Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Camera motion aware local tone mapping
    Patent number: 11195247
    Abstract: An electronic image capture device captures a first image of a scene at a first time. A first local tone mapping operator for a first portion of the first image is determined. The electronic image capture device further captures a second image of the scene at a second time. A motion of the electronic device between the first time and the second time is determined. A second local tone mapping operator for a second portion of the second image is determined. The second portion is determined to correspond to the first portion based, at least in part, on the determined motion of the electronic device. The second local tone mapping operator is determined based, at least in part, on the first local tone mapping operator. At least the second local tone mapping operator is applied to the second portion of the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Henryk K. Blasinski, Xuemei Zhang, Yingjun Bai
  • Low latency streaming media
    Patent number: 11197052
    Abstract: Methods and systems for discovering or tuning-in to near live or current playlists used to stream media content, particularly for live events during which the media content is streamed. The methods and systems can reduce the time required to tune-in to such live events. In one embodiment, a client device can receive an age data in a header of a message that returns a first playlist that was requested by an unattributed playlist request from the client device. The age data can be used to determine how many partial media segments to skip to tune-in to the live event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Roger N. Pantos
  • Finger beam for generating haptic feedback
    Patent number: 11194393
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a haptic feedback component is configured to generate haptic feedback in accordance with movement of a user. The haptic feedback component includes a frame having a size and shape for receiving an appendage of a user, a flexible beam member coupled to the frame, and a haptic feedback element that is coupled to the flexible beam member, wherein the haptic feedback element actuates in response to receiving an electrical signal so as to cause the flexible beam member to displace from an initial configuration to a modified configuration such as to direct the haptic feedback towards the appendage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Paul X. Wang, Alex Lehmann, Michael Y. Cheung
  • Keyboard management user interfaces
    Patent number: 11194467
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to user interfaces for receiving handwriting input, accessing predictive text candidates, and accessing keyboards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Botao Zhu, Jiabao Li, Karan Misra, Julian Missig, Chun Kin Minor Wong
  • Managing multi-modal rendering of application content
    Patent number: 11195323
    Abstract: A device implementing a system for managing multi-modal rendering of application content includes at least one processor configured to receive content, provided by an application running on a device, for displaying in a three-dimensional display mode. The at least one processor is further configured to determine that the content corresponds to two-dimensional content. The at least one processor is further configured to identify a portion of the two-dimensional content for enhancement by a three-dimensional render. The at least one processor is further configured to enhance, in response to the determining, the portion of the two-dimensional content by the three-dimensional renderer. The at least one processor is further configured to provide for display of the enhanced portion of the two-dimensional content on a display of the device in the three-dimensional display mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy R. Oriol, Peter L. Hajas, Daniel T. Kurtz, Edwin Iskandar, Charles Magahern, Jeremy G. Bridon, Naveen K. Vemuri
  • Hybrid digital-to-analog converter non-linearity calibration
    Patent number: 11196436
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing hybrid non-linearity correction for a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) are described. A circuit includes two correction LUTs, an edge-trim DAC, and a DAC core. A lookup of a first correction LUT is performed using a portion of the most significant bits (MSBs) of a received digital input value. A first correction value, retrieved from the first correction LUT, is applied to the digital input value to generate a corrected value. The corrected value is provided to the DAC core and to a second correction LUT. A second correction value, retrieved from the second correction LUT, is compared to the first correction value. If the second correction value is different from the first correction value, the difference is provided to the edge-trim DAC to generate an analog correction which is applied to an analog output of the DAC core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dusan Stepanovic, KiYoung Nam, Mansour Keramat
  • Separation of control plane and user plane in new radio (NR) systems
    Patent number: 11197332
    Abstract: Embodiments of a Next Generation Node B (gNB) are described herein. The gNB may be configured with logical nodes, including a gNB central unit (gNB-CU) and a gNB distributed unit (gNB-DU). The gNB-CU may include a gNB-CU control plane (gNB-CU-CP) for control-plane functionality, and a gNB-CU user plane (gNB-CU-UP) for user-plane functionality. The gNB may initiate an E1 interface setup procedure, a bearer context setup procedure, and a UE context setup procedure to establish a UE context that includes a signaling radio bearer (SRB) and a data radio bearer (DRB) configuration. The UE context setup request message may be configured to include quality-of-service parameters for the DRB configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Sirotkin, Yifan Yu, Min Huang, Jaemin Han, Feng Yang
  • Flexible display panel with bent substrate
    Patent number: 11196011
    Abstract: A display may have an array of organic light-emitting diodes that form an active area on a flexible substrate. Metal traces may extend between the active area and an inactive area of the flexible substrate. Display driver circuitry such as a display driver integrated circuit may be coupled to the inactive area. The metal traces may extend across a bend region in the flexible substrate. The flexible substrate may be bent in the bend region. The flexible substrate may be made of a thin flexible material to reduce metal trace bending stress. A coating layer in the bend region may be provided with an enhanced elasticity to allow its thickness to be reduced. The flexible substrate may be bent on itself and secured within an electronic device without using a mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Zhen Zhang, Yi Tao, Paul S. Drzaic, Joshua G. Wurzel
  • Acoustically effective room volume
    Patent number: 11197119
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for generating physically accurate auralization of sound propagation in complex environments, while accounting for important wave effects, such as sound absorption, sound scattering, and airborne sound insulation between rooms. According to some embodiments, techniques may be utilized to determine more accurate, e.g., “acoustically-effective” room volumes that account for open windows, open doors, acoustic dead space, and the like. According to other embodiments disclosed herein, techniques may be utilized to perform optimized hybrid acoustical ray tracing, including grouping coherent rays by processing core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dirk Schroeder, Soenke Pelzer
  • Electronic devices including laser-textured glass cover members
    Patent number: 11192823
    Abstract: A laser-textured glass cover member suitable for use in an electronic device is disclosed. The laser-textured surface of the glass cover member may provide a smooth feel to an external surface of the electronic device without introducing a perceptible visual texture. Methods for making the laser-textured glass cover members are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Michael M. Li, Jairam Manjunathaiah, Palaniappan Chinnakaruppan
  • Folded lens system with five refractive lenses
    Patent number: 11194133
    Abstract: Compact folded lens systems are described that may be used in small form factor cameras. Lens systems are described that may include five lens elements with refractive power, with a light folding element such as a prism, located between a first lens element on the object side of the lens system and a second lens element, that redirects the light refracted from the first lens element from a first axis onto a second axis on which the other lens elements and a photosensor are arranged. The lens systems may include an aperture stop located behind the front vertex of the lens system, for example at the first lens element, and an optional infrared filter, for example located between the last lens element and a photosensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhong Yao, Yoshikazu Shinohara
  • Video analysis and management techniques for media capture and retention
    Patent number: 11196943
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for editing captured media to overcome operational difficulties that may arise during capture operations. According to these techniques, content may be captured with a pair of cameras, a first camera having a wider field of view than a second camera. Object(s) may be detected from captured content from the wider field of view camera. The captured content may be processed from the wider field of view camera in a location of at least one detected object. Typically, operators may attempt to frame content using content from the narrower field of view camera. As a result, operators may be unaware that desired content is captured using a second, wider field of view camera. Results from the processed wider field of view data may be proposed to operators for review and, if desired, retention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shuang Gao, Vasilios E. Anton, Robert A. Bailey, Emilie Kim, Vignesh Jagadeesh, Paul Schneider, Piotr Stanczyk, Arwen Bradley, Jason Klivington, Jacques Gasselin De Richebourg, Joe Triscari, Sébastien Beysserie, Yang Yang, Afshin Dehghan, Rudolph van der Merwe
  • Wireless charging device with sinusoidal pulse-width modulation
    Patent number: 11196298
    Abstract: A wireless power system has a wireless power transmitting device and a wireless power receiving device. The wireless power transmitting device may include an inverter configured to drive a resonant circuit and may further include a sinusoidal pulse-width modulation (PWM) signal generator configured to generate a corresponding sinusoidal PWM control signal. The inverter may have an input that receives the sinusoidal PWM control signal. The sinusoidal PWM control signal may exhibit a plurality of different pulse widths summing to the target duty cycle of the sinusoidal PWM control signal. Operated in this way, the wireless power transmitting device exhibits reduced harmonic distortions, which mitigates undesired radiated spurious emissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Soumya Mantha, Manjit S. Walia, Rahul A. Sabnani
  • Electronic device antennas
    Patent number: 11196148
    Abstract: An electronic device such as a wristwatch may have a housing with metal portions such as metal sidewalls. The housing may form an antenna ground for an antenna. An antenna resonating element for the antenna may be formed from a stack of capacitively coupled component layers such as a display layer, touch sensor layer, and near-field communications antenna layer at a front face of the device. An additional antenna may be formed from a peripheral resonating element that runs along a peripheral edge of the device and the antenna ground. A rear face antenna may be formed using a wireless power receiving coil as a radio-frequency antenna resonating element or may be formed from metal antenna traces on a plastic support for light-based components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rex T. Ehman, Jayesh Nath, Carlo Di Nallo, James G. Horiuchi, Erik G. de Jong, Jason C. Sauers, Makiko K. Brzezinski, Siwen Yong, Lijun Zhang, Yi Jiang, Zheyu Wang, Mario Martinis, Eduardo Da costa Bras Lima, Xu Han, Mattia Pascolini, Trevor J. Ness
  • Retail fixture
    Patent number: D937614
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Manuel Dejesus, Joshua Robert Edwards, Jean-Marc Gady, Wesley Bryan Hamm, Russell John Kaaihue Heirakuji, Allison Inouye, Moritz Wilsberg
  • Packaging with a band
    Patent number: D937686
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alissa Anderson, Jonathan Berk, Margaret Madigan Burke, Jack Wanderman, Kevin Scott Fetterman
  • Wearable device
    Patent number: D937701
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    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 module
    Patent number: D937764
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    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, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Adapter
    Patent number: D937835
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D937858
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Richard R. Dellinger, Alan C. Dye, Vitalii Kramar, Stephen O. Lemay, Gregg S. Suzuki