Patents Assigned to Apple
  • 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: 12248731
    Abstract: A bitstream is obtained by a decoder side, that contains an encoded version of an audio signal and an instantaneous loudness sequence of the audio signal. The instantaneous loudness sequence has not been loudness normalized. A dynamic range control, DRC, gain sequence is produced by applying the instantaneous loudness sequence to a DRC characteristic, with loudness normalization. The DRC gain sequence is applied to the decoded audio signal. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Frank Baumgarte
  • Publication number: 20250077865
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a texture unit circuit in a neural processor circuit. The neural processor circuit includes a tensor access operation circuit with the texture unit circuit, a data processor circuit, and at least one neural engine circuit. The texture unit circuit fetches a source tensor from a system memory by referencing an index tensor in the system memory representing indexing information into the source tensor. The data processor circuit stores an output version of the source tensor obtained from the tensor access operation circuit and sends the output version of the source tensor as multiple of units of input data to the at least one neural engine circuit. The at least one neural engine circuit performs at least convolution operations on the units of input data and at least one kernel to generate output data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher L. MILLS
  • Publication number: 20250081175
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for multi-cell scheduling with different numerologies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ankit Bhamri, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Publication number: 20250081097
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing a hibernation mode for multi-link wireless communication networks such as a wireless local area network (WLAN). For example, some aspects relate to a multi-link device (MLD) including a first station (STA) associated with a first link of a wireless network and configured to communicate with a second MLD over the first link. The MLD also includes a second STA associated with a second link of the wireless network. The second STA is in a hibernation mode. The MLD also includes one or more processors communicatively coupled to the first and second STAs and configured to control operations of the first and second STAs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yong LIU, Su Khiong YONG, Qi WANG, Tianyu WU, Lochan VERMA, Jinjing JIANG, Jarkko L. KNECKT
  • Publication number: 20250076672
    Abstract: Fiducial patterns that produce 2D Barker code-like diffraction patterns at a camera sensor are etched or otherwise provided on a cover glass in front of a camera. 2D Barker code kernels, when cross-correlated with the diffraction patterns captured in images by the camera, provide sharp cross-correlation peaks. Misalignment of the cover glass with respect to the camera can be derived by detecting shifts in the location of the detected peaks with respect to calibrated locations. Devices that include multiple cameras behind a cover glass with one or more fiducials on the cover glass in front of each camera are also described. The diffraction patterns caused by the fiducials at the various cameras may be analyzed to detect movement or distortion of the cover glass in multiple degrees of freedom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tushar Gupta, Aleksandr M. Movshovich, Arthur Y. Zhang, Ray L. Chang, Fletcher R. Rothkopf
  • Publication number: 20250076912
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a system having a power supply circuit, a first regulator circuit, a second regulator circuit, and a load circuit. The power supply circuit outputs a power supply voltage. The first regulator circuit receives the power supply voltage and outputs a first regulated voltage based on the power supply voltage. The second regulator circuit receives the first regulated voltage and outputs a second regulated voltage based on the first regulated voltage. The load circuit receives the second regulated voltage and sends power requirement information (e.g., load current information) to one or more of the power supply circuit, the first regulator circuit, and the second regulator circuit. Based on the power requirement information, one or more of the power supply voltage, the first regulated voltage, and the second regulated voltage is adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jay B. FLETCHER, Shawn SEARLES, Hao ZHOU, Sanjay PANT
  • Publication number: 20250080197
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems, and methods for discovering and establishing highly directional wireless communication link through other devices with established highly directional communication link to an access point. Devices with established link to the access point may exchange beam information (BI) or geometry or location indication (GI) between the AP and devices seeking to be connected to the AP. The exchange of BI and GI may expedite link establishment between the AP and devices without connection to the AP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Biljana Badic, Norman Goris, Jan K. Ellenbeck, Stefan Meyer, Christian Drewes, Mikhail Wilhelm
  • Patent number: 12243465
    Abstract: To reduce image artifacts and non-uniformity associated with a display pixel of an electronic display, processing circuity may adjust a luminance value corresponding to a display pixel according to a per-pixel gain mask, a per-pixel anode mask, or both. To further correct for the non-uniformity, the processing circuitry may convert the luminance value to a digital code based on a curve associated with an anode on which the display pixel is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sunmin Jang, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Saif Choudhary, Hopil Bae, Gautam Agrawal, Ionut A Mirel, Hari P Paudel, Haitao Li, Wei H Yao, Mahesh B Chappalli, Young Don Bae
  • Patent number: 12245127
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs for data transmission in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network. In one aspect, a method includes generating a routing table for the IAB network; determining to forward a data packet from a source IAB node to a destination IAB node; and forwarding, based on the generated routing table, the data packet from the source IAB node to the destination IAB node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Honglei Miao
  • Patent number: 12244540
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the collision of the triggered SRS resource sets (such as, the SRS resource set being triggered too early or the triggered SRS resource sets being overlapped in time and/or frequency domain) may be well handled, and the configuring and updating procedures for SRS resource may be more flexible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12239462
    Abstract: A device for skin-contact biological measurement includes one or more electrodes to enable signal transmission through a skin contact and a control mechanism coupled to the one or more electrodes to adjust an electrode-to-skin impedance (ESI). The control mechanism is configured to implement the ESI adjustment using a thermal actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Victoria M. Powell, Ali Moin
  • Patent number: 12243084
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for uploading, by a verified party, verified-party content to a media platform, receiving requests by a client device for store content, and displaying the uploaded verified-party content along with store content on the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Alsina, Arvind S. Shenoy, Matthew J. Laine, Zachary T. Friedland
  • Patent number: 12239884
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to sharing workout content on electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony D'Auria, Julie A. Arney, Jae Woo Chang, Edward Chao, Nathan De Vries, Michael D. Ford, Irene Suah Lee
  • Patent number: 12244544
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for signaling cross-division duplex configurations. One of the methods includes identifying, by a first device and for a first link with a second device, a switch in a first bandwidth part to a second bandwidth part for the first link, the first link associated with a second link having a third bandwidth part; determining, by the first device, whether a bandwidth band between the second bandwidth part and the third bandwidth part satisfies a threshold guard band; and selectively determining to maintain the third bandwidth part for the second link or to switch the third bandwidth part to a fourth bandwidth part for the second link using a result of the determination whether the bandwidth band between the second bandwidth part and the third bandwidth part satisfies the threshold guard band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Yushu Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Sigen Ye, Chunxuan Ye, Weidong Yang, Oghenekome Oteri
  • Patent number: 12245177
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing downlink transmission and interlace uplink transmission. For example, some aspects of this disclosure relate to a base station including a transceiver configured to communicate over a wireless network with a user equipment (UE) and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor divides a plurality of candidate Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) positions in a time window into a plurality of groups and communicates, using the transceiver, information associated with the plurality of groups of candidate SSB positions to the UE. The processor further performs a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure. In response to the LBT procedure being successful, the processor determines a first group of the plurality of groups and transmits, using the transceiver, one or more SSBs on one or more candidate SSB positions of the first group to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Pengkai Zhao, Wei Zeng, Wei Zhang, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 12242695
    Abstract: In some examples, an electronic device including a touch screen can sense a stylus proximate to the touch screen. For example, the user can draw or write with the stylus to create a simulated drawing or simulated handwriting displayed on the touch screen. In some examples, the electronic device can sense a series of “points” corresponding to the location of the stylus over time while the drawing/writing input was provided. In some situations, noise in the stylus data can cause the electronic device not to sense one or more noisy points included in the drawing or handwriting input. In some examples, the electronic device can interpolate the noisy points based on sensed points before and/or after the time of the skipped points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Deselaers, Peder Blekken, Francisco Alvaro Munoz, Ryan S. Dixon, Nima Ferdosi, Tianchang Gu, Mayank Garg
  • Patent number: 12244546
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to improving an available bandwidth for a transceiver of an electronic device and to reducing a footprint of an associated integrated circuit of the electronic device. To do so, an isolation circuit is disposed between a transmit circuit and a receive circuit. The isolation circuit has first and second signal paths. A first portion of the signal propagates along the first signal path and a second portion of the signal propagates along the second signal path. A non-reciprocal phase shifter is disposed on the first signal path to shift a phase of the first portion to match a phase of the second portion and improve isolation between the transmit circuit and the receive circuit. The phase-shifted first portion may be combined with the second portion to reduce or substantially eliminate an insertion loss caused by the isolation circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joonhoi Hur, Harald Pretl, Rastislav Vazny
  • Patent number: 12245320
    Abstract: The functions of user equipment (UE), radio access network (RAN) devices, and core network (CN) devices in circumstances where a UE is expected to experience discontinuous coverage are described herein. A UE may send a CN a non-access stratum (NAS) message including a release request indicating that a UE is leaving coverage and assistance information. The CN may interrupt paging of the UE and resume the paging according to the assistance information. A UE may enter a low power usage mode upon leaving coverage, and may use one or more timers to determine when to check for coverage and send a mobility update message corresponding to the low power usage mode. A base station may receive, from a UE, a radio resource control (RRC) message comprising a release request and assistance information, send an RRC release message to the UE in response, and forward the assistance information to the CN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Pavan Nuggehalli, Alexander Sirotkin, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata, Ralf Rossbach, Sarma V. Vangala, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 12243444
    Abstract: Exercise-based watch faces and complications for use with a portable multifunction device are disclosed. The methods described herein for exercise-based watch faces and complications provide indications of time and affordances representing applications (e.g., a workout application or a weather application). In response to detecting a user input corresponding to a selection of the affordance (e.g., representing a workout application), a workout routine can optionally be begun. Further disclosed are non-transitory computer-readable storage media, systems, and devices configured to perform the methods described herein, as well as electronic devices related thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Wilson, Aled Hywel Williams, Kevin Will Chen, Chester H. Chipperfield, Stanley Carl Ng