Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 11163417
    Abstract: A computer system concurrently displays, in an augmented reality environment, a representation of at least a portion of a field of view of one or more cameras that includes a respective physical object, which is updated as contents of the field of view change; and a respective virtual user interface object, at a respective location in the virtual user interface determined based on the location of the respective physical object in the field of view. While detecting an input at a location that corresponds to the displayed respective virtual user interface object, in response to detecting movement of the input relative to the respective physical object in the field of view of the one or more cameras, the system adjusts an appearance of the respective virtual user interface object in accordance with a magnitude of movement of the input relative to the respective physical object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Mark K. Hauenstein, Joseph A. Malia, Julian K. Missig, Matthaeus Krenn, Jeffrey T. Bernstein
  • Patent number: 11165389
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a transceiver with mixer circuitry that up-converts or down-converts signals based on a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) signal. The transceiver circuitry may include first, second, third, and fourth VCOs. Each VCO may include a VCO core that receives a control voltage and an inductor coupled to the VCO core. Fixed linear capacitors may be coupled between the VCO cores. A switching network may be coupled between the VCOs. Control circuitry may place the VCO circuitry in one of four different operating modes and may switch between the operating modes to selectively control current direction in each of the inductors. The VCO circuitry may generate the VCO signal within a respective frequency range in each of the operating modes. The VCO circuitry may exhibit a relatively wide frequency range across all of the operating modes while introducing minimal phase noise to the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Abbas Komijani, Hongrui Wang, Sohrab Emami-Neyestanak
  • Patent number: 11163399
    Abstract: A touch panel configured to compensate for negative pixel effect is disclosed. The panel can be configured to increase a capacitive sense signal, indicative of a touching or hovering object, in order to compensate for an increase in negative capacitance when the object is poorly grounded. To perform the compensation, the panel can be configured to have split sense lines so as to increase the number of electric fringe fields forming the sense signal, thereby providing a sense signal that is substantially stronger than the negative capacitance signal. Each sense line can be split into two or more strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marduke Yousefpor, Martin Paul Grunthaner
  • Patent number: 11163466
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device may configure a new device based on a current state of an old device, including settings, preferences, and other user data. The data may be transferred from the old device to the new device, and then relocated according to a manifest that details positions of the data on the old device. The destination device may be rebooted into a configuration mode to allow for the relocation of the transferred data, and then rebooted again to configure the destination device to provide access to the data in its respective relative locations on the destination device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Ciudad, George C. Chicioreanu, Yan Arrouye
  • Patent number: 11166336
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to performing implicit radio resource control state transitions in a cellular communication system. A wireless device may establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a cellular base station. A data inactivity timer length and a target RRC state for implicit RRC transitions may be determined. A data inactivity timer having the determined data inactivity timer length may be initiated. It may be determined that the data inactivity timer has expired. The wireless device may transition to the target RRC state based at least in part on determining that the data inactivity timer has expired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Murtaza A. Shikari, Srinivasan Nimmala, Haijing Hu, Fangli Xu, Yuqin Chen, Longda Xing, Xu Ou, Li Su, Vijay Venkataraman, Dawei Zhang, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Sree Ram Kodali, Srinivas Burugupalli
  • Patent number: 11164917
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The display may be mounted on a front side of the device and the housing may have a housing wall on the rear side of the device. The display may be formed from an array of pixels configured to display an image for a user. Pixel-free border areas that run along the edges of the array of pixels may be provided with an edge illuminator. The edge illuminator may provide illumination to the border areas during operation of the device. The edge illuminator may have crystalline semiconductor light-emitting diode dies, backlit liquid crystal devices or electrophoretic display components, or may have a light guide that is supplied with illumination from a light-emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Paul X. Wang, Dinesh C. Mathew
  • Patent number: 11165139
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display and a phased array antenna that transmits radio-frequency signals at frequencies greater than 10 GHz. The display may include a conductive layer that is used to form pixel circuitry and/or touch sensor electrodes. A filter may be formed from conductive structures within the conductive layer. The conductive structures may include an array of conductive patches separated by slots or may include conductive paths that define an array of slots. The filter may include an additional array of conductive patches stacked under the array of conductive patches to allow the slots to be narrower than would be resolvable to the unaided human eye. The periodicity of the conductive structures and the slots in the filter may be selected to tune a cutoff frequency of the filter to be greater than frequencies handled by the phased antenna array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Simone Paulotto, Matthew A. Mow, Mattia Pascolini
  • Patent number: 11166104
    Abstract: An electronic device that can be worn by a user can include a processing unit and one or more sensors operatively connected to the processing unit. The processing unit can be adapted to determine an installation position of the electronic device based on one or more signals received from at least one sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Sorin V. Dusan
  • Patent number: 11166355
    Abstract: An LED driver circuit is disclosed. The LED driver circuit includes an amplifier having a first input coupled to receive a reference voltage and a second input coupled to receive a feedback voltage. The circuit further includes first and second transistors each having respective gate terminals coupled to an output of the first amplifier. In a first mode, a first switch alternately couples a source terminal of the first transistor to the second input of the amplifier (when the pulse is asserted) and a source terminal of the second transistor to the second input (when the pulse is de-asserted). A third transistor includes a gate terminal that is coupled to ground, by a second switch, when operating in the first mode. When operating in the second mode, the switch couples the third transistor to the output of the amplifier, while the pulse remains asserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Cristian Grecu, Bogdan-Eugen Matei, Angelo Bassi, Andrei-Cosmin Gaidam, Alessandro Molari
  • Patent number: 11164540
    Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display and a display pipeline. The electronic display may include multiple pixels to display images based at least in part on pixel data. The display pipeline may receive image data and process the image data to determine the pixel data. The display pipeline may include burn-in compensation circuitry to apply gains to the image data based at least in part on burn-in statistics to generate the pixel data. The gain to be applied to the image data for a pixel of the electronic display is determined by the burn-in compensation circuitry, based at least in part on an emission duty cycle of the pixel, to compensate the image data for the pixel for burn-in related aging of the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter F. Holland, Mahesh B. Chappalli, Yifan Zhang, Tae-Wook Koh
  • Patent number: 11166243
    Abstract: A method for apportioning uplink transmission power in a mobile communication device is disclosed including determining a maximum power limit for the mobile communication device, identifying a first wireless transmission scheduled to transmit at a first power and a first time according to a first radio access technology (RATI); identifying a second wireless transmission scheduled to transmit at a second power and a second time according to a second radio access technology (RAT2). An aggregate transmission power required for transmission is calculated and transmission is apportioned asymmetrically as to at least one of power and/or time between the first wireless transmission and the second wireless transmission where the required aggregate transmission power exceeds said maximum power limit. Transmitting at least one of said first and/or second wireless transmission according to said asymmetrical apportionment results in transmission within specified power limits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Soumen Chakraborty
  • Patent number: 11165963
    Abstract: While an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface is in a locked, passcode-protected state, the device displays a lock screen user interface on the display. The lock screen user interface includes a plurality of restricted application launch icons, each restricted application launch icon corresponding to an application. The device also detects user input to activate a respective restricted application launch icon; and, in response to detecting the user input to activate the respective restricted application launch icon, starts a restricted session for a respective application that corresponds to the respective restricted application launch icon, wherein the respective application is configured to generate one or more content items while in the restricted session, and maintains the device in the locked, passcode-protected state for applications in the device other than the respective application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Richard R. Dellinger, Nikhil Bhogal
  • Patent number: 11163440
    Abstract: An electronic device, in response to detecting an input on a touch-sensitive surface: processes the input with a first gesture recognizer for an operating system application; and processes the input with a second gesture recognizer for a first software application, distinct from the operating system application. If the first gesture recognizer recognizes the input as a gesture matching a gesture definition of the first gesture recognizer, the device performs an operation defined by the operating system application and transitions the second gesture recognizer into an event impossible state. If the second gesture recognizer recognizes the input as a gesture matching a gesture definition of the second gesture recognizer, the device delays performance of an operation defined by the first software application for the input until the first gesture recognizer indicates that the input does not match the gesture definition of the first gesture recognizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Joshua H. Shaffer, Kenneth L. Kocienda, Imran Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 11163141
    Abstract: Compact folded lens systems are described that may be used in small form factor cameras. Lens systems are described that may include three 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: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhong Yao, Yoshikazu Shinohara
  • Patent number: 11165495
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for communicating in a wireless network including apparatus comprising transceiver circuitry to send and receive data in a plurality of time periods, defined by a time division duplex (TDD) time grid, to another entity, the plurality of time periods corresponding to a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols and the transceiver circuitry being operable to switch from receive mode to transmit mode and/or from transmit mode to receive mode according to a flexible uplink and downlink allocation of the plurality of time periods; and baseband circuitry coupled to the transceiver circuitry to control the transceiver circuitry to switch during a switching interval embedded within a time period corresponding to an OFDM symbol of the plurality of OFDM symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sabine Roessel, Holger Neuhaus, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Bertram Gunzelmann, Andreas Menkhoff, Elmar Wagner, Jong-Kae Fwu, Xiangyang Zhuang
  • Patent number: D934849
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 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, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D934902
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Lynne Devine
  • Patent number: D934903
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Aurelio Guzmán, Jonathan P. Ive, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D934904
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Alan C. Dye, Christopher I. Wilson
  • Patent number: D934915
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Xavier Dalonzo, Aurelio Guzmán, Christopher I. Wilson