Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12250693
    Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for use in a wireless network for time-domain resource allocation for configured grant transmissions in New Radio (NR) systems. For example, some embodiments are directed to an electronic device including radio front end circuitry and processor circuitry coupled to the radio front end circuitry. The processor circuitry can be configured to generate a radio resource control (RRC) signal including a bitmap for configuring time-domain resources for configured grant (CG) operation. The processor circuitry can be further configured to transmit, using the radio front end circuitry, the RRC signal to a user equipment (UE) to configure the time-domain resources. The bitmap comprises a plurality of resource units and wherein each resource unit in the plurality of resource units corresponds to a symbol, a slot, a subframe, or a radio frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Salvatore Talarico, Yongjun Kwak, Jose Armando Oviedo, Yingyang Li
  • Patent number: 12248153
    Abstract: A head-mounted display configured to be worn by a user includes a housing and a headband configured to secure the housing to a head of the user. The headband includes a proximal end coupled to the housing and a distal end that is free from connection to the housing. The head-mounted display includes an adjustment mechanism configured to change a fit of the headband relative to the head of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Killian J. Poore, Marinus Meursing, Jeffrey C. Olson, Fletcher R. Rothkopf, Jason C. Sauers
  • Patent number: 12250707
    Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for supporting resource selection modes and switching between a network scheduled operation mode and an autonomous resource selection mode for resource allocation for data transmission in a wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sangeetha L Bangolae, Kyeongin Jeong, Youn Hyoung Heo, Ansab Ali
  • Patent number: 12250660
    Abstract: Systems and methods used by reduced sensing user equipment (UE) (relative to a full sensing UE) are disclosed herein. A UE performing partial sensing may use knowledge of resource reservation periods for a resource pool of one or more resources to reduce sensing as compared to the full sensing case. A UE performing resource re-evaluation and/or resource pre-emption may use one or more sensing windows that are relatively smaller than windows used in the full sensing case to reduce sensing. A UE performing prioritized resource selection may use a sensing window to determine availability of resources within a prioritized resource selection window with a high reliability, thereby reducing the need to spend power on other sensing methods (which may include full sensing methods). Combinations of these embodiments are also contemplated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Chunxuan Ye, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12247711
    Abstract: Light-control panels including layered optical components are described in this application. An example of a light-control panel includes first and second glazing layers, first and second transitional layers extending between the first and second glazing layers that guide light emitted from a light source, and a third glazing layer extending between the first and second transitional layers through which light emitted from the light source is guided. The light-control panel also includes a light extraction layer extending between the third glazing layer and one of the first and second transitional layers that distributes light emitted from the light source. The first and second transitional layers have refractive indices that gradually decrease from a first value at surfaces proximate to the first and second glazing layers to a second value at surfaces proximate to the third glazing layer in the stack-up of the light-control panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: David E. Kingman, Clarisse Mazuir, Peter F. Masschelein
  • Patent number: 12250565
    Abstract: Some aspects include an apparatus, method, and computer program product for facilitating control messaging for multi-beam communications in 5G wireless communication systems. Nodes of a 5G network may be generate Medium Access Control Control Elements (MAC CEs) to update User Equipment (UE) with different Component Carrier (CC) settings. The MAC CEs may update a list of CCs to reduce messaging overhead and latency. For example, a MAC CE may indicate an update for a Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) state for a list of CCs. Similarly, a MAC CE may be used to update a spatial relation for a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) resource set and/or a SRS resource corresponding to a list of CCs. A MAC CE may also be used to update multiple TCI codepoints having one or two TCI states in a multi-Transmission Reception Point (multi-TRP) scenario.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Jie Cui, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12250579
    Abstract: In an example computer-implemented method, a management module receives measurement data from one or more first network modules of a wireless communications network. The measurement data pertains to at least one of establishing one or more communications sessions on the wireless communications network by the one or more first network modules, or modifying one or more communications sessions on the wireless communications network by the one or more first network modules. The management module generates one or more performance metrics based on the measurement data, and transmits the one or more performance metrics to one or more second network modules of the wireless communications network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yizhi Yao, Joey Chou
  • Patent number: 12250474
    Abstract: Tracking an eye characteristic (e.g., gaze direction or pupil position) of a user's eyes by staggering image capture and using a predicted relationship between the user's eyes between eye captures to predict that eye's eye characteristic between those eye captures. Images of a user's eyes are captured in a staggered manner in the sense that the images of second eye are captured between the capture times of the images of the first eye and vice versa. An eye characteristic of the first eye at the capture times is determined based on the images of the first eye at those times. In addition, the eye characteristic of that first eye is predicted at additional times between captures based on a predicted relationship between the eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mehmet N. Agaoglu, Andrew B. Watson
  • Patent number: 12250529
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to audio synchronization. An example method includes, at a first device with a communication device: performing an audio timing synchronization process that includes: transmitting, via the communication device, to a second device, a request for the second device to participate in the audio timing synchronization process; subsequent to transmitting the request to the second device, causing an output of an audio tone; subsequent to causing the output of the audio tone, receiving data from the second device based on the audio tone; and adjusting an audio timing synchronization setting of a third device based at least in part on the data received from the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor G. Carrigan, Joseph Labarck, Christopher John Sanders, Jarrad A. Stallone, Patrick L Coffman
  • Patent number: 12249271
    Abstract: Devices and methods are provided to overdrive or underdrive a display panel to account for display pixel hysteresis due to several frames of pixel history. An electronic device may include an electronic display and processing circuitry. The electronic display includes a number of display pixels. The processing circuitry may generate image data for the display pixels. The processing circuitry may receive a current frame value of the image data targeted for a first display pixel and, based at least in part on the current frame value and a pixel history of the first display pixel—may indicate a gray level for a number of previous frames—generate a compensated value by which to drive the first pixel to overcome pixel hysteresis to reach the desired luminance at an initial response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jenny Hu, Alexandre V Gauthier, Tao Jia, Scott R Johnston, Yingying Tang, Chaohao Wang
  • Patent number: 12248350
    Abstract: A system includes a plurality of systems-on-a-chip (SoCs), connected by a network. The plurality of SoCs and the network are configured to operate as a single logical computing system. The plurality of SoCs may be configured to exchange local power information indicative of network activity occurring on their respective portions of the network. A given one of the plurality of SoCs may be configured to determine that a local condition for placing the respective portion of the network corresponding to the given SoC into a reduced power mode has been satisfied. The given SoC may be further configured to place the respective portion of the network into the reduced power mode in response to determining that a global condition for the reduced power mode is satisfied. The global condition may be assessed based upon current local power information for remaining ones of the plurality of SoCs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dany Davidov, Misbah Ramadan, Itamar Rozen, Tzach Zemer
  • Patent number: 12248369
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to improving memory reliability. In some embodiments, memory circuitry includes memory cells configured to store data, interface circuitry, and on-die error correcting code (ECC) circuitry. The ECC circuitry may check read data from the memory cells for errors and correct detected correctable errors to generate corrected data. The memory circuitry may provide read data to a requesting circuit via the interface circuitry, including one or more sets of corrected data from the on-die ECC circuitry. The memory circuitry may provide a decoding status flag (DSF) via the interface circuitry, including to: set the DSF to a first value in response to no error being detected for a given set of provided read data, set the DSF to a second value in response to a correctable error that was detected and corrected by the on-die ECC circuitry to provide a given set of read data, and set the DSF to a third value in response to an uncorrectable error detected by the on-die ECC circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Farid Nemati, Steven R. Hutsell, Gregory S. Mathews, Yi Chun Chen, Kevin C. Wong, Kalpana Bansal
  • Patent number: 12249253
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for generating a response to a user focus indicator value based on a user comprehension value characterizing a user's association with the user focus indicator value. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining a user focus indicator value. A sequence of user voice inputs relating to the user focus indicator value is obtained. A user comprehension value characterizing an assessment of a user relative to the user focus indicator value is determined based on the user voice inputs. Based on a plurality of media content items that provide information about the user focus indicator value, a response to the user focus indicator value is synthesized that satisfies the user comprehension value. The response is outputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ian M. Richter, David Anders Winarsky
  • Patent number: 12250677
    Abstract: Systems and methods using control signaling for uplink frequency selective precoding at a user equipment (UE) are disclosed herein. A base station may indicate a transmission rank indicator (TRI), a wideband transmission precoder matrix indicator (TPMI), and one or more subband TPMI(s) to the UE. The base station may indicate, to the UE, whether to use the wideband TPMI or a subband TPMI to precode a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission from the UE to the base station. The UE then precodes (and transmits) the PUSCH accordingly. Methods of UE application of the indicated subband TPMI(s) to subbands of the bandwidth in which a PUSCH may be transmitted are described. Methods accounting for a UE capability as to non-coherent, partial-coherent, and/or coherent precoding are described. Methods of assigning TPMI(s) to subbands in view of multiple transmission reception point (TRP) use by the UE for UE transmission are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: D1065887
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Gady, Kameron Gad, Martynas Laurita, Oladapo Onikuyide, Jake A. Nelson, Adrian E. Magrina, Stephen Yustiono, Colin E. Murphy
  • Patent number: D1066286
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Wiita, Robert Boyd, Duy P. Le, Carlos M. Santana
  • Patent number: D1066301
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    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
  • Patent number: D1066302
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    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
  • Patent number: D1066314
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, 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
  • Patent number: D1066398
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guillaume P. Barlier, Lisa K. Forssell, Joseph D. Gardner, Aurelio Guzmán, Jason D. Rickwald, Christopher J. Romney, Nicolas V. Scapel, Christopher I. Wilson, Giancarlo Yerkes