Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Vehicle video system
    Patent number: 11341752
    Abstract: Images are obtained using cameras mounted on a vehicle, and at least a portion of the obtained images are displayed on a screen. Motion of the vehicle can be controlled such that it moves toward a physical destination selected from images obtained using cameras mounted on a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jared A. Crawford, Yingen Xiong, Marco Pontil
  • Pulse frequency modulation and frequency avoidance method and implementation for switching regulators
    Patent number: 11342842
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a switching regulator having a dual mode control. The switching regulator includes an error amplifier configured to receive an output voltage of a power source, and to generate an error voltage based on a difference between the output voltage of the power source and a reference voltage. The switching regulator additionally includes a PFM controller configured to receive the error voltage from the error amplifier, and to generate a clock signal having a switching frequency based on a difference between the error voltage and a modulation voltage. Moreover, the switching regulator includes a PWM controller configured to receive the clock signal and an error signal determined based on a load current sensed at an output of the power source, and to generate a control signal to control the power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Erhan Ozalevli, Yanhui Xie, Dharmesh C. Bhagatwala
  • Restricted operation of an electronic device
    Patent number: 11340778
    Abstract: An electronic device changes the current user interface of a respective type of user interface from a first user interface to a second user interface. An individual uses their personal device to set up and configure a device for another user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Heena Ko, Giovanni Agnoli, Kevin Will Chen, Catherine Lee, Reed E. Olsen, Paul W. Salzman, David Schimon, Matthew J. Sundstrom, Christopher Wilson, Kevin Lynch
  • Weaving equipment with strand modifying unit
    Patent number: 11339510
    Abstract: Weaving equipment may include warp strand positioning equipment that positions warp strands and weft strand positioning equipment that inserts weft strands among the warp strands to form fabric. One or more of the warp strands may be selectively modified along its length using a warp strand modification unit. The warp strand modification unit may be interposed between the fabric and a reed, may be interposed between the fabric and the warp strand positioning equipment, may be mounted to the reed, or may be incorporated elsewhere in the weaving equipment. Warp strand modifications may include adding segments of metallic paint coatings or other conductive coatings, adding insulating coatings, applying other liquids to segments of the warp strand, modifying the stretchiness of warp strands, removing material from segments of the warp strand, and attaching electrical components to the warp strand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel A. Podhajny, Kathryn P. Crews, Yohji Hamada
  • Power efficient operation at significant locations
    Patent number: 11343640
    Abstract: A device and method for a user equipment (UE) to implement power savings mechanisms when operating within a significant location. The UE identifies that the UE is at a significant location. The significant location is a location relative to a currently camped cell of a network. At a first time and at the significant location, the UE performs a type of operation related to the network connection. The UE stores information corresponding to the performance of the type of operation at the first time in a profile associated with the significant location. At a second time and at the significant location, the UE performs the type of operation related to the network connection. The performance of the type of operation at the second time is modified based on the information stored in the profile associated with the significant location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Srirang A. Lovlekar, Murtaza A. Shikari, Zheng Lu, Pankaj Subhash Vasandani, Srinivasan Nimmala, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Viswanath Nagarajan, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Sridhar Prakasam, Robert K. Kitchens, Vijay Venkataraman, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Xiangpeng Jing
  • Switching between watches or other accessories
    Patent number: 11343371
    Abstract: Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for allowing a user to switch between wearable items that have been paired or associated with an electronic device, such as a smartphone, are described. In one embodiment, the wearable items automatically detect a removal of a first wearable item from a user's body and an attachment of a second wearable item to the user's body. Messages from the wearable items are transmitted to the electronic device to allow the electronic device to switch the active wearable item from the first wearable item to the second wearable item. The switch can occur while the electronic device is in a locked state, and the electronic device can synchronize the second wearable item with data received from the first wearable item. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David C. Donley, Julien A. Poumailloux, Pierre J. De Filippis, Tyler D. Hawkins, Craig P. Dooley, Daniel B. Pollack, James C. Grandy, Gregory B. Novick, Todd A. Shortlidge, Aroon Pahwa, David T. Wilson, Yan Yang, Nicholas Joseph Circosta
  • Routing with benefit accumulation
    Patent number: 11340084
    Abstract: A method includes performing multiple steps of a route planning procedure based on starting and ending locations. Each of multiple steps of the route planning procedure includes maintaining information that identifies candidate routes by which graph elements can be reached or occupied during a current step, updating an accumulated cost for each of the candidate routes, updating an accumulated benefit for each of the candidate routes, determining a minimum return cost to the ending location for each candidate route, and eliminating candidate routes that cannot reach the ending location within a cost budget. A highest-benefit route from the candidate routes is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ashley D. Featherston, Kurt L. Adelberger, Cem Koc, Srichand Pendyala
  • Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for interacting with three-dimensional environments
    Patent number: 11340756
    Abstract: While displaying a three-dimensional environment, a computer system detects a hand at a first position that corresponds to a portion of the three-dimensional environment. In response to detecting the hand at the first position: in accordance with a determination that the hand is being held in a first predefined configuration, the computer system displays a visual indication of a first operation context for gesture input using hand gestures in the three-dimensional environment; and in accordance with a determination that the hand is not being held in the first predefined configuration, the computer system forgoes display of the visual indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Faulkner, Israel Pastrana Vicente, Pol Pla I. Conesa, Stephen O. Lemay, Robert T. Tilton, William A. Sorrentino, III, Kristi E. S. Bauerly
  • Method and apparatus for beam failure recovery
    Patent number: 11343876
    Abstract: Provided herein are method and apparatus for beam recovery. An embodiment provides an apparatus for a user equipment (UE) including a radio frequency (RF) interface; and processing circuitry configured to: determine, in response to a beam failure, a channel for transmission of a beam failure recovery request as one of: a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH), a non-contention based Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH), and a contention based Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH); and encode the beam failure recovery request for transmission to an access node via the determined channel using the RF interface. At least some embodiments allow for transmission of a beam failure recovery request for beam recovery, allow for beam failure detection or new Tx beam identification, and allow for determining whether to configure a scheduling delay between a PDCCH and a PDSCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guotong Wang, Yushu Zhang, Alexei Davydov
  • Millimeter wave (MMWAVE) system and methods
    Patent number: 11342952
    Abstract: A mobile communication device that is configured to cancel interference within received millimeter wave band signals. The device includes a receiver circuit that is configured to receive a millimeter wave band signal, adjust gain provided to the millimeter wave band signal at a first amplifier, cancel interference in millimeter wave band signal after gain is adjusted by the first amplifier, and adjust gain provided to the millimeter wave band signal at a second amplifier after interference is cancelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mikhail T. Galeev, Oner Orhan, Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe, Benjamin Grewell, Navid Naderializadeh, Hosein Nikopour, Susruth Sudhakaran, Shilpa Talwar, Liang Xian
  • Multiple beam multiple-input-multiple-output system
    Patent number: 11342974
    Abstract: Example embodiments are directed towards beam formation matching for communications between a receiver and transmitter in a multiple beam Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yeong-Sun Hwang, Yuan Zhu, Yushu Zhang, Huaning Niu, Wenting Chang
  • Touch-based input for stylus
    Patent number: 11340716
    Abstract: Touch-based input devices, such as a stylus, can receive tactile input from a user. The tactile input functions can be performed by a touch sensor, such as a capacitive sensing device. A touch sensor can be integrated into a stylus in a low profile form. Tactile input can be received at the user's natural grip location. Furthermore, the stylus can effectively distinguish between tactile inputs from a user and disregard sustained tactile inputs that are provided while the user simply holds the stylus at the user's natural grip location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Blake R. Marshall, Reza Nasiri Mahalati, Wing Kong Low, Izhar Bentov, Ashwin Kumar Asoka Kumar Shenoi, Henry N. Tsao, Supratik Datta, Wesley W. Zuber, Nandita Venugopal, Karan S. Jain
  • Case
    Patent number: D952329
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    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, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Band
    Patent number: D952497
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    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, Marc A. Newson, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Band
    Patent number: D952498
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    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, Marc A. Newson, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Charging bridge module
    Patent number: D952562
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    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 Geneviéve Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Richard P. Howarth, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Case with earphones
    Patent number: D952609
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Markus Diebel, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D952656
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Foss, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D952667
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Butcher, Alan C. Dye, Chance Graham, Jonathan P. Ive
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D952668
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Tito Lloyd Balsamo