Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12213186
    Abstract: A method and device are disclosed for performing collision resolution in a two-step random access channel (RACH) process. In such a process, an MsgA PUSCH signal and a grant based PUSCH signal may collide. When such a collision is detected, either the MsgA PUSCH signal or the grant based PUSCh signal are dropped. The other of the two signals is then transmitted. The determination regarding which signal to drop can be based on a set of rules stored in memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Yujian Zhang, Yushu Zhang, Sergey Sosnin, Seau S. Lim
  • Patent number: 12213179
    Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for a fallback procedure for a 2-step random access channel (RACH) procedure for data transmission in a wireless communication system where the apparatuses and methods include at least generating, by a user equipment (UE), a first signal that includes a first message (MsgA) for a 2-step random access channel (RACH) procedure, transmitting, by the UE, the first signal to a next generation NodeB (gNB), determining, by the UE, whether a 4-step RACH procedure is to be used to further transmit the first signal including the MsgA, and further transmitting, by the UE, the first signal to the gNB using the 4 step RACH procedure based on determining that the 4-step RACH procedure should be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Yushu Zhang, Yongjun Kwak, Sergey Sosnin, Hwan-Joon Kwon
  • Patent number: 12212249
    Abstract: A switched capacitor converter can include a switched capacitor stage comprising a flying capacitor and a ladder of three switching devices. A first switching device can be connected between a DC input of the switched capacitor converter and an AC bus. A second switching device is connected between the DC input and a third switching device. The third switching device can be connected between the second switching device and ground. The flying capacitor can be connected between the AC bus and a junction of the second switching device and the third switching device. The switched capacitor converter can further include an inverter stage having an input coupled to the AC bus and an output that delivers an AC voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Weihong Qiu, Jun Liu, Zaki Moussaoui
  • Patent number: 12212389
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for radio-link monitoring operations in radio networks that include beam-specific bandwidth parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Weidong Yang, Sigen Ye, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Huaning Niu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Jie Cui
  • Patent number: 12211435
    Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display having a gate-on-array (GOA) that generates gate signals in response to an activation signal, pixels that activate in response to a combination of the gate signals and data signals indicative of image data, and sensing circuitry. The sensing circuitry may measure a characteristic response of a gate signal a characteristic response of one or more pixels, or both and compare the characteristic responses to baselines. The electronic device may also include compensation circuitry that applies a compensation to the activation signal and/or to the image data based on the comparisons between the characteristic responses and the baselines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sun-Il Chang, Kwang Soon Park, Hao-Lin Chiu, Jie Won Ryu, Hyunsoo Kim, Hyunwoo Nho, Wei Xiong, Patrick R Cruce
  • Patent number: 12211167
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that generate a combined 3D representation of a user. For example, a process may include obtaining a first three-dimensional (3D) representation of a first portion of a user. The process may further include obtaining a sequence of frame-specific second 3D representations in a period of time, each of the frame-specific second 3D representations represent a second portion of the user. The process may further include generating a combined 3D representation of the user for the period of time by modifying the first 3D representation with a respective frame-specific second 3D representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Michael S. Hutchinson
  • Patent number: 12211307
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of body pose estimation is performed at a device including one or more processors and non-transitory memory. The method includes obtaining a plurality of two-dimensional images of a body in a three-dimensional environment at a respective plurality of times. The method includes determining, for each of the plurality of two-dimensional images, the two-dimensional location in the two-dimensional image of one or more joints of the body at the respective plurality of times. The method includes determining, based on the two-dimensional locations, a plurality of three-dimensional locations in the three-dimensional environment of the one or more joints of the body at the respective plurality of times. The method includes determining, based on the three-dimensional locations, a plurality of updated three-dimensional locations in the three-dimensional environment of the one or more joints of the body at the respective plurality of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Tanmay Batra, Bharath Kumar Comandur Jagannathan Raghunathan, Stefano Alletto
  • Patent number: 12210959
    Abstract: A neural processor includes neural engines for performing convolution operations on input data corresponding to one or more tasks to generate output data. The neural processor circuit also includes a data processor circuit that is coupled to one or more neural engine. The data processor circuit receives the output data from the neural engine and generates a branching command from the output data. The neural processor circuit further includes a task manager that is coupled to the data processor circuit. The task manager receives the branching command from the data processor circuit. The task manager enqueues one of two or more segment branches according to the received branching command. The two or more segment branches are subsequent to a pre-branch task segment that includes the pre-branch task. The task manager transmits a task from the selected one of the segment branches to data processor circuit to perform the task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth W. Waters, Christopher L. Mills
  • Patent number: 12212947
    Abstract: In a method for reproducing sound of a data object, a voice signal of a data object is split into a first sub-band signal and a second sub-band signal, and speaker driver signals are generated to produce sound of the object by a two-way speaker system in which the first sub-band signal drives a tweeter or high frequency driver and the second sub-band signal drives a woofer or low frequency driver. In another aspect, the first and second sub-band signals are spatialized as virtual sources that are in different locations. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher T. Eubank, Camellia G. Boutros
  • Patent number: 12213180
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for adjusting random access channel occasions support operation in unlicensed spectrum. In one example, a method includes determining a set of preconfigured random access channel (RACH) occasions (ROs) that includes a plurality of successive ROs; deriving an set of adjusted ROs by inserting a time gap between ROs in the set of preconfigured ROs; and transmitting a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble in at least one RO in the set of adjusted ROs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lopamudra Kundu, Gang Xiong, Yongjun Kwak
  • Patent number: 12208760
    Abstract: A positioning system for a reaction surface is usable with a support having a rearward position spaced from the reaction surface and a forward position proximate to the reaction surface. A controller is configured to receive a signal indicative of an event, receive a signal indicative of the support being in the rearward position, and send a command configured to move the support from the rearward position to the forward position based on the signal indicative of the event and based on the signal indicative of the support being in the rearward position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Arturo Llamazares Domper, Adam J. Golman, Nicholas A. White, Jesse T. Buehler
  • Patent number: 12213144
    Abstract: Techniques discussed herein facilitate generation of uplink control information for Enhanced Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) Format(s) (EPF(s)). One example embodiment employable in a User Equipment (UE) is configured to: determine Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest-Acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) information; generate a PUCCH for a BandWidth Part (BWP) based at least in part on the HARQ-ACK information, wherein the PUCCH has an EPF; determine a PUCCH resource for the PUCCH and a first PRB index for the PUCCH, wherein the PUCCH resource is determined based at least in part on an index of a first Control Channel Element (CCE) of an associated Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) and a number of CCEs in a Control Resource Set (CORESET) of the associated PDCCH; and map the PUCCH to at least one PUCCH interlace based on the PUCCH resource and the first PRB index for the PUCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Wei Zeng, Wei Zhang, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yuchul Kim, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 12210378
    Abstract: Electronic devices may be provided having internal components mounted to a structural glass support member. The structural glass support member may have a planar front surface that forms a front surface of the device. The structural glass support member may have bent portions that form sidewall surfaces of the device. Portions of the structural glass support member may form a transparent display cover layer. A rigid or flexible display may be mounted to the structural glass support member. Additional internal device components may be mounted to the display. A thin enclosure for enclosing the internal components in the device may be mounted to the structural glass support member. The thin enclosure may be mounted to the structural glass support member using a peripheral member. The thin enclosure may be free from attachments to internal components or may be adhesively bonded to one or more internal components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeremy C. Franklin, Fletcher R. Rothkopf, John P. Ternus, Kevin D. Gibbs
  • Patent number: 12211456
    Abstract: A device may include an electronic display to display an image frame based on first and second color component input image data. The electronic display may include a first illuminator to generate a first light at a first brightness level, a second illuminator to generate a second light of a different color at a second brightness level, a first set of pixel locations to emit the first light based on a first set of pixel values, and a second set of pixel locations to emit the second light based on a second set of pixel values. The electronic device may also include pixel contrast control circuitry that determines the first brightness level and the first set of pixel values based on the first color component input image data and determines the second brightness level and the second set of pixel values based on the second color component input image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher P Tann, Mahesh B Chappalli, Alexey Kornienko
  • Patent number: 12210795
    Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology provide a small, portable physical object for use in an extended reality system. The system may include a device that allows a user/wearer to interact with virtual representations of content such as stored data and/or applications overlaid on the user's physical environment. The object has a unique identifier that is obtainable by the device or another device. The object may be an inactive device without any internal circuitry, a passive device with circuitry that is activated by another device, or an active device having its own processing circuitry and/or a display housed in the body of the object. The object can be associated with content displayed by the device to provide a user with a physical object that can be moved or manipulated to move, modify, transport, or store the content generated, stored, and/or displayed in an extended reality environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel L. Iglesias, Michael E. Buerli, Tyler R. Calderone, Andrew P. Richardson
  • Patent number: 12210730
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for multi-user communication sessions. In some examples, a device initiates a live stream in a communication session. In some examples, a device transitions between streaming live audio and live video. In some examples, a device enables synchronizing media playback during a live stream. In some examples, a device displays synchronized media playback and plays a reaction from a first participant of the communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Freddy Allen Anzures, Nicholas V. King, Stephen O. Lemay, Hoan Pham, Giancarlo Yerkes
  • Patent number: 12212208
    Abstract: A haptic actuator may include a housing, and a stator fixed to a medial interior portion of the housing. The haptic actuator may also include a field member having an opening receiving the stator therein. The field member may include a frame and at least one permanent magnet carried by the frame. The haptic actuator may also include at least one flexure coupled between an end of the frame and adjacent interior portions of the housing to permit reciprocal movement of the field member within the housing responsive to the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Darya Amin-Shahidi, Denis G. Chen, Alex M. Lee, Scott D. Ridel
  • Patent number: 12207905
    Abstract: An interface pressure sensor includes a fluid pressure sensor disposed in a volume defined by a shear wall. The volume is enclosed, and the fluid pressure sensor is encapsulated by, an infill material. The infill material defines a sensing surface that, when pressed, can impart a force that is detectable by the fluid pressure sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chin San Han, Robert K. Montgomery, II
  • Patent number: D1059412
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tito Lloyd Balsamo, Raya Marie Ward
  • Patent number: D1059415
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Behkish Johnnie Manzari, Andre Souza Dos Santos