Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Publication number: 20220174722
    Abstract: The present application relates to wireless devices, and more particularly to apparatus, systems, and methods for multiplexing configured Grant (CG) transmissions in New Radio (NR) systems operating on unlicensed spectrum. In some embodiments, uplink control information may be transmitted in one or more configured grant physical uplink shared channels mapped to a respective one or more mini-slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Salvatore Talarico, Gang Xiong, Yingyang Li, Yongjun Kwak, Jose Armando Oviedo
  • Publication number: 20220174735
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein can operate on an unlicensed spectrum. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can perform a first listen-before-talk (LBT) operation of a LBT protocol in a first slot from among multiple slots to determine whether the unlicensed spectrum is unoccupied. Thereafter, these systems, methods, and apparatuses can transmit an uplink (UL) transmission in other slots from among the plurality of slots in response to the unlicensed spectrum being unoccupied. Otherwise, these systems, methods, and apparatuses can perform a second LBT operation in a second slot from among the plurality of slots in response to the unlicensed spectrum being occupied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yingyang LI, Salvatore TALARICO, Yongjun KWAK, Jose Armando OVIEDO, Hong HE, Gang XIONG
  • Publication number: 20220174399
    Abstract: Loudspeakers are described that may reduce comb filtering effects perceived by a listener by either 1) moving transducers closer to a sound reflective surface (e.g., a baseplate, a tabletop or a floor) through vertical (height) or rotational adjustments of the transducers or 2) guiding sound produced by the transducers to be released into the listening area proximate to the reflective surface through the use of horns and openings that are at a prescribed distance from the reflective surface. The reduction of this distance between the reflective surface and the point at which sound emitted by the transducers is released into the listening area may lead to shorter reflected path that reduces comb filtering effects caused by reflected sounds that are delayed relative to the direct sound. Accordingly, the loudspeakers shown and described may be placed on reflective surfaces without severe audio coloration caused by reflected sounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Apple, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin E. Johnson, Simon K. Porter, Suzanne Hardy, John H. Sheerin
  • Patent number: 11345209
    Abstract: A suspension system for a vehicle that has a vehicle body, a first wheel assembly that includes a first wheel hub, and a second wheel assembly that includes a second wheel hub. The suspension system includes a crossbar that is pivotally connected to the first wheel hub of the first wheel assembly and is pivotally connected to the second wheel hub of the second wheel assembly. The suspension system also includes a first active suspension actuator that is located near the first wheel assembly, is connected to the vehicle body, is connected to the crossbar, and supports the vehicle body with respect to the crossbar. The suspension system also includes a second active suspension actuator that is located near the second wheel assembly, is connected to the vehicle body, is connected to the crossbar, and supports the vehicle body with respect to the crossbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Troy A. Carter, James J. Dowle, Jonathan L. Hall
  • Patent number: 11347752
    Abstract: A feature vector associated with a candidate web document is determined. A feature space associated with the feature vector is filtered. A density value associated with the candidate web document is determined using the filtered feature space. The candidate web document is ranked with respect to a plurality of other candidate web documents based on the determined density value. The candidate web document is provided in a content feed based on the ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Wheeler
  • Patent number: 11350026
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for altering visual media. In some embodiments, user interfaces capturing visual media (e.g., via a synthetic depth-of-field effect), playing back visual media (e.g., via a synthetic depth-of-field effect), editing visual media (e.g., that has a synthetic depth-of-field effect applied), and/or managing media capture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Behkish J. Manzari, Graham R. Clarke, Toke Jansen, Joseph A. Malia, Andre Souza Dos Santos, William A. Sorrentino, III, Wayne Loofbourrow, Seyyedhossein Mousavi, Agnes Nemeth, Jens Jacob Pallisgaard, Paul Thomas Schneider, Joshua Blake Shagam, Piotr J. Stanczyk
  • Patent number: 11349657
    Abstract: A device implementing a system for device-relationship based communication includes at least one processor configured to establish, by a first device associated with a first user, a secure communication channel with a second device associated with a second user via a direct wireless connection. The at least one processor is configured to transmit, over the secure communication channel, first device-identifying information to the second device, and receive, over the secure communication channel, second device-identifying information from the second device. The at least one processor is configured to establish a particular type of relationship with the second device, store the second device-identifying information in association with an indication of the particular type of relationship established with the second device, and transmit, to the second device and over the secure communication channel, the indication of the particular type of relationship established with the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Daley, Nicholas J. Circosta, Ryan W. Baker, Elliot T. Garner
  • Patent number: 11347514
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to filtering access to a content-addressable memory (CAM). In some embodiments, a processor monitors for certain microarchitectural states and filters access to the CAM in states where there cannot be a match in the CAM or where matching entries will not be used even if there is a match. In some embodiments, toggle control circuitry prevents toggling of input lines when filtering CAM access, which may reduce dynamic power consumption. In some example embodiments, the CAM is used to access a load queue to validate that out-of-order execution for a set of instructions matches in-order execution, and situations where ordering should be checked are relatively rare.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Deepak Limaye, Brian R. Mestan, Gideon N. Levinsky
  • Patent number: 11349249
    Abstract: Connector receptacles that can provide a high signal quality or signal integrity to allow high-speed data transfers, can be reliably manufactured, can be durable and have good wear performance, and can be positioned in nonstandard locations in an electronic device. One example can provide connector receptacles that can provide a high signal quality or signal integrity by utilizing a comprehensive grounding scheme. These connector receptacles can be located in a hinge of an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nikhil S. Pansare, Mahmoud R. Amini, John J. Sekerak, II
  • Patent number: 11348533
    Abstract: A display may include an array of pixels, where each pixel in the array includes an organic light-emitting diode coupled to associated thin-film transistors. The thin-film transistors may be controlled using at least first and second horizontal scan line signals. Loading different data values into any given row in the array may cause the scan line signals to exhibit varying rise/fall times, which results in horizontal crosstalk and luminance non-uniformity across the display. The rise and fall times of the second scan line signal are crucial, so the second scan line signal is driven by two separate scan line drivers formed on both sides of the display. Only the fall time of the first scan line signal is crucial, so the first scan line signal is driven by only one peripheral scan line driver and is coupled to an auxiliary pull-down circuit that is only activated during the pull-down transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shinya Ono, Chin-Wei Lin, Gihoon Choo, Shiping Shen, Jie Won Ryu, Zino Lee, Hassan Edrees, Ting-Kuo Chang
  • Patent number: 11348316
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that enable a device to provide a view of virtual elements and a physical environment where the presentation of the virtual elements is based on positioning relative to the physical environment. In one example, a device is configured to detect a change in positioning of a virtual element, for example, when a virtual element is added, moved, or the physical environment around the virtual element is changed. The location of the virtual element in the physical environment is used to detect an attribute of the physical environment upon which the presentation of the virtual element depends. Thus, the device is further configured to detect an attribute (e.g., surface, table, mid-air, etc.) of the physical environment based on the placement of the virtual element and present the virtual element based on the detected attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron M. Burns, Bruno M. Sommer, Timothy R. Oriol
  • Patent number: 11346855
    Abstract: According to some aspects of the subject technology, an apparatus includes an accelerometer including one or more sense electrodes to sense an input acceleration, and an unstick device to free the accelerometer from a stuck state due to a saturating acceleration input. The unstick device includes at least one unstick electrode and a control circuitry to cause the unstick electrode to generate vibrational energy to free the accelerometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qinghung Lee, Christopher C. Painter
  • Patent number: 11347030
    Abstract: Compact lens systems are described that may be used in small form factor cameras. The lens systems may include seven lens elements with refractive power, and may provide low F-numbers with wide field of view while maintaining or improving imaging quality and package size when compared to other compact lens systems. The lens systems may, for example, provide a focal ratio of 1.85 or less, with full field of view of 75 degrees or more. The lens systems may conform to a criterion for compactness TTL/ImageH<1.7, where TTL is the total track length of the lens system, and ImageH is the semi-diagonal image height of the image plane at the photosensor. 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: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhong Yao, Yoshikazu Shinohara, Lin-Yao Liao
  • Patent number: 11348345
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to sensing defects associated with a window. Furthermore, various embodiments relate to performing image processing to produce a corrected image of a scene based at least partly on data corresponding to the detected defects. In some examples, one or more lighting modules may be used to illuminate the window to facilitate detection of the defects by one or more sensor devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Clarisse Mazuir, Malcolm J. Northcott, Jack E. Graves, James R. Wilson, Christopher D. Jones, Martin Melcher
  • Patent number: 11345980
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an aluminum alloy may include iron (Fe) of at least 0.10 wt %, silicon (Si) of at least 0.35 wt %, and magnesium (Mg) of at least 0.45 wt %, manganese (Mn) in amount of at least 0.005 wt %, and additional elements, the remaining wt % being Al and incidental impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brian M. Gable, Herng-Jeng Jou, Weiming Huang, Graeme W. Paul, William A. Counts, Eric W. Hamann, Katie L. Sassaman, Abhijeet Misra, Zechariah D. Feinberg, James A. Yurko, Brian P. Demers, Rafael Yu, Anuj Datta Roy, Susannah P. Calvin
  • Patent number: 11349533
    Abstract: Wireless network interfaces that are capable of transmitting and/or receiving beamformed radiofrequency (RF) signals may be assisted by the use of codebooks. Electronic devices with memory to store a database of codebooks may be used to increase the number of entries available for operation. The database of codebooks may employ environmental parameters to improve efficiency of the wireless network interface. Methods for calibration of electronic devices and/or adjustment and selection of codebooks based on the parameters are also described. The calibration may employ a testing chamber that measure powers at in a limited number of angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Srinivasa Yasasvy Sateesh Bhamidipati, Vineet Nayak, Wassim El-Hassan, Xuefeng Zhao
  • Patent number: 11348555
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with an array of pixels. The device may have an array of components such as an array of light sensors for capturing fingerprints of a user through an array of corresponding transparent windows in the display. A capacitive touch sensor, proximity sensor, force sensor, or other sensor may be used by control circuitry in the device to monitor for the presence of a user's finger over the array of light sensors. In response, the control circuitry can direct the display to illuminate a subset of the pixels, thereby illuminating the user's finger and causing reflected light from the finger to illuminate the array of light sensors for a fingerprint capture operation. The display may have display driver circuitry that facilitates the momentary illumination of the subset of pixels with uniform flash data while image data is displayed in other portions of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Koorosh Aflatooni, Minhyuk Choi, Mohammad Ali Jangda, Sang Y. Youn, Yafei Bi, Jean-Pierre Guillou, Wei H. Yao
  • Patent number: 11350260
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to detecting duplicate public warning system messages in a cellular communication system. A wireless device may receive a public warning system indication from a cellular base station during a paging occasion. The public warning system indication may indicate that system information provided by the cellular base station includes a public warning system message. The wireless device may determine whether the public warning system message is a duplicate public warning system message. The wireless device may determine whether to decode the system information including the public warning system message based at least in part on whether the public warning system message is a duplicate public warning system message. The system information including the public warning system message may not be decoded if the public warning system message is determined to be a duplicate public warning system message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Dawei Zhang, Yuqin Chen, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Xu Ou, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Srinivasan Nimmala, Longda Xing, Sree Ram Kodali, Murtaza A. Shikari
  • Patent number: 11348643
    Abstract: A controller includes an interface and storage circuitry. The interface is configured to communicate with a memory device that includes multiple memory cells organized in memory blocks. The memory device supporting programming of the memory cells with enabled or disabled program-verification. The storage circuitry is configured to disable the program-verification, and program data to a group of the memory cells in a Single Level Cell (SLC) mode using a single programming pulse, to read the data from the group of the memory cells. In response to detecting a failure in reading the data, the storage circuitry is configured to distinguish between whether the memory cells in the group belong to a defective memory block or were under-programmed, and when identifying that the memory cells in the group were under-programmed, to perform a corrective action to prevent under-programming in subsequent program operations to the memory cells in the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Itay Sagron, Assaf Shappir
  • Patent number: 11346902
    Abstract: A portable computing device that includes a base portion that carries an audio module and a display housing that carries a display is disclosed. The display housing is coupled with, and rotatable with respect to, the base portion. The display housing includes a magnet, and the base portion includes a magnetic field sensor that detects an external magnetic field of the magnet. The magnetic field sensor provides a signal that deactivates the display. In order to reduce layout changes in the portable computing device, the magnetic field sensor is positioned in an audio housing that carries the audio module. However, the magnetic field sensor is designed and oriented to detect the magnetic field from the magnet in the display housing and effectively ignore magnets associated with the audio module. In order to reduce the amount of electrical connections, the magnetic field sensor is electrically coupled to the audio module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas A. Renda, Jonathan L. Berk, Dylan A. Saracco, John C. Difonzo, Alexander V. Salvatti, Eric J. Weirshauser