuit that correspond to trigger events, allowing the operation of the power converter circuit to be analyzed during different circumstances as well as to adjust operating parameters of the power converter circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn Searles, Fabio Gozzini, Sanjay Pant, Inder M. Sodhi
  • Patent number: 12216520
    Abstract: Direct access to device functionality from a low power state of the device is provided. The direct access can be provided without an initial user input to wake the device or the display of the device before activating the desired functionality. The low power state of the device may include a low power state of the display in which the time is persistently displayed, and may include a low power state or an inactive state of a main processor of the device. The direct access can be provided by detecting a type, location, or other aspects of a user input received while the device is in the low power state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Z. Weiss, Ardra Singh, Ari Y. Benbasat, Arthur L. Spence, Asha G. Karvaje, Brent W. Schorsch, Giovanni Corradini, Steven S. Noble
  • Patent number: 12218352
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a plurality of particles. Each particle may include a material comprising 0.95 to 1.30 mole fraction Li, at least 0.60 and less than 1.00 mole fraction Co, up to 10,000 ppm Al, 1.90 to 2.10 mole fraction O, and up to 0.30 mole fraction M, where M is at least one element selected from B, Na, Mg, P, Ti, Ca, V, Cr, Fe, Mn, Ni, Cu, Zn, Al, Sc, Y, Ga, Zr, Ru, Mo, La, Si, Nb, Ge, In, Sn, Sb, Te, and Ce. Each particle may also include a surface composition comprising a mixture of LiF and a metal fluoride. An amount of fluorine (F) is greater than 0 and less than or equal to 5000 ppm. The metal fluoride comprises a material selected from the group consisting of AlF3, CaF2, MgF2, and LaF2. The surface composition may also include a metal oxide comprising a material selected from the group consisting of TiO2, MgO, La2O3, CaO, and Al2O3. An amount of the metal oxide is greater than 0 and less than or equal to 20000 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hongli Dai, Huiming Wu, Chi-Kai Lin, Michael J. Erickson, Martin Bettge, Xiaoping Wang, Yan Li, Yanjie Cui, James A. Gilbert, Zhenzhen Yang, Anh D. Vu, Arthur Jeremy Kropf, Hakim H. Iddir, Christopher S. Johnson, John David Carter
  • Patent number: 12216254
    Abstract: Lens systems are described that may be used in small form factor cameras. An imaging lens system may include a front aperture and five lens elements, and provides a low F-number (<=2.4), wide field of view (>=82 degrees), and short total track length (TTL). Lens system parameters and relationships may be selected at least in part to reduce, compensate, or correct for optical aberrations and lens artifacts and effects across the field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Yuhong Yao
  • Patent number: 12215053
    Abstract: Electronic devices including a textured component such as a cover member positioned over one or more components of the electronic device. Different surface regions of the textured component may be textured differently in order to provide optical contrast. For example, differently textured surface regions may differ in gloss, translucency, or both. In some cases the cover member defines a protruding feature and a surface region of the protruding feature is textured differently than an adjacent surface region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Andi M. Limarga, Akanksha Agrawal, Albert Ochagavia Tobena, Jason P. Shannon
  • Patent number: 12216959
    Abstract: An example method includes, at a first electronic device that includes a display, displaying, on the display, a user interface that is associated with an application, the user interface displayed with a control user interface element for changing a display property of the user interface. The method includes, detecting an input directed to the control user interface element. The method also includes that in response to detecting the input, and while continuing to display the user interface, concurrently displaying on the display: a first selectable option for changing the display property of the user interface on the display of the first electronic device, and a second selectable option for requesting display at a second electronic device, distinct from the first electronic device, of a user interface that includes content from the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Raymond S. Sepulveda, Chun Kin Minor Wong, John O. Louch, Christopher N. Ryan, Kevin J. Van Vechten, Patrick L Coffman
  • Patent number: 12219118
    Abstract: In one implementation, a camera rig comprises: a first array of image sensors arranged in a planar configuration, wherein the first array of image sensors is provided to capture a first image stream from a first perspective of a physical environment; a second array of image sensors arranged in a non-planar configuration, wherein the second array of image sensors is provided to capture a second image stream from a second perspective of the physical environment different from the first perspective; a buffer provided to store the first and second image streams; and an image processing engine provided to generate a 3D reconstruction of the physical environment based on the first and second image streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Afshin Taghavi Nasrabadi, Maneli Noorkami
  • Patent number: 12218583
    Abstract: A power converter circuit that includes two flying capacitors, is coupled to a regulated power supply node in a computer system. The power converter circuit magnetizes an inductor using the two flying capacitors during a first phase. During a second phase, the power converter circuit charges one of the flying capacitors, de-magnetizes the inductor, and transfers charge to the regulated power supply node. The power converter circuit magnetizes the inductor using the flying capacitors, and transfers charge to the regulated power supply node during a third phase. During a fourth phase, the power converter circuit again de-magnetizes the inductor, charges the one of the flying capacitors, and transfers charge to the regulated power supply node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Louis De Marco, Vincenzo Bisogno
  • Patent number: 12219576
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for uplink beam management and power control in wireless communications systems. Disclosed embodiments include beam management and power control enhancements for Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), Sounding Reference Signal (SRS), and Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUSCH) transmissions. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Alexei Davydov, Guotong Wang, Gang Xiong
  • Patent number: 12216578
    Abstract: A cache may include multiple request handling pipes, each of which may further include multiple request buffers, for storing device requests from one or more processors to one or more devices. Some of the device requests may require to be sent to the devices according to an order. For a given one of such device requests, the cache may select a request handling pipe, based on an address indicated by the device request, and select a request buffer, based on the available entries of the request buffers of the selected request handling pipe, to store the device request. The cache may further use a first-level and a second-level token stores to track and maintain the device requests in order when transmitting the device requests to the devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sandeep Gupta, Brian P Lilly, Krishna C Potnuru
  • Patent number: D1060290
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Markus Diebel, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1060337
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: D1060345
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Marine C. Bataille, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Alexandre B. Girard, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Richard P. Howarth, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Robert V. Tang, Clement Tissandier