Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Publication number: 20220022064
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for radio link monitoring (RLM) evaluation period and layer 1 (L1) indication interval enhancements. A user equipment (UE) uses a scaling factor to scale the RLM evaluation period and/or the L1 indication interval. Different scaling factors may be used for different scenarios, conditions, or criteria. The same or different scaling factors may be used for the RLM evaluation period and the L1 indication interval. The scaling factor or a scaling factor index may be signaled to the UE by higher layer signaling. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Manasa RAGHAVAN, Hua LI, Jie CUI, Hong HE, Yang TANG
  • Publication number: 20220021811
    Abstract: Increases to the sensitivity of a probe magnet sensor are implemented for a camera lens. Probe magnet sensors may be located on carrier of a surface of an actuator coil to reduce the distance between the probe magnet sensor and a probe magnet mounted on an optics component that includes the camera lens. A probe magnet may be located within the camera so that the flux region of the probe magnet does not overlap with a flux region of a drive magnet for an actuator of the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas D. Smyth, Scott Wallace Miller
  • Publication number: 20220019689
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing system can be configured to perform personalized content item selection in a privacy preserving manner. In some implementations, user privacy can be protected by performing the personalized selection of content items on the user's device. For example, the computing system can include a client device configured to select content items from a collection of candidate content items received from a server device based on a user profile generated and stored on the client device. In some implementations, user privacy can be protected when performing the personalized selection of content items by sending an anonymous, or approximate, user profile (e.g., class profile) to the server device. For example, the computing system can include a server device configured to select content items from a collection of content items based on a class profile representing a group of similar user profiles received from the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chi Wai Lau, Dominic J. Hughes, Sudeep Agarwal, Martin J. Murrett
  • Publication number: 20220022065
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for performing Beam Failure Detection (BFD), and in particular, for performing Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) based BFD and/or Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) based BFD. Disclosed embodiments include quasi co-location (QCL) and use case restrictions for SSB for BFD and Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), transition period handling for BFD, and implicit configuration SSB for BFD. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guotong WANG, Hua LI, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Yushu ZHANG, Jie CUI
  • Patent number: 11226444
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with input-output devices and other components such as optical components that emit light and optical components that detect light. An optical component covering structure may be interposed between an interior region of the electronic device and an exterior region that surrounds the electronic device. The optical components may be formed in the interior region of the electronic device. The optical component covering structure may overlap the optical components. The optical component covering structure may be configured to exhibit a flat visible light transmission spectrum. This neutral light transmission characteristic allows the overlapped optical components to emit and/or receive light through the optical component covering structure without imposing an undesired color cast. The optical component covering structure may include first and second layers with complementary light transmission characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: James R. Wilson, Liliya Lyandres, Ove Lyngnes
  • Patent number: 11227494
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to providing transit information in an augmented reality environment. In some embodiments, images are obtained using one or more image sensors, a determination is made whether the obtained images include a map, and, in accordance with a set of one or more conditions being satisfied, transit information is displayed in the augmented reality environment. A location of the displayed transit information in the augmented reality environment may correspond to a respective feature of the map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Justin D. Stoyles, Michael Kuhn
  • Patent number: 11228209
    Abstract: A wireless power transfer system comprising a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter arranged to generate a varying electric field, and the receiver located in the varying electric field. The receiver comprising a first element and a second element. The first element and the second element having different geometries so different charge densities are induced on the first element and the second element by the varying electric field such that, in use, a current flows between the first element and second element, through a load connected between the first element and second element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Walton
  • Patent number: 11228421
    Abstract: Secure secrets can be used, in one embodiment, to generate a master key. In one embodiment, a first secret value, generated and stored in a first secure element, can be used with a user's credential (e.g., a user's passcode) to generate, through a first key derivation function, a second secret value. A master key can then be generated through a second key derivation function based on the second secret value and a derived or stored secret such as a device's unique identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur Mesh, Jerrold V. Hauck, Pierre-Olivier J. Martel, Wade Benson, Oren M. Elrad
  • Patent number: 11228674
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing movement states of an electronic device are provided that may leverage pass data from a pass application when determining a current or future movement state of an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Swapnil R. Dave, Ioan V. Uilecan, Varun A. Vora
  • Patent number: 11227536
    Abstract: A system includes an electronic display panel that has a plurality of pixels configured to depict frames of image data. The electronic display also includes display driver circuitry configured to, for a first frame of image data representing first image content, modify a gate-to-source voltage of a transistor of a first pixel of the plurality of pixels to a content-dependent first gate-to-source voltage. Additionally, after modifying the gate-to-source voltage to the first gate-to-source voltage, the display driver circuitry is configured to program the first pixel by modifying the gate-to-source voltage to a gate-to-source programming voltage that differs from the first gate-to-source voltage and is based on image data associated with the pixel from the first frame of the image data. Furthermore, the display driver circuitry is configured to cause the plurality of pixels to emit light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Lin, Yun Wang, Chin-Wei Lin, Majid Gharghi, Fan Gui, Chen-Ming Chen, Jie Won Ryu, Hyunwoo Nho, Alex H. Pai, Kingsuk Brahma, Junhua Tan, Szu Heng Tseng
  • Patent number: 11228576
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to entry and management of identifiers and credentials. The present embodiments display a credential affordance that, upon selection, provides a credential-assistance user interface for enabling swift access to various credential and management options. The credential affordance can be displayed based on a determination by electronic device that a webpage includes a text entry field associated with a set of one or more restricted resources (e.g., document and/or webpage).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jessie Berlin, Steven Falkenburg, Adele Peterson, Alan Hshieh, Craig M. Federighi, Richard Mondello, Darin Adler, Patrick L. Coffman, Dan Bernstein
  • Patent number: 11227558
    Abstract: Systems and methods to compensate for color fringe visual artifacts due at least in part to subpixel locations on an electronic display are provided. An electronic device may include subpixel layout compensation circuitry (SLCC) and an electronic display. The SLCC may receive first image data and an indication of spatial positions of subpixels that make up pixels of an electronic display. The SLCC may generate second image data based at least in part on the first image data and the indication of the spatial positions of the subpixels. The second image data may reduce or eliminate a color fringe artifact that would otherwise occur without compensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hung Sheng Lin, ByoungSuk Kim, Yi Huang, Jun Qi
  • Patent number: 11227446
    Abstract: A computer system captures, via one or more cameras, information indicative of the physical environment, including respective portions of the physical environment that are in a field of view. The respective portions of the physical environment include a plurality of primary features of the physical environment and secondary features of the physical environment. After capturing the information indicative of the physical environment, the system displays a user interface, including concurrently displaying graphical representations of the plurality of primary features that are generated with a first level of fidelity to the corresponding plurality of primary features of the physical environment, and one or more graphical representations of secondary features that are generated with a second level of fidelity to the corresponding one or more secondary features of the physical environment, where the second level of fidelity is lower than the first level of fidelity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Joseph A. Malia, Praveen Sharma, Mark K. Hauenstein
  • Patent number: 11229002
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using ranging signals with cellular devices. The ranging signals may utilize ranging slots and resources at least partially allocated by a cellular network. The resources may include frequencies used for uplink or downlink communications between the cellular network and the cellular devices. Alternatively, the resources may include frequencies outside of a spectrum used for communication between the cellular network and the cellular devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anatoliy Sergey Ioffe, Rohit U. Nabar, Rastislav Vazny
  • Patent number: 11226414
    Abstract: A light ranging and detection (LiDAR) device may combine the transmission of laser pulses. Different trains of pulses from different transmitters may be combined and transmitted to an environment via a common optical path. The laser pulses transmitted from one train of pulses may be in a polarization state that is orthogonal to a polarization state for the laser pulses of the other train of pulses. Reflections for the different trains of pulses may be received via the common optical path and separated according to polarization state. Reflections of the train of pulses may be directed to one receiver and reflections of the other train of pulses may be directed to a different receiver. The transmission delta between the different trains of pulses may be dynamically configured. The pulse repetition rate of each train of pulses may also be configured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mina A. Rezk, Jean-Marie Bussat
  • Patent number: 11228580
    Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology provide for performing, by a device, a request for obtaining information related to a phone authentication certificate (PAC) that was generated for the device, the PAC authenticating that a particular phone number is associated with the device, the request including packets of data. The subject technology receives the information related to the PAC, the information including an indication that the PAC was generated for the device. The subject technology sends, from the device, a request for validating the PAC to a remote server based at least in part on the information related to the PAC. Further, the subject technology receives a confirmation of validating the PAC from the remote server based at least in part on the information related to the PAC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gokul P. Thirumalai, Daniel B. Pollack, Robert D. Butler, Ryan W. Baker, David G. Knipp, Sudhakar N. Mambakkam, Jonathon Sodos, Hannah S. Story, Hervé Sibert, Gianpaolo Fasoli
  • Patent number: D941870
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Raymond Sepulveda
  • Patent number: D941871
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Lee Coffman, Raymond Sepulveda, Chun Kin Minor Wong
  • Patent number: D941875
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Kevin Will Chen, Alan C. Dye, Dylan Ross Edwards, Christopher Foss, David C. Graham, Aurelio Guzmán, Jonathan P. Ive, Chanaka Karunamuni, Wan Si Wan, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D941876
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Kevin Will Chen, Alan C. Dye, Dylan Ross Edwards, Christopher Foss, David C. Graham, Aurelio Guzmán, Jonathan P. Ive, Chanaka Karunamuni, Wan Si Wan, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson