Patents Assigned to Apple
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Publication number: 20210377851Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yong LIU, Su Khiong YONG, Qi WANG, Tianyu WU, Lochan VERMA, Jinjing JIANG, Jarkko L. KNECKT
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Publication number: 20210373279Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with folded optics and lens shifting capabilities. In some examples, a folded optics arrangement of the camera may include one or more lens elements and light path folding elements (e.g., prisms). Some embodiments include voice coil motor (VCM) actuator arrangements, carrier arrangements, and/or suspension arrangements to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. Furthermore, some embodiments include position sensor arrangements for position sensing with respect to AF and/or OIS movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nicholas D. Smyth, Alfred N. Mireault, Scott W. Miller, Shashank Sharma
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Publication number: 20210377056Abstract: A first user device may be used to request provisioning of a secure credential on a second user device. A provisioning system may facilitate the provisioning in a manner that ensures security and privacy of the requesting parties. The provisioning requests may be made using an application on the first user device such as a third-party application or using a web application via a browser. The credential may be added to a digital wallet on the second user device. The credential may be useable by the second user device to perform one or more contactless transactions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2020Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Morgan J. Grainger, Russell Fenenga, Brandon K. Leventhal, Sourabh Dugar
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Publication number: 20210378038Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device can be configured for users (e.g., user devices) that are detected nearby the computing device. For example, the computing device may be a communal device configured for a single user but generally used by multiple users. The communal device can discover when a known (e.g., authorized, trusted, etc.) user device is near the communal device and obtain personalization data from the nearby user device. The communal device can configure the communal device based on the personalization data to personalize an activity hosted by the communal device for the user of the nearby user device. To protect the user's personalization data, the communal device can delete the user's personalization data when the activity hosted by the communal device is terminated.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jeremy Jie You Foo, Niharika M. Bedekar, Joel J. Angelone, David S. Clark, Parry Panesar
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Publication number: 20210374570Abstract: The present application relates to apparatus, systems, and methods to perform subject-aware self-supervised learning of a machine-learning model for classification of data, such as classification of biosignals.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Joseph Y. Cheng, Erdrin Azemi, Hanlin Goh, Kaan E. Dogrusoz, Cuneyt O. Tuzel
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Publication number: 20210373160Abstract: A system for detecting a vehicle includes a light source configured to emit a light signal. The system also includes a receiver sensor configured to receive a reflected light signal based at least in part on the light signal reflected from a plurality of reflectors. The system also includes a controller, the controller configured to identify an arrangement pattern of the plurality of reflectors based at least in part on the reflected light signal and determine that plurality of reflectors are coupled to another vehicle based at least in part on an identification of the arrangement pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventor: Micah P. Kalscheur
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Publication number: 20210376534Abstract: High-speed connectors that simplify connectivity between electronic devices, are simple to use, and are readily manufactured. One example can simplify connectivity by including contacts for power, data, and one or more RF signals into a single connector. One example provides a connector receptacle having a tongue supporting contacts for data and power. A ground contact can encircle the tongue and a shield can be around the tongue, contacts, and ground contact. An RF contact can be positioned between the ground contact and the shield, such that the ground contact and shield provide RF shielding for the RF contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Darshan R. Kasar, Jambu A. Jambulingam, Sivesh Selvakumar
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Patent number: 11190878Abstract: This disclosure includes several different features suitable for use in circumaural and supra-aural headphones designs. Designs that enhance user comfort and improve user control of the headphones are discussed. Various sensor configurations and electronic component positions are also discussed. User convenience features that include detachable cushions and automatically detecting the donning and doffing of headphones are also discussed.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Axit H. Patel, Edwin J. Corona Aparicio, Daniel R. Bloom, Tsu-Hui Lin, Yuta Kuboyama, Michael B. Minerbi
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Patent number: 11189103Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that enable faster and more efficient real-time physical object recognition, information retrieval, and updating of a CGR environment. In some implementations, the CGR environment is provided at a first device based on a classification of the physical object, image or video data including the physical object is transmitted by the first device to a second device, and the CGR environment is updated by the first device based on a response associated with the physical object received from the second device.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Eshan Verma, Daniel Ulbricht, Angela Blechschmidt, Mohammad Haris Baig, Chen-Yu Lee, Tanmay Batra
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Patent number: 11189248Abstract: A method of providing a graphical output may include scanning at least a portion of a user's face using a sensor; generating a depth map using the scan; and determining a similarity score between the depth map and a set of stored biometric identity maps that are associated with a registered user. In response to the similarity score exceeding a threshold, the user may be authenticated as the registered user. The method may further determine a corrective eyewear scenario, select a display profile that is associated with the corrective eyewear scenario, and generate a graphical output in accordance with the selected display profile.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sung Chang Lee, Kee Suk Ryu, Wei Guang Wu
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Patent number: 11190194Abstract: A digital phase-locked loop has a digitally controlled oscillator with a first coarse tuning field for coarse tuning of the oscillator frequency, a second coarse tuning field for tuning of the oscillator frequency at finer intervals than the first coarse tuning field, and a fine tuning field for tuning the oscillator to an output frequency at finer intervals than the second coarse tuning field. The second coarse tuning field provides open loop tuning and is linear and connected parallel to the first coarse tuning field. The second coarse tuning field provides wide field temperature compensation and frequency error determination at start up based on an interpolated frequency value obtained prior to start up. Faster settling is provided with less complex algorithms.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christian Wicpalek, Andreas Roithmeier, Andreas Leistner, Thomas Gustedt, Herwig Dietl-Steinmaurer, Tobias Buckel
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Patent number: 11188196Abstract: A computing device is configured with a multifunctional backlit display. The backlighting can be operated in at least a first mode and a second mode. In a first mode, the backlighting provides luminance to the display so that images on the display can be easily seen. In a second mode, the backlighting provides visual stimulus for relaying information to a user or a user's surroundings.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Eugene Antony Whang
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Patent number: 11190382Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate RS (Reference Signal) sequence generation and mapping, and/or precoder assignment, for NR (New Radio). One example embodiment employable at a NR wireless communication device comprises processing circuitry configured to: generate one or more PN (Pseudo Noise) sequences based at least in part on an initial state of a PN generator; extract, for each PRB (Physical Resource Block) of one or more PRBs, an associated portion of an associated PN sequence of the one or more PN sequences, based at least in part on a reference subcarrier index, independent of a bandwidth part configuration and of a maximum supported number of PRBs; and generate, for each PRB of the one or more PRBs, an associated set of RS(s) for that PRB based at least in part on the extracted associated portion of the associated PN sequence for that PRB.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gang Xiong, Debdeep Chatterjee, Yushu Zhang, Alexei Davydov, Wook Bong Lee, Dae Won Lee, Sameer Pawar, Jeongho Jeon, Hong He
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Patent number: 11190586Abstract: A messaging system uses a cloud storage backup system for messages and a temporary storage for messages that are not deliverable to offline devices at the time that the messages are sent by one or more messaging servers. The messages are backed up through a synchronization process that transfers a batch of a plurality of messages rather than a single message or an entire database of messages. A conversation state can be synchronized first before synchronizing messages through the transfer of one or more batches of messages.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kevin J. Lindeman, Roberto Garcia, Gokul Thirumalai, Alexandre A. Aybes, Bhaskar P. Sarma, Ori Herrnstadt, Raghav V. Pisolkar, Michael D. Ford, Robert Y. Loh
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Patent number: 11190753Abstract: Various implementations disclosed are for detecting moving objects that are in a field of view of a head-mountable device (HMD). In various implementations, the HMD includes a display, an event camera, a non-transitory memory, and a processor coupled with the display, the event camera and the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, the method includes synthesizing a first optical flow characterizing one or more objects in a field of view of the event camera based on depth data associated with the one or more objects. In some implementations, the method includes determining a second optical flow characterizing the one or more objects in the field of view of the event camera based on event image data provided by the event camera. In some implementations, the method includes determining that a first object of the one or more objects is moving based on the first optical flow and the second optical flow.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Peter Meier
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Patent number: 11187914Abstract: A scene camera system that includes two or more mirrors that reflect light from a respective portion of a field of view (FOV) in front of the system and two or more cameras that each capture the light reflected by a respective one of the two or more mirrors. By using the mirrors to reflect the light, the cameras' entrance pupils are imaged to a location closer to a user's eyes to thus achieve a more accurate representation of the perspective of the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Daniel R. Hennigan, Noah D. Bedard, Branko Petljanski, Jason C. Sauers, Edward S. Huo, Ricardo J. Motta, Brett D. Miller, Yury Petrov
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Patent number: 11188286Abstract: In an exemplary process for accessing a function of an external device through a computer-generated reality interface, one or more external devices are detected. Image data of a physical environment captured by an image sensor is obtained. The process determines whether the image data includes a representation of a first external device of the one or more detected external devices. In accordance with determining that the image data includes a representation of the first external device, the process causing a display to concurrently display a representation of the physical environment according to the image data, and an affordance corresponding to a function of the first external device, wherein detecting user activation of the displayed affordance causes the first external device to perform an action corresponding to the function.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Justin D. Stoyles, Michael Kuhn
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Patent number: 11190864Abstract: A head-mountable device can include a speaker unit that provides structural support to its own components and electrical connections between other components. The arrangement of conductive strips within a back plate of a speaker unit can provide the structural support needed by the components of a speaker while allowing components on opposing sides of the speaker unit to be operably connected to each other. By providing both functions with the conductive strips of a back plate, the total space required is minimized so that the head-securement element (e.g., band) of the head-mountable device maintains a thin profile.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: James W. Vandyke, Darshan R. Kasar, Neal D. Evans
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Patent number: 11189202Abstract: A system may include an electronic display panel having multiple pixels for depicting image data and processing circuitry that may receive a first error value representative of a first difference between a first electrical signal measured at a first pixel of the multiple pixels and an expected electrical signal for the first pixel. The first electrical signal may be based on a test signal transmitted to the first pixel and the expected electrical signal may correspond to an expected response of the first pixel based on the test signal. The processing circuitry may filter the first error value to generate a first compensated error value and may filter the first error value based on the first compensated error value to generate a second compensated error value, where the second compensated error value may filter one or more effects of spatial crosstalk between one or more pixels near the first pixel.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sun-Il Chang, Baris Cagdaser, Chaohao Wang, Derek Keith Shaeffer, Hyunsoo Kim, Hyunwoo Nho, Injae Hwang, Jesse Aaron Richmond, Jie Won Ryu, Junhua Tan, Kingsuk Brahma, Myung-Je Cho, Myungjoon Choi, Shengkui Gao, Shiping Shen, Wei H. Yao, Yunhui Hou
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Patent number: 11189017Abstract: Devices, methods, and computer-readable media describing an adaptive approach for image selection, fusion, and noise reduction, e.g., to generate low noise and high dynamic range (HDR) images with improved motion freezing in a variety of capturing conditions. An incoming image stream may be obtained from an image capture device, wherein the image stream comprises a variety of differently-exposed captures, e.g., EV0 images, EV? images, EV+ images. When a capture request is received, a set of rules may be used to evaluate one or more capture conditions associated with the images from the incoming image stream and determine which two or more images to select for a fusion operation. The fusion operation may be designed to adaptively fuse the selected images, e.g., in a fashion that is determined to be optimal from a noise variance minimization standpoint. A fusion-adaptive noise reduction process may further be performed on the resultant fused image.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Farhan A. Baqai, Gijesh Varghese, Hao Sun, Tak Shing Wong