Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 12245191Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing mechanisms for downlink control information between an electronic device (for example, a UE) and a network for cell detection and measurement. For example, some aspects relate to an electronic device including a transceiver and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor monitors one or more paging occasions within a discontinuous repetition cycle (DRX) and can make a determination of one or more paging occasions within the DRX to not monitor. Each paging occasion may include a transmission by the network of downlink control information for one or more paging messages.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang
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Patent number: 12242396Abstract: A memory permissions model for a processor that is based on the memory address accessed by an instruction as well as the program counter of the instruction. These permissions may be stored in permissions tables and indexed using the memory addresses of the instruction and the address of the memory locations that it accesses. Those indexes may be obtained from a page table in some cases. These memory permissions may be used in conjunction with other permissions, such as execute permissions and secondary execution privileges that are based on whether the instruction belongs to a particular instruction group.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jeffry E. Gonion, Bernard J. Semeria
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Patent number: 12242073Abstract: A head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing. The head-mounted housing may have rear-facing displays that display images for a user. The images are viewable from eye boxes while the head-mounted device is being worn by the user. The displays may be mounted in left and right optical modules that have respective left and right lenses. A positioning system may be used to adjust the spacing between the left and right optical modules to accommodate different interpupillary distances. An adjustable heat extraction system may be provided that includes fans configured to force air between airflow inlets and outlets past heat sinks. The heat sinks may have fins that are adjusted in orientation and/or that are otherwise adjusted based on changes in optical module spacing. The airflow inlets and/or outlets may have adjustable louvers or other movable members that allow these ports to be fully opened, fully closed, or partly closed.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Forrest C. Wang, Ritu Shah
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Patent number: 12242070Abstract: A method includes sensing a plurality of light superposition characteristic values associated with ambient light from a physical environment. The ambient light emanates from the physical environment towards one side of a translucent display. The plurality of light superposition characteristic values quantifies interactions with the ambient light. The method includes determining a plurality of display correction values associated with the electronic device based on a function of the plurality of light superposition characteristic values and predetermined display characteristics of a computer-generated reality (CGR) object. The method includes changing one or more display operating parameters associated with the electronic device in accordance with the plurality of display correction values in order to satisfy the predetermined display characteristics of the CGR object within a performance threshold.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Anselm Grundhoefer, Michael J. Rockwell
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Patent number: 12244413Abstract: A user equipment device (UE) may communicate according to a new device category satisfying specified QoS (quality of service) requirements while also satisfying specified link budget requirements, and additional optimization requirements. The UE may use physical channels and procedures (e.g. it may receive and decode control channels) in a manner compatible with and not infringing on the operation of other UEs operating in the same network, while allowing the network more flexibility to assign resources. Specifically, resources for EPDCCH on UE-specific SS and EPDCCH on common SS may be shared. That is, the resources for two search spaces may be overlaid partially or in full, giving the network more flexibility in allocating resources. Furthermore the DCI formats for MPDCCH may be extended to devices operating according to the new device category, which enables the coverage enhancement of MTC for these devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Awais M. Hussain, Tarik Tabet, Lydi Smaini, Moustafa M. Elsayed
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Patent number: 12243147Abstract: The invention relates to a communication system and a method for providing a virtual meeting of a first user (U1, U2, U3, U4) and a second user (U1, U2, U3, U4), comprising a first communication device (12, 14, 16, 18, 24, 26, 28, 32, 34) with a first display device (12a, 14a, 16a, 18a, 24a, 26a, 28a, 32a) associated with the first user (U1, U2, U3, U4), and a second communication device (12, 14, 16, 18, 24, 26, 28, 32, 34) with a second display device (12a, 14a, 16a, 18a, 24a, 26a, 28a, 32a) associated with the second user (U1, U2, U3, U4).Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Eberhard Schmidt
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Patent number: 12245332Abstract: The described embodiments set forth techniques for transferring an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) with the same integrated circuit card identifier (ICCID) value from a source mobile wireless device to a target mobile wireless device directly with a mobile network operator (MNO) provisioning server. The target mobile wireless device downloads the eSIM from the MNO provisioning server after deletion of the eSIM on the source mobile wireless device and reassignment of the eSIM with the same ICCID value to the target mobile wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sherman X. Jin, Rafael L. Rivera-Barreto, Rohan C. Malthankar, Clive E. Rodgers, Raj S. Chaugule, Li Li
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Patent number: 12242702Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing shared-content sessions. In some embodiments, content is shared with a group of users participating in a shared-content session. In some embodiments, the content is screen-share content that is shared from one device to other participants of the shared-content session. In some embodiments, the content is synchronized content for which output of the content is synchronized across the participants of the shared-content session.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jae Woo Chang, Elliot A. Barer, Kaely Coon, Craig M. Federighi, Kyle William Horn, Marcel Van Os
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Patent number: 12245209Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing downlink and uplink scheduling in communication above 52.6 GHz. For example, some aspects of this disclosure relate to a base station. The base station includes a transceiver configured to communicate over a wireless network with a user equipment (UE) and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor determines that the communication between the base station and the UE is in a frequency range above 52.6 GHz. In response to the determination, the processor disables a frequency main resource assignment (FDRA), modifies a Resource Block Group (RBG) size, or modifies a Resource Indication Value (RIV) determination. The processor generates a Downlink Channel Indicator (DCI) based at least on one or more of the disabled FDRA, the modified RBG size, or the modified RIV determination. The processor transmits, using the transceiver, the DCI to the UE.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Hong He, Sigen Ye, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang, Wei Zeng
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Patent number: 12244755Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to interfaces and techniques for media playback on one or more devices. In accordance with some embodiments, an electronic device includes a display, one or more processors, and memory. The electronic device receives user input and, in response to receiving the user input, displays, on the display, a multi-device interface that includes: one or more indicators associated with a plurality of available playback devices that are connected to the device and available to initiate playback of media from the device, and a media playback status of the plurality of available playback devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Patrick L. Coffman, David Chance Graham
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Patent number: 12242064Abstract: A display system includes a controller and a head-mounted display. The head-mounted display includes a display, a head support coupled to the display for supporting the display on a head of a user to be viewed by the user, and sensors coupled to the head support for sensing an environment from the head-mounted display unit in low light. The sensors include one or more of an infrared sensor for sensing the environment with infrared electromagnetic radiation, or a depth sensor for sensing distances to objects of the environment, and also include an ultrasonic sensor for sensing the environment with ultrasonic sound waves. The controller determines graphical content according to the sensing of the environment with the one or more of the infrared sensor or the depth sensor and with the ultrasonic sensor, and operates the display to provide the graphical content concurrent with the sensing of the environment.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Killian J. Poore, Trevor J. Ness, Stephen E. Dey, Fletcher R. Rothkopf
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Patent number: 12245286Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive slice based RACH configuration information, wherein the selecting is based on the slice based RACH configuration information, determine that a first network slice and a second different network slice are in operation when the UE is in a radio resource control (RRC) connected state, initiate an access stratum (AS) triggered random access channel (RACH) procedure, select RACH resources associated with one of the first network slice or the second network slice for the RACH procedure based on the slice based RACH configuration information and transmit a signal over the RACH using the selected RACH resources.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yuqin Chen, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Srirang A. Lovlekar
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Patent number: 12244329Abstract: Embodiments presented herein provide apparatus and techniques to reduce a direct current (DC) voltage offset between a transmitter and receiver. Embodiments include a shared reference voltage signal generated by a reference voltage source. The receiver may include a first unit gain buffer to receive a reference voltage signal from the reference voltage source. The transmitter may be communicatively coupled to the receiver via one or more connections and may include a second unit gain buffer communicatively coupled to the first unit gain buffer via one of the connections. An amplifier (e.g., an operation amplifier) of the transmitter may include multiple positive inputs coupled to the second unit gain buffer and an offset tracker. The offset tracker may compensate for a DC offset caused by at least a power supply and/or a ground bounce.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hongrui Wang, Abbas Komijani, Xinhua Chen
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Patent number: 12241960Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that determine a transform relating poses of two mobile electronic devices using range date from a ultra-wideband (UWB) sensor and movement data from captured images. In some implementations, a distance is determined between a first mobile device and a second mobile device based on a UWB signal transmitted between the first mobile device and the second mobile device. In some implementations, first movement data corresponding to movement of the first mobile device and second movement data corresponding to movement of the second mobile device are received. The first movement data based on a camera or a sensor on the first mobile device. The second movement data is based on a camera or a sensor on the second mobile device. Then, a transform is determined that relates a pose of the first mobile device to a pose of the second mobile device based on the distance, the first movement data, and the second movement data.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Oleg Naroditsky, Xing Zheng
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Patent number: 12242664Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology provide determining an operating mode of an electronic device based at least in part on whether the electronic device is communicatively coupled to an associated base device. Based on the determined operating mode, the subject technology identifies a set of input modalities for initiating a recording of content within a field of view of the electronic device. The subject technology monitors sensor information generated by at least one sensor included in, or communicatively coupled to, the electronic device. Further, the subject technology initiates the recording of content within the field of view of the electronic device when the monitored sensor information indicates that at least one of the identified set of input modalities has been triggered.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ranjit Desai, Maneli Noorkami
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Patent number: 12245083Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device may communicate according to a new device category satisfying specified QoS (quality of service) requirements while also satisfying specified link budget requirements, and/or additional optimization requirements. The UE device may communicate with a cellular base station according to a first mode of operation associated with the new device category, and may switch to communicating with the cellular base station according to a second mode of operation associated with a second (pre-existing) device category in response to the link budget requirements exceeding a specified value and the quality of service requirements not being sensitive.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Tarik Tabet, Awais M. Hussain, Lydi Smaini, Moustafa M. Elsayed, Syed Aon Mujtaba, Matthias Sauer, Ronald W. Dimpflmaier, Bernd W. Adler, Christian W. Mucke
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Patent number: 12243575Abstract: In an embodiment, a memory system may include at least two types of DRAM, which differ in at least one characteristic. For example, one DRAM type may be a high density DRAM, while another DRAM type may have lower density but may also have lower latency and higher bandwidth than the first DRAM type. DRAM of the first type may be on one or more first integrated circuits and DRAM of the second type may be on one or more second integrated circuits. In an embodiment, the first and second integrated circuits may be coupled together in a stack. The second integrated circuit may include a physical layer circuit to couple to other circuitry (e.g., an integrated circuit having a memory controller, such as a system on a chip (SOC)), and the physical layer circuit may be shared by the DRAM in the first integrated circuits.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sukalpa Biswas, Farid Nemati
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Patent number: D1065157Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2024Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Markus Diebel, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
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Patent number: D1065165Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Arian Behzadi, Lee S. Broughton, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Alan C. Dye, Christopher P. Foss, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, David C. Graham, M. Evans Hankey, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Deena Ahmed Khattab, Gemma Alexandria Roper, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
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Patent number: D1065231Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Thorsten Adam, Sebastian Boltz, Sascha Höhne, Soeren Kelling, Rene Tuerschmann, Mirko Wannemacher, Jennifer Wien