Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 11148007Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to navigating, viewing, and sharing activity and workout data and interacting with workout and/or activity applications. In some examples, scrolling of activity data is based on the content being displayed. In some examples, friends' activity data may be viewed. In some examples, a notification and workout data for a friend's completed workout is received and displayed. In some example, the activity data received from friends is viewed and managed. In some examples, workout data for a multi-segment workout is displayed in a three-dimensional stack on a map. In some examples, a workout application operates in a limited mode until a touch input is received with a characteristic intensity that is greater than a threshold intensity.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Aled Hywel Williams, David Chance Graham, Christopher Wilson
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Patent number: 11153235Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device presents representations of messaging conversations. In some embodiments, an electronic device indicates which messages are replies to other messages in a messaging conversation. In some embodiments, an electronic device creates and presents links (e.g., rich links) to contacts in a messaging conversation (e.g., “mentions”). In some embodiments, an electronic device presents indications of messages that are replies to other messages. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents options to create a link (e.g., a rich link) to contacts in a messaging conversation (e.g., “mentions”) using a suggested entry user interface element.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christian X. Dalonzo, Zheng Xuan Hong, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Grant R. Paul, Christopher D. Matthews, Robert Garcia, III, Elliot Aaron Barer, Eugene Mitsuo Irinaga Bistolas, Pierre Jonathan De Filippis, Craig M. Federighi
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Patent number: 11153368Abstract: Improved approaches for media listening amongst different users are disclosed. For example, methods, systems or computer program code can enable users to have a remote listening experience in real time. Advantageously, a remote user at a remote client device can in effect listen to a particular digital media asset that is being played at a local client device of a local user. Media information and/or user profiles can also be provided about themselves and shared with other users.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Catherine Wormington, Camille Hearst, Steve Saro Gedikian
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Patent number: 11153136Abstract: An electrical system may include a processing circuit and one or more electrical components that emit thermal heat energy. The processing circuit may be configured to identify signal degradation or failure of an in-band communication channel between the electrical system and a second electrical system, identify a data message to transmit to the additional electrical system via an out-of-band communication channel, and direct the one or more electrical components to adjust an electrical workload to modulate and transmit the data message on the out-of-band communication channel as a recoverable sequence of thermal pulses.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2015Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Robert Vaughn, William Deleeuw
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Patent number: 11150474Abstract: A head-mounted device may have a display for displaying image content. Head-mounted support structures in the device may be used to support the display. The head-mounted device or external equipment may include a three-dimensional image sensor. The three-dimensional image sensor may capture a three-dimensional image of a user's face. Control circuitry may analyze the three-dimensional image to identify which of multiple versions of a customizing face-fit module should be used in the electronic device to fit the device to the user's face. An appropriate face-fit module may be identified based on facial features such as facial size and the shapes of a user's forehead, nose, and cheeks. After identifying which version of the face-fit module is to be used by the user, that version of the face-fit module may be coupled to a non-custom portion of a main unit for the head-mounted device using magnets or other coupling structures.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jeremy C. Franklin, Trevor J. Ness
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Patent number: 11151702Abstract: Electronic devices, methods, and program storage devices for leveraging machine learning to perform improved image fusion and/or noise reduction are disclosed. An incoming image stream may be obtained from an image capture device, wherein the incoming image stream comprises a variety of differently-exposed captures, e.g., EV0 images, EV? images, EV+ images, long exposure images, EV0/EV? image pairs, etc., which are received according to a particular pattern. When a capture request is received, two or more intermediate assets may be generated based on determined combinations of images from the incoming image stream, and the intermediate assets may then be fed into a neural network that has been trained to determine one or more sets of parameters to optimally fuse and/or noise reduce the intermediate assets. In some embodiments, the network may be trained to operate on levels of pyramidal decompositions of the intermediate assets independently, for increased efficiency and memory utilization.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marius Tico, Tiffany Jou Cheng, Jun Hu
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Patent number: 11150731Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media provide multiple modes of haptic feedback for an electronic device using a single haptic actuator. Adjusting a parameter (e.g., frequency) of an actuator waveform generated by the single haptic actuator may affect how a mechanical coupling between the haptic actuator and a portion of the electronic device produces a device waveform at that device portion from the actuator waveform. A first mechanical coupling with a first response characteristic (e.g., stiffness or resonance frequency) may be provided between the haptic actuator and a first portion of the electronic device (e.g., a user input component of the electronic device), while a second mechanical coupling with a different second response characteristic may be provided between the haptic actuator and a second portion of the electronic device (e.g., the device housing of the electronic device) to selectively provide localized haptic feedback at the first portion of the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Darya Amin-Shahidi, Alex M. Lee
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Patent number: 11150781Abstract: Systems, methods, computer-readable mediums, user interfaces and other implementations are disclosed for workflow widgets. In some implementations, a widget workflow method includes: launching a widget at a first device; and updating the widget with content created at a second device.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Scott Forstall, Imran A. Chaudhri, John O. Louch, Eric Steven Peyton
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Patent number: 11153126Abstract: An apparatus can receive or transmit parameters for a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission configuration as an uplink (UL)/downlink (DL) configuration of a serving cell. A time division duplex (TDD) operation with a plurality of component carriers (CCs) can be enabled/generated based on the parameters and at least one component carriers being reserved for the UL transmission or having a higher priority than a physical channel transmission such as a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission or a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2017Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hong He, Gang Xiong, Seunghee Han, Hwan-Joon Kwon, Alexei Davydov
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Patent number: 11152846Abstract: A DC-DC converter providing adaptive peak current control is disclosed. A DC-DC converter includes an inductor having first and second terminals coupled to a voltage source and a transistor, respectively. The DC-DC circuit further includes a control circuit configured to control activation of the transistor. A first control block of the control circuit controls the transistor (and thus the inductor peak current) using pulse frequency modulation (PFM). A second control block controls the transistor using pulse width modulation (PWM) and PFM. In a first mode of operation, the control circuit activates the transistor, using PFM, such that the peak-to-peak current through the inductor has a fixed value. In a second mode of operation, the control circuit activates the transistor such that the peak-to-peak current through the inductor is modulated, using both PWM and PFM.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bogdan-Eugen Matei, Alessandro S. Molari, Angelo Bassi, Fabio Ongaro, Giovanni Saccomanno
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Patent number: 11152100Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to health-related user interfaces. In some embodiments, user interfaces for managing health-related data are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces for viewing health data are described. In some embodiments, user interfaces related to sharing health data are described.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Matthew W. Crowley, Pablo F. Caro, Dmitri Cavander, Heather E. Daniel, Nicholas Felton, Ruchi Goswami, Charmian Bondoc Naguit, Evan R. Doll, Kevin Lynch, Aroon Pahwa
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Patent number: 11150693Abstract: Systems and method for improving performance of a radio frequency system are provided. One embodiment describes a radio frequency system, which may be modified based upon a detected housing and/or accessory of an electronic device. The modifications may counteract impacts of the housings and/or accessories on the radio frequency transmission.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2015Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Vusthla Sunil Reddy, XinPing Zeng, Peter M. Agboh, Mohit Narang, Ruben Caballero
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Patent number: 11150734Abstract: Disclosed herein are structures, devices, methods and systems for providing haptic output on an electronic device. In some embodiments, the electronic device includes a display portion, a housing pivotally coupled with the display portion and comprising a glass sheet that defines an input surface of the electronic device. The input surface can define a keyboard having a set of key regions arranged along the glass sheet. The electronic device may also include a haptic mechanism positioned beneath a key region of the set of key regions that includes a substrate defining a beam structure having first and second fixed ends, a spacer positioned along a first side of the beam structure and a piezoelectric element positioned along a second side of the beam structure. The piezoelectric element can be configured to deflect the beam structure to provide haptic output along the input surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alex J. Lehmann, Juan Pu, Paul X. Wang, Qiliang Xu, Zheng Gao
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Patent number: 11150727Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media to detect and track a user's eye gaze and head movement are described. In general, techniques are disclosed for identifying a user's pupil location and using this information, in conjunction with a three dimensional (3D) model of the user's head, perform gaze tracking operations. More particularly, techniques disclosed herein utilize pupil gradient information to refine an initial pupil location estimate. Once identified, the pupil's location may be combined with 3D head pose information to generate an accurate and robust gaze detection mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Matheen M. Siddiqui, Soumitry Jagadev Ray, Abhishek Sundararajan, Rishabh Bardia, Zhaoyi Wei, Chang Yuan
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Patent number: 11150438Abstract: A camera module includes a solid state lens that flexes, in response to electrical signals. A lens barrel holds the lens on the optical axis. A lens barrel holder holds the lens barrel above an image sensor. The lens barrel holder includes electrically conductive interconnects between a bottom and a top end of the lens barrel holder. The conductive interconnects are not exposed to an exterior of the lens barrel holder. The camera module includes two or more respective lower electrically conductive connections in proximity to the interconnects and connecting the electrically conductive interconnects to respective conductors for the one or more electrical signals. The camera module includes two or more upper conductive connections configured to electrically connect the solid state lens to respective ones of the two or more conductive interconnects.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2017Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ya Wen Hsu, Pierre-Jean Y. Parodi-Keravec, Steven Webster
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Patent number: 11153863Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods and apparatuses for physical downlink control channel (PD-CCH) demodulation reference signal (DMRS) transmission and reception.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Honglei Miao, Wook Bong Lee, Yushu Zhang, Michael Faerber, Seunghee Han
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Patent number: 11153687Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for electronic audio devices. In some examples, the operating mode of the device changes to various states of sound transparency.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: David Chance Graham, Patrick L. Coffman, Thomas S. Hulbert, Cyrus Daniel Irani, Daniel Max Strongwater
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Patent number: 11150798Abstract: Some embodiments described in this disclosure are directed to one or more input devices that simulate dedicated remote control functionality for navigating and playing content items available on other electronic devices, and one or more operations related to the above that the input devices and other electronic devices optionally perform. Some embodiments described in this disclosure are directed to one or more multifunction devices via which keyboard input to electronic devices is provided, and one or more operations related to the above that the multifunction devices and the electronic devices optionally perform. Some embodiments described in this disclosure are directed to one or more multifunction devices via which control and/or navigational inputs to electronic devices is provided, and one or more operations related to the above that the multifunction devices and the electronic devices optionally perform.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Michael Smochko, Jonathan Lochhead, Jennifer L. C. Folse, Policarpo Bonilla Wood, Jr., William M. Bachman, Florian Miles Ponson, Eliza J. Von Hagen
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Patent number: 11148398Abstract: A multilayer composite is provided. The composite may include a plurality of metallic glass layers interleaved with a plurality of polymer layers. The composite may have a thickness of up to 100 microns. The composite may have a fatigue strength of at least 1.5 times of the fatigue strength of a monolithic metallic glass having the same thickness as the composite and the same chemical composition as the metallic glass layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yoshihiko Yokoyama, Naoto Matsuyuki, Sungwon Bae, Theodore A. Waniuk
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Patent number: D933672Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ian V. Bambao, Alan C. Dye, Patrick Lee Coffman, Aram D. Kudurshian, Raymond Sepulveda, Christopher Wilson, Chun Kin Minor Wong