Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating 3D objects on a 2D screen
    Patent number: 11182044
    Abstract: A method includes displaying a spatial manipulation user interface element including a first set of spatial manipulation affordances respectively associated with a first set of spatial manipulations of a three-dimensional object. The first set of spatial manipulations is based on a first virtual camera perspective. The method includes, in response to detecting a user input changing the first virtual camera perspective to a second virtual camera perspective, changing display of the three-dimensional object from the first virtual camera perspective to the second virtual camera perspective, and displaying a second set of spatial manipulation affordances respectively associated with a second set of spatial manipulations. The second set of spatial manipulations is based on the second virtual camera perspective, and includes a spatial manipulation excluded from the first set of spatial manipulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Gerald Louis Guyomard, Etienne H. Guerard, Adam Michael O'Hern, Michelle Chua, Robin-Yann Joram Storm, Adam James Bolton, Zachary Becker, Bradley Warren Peebler
  • Systems with windows
    Patent number: 11180005
    Abstract: A system such as a vehicle may have windows. A window may have a structural window layer such as a structural window layer formed from laminated glass layers. A thin chemically strengthened glass layer may be coupled to an inwardly facing surface of the structural window layer. A guest-host liquid crystal light modulator layer or other electrically adjustable optical component layer may be interposed between the chemically strengthened glass layer and the structural window layer. An infrared light-blocking coating may be formed on an inwardly facing surface of one of the pair of laminated glass layers. The inwardly facing surface of the thin chemically strengthened glass layer may be provided with a coating that includes a low emissivity layer to block heat and that serves as an antireflection coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Peter F. Masschelein, Martin Melcher, Derek C. Scott, David E. Kingman
  • Allocation of memory within a data type-specific memory heap
    Patent number: 11182283
    Abstract: One embodiment provides for a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions to cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising receiving an instruction to dynamically allocate memory for an object of a data type and dynamically allocating memory for the object from a heap instance that is specific to the data type for the object, the heap instance including a memory allocator for the data type, the memory allocator generated at compile time for the instruction based on a specification of the data type for the heap instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Filip J. Pizlo
  • Wireless headphones with slot antenna
    Patent number: 11184696
    Abstract: This disclosure includes several different features suitable for use in circumaural and supra-aural headphones designs. Designs that enhance user comfort and improve user control of the headphones are discussed. Various sensor configurations and electronic component positions are also discussed. User convenience features that include detachable cushions and automatically detecting the donning and doffing of headphones are also discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tian Shi Li, Daniel R. Bloom, Jerzy S. Guterman, Jue Wang, Toni Ristoski, Jared M. Kole, Edward Siahaan, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Managing real-time handwriting recognition
    Patent number: 11182069
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media related to a technique for providing handwriting input functionality on a user device. A handwriting recognition module is trained to have a repertoire comprising multiple non-overlapping scripts and capable of recognizing tens of thousands of characters using a single handwriting recognition model. The handwriting input module provides real-time, stroke-order and stroke-direction independent handwriting recognition for multi-character handwriting input. In particular, real-time, stroke-order and stroke-direction independent handwriting recognition is provided for multi-character, or sentence level Chinese handwriting recognition. User interfaces for providing the handwriting input functionality are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mei-Qun Xia, Jannes G. Dolfing, Ryan S. Dixon, Karl M. Groethe, Karan Misra, Jerome R. Bellegarda, Ueli Meier
  • Adaptive color space transform coding
    Patent number: 11184613
    Abstract: An encoder system may include an analyzer that analyzes a current image area in an input video to select a transform. A selectable residue transformer, controlled by the analyzer, may perform the selectable transform on a residue image generated from the current image area and a predicted current image area, to generate a transformed residue image. An encoder may encode the transformed residue image to generate output data. The analyzer controls the encoder to encode information to identify the selectable transform and to indicate that the selectable transform for the current image area is different from a transform of a previous image area of the input video. A decoder system may include components appropriate for decoding the output data from the encoder system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Alexandros Tourapis
  • Generation node-B (gNB), user equipment (UE) and methods for interleaving in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) arrangements
    Patent number: 11184056
    Abstract: Embodiments of a Generation Node-B (gNB), User Equipment (UE) and methods for communication are generally described herein. The gNB may map data symbols to resource elements (REs) of virtual resource blocks (VRBs). The gNB may interleave the data symbols, on a per-VRB basis, to spatial layers of a multi-layer multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission. The data symbols may be interleaved based on different interleave patterns of VRB indexes for the spatial layers. The gNB may map the interleaved data symbols of the spatial layers to REs of physical resource blocks (PRBs) for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dae Won Lee, Seunghee Han, Ajit Nimbalker, Alexei Davydov, Paul C. Wei, Dmitry Dikarev
  • Techniques related to configuring a display device
    Patent number: 11181973
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes techniques related to configuring display devices. For example, a method includes receiving sensor data corresponding to at least a portion of a face. The method further includes identifying, using the sensor data, a feature of the face. The method further includes identifying, based on the feature, a configuration parameter associated with the display device. The method further includes outputting the configuration parameter for changing a fit of the display device to the face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan S. Maric, Edward S. Huo, Akiko Ikkai, Anna V. Mirabella
  • Method and system for representing a virtual object in a view of a real environment
    Patent number: 11182974
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of representing a virtual object in a view of a real environment which comprises the steps of providing image information of a first image of at least part of a human face captured by a first camera, providing at least one human face specific characteristic, determining at least part of an image area of the face in the first image as a face region of the first image, determining at least one first light falling on the face according to the face region of the first image and the at least one human face specific characteristic, and blending in the virtual object on a display device in the view of the real environment according to the at least one first light. The invention also relates to a system for representing a virtual object in a view of a real environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sebastian Knorr, Peter Meier
  • Retractable keyboards
    Patent number: 11181949
    Abstract: Keyboards are disclosed that are retractable. Movable magnetic or mechanical linkage elements are configured to reposition keycaps and stabilizers between different relative positions. Structures in a movable layer can act on the keycaps or stabilizers to move the keycaps and stabilizers into a retracted position for storage and for saving space in an electronic device. The stabilizers can be scissor mechanisms, butterfly mechanisms, and similar devices. The movable layer can be moved in response to rotation of a hinge or other mechanical element in the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ian A. Guy, Ari P. Miller, Edward J. Cooper, Houtan R. Farahani, Kevin M. Robinson, Riley E. Brandt
  • Method and device for operating a lenticular display
    Patent number: 11184605
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of operating a lenticular display is performed by a device including a processor, non-transitory memory, an image sensor, and a lenticular display. The method includes displaying, via the lenticular display, first content at a horizontal angle of a first user and second content, different than the first content, at a horizontal angle of a second user. The method further includes displaying, via the lenticular display, the first content at a second horizontal angle of the first user and the second content at a second horizontal angle of the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Seung Wook Kim, Nicolas V. Scapel, Felipe Bacim De Arujo E Silva
  • Fabric items having strands of adjustable appearance
    Patent number: 11180871
    Abstract: A fabric-based item may include fabric formed from intertwined strands of material such as intertwined strands of tubing. The strands of material may include electrophoretic ink formed from charged nanoparticles of different colors in fluid. The electrophoretic ink may be contained within strands of tubing or may be enclosed within encapsulation structures such as encapsulation spheres. Encapsulation spheres or other encapsulation structures may be embedded in clear polymer binder within tubing or other strands. Electroluminescent particles may be included in the clear polymer binder. Electric fields can be applied to the electrophoretic ink in a given area of the fabric using conductive strands that overlap the area, using conductive electrodes such as transparent conductive electrodes on strands of tubing, using coaxial electrodes, or using other electrode structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Steven J. Keating, Daniel D. Sunshine, Kathryn P. Crews, Daniel A. Podhajny, Nicholas G. L. Merz
  • Fabric-based items with electrical component arrays
    Patent number: 11183459
    Abstract: A fabric-based item may include fabric layers and other layers of material. An array of electrical components may be mounted in the fabric-based item. The electrical components may be mounted to a support structure such as a flexible printed circuit. The flexible printed circuit may have a mesh shape formed from an array of openings. Serpentine flexible printed circuit segments may extend between the openings. The electrical components may be light-emitting diodes or other electrical devices. Polymer with light-scattering particles or other materials may cover the electrical components. The flexible printed circuit may be laminated between fabric layers or other layers of material in the fabric-based item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel D. Sunshine, Paul S. Drzaic, Daniel A. Podhajny, David M. Kindlon, Hoon Sik Kim, Kathryn P. Crews, Yung-Yu Hsu
  • Tangibility visualization of virtual objects within a computer-generated reality environment
    Patent number: 11182964
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to techniques for providing tangibility visualization of virtual objects within a computer-generated reality (CGR) environment, such as a CGR environment based on virtual reality and/or a CGR environment based on mixed reality. A visual feedback indicating tangibility is provided for a virtual object within a CGR environment that does not correspond to a real, tangible object in the real environment. A visual feedback indicating tangibility is not provided for a virtual representation of a real object within a CGR environment that corresponds to a real, tangible object in the real environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexis H. Palangie, Avi Bar-Zeev
  • Multimode battery charging
    Patent number: 11183864
    Abstract: An electronic device may receive or provide power using bidirectional wired and wireless power converters. A bypass path may be included to bypass the battery charger and to allow direct power transfers from a connector of the electronic device to the wireless power converter or from the wireless power converter to the connector of the electronic device. Current limiting and regulation circuitry may also be included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bin Gu, Yongxuan Hu, Stephen C. Terry, Di Zhao, Ruchi J. Parikh, Michael D. Black, Weiyun Chen
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D936666
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Freddy Anzures, Greg Apodaca, Ismael Basso, Imran Chaudhri, Jonathan P. Ive, Chanaka Karunamuni, Joe Marianek, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Jeremiah Daniel Shaw, Christopher I. Wilson
  • Electronic device with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D936690
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley William Griffin, Daamun Mohseni, Christopher Daryl Soli
  • Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface
    Patent number: D936691
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dmitri Cavander, Alessandro Francesco Sabatelli, Brian Andrew Schmitt
  • Electronic device with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D936701
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Teofila Connor, Thalia Jimena Echevarria Fiol, Aurelio Guzmán, Vincenzo Vuono, Christopher I. Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Electronic device with animated graphical user interface
    Patent number: D936702
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: 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