Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 11188168Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a computing device is described. In response to receiving an input corresponding to a first gesture, the device determines an updated location for an object selection indicator within a user interface in accordance with the first gesture. In accordance with a determination that the updated location is within a portion of the user interface that corresponds to a predefined region of the display, the device sends instructions to the display for moving the object selection indicator to the updated location without scrolling the user interface. In accordance with a determination that the updated location is outside of the portion of the user interface, the device sends instructions to the display for moving the object selection indicator to the updated location and scrolling the user interface so as to display the updated location within the predefined region.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Julian Missig
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Patent number: 11189052Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a method is performed at a device with one or more processors and non-transitory memory. The method includes obtaining location vector data characterizing an object. The method includes determining a neural pose graph associated with a respective time-period based on an initial local pose estimation as a function of respective location vector data. The method includes determining a meta pose estimation associated with the respective time-period by aggregating the neural pose graph associated with the respective time-period and one or more other neural pose graphs associated with one or more temporally adjacent time-periods.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Emilio Parisotto, Jian Zhang, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Devendra Singh Chaplot
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Patent number: 11188422Abstract: The described embodiments set forth techniques for preserving clone relationships between files at a computing device. In particular, the techniques involve identifying clone relationships between files in conjunction with performing operations on the files where it can be beneficial to preserve the clone relationships. The operations can include, for example, preserving clone relationships between files that are being copied from a source storage device (that supports file cloning) to a destination storage device that supports file cloning. Additionally, the operations can include preserving clone relationships when backing up and restoring files between a source storage device (that supports file cloning) and a destination storage device that does not support file cloning. In this manner, the various benefits afforded by the clone relationships between files can be retained even as the files are propagated to destination storage devices that may or may not support file cloning.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Pavel Cisler, Christopher A. Wolf, Loic E. Vandereyken, Eric A. Weiss
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Patent number: 11190971Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment (UE) device to adaptively provide enhanced the quality of service (QoS) for an application. The UE may request a dedicated bearer or flow for communications conducted over a network between a UE application and a server associated with the application. The UE may use various information, including a QoS profile associated with the application, to determine requested QoS parameters and/or determine whether to provide the enhanced QoS functionality, e.g., whether to request the dedicated bearer/flow from the network. These techniques may tend to provide more appropriate QoS to the application, which may improve user experience.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yingjie Zhao, Li Su, Wenping Lou, Faraz Faheem, Jianxiong Shi, Sreevalsan Vallath
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Patent number: 11190507Abstract: A device implementing a trusted device establishment system includes at least one processor configured to receive, via a direct wireless connection and from an other device, a public key associated with the other device and an indication of a data item previously provided to the other device via an out-of-band channel. The at least one processor is further configured to verify that the indication of the data item corresponds to the data item previously provided to the other device, and store, in a secure memory region, the public key in association with an identifier corresponding to the other device when the indication of the data item is verified. The at least one processor is further configured to authorize the public key to access a secure device based at least in part on the public key being stored in the secure memory region.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Matthias Lerch, Florian Galdo
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Patent number: 11190856Abstract: Time-based events and other metadata that can be added to a media stream to enable downstream systems to enhance the viewing experience are disclosed. The events are given time attributes that establish their location in the media stream so that regardless of where the playhead is located within the media stream, the events that are active at that point in time can be identified and synchronized with the playhead. In addition, a master clock can be used to update a stream timeline associated with the media stream to account for differences between the expected and actual duration of advertisements inserted into the media stream.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: William M. Bumgarner, Blake Seely, Christopher L. Oklota, Dale A. Taylor, Eswar Priyadarshan
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Patent number: 11186146Abstract: A laminated glazing includes a first glass layer, a second glass layer, an interlayer, and an optical coating layer. The interlayer is between the first glass layer and the second glass layer and has a first textured surface with a texture. The optical coating layer is between the interlayer and the second glass layer and includes an optical coating material. One or more of the texture or the optical coating material is different between an outer region and a central region of the laminated glazing.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: David E. Kingman, Derek C. Scott, Christopher L. Porritt, Marcelo B. da Silveira Magalhaes, Martin Melcher, Peter F. Masschelein, Donald R. Monroe
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Patent number: 11188151Abstract: A portable electronic device is described in this disclosure. The portable electronic device can take many forms including for example a smart watch, a smart phone, or a tablet computing device. The portable electronic device can include a device housing component; and a display assembly coupled to the device housing component. The display assembly includes a protective cover that shields a display component from damage. The portable electronic device also includes an actuator configured to apply a vibratory input to the display assembly. In some embodiments, the actuator contacts both the device housing component and the protective cover of the display assembly. In some embodiments, the actuator is affixed only to an interior-facing surface of the display component.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Tyler S. Bushnell, Justin D. Crosby, Kevin Truong, Nikolas T. Vitt, Daniel Corona
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Patent number: 11190477Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a method for providing interactive notification elements. A device receives a first message and displays a first notification element in a first area of a user interface. The first notification element includes information about the received first message. While displaying the first notification element, the device receives a second message. In response, the device determines whether the second message is associated with the first message. In accordance with a determination that the second message is not associated with the first message, the device delays displaying a second notification element for the second message until the first notification element has been dismissed.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Matthew E. Shepherd, Michael R. Dickson, Stephen O. Lemay, Freddy A. Anzures, Richard R. Dellinger, Tomiwa Alabi, Lawrence Y. Yang
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Patent number: 11188477Abstract: In an embodiment, a computer system comprises a page protection layer. The page protection layer may be the component in the system which manages the page tables for virtual to physical page mappings. Transactions to the page protection layer are used to create/manage mappings created in the page tables. The page protection layer may enforce dynamic security policies in the system (i.e. security policies that may not be enforced using only a static hardware configuration). In an embodiment, the page protection layer may ensure that it is the only component which is able to modify the page tables. The page protection layer may ensure than no component in the system is able to modify a page that is marked executable in any process' address space. The page protection may ensure that any page that is marked executable has code with a verified code signature, in an embodiment.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Julien Oster, Thomas G. Holland, Bernard J. Semeria, Jason A. Harmening, Pierre-Olivier J. Martel, Gregory D. Hughes, P. Love Hornquist Astrand, Jacques Fortier, Ryan P. Nielson, Simon P. Cooper
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Patent number: 11188308Abstract: Techniques for interactive code editing are described. A system can provide for display a code editing environment that resembles a text editor. Upon detecting various user inputs, the system can display, in place of text, widgets in the code editing environment. The widgets can have the appearance of text, and have functions to interact with the user to provide various conveniences including, for example, line management, step completion, calculation completion, parameter management, and code folding.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2014Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Oleg Zaydman, Ashok Srinivasan
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Patent number: 11189909Abstract: A device includes a display and a housing. The housing at least partially surrounds the display. The housing includes a first housing segment defining at least a first portion of an exterior surface of the device and a first interlock feature having an interlock surface that is offset with respect to an end surface of the first housing segment. The first interlock feature has a first opening formed in the interlock surface. The housing further includes a second housing segment defining at least a second portion of the exterior surface of the device and a second interlock feature having a second opening aligned with the first opening, and a non-conductive housing component defining a third portion of the exterior surface of the device and extending into the first opening and the second opening.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Paul U. Leutheuser, Martin J. Auclair, Kevin M. Froese, Christopher J. Durning, Jun Ham, Lucy E. Browning, Sawyer I. Cohen, Richard Hung Minh Dinh, Donald J. Parr
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Patent number: 11190870Abstract: A multi-way speaker array is disclosed that includes rings of transducers of different types. The rings of transducers may encircle the cabinet of the speaker array such that the speaker array is rotationally symmetric. The distance between rings of transducers may be based on a logarithmic scale. By separating rings of transducers using logarithmic spacing, denser transducer spacing at short wavelengths is achieved while limiting the number of transducers needed for longer wavelengths by spacing them in larger and larger logarithmic increments. Transducers with overlapping frequency ranges may be used in the speaker array to avoid initial dips or shortfalls in directivity for corresponding beam patterns.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Martin E. Johnson, Gordon R. Dix, Michael B. Howes, Gary P. Geaves, Tom-Davy William Jendrik Saux
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Patent number: 11188141Abstract: Circuits, methods, and apparatus that may determine one or more characteristics relating to a mains power supply received by a computer system, and may then determine a maximum amount of power that may be drawn by the computer system given the determined characteristics. An example may provide a computer system having a power supply circuit that may include a detection circuit to receive a mains power supply and to detect a characteristic of the mains power supply. In response to the detected characteristic, the detection circuit may provide an output to a circuit in the computer system that sets a limit on a current that may be drawn by the circuit. In this example, the characteristic may be an RMS value of the mains power supply waveform, a location of where the mains power supply is being received, a quality of the mains power supply, or other characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Corey N. Axelowitz, William R. Allan, II, Eric C. Gaertner, Ian P. Shaeffer, Ronald P. Songco, John T. Orchard
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Patent number: 11189159Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for facilitating disabling an alarm in response to particular types of activity-indicative data. More specifically, activity-indicative data (e.g., sensor data or input(s) can be detected prior to a preset alarm time. Upon determining, based on the activity-indicative data, that a wakefulness condition is satisfied (e.g., that the activity-indicative data corresponds to one or more predefined characteristics), a disablement query can be displayed that includes an option to disable the alarm. In response to detecting a selection of the option, the alarm can be disabled such that the alarm stimuli is not to be presented at the preset alarm time.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bharath Narasimha Rao, Kevin Will Chen, Reed E. Olsen, Umamahesh Srinivas, Kevin M. Lynch
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Patent number: 11189082Abstract: A method includes obtaining a three-dimensional model that represents a natural environment and identifying ground-level surfaces from the three-dimensional model, wherein the ground-level surfaces from the three-dimensional model represent ground-level features from the natural environment. The method also includes identifying overhanging features from the three-dimensional model, wherein the overhanging features from the three-dimensional model block visibility of the ground-level surfaces from the three-dimensional model when the ground-level surfaces are viewed from an orthographic perspective.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ibrahim Musba, Jizhou Gao, Jim Loup Zin, Andreas H. Bockert, Kjell Fredrik Larsson
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Patent number: 11190050Abstract: An inductive power transmitter is provided that includes a power transmitting coil which includes transmission circuitry coupled to the power transmitting coil. The inductive power transmitter is configured to produce an inductive power transfer (IPT) signal having an IPT power so that the power transmitting coil generates an IPT field to transfer wireless power to a power receiving coil of an inductive power receiver. The inductive power transmitter includes detection circuitry coupled to the transmission circuitry and is configured to detect one or more indications of a magnetic field strength of a leakage IPT field. The inductive power transmitter includes control circuitry configured to control the transmission circuitry while the transmission circuitry is increasing the IPT power towards a charge level sufficient to charge a battery associated with the inductive power receiver at a target charge rate.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gianpaolo Lisi, Madhusudanan Keezhveedi Sampath, Nan Liu, Tianqi Li, YiBo Liu, Yasin Aalipour
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Patent number: D937295Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Richard Dellinger, Jonathan David Hersh, Kevin Richard Jorgensen, Michael Lee Knippers
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Patent number: D937314Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Mikio Inose, Marcel van Os
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Patent number: D937323Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Chanaka Karunamuni