Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 11321041
    Abstract: An example method of indicating to a user that a biometric input was authenticated. The method is performed at a computing system comprising a processor, memory, a first housing that includes a primary display, and a second housing containing a physical keyboard, a touch-sensitive secondary display, and a biometric input device. The method includes displaying, at the primary display, a web page that identifies items for purchasing, and detecting a selection of an affordance displayed on the web page. In response, displaying, on touch-sensitive secondary display, an alert prompting a user to provide a biometric input to the biometric input device, and detecting a biometric input on the biometric input device that is in second housing. In response to detecting the biometric input, and in accordance with a determination that the biometric input has been authenticated, displaying on the display an indication that purchase of the items has been validated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Duncan R. Kerr, John B. Morrell, Lawrence Y. Yang, Eric Lance Wilson, Adam S. Meyer
  • Patent number: 11324076
    Abstract: Embodiments include apparatuses, methods, and systems that may be used in a UE in a mobile communication network to communicate with a gNB. An apparatus may include a memory and processing circuitry coupled with the memory. The processing in circuitry may cause coarse time and frequency synchronization information, obtained from primary and secondary synchronization signals (PSS/SSS), to be stored in the memory. Based on the coarse time and frequency synchronization information, the processing circuitry may decode a physical broadcast channel to obtain a first system information, and may acquire a second system information based on the first system information. Based on the first and second system information, the processing circuitry may cause a transmission of a PRACH, to trigger a transmission of a TRS by the gNB. Other embodiments may also be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Ralf Bendlin, Alexei Davydov, Yushu Zhang, Sameer Pawar, Wook Bong Lee, Jong-Kae Fwu
  • Patent number: 11321708
    Abstract: A device implementing an inter-device credential transfer system may include at least one processor that is configured to receive a request to transfer a transaction credential from a first device to a second device, the transaction credential being associated with a stored monetary value and the request comprising a transaction credential identifier of the transaction credential. The at least one processor is further configured to prevent, responsive to the request, the transaction credential from being utilized for payment transactions by the first device. The at least one processor is further configured to provision an instance of the transaction credential on the second device. The at least one processor is further configured to cause the instance of the transaction credential to be activated on the second device with a balance corresponding to the stored monetary value associated with the transaction credential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin D. Chester, Glen W. Steele, Jeff W. Lin, Vineet Chadha
  • Patent number: 11324054
    Abstract: The embodiments set forth herein disclose techniques for enabling a user device to seamlessly establish a secure, high-bandwidth wireless connection with a vehicle accessory system to enable the user device to wirelessly stream user interface (UI) information to the vehicle accessory system. To implement this technique, a lower-bandwidth wireless technology (e.g., Bluetooth) is used as an initial means for establishing a Wi-Fi pairing between the user device and the vehicle accessory system. Wi-Fi parameters associated with a Wi-Fi network provided by the vehicle accessory system can be communicated to the user device using the lower-bandwidth wireless technology. A secure Wi-Fi connection can then be established between the user device and the vehicle accessory system using the provided Wi-Fi parameters. The embodiments also disclose a technique for enabling the user device to automatically reconnect with the vehicle accessory system in a seamless manner (e.g., when returning to a vehicle).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel R. Borges, Sriram Hariharan, Matthew L. Semersky, Michael J. Giles, Andre M. Boule, Brian D. Pietsch, Artiom Shamis, Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Bata, Christopher R. Whitney, Tanya G. Kancheva, Friedrich W. Drees
  • Patent number: 11321813
    Abstract: An electronic device may include angle detection circuitry to receive input image data including a channel of pixel data and determine pixel statistics based on a difference between a first pixel cluster and a second pixel cluster, and the second pixel cluster is offset from the first pixel cluster at a first angle. The pixel statistics may also be based on a difference between the first pixel cluster and a third pixel cluster, wherein the third pixel cluster is offset from the first pixel cluster a second angle, different from the first angle. The angle detection circuitry may also determine a best angle based on the differences, wherein the best angle approximates an angle of uniformity in content of the image. Image processing circuitry may then modify the input image data based on the best angle by modifying pixel values of the channel of pixel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jim C. Chou, Honkai Tam, Yun Gong
  • Patent number: 11321926
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method includes: obtaining a representation an environment; determining a plurality of candidate content placement locations within the environment based on the representation of the environment; determining characterization parameters for the plurality of candidate content placement locations; obtaining extended reality (XR) content selected based on a match between content parameters associated with the XR content and characterization parameters for a respective candidate content placement location among the plurality of candidate content placement locations; and displaying, via the display device, the XR content at the respective candidate content placement location within the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Seshadri Nagaraja
  • Patent number: 11322630
    Abstract: An optoelectronic device includes a semiconductor substrate and a first stack of epitaxial layers, which are disposed over the semiconductor substrate and are configured to function as a photodetector, which emits a photocurrent in response to infrared radiation in a range of wavelengths greater than 940 nm. A second stack of epitaxial layers is disposed over the first stack and configured to function as an optical transmitter with an emission wavelength in the range of wavelengths greater than 940 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Weiping Li, Arnaud Laflaquière, Chinhan Lin, Fei Tan, Tong Chen, Xiaolong Fang
  • Patent number: 11323559
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to viewing and updating application views. A device receives a user input, the input, when received initiating display of a plurality of application views of a set of application views. The device, in response to receiving the user input, displays the plurality of application views of the set of application views, wherein the set of application views includes preselected application views and an adaptive view that corresponds to a most recently opened application that is not one of the preselected application views.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan De Vries, Lee S. Broughton, Kevin Will Chen, Christopher Patrick Foss, Stephen O. Lemay, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson, Giancarlo Yerkes
  • Patent number: 11320910
    Abstract: A device detects a first press input followed by a second press input on the button. The device provides a first non-visual output in response to the first press input and before the second press input. Depending on the amount of time lag between the first press input and the second press input, the device provides either a second non-visual output in conjunction with performing a first operation or a third non-visual output in conjunction with performing a second operation, where the second non-visual output and the third non-visual output have different output profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Camille Moussette, Jean-Pierre M. Mouilleseaux, Joshua B. Kopin, Duncan R. Kerr, Hugo D. Verweij
  • Patent number: 11322910
    Abstract: An optoelectronic device includes a carrier substrate, with a lower distributed Bragg-reflector (DBR) stack disposed on an area of the substrate and including alternating first dielectric and semiconductor layers. A set of epitaxial layers is disposed over the lower DBR, wherein the set of epitaxial layers includes one or more III-V semiconductor materials and defines a quantum well structure and a confinement layer. An upper DBR stack is disposed over the set of epitaxial layers and includes alternating second dielectric and semiconductor layers. Electrodes are coupled to apply an excitation current to the quantum well structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jae Y. Park, Arnaud Laflaquière, Christophe Vérove, Fei Tan
  • Patent number: 11323033
    Abstract: A voltage regulator circuit included in a computer system may include multiple phase circuits each coupled to a regulated power supply node via a corresponding inductor. The phase circuits may modify a voltage level of the regulated power supply node using respective control signals generated by a digital control circuit that processes multiple data bits. An analog-to-digital converter circuit may compare the voltage level of the regulated power supply node to multiple reference voltage levels and sample the resultant comparisons to generate the multiple data bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjay Pant, Fabio Gozzini, Hubert Attah, Jonathan F. Bolus, Wenxun Huang
  • Patent number: 11320977
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method includes displaying a user interface that includes an objective-effectuator and a first affordance to manipulate the objective-effectuator. In some implementations, the objective-effectuator is characterized by a set of predefined objectives and a set of visual rendering attributes. In some implementations, the method includes instantiating the objective-effectuator in an emergent content container. In some implementations, the emergent content container allows the objective-effectuator to perform actions that satisfy the set of predefined objectives. In some implementations, the method includes displaying a second affordance in association with the emergent content container. In some implementations, the second affordance controls an operation of the emergent content container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Ian M. Richter
  • Patent number: 11320849
    Abstract: A voltage regulator circuit may generate a regulated voltage level using a voltage level of a feedback node. The regulated voltage level may be distributed, via a power distribution network, to package power supply node of a package, into which an integrated circuit has been mounted. Power switches included in the integrated circuit may couple the package power supply node to respective local power supply nodes in the integrated circuit. A particular power switch may selectively couple different ones of the local power supply nodes to the feedback node, allowing the voltage regulator circuit to compensate for reductions in the regulated voltage level due to the power distribution network, as well as adjust the regulated voltage level based on power consumptions of load circuits coupled to the local power supply nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn Searles, Victor Zyuban, Mohamed Abu-Rahma
  • Patent number: 11320934
    Abstract: Bi-phase touch scanning of a touch sensor panel can reduce interference between touch and display operations for a touch screen including a display and a touch sensor panel. The bi-phase touch scan can include concurrently driving a first plurality of touch electrodes with a first drive signal having a first phase and a second plurality of touch electrodes with a second drive signal having a second phase, different from the first phase (e.g., 180° out of phase for improved charge balancing). In some examples, the bi-phase touch scan can be locally guarded such that adjacent touch electrodes to a sensed touch electrode can be driven with the same drive signal as the sensed touch electrode. In some examples, the bi-phase pattern of driving and sensing can balance charge along an axis and/or in a localized region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Sagar Rajiv Vaze
  • Patent number: 11321095
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to protecting branch prediction information. In various embodiments, an integrated circuit includes branch prediction logic having a table that maintains a plurality of entries storing encrypted target address information for branch instructions. The branch prediction logic is configured to receive machine context information for a branch instruction having a target address being predicted by the branch prediction logic, the machine context information including a program counter associated with the branch instruction. The branch prediction logic is configured to use the machine context information to decrypt encrypted target address information stored in one of the plurality of entries identified based on the program counter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Steven A. Myers, Jeffry E. Gonion, Yannick L. Sierra, Thomas Icart
  • Patent number: 11323730
    Abstract: Techniques for video exchange are disclosed in which a video source sends redundant copies of video coded at a given presentation time. A decoder may determine, from metadata stored with a first decoded frame, whether other decoded frames have been designated as correlated to the first decoded frame. If so, the decoder may fetch other decoding frames using time indicator values of other decoded frames in metadata stored with the first decoded frame. When other decoded frame(s) are found, the decoder may blend content of the first coded frame and the other decoded frame(s). The decoder may render the blended frame. When one such coded frame is an intra-coded frame, the proposed technique may alleviate beating artifacts by blending recovered data of the intra-coded frame with recovered data of another frame, which may be inter-coded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mei Guo, Jun Xin, Yeping Su, Hsi-Jung Wu, Alexandros Tourapis
  • Patent number: 11323070
    Abstract: An integrated circuit may include oscillator circuitry having a resonator formed from fin field-effect transistor (FinFET) devices. The resonator may include drive cells of alternating polarities and sense cells interposed between the drive cells. The resonator may be connected in a feedback loop within the oscillator circuitry. The oscillator circuitry may include an amplifier having an input coupled to the sense cells and an output coupled to the drive cells. The oscillator circuitry may also include a separate inductor and capacitor based oscillator, where the resonator serves as a separate output filter stage for the inductor and capacitor based oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Harald Pretl, Ehrentraud Hager, Aly Ismail
  • Patent number: D950374
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Richard P. Howarth, Peter Russell-Clarke
  • Patent number: D950518
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Treski, Christina J. Smiechowski, Robert D. Brunner, Christopher Kuh, Achille Biteau
  • Patent number: D950573
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Freddy Anzures, Stephen O. Lemay, Marcel van Os