Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12211506
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an integrated circuit may include one or more CPUs, a memory controller, and a circuit configured to remain powered on when the rest of the SOC is powered down. The circuit may be configured to receive audio samples from a microphone, and match those audio samples against a predetermined pattern to detect a possible command from a user of the device that includes the SOC. In response to detecting the predetermined pattern, the circuit may cause the memory controller to power up so that audio samples may be stored in the memory to which the memory controller is coupled. The circuit may also cause the CPUs to be powered on and initialized, and the operating system (OS) may boot. During the time that the CPUs are initializing and the OS is booting, the circuit and the memory may be capturing the audio samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Millet, Manu Gulati, Michael F. Culbert
  • Patent number: 12213116
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may operate on a dormant bandwidth part (BWP) and a non-dormant BWP of a carrier. The UE identifies a dormant bandwidth part (BWP) and a non-dormant BWP of a carrier corresponding to a primary secondary cell (PSCell) of a secondary cell group (SCG) for dual connectivity (DC), receives an indication that an active BWP is to be switched from the non-dormant BWP to the dormant BWP and performs an action corresponding to the dormant BWP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fangli Xu, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Sarma V. Vangala, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 12209890
    Abstract: An optical sensor module includes an interferometric sensor and a set of one or more optical elements. The interferometric sensor includes a coherent light source and at least one detector configured to generate an interferometric signal. The set of one or more optical elements is configured to simultaneously direct a first portion of light emitted by the coherent light source toward a first focus area within a first depth of focus; direct a second portion of the light emitted by the coherent light source toward a second focus area within a second depth of focus; and direct portions of the emitted light that are returned from one or more objects within the first depth of focus or the second depth of focus toward the interferometric sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tong Chen, Ahmet Fatih Cihan, Daryl I. Vulis, Mingzhou Jin
  • Patent number: 12213031
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for supporting switching between point to point and point to multipoint delivery with service continuity for broadcast and multicast services in a wireless communication system. A cellular base station and a wireless device may establish a wireless link. The cellular base station may provide information configuring an over the air delivery type with which to receive a broadcast or multicast service, which may be received by the wireless device. The cellular base station may transmit the service using the configured delivery type, and the wireless device may correspondingly receive the service. The cellular base station may provide information configuring the wireless device to switch to a different over the air delivery type, with service continuity. The cellular base station may then transmit the service using that delivery type, and the wireless device may correspondingly receive the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fangli Xu, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Haijing Hu, Dawei Zhang, Murtaza A. Shikari, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Srinivasan Nimmala, Sarma V. Vangala, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu, Ralf Rossbach
  • Patent number: 12210603
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to enrolling a biometric feature for use with a peripheral device. While a computer system is connected to an external device, the computer system receives a first request to enroll a biometric feature. In response to receiving the request and in accordance with a determination that the request satisfies a first set of one or more criteria, the computer system displays a user interface object prompting a user to provide an authorization input to one or more input devices physically connected to the computer system. While displaying the first user interface object, the computer system receives user input. In response to receiving the user input and in accordance with a determination that the user input includes the authentication input, the computer system initiates a process to enroll the biometric feature using a biometric sensor that is integrated with the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jiaying Deng, Benjamin Biron, Kyle C. Brogle, Tomislav Suchan
  • Patent number: 12212237
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a system with a first counter circuit, a first converter circuit, a second counter circuit, and a second converter circuit. The first counter circuit is configured to output a first count value based on a comparison between a first reference value and a switched node value of a voltage regulator. The first converter circuit is configured to adjust an activation time of the voltage regulator based on the first count value. The second counter circuit is configured to output a second count value based on a comparison between a second reference value and the switched node value of the voltage regulator. The second converter circuit is configured to adjust an amount of current drawn away from an output of the voltage regulator based on the second count value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Michael Couleur, Bogdan-Eugen Matei, Ming Sun, Bhanupriya Suresh
  • Patent number: 12212159
    Abstract: A method of modeling a wireless power transfer system can include constructing a loss-split circuit model of the wireless power transfer system. The loss-split circuit model can include a plurality of resistance values corresponding to power losses in selected components of the power system. The method can further include performing a plurality of finite element analyses to determine the plurality of resistor values. The one or more resistance values can correspond to power losses associated with one or more of: a transmitter coil, a receiver coil, friendly metal associated with a transmitter, friendly metal associated with a receiver, and a foreign object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alireza Safaee, Matthew J. Chabalko, Douglas Adams, Ruiyang Lin, Zaki Moussaoui
  • Patent number: 12211457
    Abstract: A device may include an electronic display having multiple illuminators that generate light at a first wavelength and a quantum dot layer that converts a portion of the light from the first wavelength to a second wavelength. The first wavelength may vary based on a brightness level of the illuminator, and the amount of light generated by the illuminator that is converted to the second wavelength may vary based on the first wavelength. The electronic display may also include a display pixel to regulate the light emitted from the electronic display at a pixel location based on compensated image data. The device may also include image processing circuitry to determine a luminance contribution to the light from the illuminator for the pixel location, determine per color component compensation values based on the luminance contribution, and generate the compensated image data based on the per color component compensation values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mahesh B Chappalli, Alexey Kornienko
  • Patent number: 12213091
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to determine availability of a reference cell for determining a timing of an uplink transmission in a user equipment transmission occasion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Manasa Raghavan, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Patent number: 12213019
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining an image of a machine-readable data representation that is located on a physical object using a camera of an electronic device. The machine-readable data representation includes an encoded form of a data value. The method further includes decoding the machine-readable data representation to determine the data value, whereby the data value includes a content identifier and a content source identifier. The method also includes selecting a content source based on the content source identifier, obtaining a content item and content location information based on the content identifier from the content source, determining a content position and a content orientation for the content item relative to the physical object based on the content location information, and displaying a representation of the content item using the electronic device according to the content position and the content orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: David W. Padgett, Christopher D. Fu, Scott G. Wade, Paul Ewers, Ioana Negoita, Thomas G. Salter, Dhruv Aditya Govil, Dimitris Ladopoulos
  • Patent number: 12212995
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) supports an independent measurement gap configuration. The UE transmits an indication to a currently camped cell indicating that the UE supports an independent measurement gap configuration for new radio in an unlicensed spectrum (NR-U), receives measurement gap configuration information from the currently camped cell, configures a measurement gap pattern based on the measurement gap configuration information and receives a signal from a cell during a measurement gap of the measurement gap pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Ciu, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Manasa Raghavan, Wenshu Zhang, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12210393
    Abstract: An electronic device can include a base portion and a display portion rotatably mounted to the base portion. The display portion can have a display housing including a trim that at least partially defines an orifice and a portion of the exterior surface of the electronic device. A display call can be positioned at the orifice in contact with the trim and can be secured to the display housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Keith J. Hendren, Dinesh C. Mathew, Bryan W. Posner, Adam T. Garelli
  • Patent number: 12212467
    Abstract: The disclosure describes configuration schemes for secondary cell (SCell), bandwidth part (BWP) and physical resource block (PRB) indexing. An apparatus of user equipment (UE) for BWP activation and deactivation operation is disclosed. The apparatus includes baseband circuitry that includes a radio frequency (RF) interface, and one or more processors. The one or more processors are to receive radio resource control (RRC) data via the RF interface, configure a timer for a BWP according to the RRC data, and trigger the timer for the BWP in response to detection of an event associated with an access node after the BWP has been activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Honglei Miao, Jeongho Jeon, Alexei Davydov, Hong He, Debdeep Chatterjee, Joonyoung Cho, Daewon Lee, Gang Xiong
  • Patent number: 12210678
    Abstract: According to various implementations, a method is performed at an electronic device including one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, and a display. The method includes displaying, on the display, a virtual agent that is associated with a first viewing frustum. The first viewing frustum includes a user avatar associated with a user, and the user avatar includes a visual representation of one or more eyes. The method includes, while displaying the virtual agent associated with the first viewing frustum, obtaining eye tracking data that is indicative of eye behavior associated with an eye of the user, updating the visual representation of one or more eyes based on the eye behavior, and directing the virtual agent to perform an action based on the updating and scene information associated with the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Mu Qiao, Dan Feng, Bo Morgan, Mark E. Drummond
  • Patent number: 12213260
    Abstract: A portable or wearable electronic device can include a device housing defining an internal volume, and an electronic component disposed in the internal volume. The electronic component can be an input component and can have a component housing. The electronic device can also include an antenna feed assembly disposed in the internal volume. The antenna feed assembly can include a conductive grounding component electrically connected to the component housing and the device housing, and an antenna feed component electrically connected to the grounding component and disposed adjacent to the component housing. The conductive grounding component can surround a first major surface and a second major surface of the component housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Sameer Pandya, Dakota A. Bass, Daniel J. Barrett, Erik G. de Jong, Xuan Liu, Kiran S. Pillai, Mario Martinis
  • Patent number: D1059319
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    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, 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: D1059356
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 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 Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Robert V. Tang, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1059369
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    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, Daniele De Iuliis, 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, Christopher J. Stringer, Joe Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Eric Lance Wilson, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1059379
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Lauren Kim Trottier, Aled Williams, Christopher I. Wilson
  • Patent number: D1059397
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gorm Halfdan Amand, Daniel Joseph Billett, Joseph Chan, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, James Nicholas Jones, Ieyuki Kawashima, Vincent M. Lane, Chia Yang Lin, Cecilia S. Zhou