Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 11334148Abstract: Methods and systems for relative inertial measurement may include a user device configured to couple with a user's body and measure motion of the user's body or a part of the user's body while the user rides in a vehicle. A second inertial measurement device may be configured to move with the vehicle but to not move with movements of the user's body within the vehicle. One or more processors may receive inertial measurements from the first and second inertial measurement devices and determine movement of the user's body or the part of the user's body relative to the vehicle by comparing the received inertial measurements.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Fletcher R. Rothkopf
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Patent number: 11334147Abstract: In some implementations, a runtime method is performed at a virtual effect system. The method includes: obtaining an image of an environment; obtaining a virtual action associated with one or more virtual effect instructions; generating, by an ML system, at least one estimated material property response to the one or more virtual effect instructions for at least a portion of the image of the environment; generating one or more virtual effect visualizations for at least the portion of the image of the environment based on the at least one estimated material property response to the one or more virtual effect instructions; and causing presentation of the one or more virtual effect visualizations for at least the portion of the image of the environment.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Paul R. Upchurch
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Patent number: 11334238Abstract: An electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface displays a user interface with a plurality of content units, where the content units are arranged along a first axis in the user interface, and a respective content unit is associated with corresponding metadata. The device detects a contact on the touch-sensitive surface and a first movement of the contact. In response to detecting the first movement of the contact, the device moves a first set of one or more of the content units perpendicular to the first axis in the user interface in accordance with the first movement, and for one or more respective content units in the first set of content units, the device displays metadata for the respective content unit adjacent to the respective content unit that was not displayed immediately prior to detecting the first movement of the contact.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Nicholas Zambetti, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Imran Chaudhri, Christopher P. Foss, Eugene M. Bistolas, Kyle S. Macomber, Keith W. Rauenbuehler, Lee S. Broughton, Arnold Freidling
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Patent number: 11337151Abstract: A first device is configured to establish a connection over a short-range communication link with a second device. The first device may transition to a sleep state, terminate (i) a paging operation and a page scanning operation associated with a paging protocol and (ii) an advertisement scanning operation associated with an advertisement protocol and perform an advertisement broadcast operation associated with the advertisement protocol, the advertisement broadcast operation generating an advertisement to be broadcast at a first interval, wherein the first interval is greater than a second interval for performing advertisement broadcast operations in an active state.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: David Shaw, Ariane Cotte, Alon Paycher, Robert Watson, Gregory Burns, Chandrahas Aralaguppe Chandramohan, Sriram Hariharan, Jonathan Shavit, Adir Eini
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Patent number: 11337062Abstract: Embodiments have a master eNB with a control plane and optional data plane to user equipment and a secondary eNB with a data plane to the user equipment. The user equipment thus uses both the master eNB and the secondary eNB for data communications while receiving control information from only the master eNB. The master eNB and secondary eNB are connected with an X2 interface. When the secondary eNB desires to refresh its security key, it informs the master eNB using the X2 interface. The master eNB then uses its control plane with the user equipment to initiate a security key refresh for the secondary eNB.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Yujian Zhang, Youn Hyoung Heo, Achim Luft
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Patent number: 11336600Abstract: The subject technology provides a messaging application in which an image can be captured and supplemented with supplemental content such as stickers, animations, etc., from within an active messaging thread. In this manner, a user participating in a messaging conversation with a remote user can add stickers, animations, and/or adaptive content to an image captured by the user, without having to locally cache/store the captured image before editing and without having to leave the messaging conversion (or the messaging application) to access an image editing application.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher M. Garrido, Eric L. Chien, Austin W. Shyu, Ming Jin, Yan Yang, Ian J. Baird, Joe S. Abuan
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Patent number: 11331007Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for monitoring a workout and for generating improved interfaces for the same. One example user interface detects when a workout of a particular type is started and begins generating activity data related to workout metrics associated with the type of workout selected. Using determined current values for the workout metrics, the example user interface displays a pro-view display that includes indicators for the workout metrics associated with the selected workout type. The pro-view display also includes a focus indicator that highlights a selected indicator representative of a focused workout metric. The focus indicator is movable among the indicators representative of the workout metrics based on user input. Upon detection of a gesture, the example user interface transitions to a simple-view display that includes an indicator representative of the focused workout metric.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Jay Blahnik, Gary Ian Butcher, Jules K. Fennis, David Chance Graham, Lawrence Y. Yang
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Patent number: 11334961Abstract: Embodiments relate to circuitry for warping image pyramids for image fusion. An image fusion circuit receives captured images, and generates image pyramids corresponding to the received images to be used for image fusion. A warping circuit warps the first image pyramid based upon one or more warping parameters to align the first image pyramid to the second image pyramid. The warping circuit is a multi-scale warping circuit configured to warp each level of the first image pyramid, using a first warping engine that warps a base level of the image pyramid, and at least one addition warping engine that warps a plurality of scaled levels of the image pyramid in parallel with the first warping engine.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Maxim Smirnov, William T. Warner, David R. Pope, Manching Ko
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Patent number: 11335094Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a plurality of verified videos depicting one or more subjects, generating, based on the verified videos, a plurality of verified-video feature values corresponding to the subjects, generating, using one or more video transformations based on the verified videos, a plurality of fake videos, generating, based on the fake videos, a plurality of fake-video feature values, training a machine-learning model to determine whether a specified video is a genuine video, wherein the machine-learning model is trained based on the verified-video feature values and the fake-video feature values. The machine-learning model may be trained to classify the specified video in a genuine-video class or a fake-video class, and the machine-learning model maybe trained based on an association between a genuine-video class and the verified-video feature values and an association between a fake-video class and the fake-video feature values.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Maxwell Christian Horton, Ali Farhadi
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Patent number: 11336986Abstract: A user content audio signal is converted into sound that is delivered into an ear canal of a wearer of an in-ear speaker, while the in-ear speaker is sealing off the ear canal against ambient sound leakage. An acoustic or venting valve in the in-ear speaker is automatically signaled to open, so that sound inside the ear canal is allowed to travel out into an ambient environment through the valve, while activating conversion of an ambient content audio signal into sound for delivery into the ear canal. Both user content and ambient content are heard by the wearer. The ambient content audio signal is digitally processed so that certain frequency components have been gain adjusted, based on an equalization profile, so as to compensate for some of the insertion loss that is due to the in-ear speaker blocking the ear canal. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Scott C. Grinker
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Patent number: 11333566Abstract: This application relates to a portable electronic device that includes an integrated pressure sensor. The portable electronic device includes a housing that defines a cavity with a number of components disposed therein. The cavity is sealed to form a volume of air within the cavity that is vented to the external environment through a barometric vent fluidly coupled to a first opening in the housing. A sensor measures a characteristic of a second volume of air within an isolated chamber that is vented to the external environment through a second opening in the housing. The second volume of air is isolated from the first volume of air within the housing of the portable electronic device. In some embodiments, the portable electronic device is a mobile phone and the sensor is a pressure transducer.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Eric N. Nyland, Devon A. Monaco, Christopher R. Xydis, Alan Wu, Dominic P. Cincione, Timothy S. Lui, Aaron H. Squier, Lindsay M. Alanen, Lucy Elizabeth Browning, Richard Hung Minh Dinh
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Patent number: 11335316Abstract: An ear cup housing has several reference microphones, an error microphone and a speaker. A processor drives the speaker for acoustic noise cancellation and transparency, by processing the microphone signals, and performs an oversight process by adjusting the reference microphone signals in response to detecting wind noise events and scratch events. In another aspect, the ear cup housing has an outside face that is joined to an inside face by a perimeter and the reference microphones are on the perimeter. Other aspects are also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Hanchi Chen, Sarthak Khanal, Yang Lu, Vladan Bajic, Esge B. Andersen
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Patent number: 11336867Abstract: A method of tracking a mobile device comprising at least one camera in a real environment comprises the steps of receiving image information associated with at least one image captured by the at least one camera, generating a first geometrical model of at least part of the real environment based on environmental data or mobile system state data acquired in an acquisition process by at least one sensor of a mobile system, which is different from the mobile device, and performing a tracking process based on the image information associated with the at least one image and at least partially according to the first geometrical model, wherein the tracking process determines at least one parameter of a pose of the mobile device relative to the real environment. The invention is also related to a method of generating a geometrical model of at least part of a real environment using image information from at least one camera of a mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Peter Meier, Sebastian Lieberknecht
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Patent number: 11336294Abstract: A method and apparatus of a device that compresses an object stored in memory is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives an indication that the object is to be compressed. The device further selects one of a plurality of compression algorithms based on at least a characteristic of the object. In addition, the device compresses the object in-memory using the selected compression algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2017Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Derek R. Kumar, Thomas Brogan Duffy, Jr.
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Patent number: 11334032Abstract: An electronic watch may include a housing at least partially defining an interior cavity divided into at least a first volume and a second volume, a pressure-sensing component positioned within the first volume, a speaker positioned within the first volume, a processor positioned within the second volume, a battery positioned within the second volume, and a barometric vent that allows air pressure equalization between the first volume and an external environment.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jiahui Liang, Shannon X. Yang, William C. Lukens, Mandeep Gill, Jeanny Wang, William S. Lee, Stephen P. Jackson, Rex T. Ehman, Colin M. Ely, Nikolas T. Vitt, Trevor J. Ness
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Patent number: 11337079Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform methods to implement mechanisms for non-stand-alone unlicensed band cells that support single carrier capable UEs. A UE may camp on a licensed band cell of a RAN and transmit a request to connect. The UE may receive, from the licensed band cell, a connection setup message indicating a switch to an unlicensed band cell of the RAN and receive, from the unlicensed band cell, a reference signal. The UE may transmit to the unlicensed band cell and in response to confirming, based at least in part of the reference signal, radio quality and/or downlink timing of the unlicensed band cell, a connection complete/connection resume message.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Fangli Xu, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Murtaza A. Shikari, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Sree Ram Kodali, Srinivasan Nimmala, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Xu Ou, Yuqin Chen
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Patent number: D951958Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Lucy E. Browning, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Richard Hung Minh Dinh, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, Jun Sik Ham, 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
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Patent number: D951978Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Pedro Mari
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Patent number: D951992Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Patrick Lee Coffman, Alan C. Dye, Stephen O. Lemay, Raymond Sepulveda
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Patent number: D951996Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Teofila Connor, Alan C. Dye, Thalia Jimena Echevarria Fiol, Aurelio Guzmán, Jonathan P. Ive, Vincenzo Vuono, Wan Si Wan, Christopher I. Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson