Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12210169
    Abstract: A display assembly includes a curved display having pixels, a front cover, a curved lenticular lens array disposed between the display and the front cover, and a blinker film disposed between the curved lenticular lens array and the front cover, the blinker film and the curved lenticular lens array defining an air gap between the blinker film and the curve lenticular lens array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Divakar Singamsetty, Jeffrey C Olson, Timothy Y. Chang, Yu Song
  • Patent number: 12212326
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a transmitter including a phase locked loop (PLL), a modulator, and a power amplifier (PA). A controller including programmable and/or hardened logic circuitry may be coupled to the PLL and the modulator. The controller may provide encoded signals based on quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) scheme for transmission by the transmitter. In particular, the controller may provide multiple bursts of pulses indicative of data packets to the modulator. Moreover, the controller may provide instructions indicative of generating clock signals with in-phase and quadrature phases to the PLL. The PLL may generate clock signals corresponding to the in-phase and quadrature phases. As such, the transmitter may generate in-phase and quadrature output signals based on receiving each burst of pulses with either in-phase or quadrature phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Venerus, Utku Seckin, Vikram Magoon
  • Patent number: 12211498
    Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. In one example process, a natural-language user input is received at an electronic device and a user intent determined. Where an audio recording corresponding to the intent is available, a digital assistant of the electronic device provides a first spoken output introducing the audio recording, the audio recording itself, and a second spoken output indicating the end of the audio recording.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Scott Hergenrader, Ryann Stevenson Brewer, Hiu Yi Chan, Eunice Y. Lee, Shahbaaz Tajuddin Mhaisale
  • Patent number: 12212555
    Abstract: Aspects of subject technology provide systems and methods for generation and distribution of a stable identifier associated with multiple aliases of a user account. The stable identifier may be provided to various electronic devices by a server, responsive to requests associated with communications to those devices from one of the associated aliases. In this way, messaging applications can utilize the stable identifier to merge conversations from a single user having multiple aliases, and secure access to a secure device can be provided to an authorized user, even if the authorized user attempts access from an unauthorized account alias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Joseph Circosta, Patrick R. Burns, Bhaskar P. Sarma, Daniel B. Pollack, Liang Qu, Kevin J. Lindeman, Roberto Garcia
  • Patent number: 12213067
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for multi-RAT and DSDA capable wireless devices to handle frame blanking in a wireless communication system. A wireless device may establish wireless links according to a first radio access technology and a second radio access technology. The wireless device may determine to perform transmit and receive blanking for one or more antennas of the wireless device for the first radio access technology to perform sounding reference signal transmissions for the second radio access technology based at least in part on a band combination for the wireless links. The wireless device may determine a modification to channel state feedback reporting for the first radio access technology based at least in part on the transmit and receive blanking. The wireless device may perform channel state feedback reporting using the determined modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Junzhen Qin, Wen Zhao, Lijie Zhang, Lele Cui, Wenping Lou, Qiang Miao, Zhiwei Wang, Ying Zhang, Deepankar Bhattacharjee, Kexin Ma, Alex Yee Kit Ho
  • Patent number: 12210712
    Abstract: In some examples, a touch screen can include touch sense electrodes coupled to touch sense circuitry and drive lines that couple display pixels to display circuitry. In some examples, the touch screen can include display lines oriented along a first axis (e.g., vertically) and display lines oriented along a second axis (e.g., horizontally) that is orthogonal to the first axis. In some examples, the touch screen can include touch sense electrodes oriented along the second axis at locations of display lines oriented along the first axis and touch sense electrodes oriented along the first axis at locations of display liens oriented along the second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christophe Blondin, Ashray Vinayak Gogte
  • Patent number: 12210163
    Abstract: A head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing. The head-mounted housing may have rear-facing displays that display images for a user. The images are viewable from eye boxes while the head-mounted device is being worn by the user. A publicly viewable front-facing display may be mounted on a front face of the head-mounted housing. A display cover layer may overlap a pixel array associated with the front-facing display. An inactive border area of the display cover layer may overlap optical components. Shutter systems may be provided between the display cover layer and the optical components to selectively block light. Actuators may move shutter members or other movable members to cover and uncover the optical components. A removable cover may be used to protect the display cover layer and may have portions in different areas that have different optical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ritu Shah, Forrest C. Wang
  • Patent number: 12212906
    Abstract: An electronic device can include a housing, an audio component, and a gasket. The housing can define a first internal volume and the audio component can define a second internal volume. The audio component can include membrane and a venting element having a fluid impermeable layer. The venting element can define a fluid path placing the first internal volume and the second internal volume in fluid communication. At least a portion of the fluid path can extend parallel to the fluid impermeable layer. The gasket can define a seal between the first internal volume and an ambient environment adjacent the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jiahui Liang, Andrew L. Doyle, Nikolas T. Vitt, Yingyi Wang, David W. Robison
  • Patent number: 12211502
    Abstract: Systems and processes for operating a virtual assistant to provide natural assistant interaction are provided. In accordance with one or more examples, a method includes, at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory: receiving a first audio stream including one or more utterances; determining whether the first audio stream includes a lexical trigger; generating one or more candidate text representations of the one or more utterances; determining whether at least one candidate text representation of the one or more candidate text representations is to be disregarded by the virtual assistant. If at least one candidate text representation is to be disregarded, one or more candidate intents are generated based on candidate text representations of the one or more candidate text representations other than the to be disregarded at least one candidate text representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Juan Carlos Garcia, Paul S. McCarthy, Kurt Piersol
  • Patent number: 12212834
    Abstract: A device may have a multi-camera system including one or more camera modules. At least one camera module may include one or more lenses, an image sensor, and a chassis structure. The camera module may include a bearing structure including one or more stages moving on a plurality of rolling elements to allow the lenses and/or the image sensor to move in one or more directions. The chassis structure may form a limit for a span distance or length of a group of rolling elements. A portion of the chassis structure may include an opening to provide extra space to allow the span distance or length of the group of rolling elements to be extended, so as to reduce effects of raceway indentations on the rolling elements to the camera module performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas D Smyth, Scott W Miller
  • Patent number: 12213110
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide repetition of system information block type 1 in a plurality of slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Huaning Niu, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12212729
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a first device rendering image data, a second device storing the image data, and a display panel that displays the image data stored in the memory. The first device renders multiple frames of the image data, compresses the multiple frames into a single superframe, and transports the single superframe. The second device receives the single superframe, decompresses the single superframe into the multiple frames of image data, and stores the image data on a memory of the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yung-Chin Chen, Michael Bekerman, Guy Côté, Aleksandr M. Movshovich, D. Amnon Silverstein, David R. Pope
  • Patent number: 12209902
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that determine a type of environment based on light assessment. For example, an example process may include obtaining a first set of light data from a first sensor (e.g., a multiwavelength ambient light sensor) in a physical environment that includes a light source. The first set of light data may identify diffuse light in each of multiple light wavelength ranges that is received by the first sensor. The process may further include obtaining a second set of data from the second sensor in the physical environment. The process may further include determining, based on the first set of light data and the second set of data, that the physical environment is a first type of environment (e.g., indoor) or a second type of environment (e.g., outdoor) based on a set of criteria (e.g., artificial light vs. sunlight).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Arun Srivatsan Rangaprasad, Anselm Grundhoefer
  • Patent number: 12208310
    Abstract: Notifications for instructing user behavior can be determined and presented when appropriate. Current fitness data are accessed. This data is used to determine whether a user fitness goal is likely to be achieved. If not, a notification may be determined and presented at a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Kriz Blahnik, Aaron P. Thompson, David S. Clark, Julie A. Arney, Brian R. Drell, Keith P. Avery, Kevin M. Lynch
  • Patent number: 12207726
    Abstract: A wirelessly locatable tag may include a first housing member defining a first exterior surface of the tag, a second housing member removably coupled to the first housing member and defining a second exterior surface of the tag, and an antenna assembly. The antenna assembly may include an antenna frame defining a top surface and a peripheral side surface, a first antenna on the antenna frame along the peripheral side surface and configured to communicate with the electronic device using a first wireless protocol, a second antenna on the antenna frame along the peripheral side surface and configured to send a localization signal to the electronic device using a second wireless protocol different than the first protocol, and a third antenna on the antenna frame along the top surface and configured to communicate with the electronic device via a third wireless protocol different than the first and second protocols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Ryan C. Perkins, Johan Avendal, Eduardo Jorge Da Costa Bras Lima, Carlo Di Nallo, Jayesh Nath, Dimitrios Papantonis, Samuel B. Schaevitz, Christopher M. Werner
  • Patent number: 12212609
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a user equipment device (UE). The UE includes one or more antennas; one or more radios, where each of the radios is configured to perform cellular communication using a plurality of radio access technologies (RATs) that support voice over an Internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS); one or more processors coupled to the one or more radios, where the one or more processors are configured to cause the UE to perform operations including: sending, via a first RAT, a first request for IMS registration to an IMS server; receiving, from the IMS server, an IMS rejection message indicating failure of the IMS registration; determining, based on the IMS rejection message, that the IMS registration failure is temporary; responsively re-attempting IMS registration with the IMS server; and determining to camp on the first RAT in response to receiving an IMS acceptance message from the IMS server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nitin Kuppelur, Anish George, Karthik Anantharaman, Deepak Dash
  • Patent number: D1059330
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1059355
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: D1059382
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jared Andrew Crawford, Christian Xavier Dalonzo, Robert Garcia, III
  • Patent number: D1059399
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Teofila Connor, Alan C. Dye, Aurelio Guzmán, Vincenzo Vuono, Christopher I. Wilson