Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 11234077Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces and techniques for managing audio exposure using a computer system (e.g., an electronic device). In accordance with some embodiments, the electronic device displays a graphical indication of a noise exposure level over a first period of time with an area of the graphical indication that is colored to represent the noise exposure level, the color of the area transitioning from a first color to a second color when the noise exposure level exceeds a first threshold. In accordance with some embodiments, the electronic device displays noise exposure levels attributable to a first output device type and a second output device type and, in response to selecting a filtering affordance, visually distinguishes a set of noise exposure levels attributable to the second output device type.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Felton, Tyrone Chen, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, Ian M. Fisch, Eamon Francis Gilravi, Pedro Mari, John Woodruff, Jing Xia
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Patent number: 11231816Abstract: An ultrasonic touch sensing system that uses both compressional and shear waves for touch and water detection is disclosed. When no touch or water is present, less shear and compressional wave energy is absorbed, so both shear and compressional wave reflections do not have significant amplitude decreases. When a finger is in contact with the sensing plate, both shear and compressional wave energy is absorbed, so both shear and compressional wave reflections have significant amplitude decreases. When water is in contact with the sensing plate, compressional energy is absorbed but little or no shear wave energy is absorbed, so while compressional wave reflections have significant amplitude decreases, shear wave reflections do not. From these amplitudes, a determination can be made as to whether no touch is present on the sensing plate, whether a touch is present on the sensing plate, or whether water is present on the sensing plate.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ehsan Khajeh, Brian Michael King
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Patent number: 11233966Abstract: An image sensor includes an avalanche diode, an avalanche detector circuit, a sample and hold circuit, and a sample collection circuit. The avalanche diode has an output voltage that changes in response to an avalanche event in the avalanche diode. The avalanche detector circuit is configured to generate a sample capture signal in response to detecting the avalanche event. The sample and hold circuit is configured to store a sample of the output voltage in response to receiving the sample capture signal. The sample collection circuit is configured to collect the sample of the output voltage from the sample and hold circuit.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Cristiano L. Niclass, Dipayan Das
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Patent number: 11233356Abstract: An electrical plug and receptacle relying on magnetic force from an electromagnet to maintain contact are disclosed. The plug and receptacle can be used as part of a power adapter for connecting an electronic device, such as a laptop computer, to a power supply. The plug includes electrical contacts, which are preferably biased toward corresponding contacts on the receptacle. The plug and receptacle each have a magnetic element. The magnetic element on one of the plug or receptacle can be a magnet or ferromagnetic material. The magnetic element on the other of the plug or receptacle is an electromagnet. When the plug and receptacle are brought into proximity, the magnetic attraction between the electromagnet magnet and its complement, whether another magnet or a ferromagnetic material, maintains the contacts in an electrically conductive relationship.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Mark Edward Doutt, Bartley K. Andre, Kanye Lim, John C. DiFonzo, Jean-Marc Gery
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Patent number: 11231903Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant to perform intelligent list reading are provided. In accordance with one example, a method includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors, receiving a first user input of a first input type, the first user input including a plurality of words; displaying, on the touch-sensitive display, the plurality of words; receiving a second user input of a second input type indicating a selection of a word of the plurality of words, the second input type different than the first input type; receiving a third user input; modifying the selected word based on the third user input to provide a modified one or more words; and displaying, on the touch-sensitive display, the modified one or more words.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Thomas R. Gruber, Mohammed A. Tayyeb, Ron C. Santos, Madhusudan Chinthakunta
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Patent number: 11231814Abstract: An electronic device may have light-emitting devices. A light-emitting device may include light-emitting diodes, a display, or other components that emit visual output. One or more image transport layers may be included in the electronic device. An image transport layer may have an input surface that receives an image and an output surface to which the image transport layer transports the image for viewing by a user. The image transport layers may have areas with compound curvature and other shapes. Deformed image transport layer structures such as deformed fibers in a coherent fiber bundle may be configured to hide gaps in displays and other structures. Displays may include light detectors that serve as a two-dimensional touch sensor. The touch sensor may detect touch input on an output surface of an image transport layer. Image transport layer material may be incorporated into buttons, elongated housings, wearable devices, and other equipment.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Michael B. Wittenberg, Daniel J. Barrett, Erik G. de Jong, Lucy E. Browning, Marwan Rammah, Rasamy Phouthavong, Sameer Pandya
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Patent number: 11232748Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels each of which has a light-emitting diode such as an organic light-emitting diode. A drive transistor and an emission transistor may be coupled in series with the light-emitting diode of each pixel between a positive power supply and a ground power supply. The pixels may include first and second switching transistors. A data storage capacitor may be coupled between a gate and source of the drive transistor in each pixel. Signal lines may be provided in columns of pixels to route signals such as data signals, sensed drive currents from the drive transistors, and predetermined voltages between display driver circuitry and the pixels. The switching transistors, emission transistors, and drive transistors may include semiconducting-oxide transistors and silicon transistors and may be n-channel transistors or p-channel transistors.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Chin-Wei Lin, Hung Sheng Lin, Shih Chang Chang, Shinya Ono
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Patent number: 11234149Abstract: An apparatus of a management service producer comprises one or more processors to create a measurement job for one or more NFs, NSSIs, NSIs, networks or subnetworks by receiving a CreateMeasurementJob operation request for creating a measurement job for the one or more NFs, NSSIs, NSIs, networks or subnetworks from a consumer, checking if one or more new measurement types need to be collected for the one or more NFs or constituent NSSIs or constituent NFs, requesting the NFs or the management service producer of the constituent NSSIs or constituent NFs to collect the performance data when one or more new measurements types are to be collected for the one or more NFs or constituent NSSIs or constituent NFs. The management service producer allows the consumer to choose the reporting method from performance data file reporting and performance data streaming for the collected performance data in the CreateMeasurementJob operation request.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yizhi Yao, Joey Chou
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Patent number: 11233725Abstract: A network device (e.g., an evolved Node B (eNB), user equipment (UE) or the like) can operate to reduce an interruption time during a fallback operation resulting from a communication link blockage condition (e.g., a human blockage or other natural/physical wireless blockage). The network device includes a network convergence protocol (NCP) layer that enables communication between other network devices of different radio access technologies (RATs) in a heterogeneous network.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yujian Zhang, Mo-Han Fong, Candy Yiu, Wey-Yi W. Guy, Umesh Phuyal, Youn Hyoung Heo
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Patent number: 11231288Abstract: Some embodiments provide a map application that identifies a transit route that includes one or more transit legs between a starting location and a destination location. In response to a request to start navigating the identified transit route, the map application of some embodiments provides a first display area for displaying a set of navigation instructions, each of which describes a transit maneuver that is associated with a transit leg of the transit route. The map application also provides a second display area for displaying a map region presentation associated with the navigation instruction that is displayed in the first display area.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Usama M. Hajj, Marcel Van Os, Brian Andrich, Ian Leighton, Justin O'Beirne, David Hodge, Eleanor Cady Wachsman, Nathaniel V. Kelso, Aaron A. Reiner, Christine B. McGavran, Wesley Yue, Eric L. Grundstrom
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Publication number: 20220019689Abstract: In some implementations, a computing system can be configured to perform personalized content item selection in a privacy preserving manner. In some implementations, user privacy can be protected by performing the personalized selection of content items on the user's device. For example, the computing system can include a client device configured to select content items from a collection of candidate content items received from a server device based on a user profile generated and stored on the client device. In some implementations, user privacy can be protected when performing the personalized selection of content items by sending an anonymous, or approximate, user profile (e.g., class profile) to the server device. For example, the computing system can include a server device configured to select content items from a collection of content items based on a class profile representing a group of similar user profiles received from the client device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Chi Wai Lau, Dominic J. Hughes, Sudeep Agarwal, Martin J. Murrett
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Publication number: 20220022064Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for radio link monitoring (RLM) evaluation period and layer 1 (L1) indication interval enhancements. A user equipment (UE) uses a scaling factor to scale the RLM evaluation period and/or the L1 indication interval. Different scaling factors may be used for different scenarios, conditions, or criteria. The same or different scaling factors may be used for the RLM evaluation period and the L1 indication interval. The scaling factor or a scaling factor index may be signaled to the UE by higher layer signaling. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2019Publication date: January 20, 2022Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Manasa RAGHAVAN, Hua LI, Jie CUI, Hong HE, Yang TANG
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Publication number: 20220022065Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for performing Beam Failure Detection (BFD), and in particular, for performing Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) based BFD and/or Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) based BFD. Disclosed embodiments include quasi co-location (QCL) and use case restrictions for SSB for BFD and Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), transition period handling for BFD, and implicit configuration SSB for BFD. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2019Publication date: January 20, 2022Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Guotong WANG, Hua LI, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Yushu ZHANG, Jie CUI
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Publication number: 20220021811Abstract: Increases to the sensitivity of a probe magnet sensor are implemented for a camera lens. Probe magnet sensors may be located on carrier of a surface of an actuator coil to reduce the distance between the probe magnet sensor and a probe magnet mounted on an optics component that includes the camera lens. A probe magnet may be located within the camera so that the flux region of the probe magnet does not overlap with a flux region of a drive magnet for an actuator of the camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nicholas D. Smyth, Scott Wallace Miller
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Patent number: 11226444Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with input-output devices and other components such as optical components that emit light and optical components that detect light. An optical component covering structure may be interposed between an interior region of the electronic device and an exterior region that surrounds the electronic device. The optical components may be formed in the interior region of the electronic device. The optical component covering structure may overlap the optical components. The optical component covering structure may be configured to exhibit a flat visible light transmission spectrum. This neutral light transmission characteristic allows the overlapped optical components to emit and/or receive light through the optical component covering structure without imposing an undesired color cast. The optical component covering structure may include first and second layers with complementary light transmission characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: James R. Wilson, Liliya Lyandres, Ove Lyngnes
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Patent number: 11228074Abstract: Batteries are described that include a cathode material, and anode material, and a polymeric material that separates the cathode material from the anode material. The polymeric material has hydroxide ion conductivity of at least about 50 mS/cm, and a diffusion ration of hydroxide ions to at least one type of metal ion of at least about 10:1. Also described are methods of making a battery that include forming a layer of polymeric material between a first electrode and second electrode of the battery. In additional methods, the polymeric material is coated on at least one of the electrodes of the battery. In further methods, the polymeric material is admixed with at least one of the electrode materials to make a composite electrode material that is incorporated into the electrode.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Steven Kaye, William A. Braff, Maria N. Luckyanova, Ghyrn E. Loveness
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Patent number: D941800Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Shota Aoyagi, Robert Boyd, Robert Brunner, Monica Fernandez, Christopher Kuh, Christopher J. Stringer
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Patent number: D941845Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Gary Butcher, Graham Clarke, Alan C. Dye, Grace Hwang, Jonathan P. Ive, Henrique Penha, Pavel Pivon̆ka
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Patent number: D941872Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Patrick Lee Coffman, Raymond Sepulveda
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Patent number: D941878Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Aurelio Guzmán, Jonathan P. Ive, Christopher Daryl Soli, Christopher Wilson