Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 11094036
    Abstract: The disclosure pertains to techniques for operation of graphics systems and task execution on a graphics processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michal Valient, Sean P. James, Gokhan Avkarogullari, Alexander K. Kan, Michael Imbrogno
  • Patent number: 11092690
    Abstract: A vehicle including one or more sensors, a light detection and ranging (lidar) sensor and a lidar prediction system. The one or more sensors include an optical sensor, a radar sensor, or both, configured to capture sensor data of a particular view. The lidar sensor is configured to capture lidar data of the particular view. The lidar prediction system includes a predictive model. The lidar prediction system is configured to generate a predicted lidar frame comprising applying the predictive model to the sensor data and send the predicted lidar frame to an external system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Meier, Abhishek Sharma
  • Patent number: 11096232
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for efficiently handling connection rejections. A wireless device may detect barring conditions in response to receiving one or more connection rejections. The wireless device may bar one or more connections based on the barring conditions, and may attempt to access network services over one or more other connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fangli Xu, Rohit R. Matolia, Vijay Venkataraman, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Yuqin Chen, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Murtaza A. Shikari, Sree Ram Kodali, Srinivasan Nimmala, Xu Ou, Longda Xing
  • Patent number: 11092989
    Abstract: A regulator configured to provide at an output node a load current at an output voltage is described. The regulator comprises a pass transistor for providing the load current at the output node. Furthermore, the regulator comprises feedback means for deriving a feedback voltage from the output voltage at the output node. In addition, the regulator comprises a differential amplifier configured to control the pass transistor in dependence of the feedback voltage and in dependence of a reference voltage. The regulator further comprises compensation means configured to determine a sensed current which is indicative of the load current at the output node. Furthermore, the compensation means are configured to adjust an operation point of the regulator in dependence of the sensed current and in dependence of a value of a track impedance of a conductive track which links the output node to a load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hande Kurnaz, Ambreesh Bhattad, Gary Hague, Frank Kronmueller
  • Patent number: 11093425
    Abstract: A system and method for efficiently arbitrating traffic on a bus. A computing system includes a fabric for routing traffic among one or more agents and one or more endpoints. The fabric includes multiple arbiters in an arbitration hierarchy. Arbiters store traffic in buffers with each buffer associated with a particular traffic type and a source of the traffic. Arbiters maintain a respective urgency counter for keeping track of a period of time traffic of a particular type is blocked by upstream arbiters. When the block is removed, the traffic of the particular type has priority for selection based on the urgency counter. When arbiters receive feedback from downstream arbiters or sources, the arbiters adjust selection priority accordingly. For example, changes in bandwidth requirement, low latency tolerance and active status cause adjustments in selection priority of stored requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nachiappan Chidambaram Nachiappan, Jaideep Dastidar, Yiu Chun Tse, Ripudaman Singh, Shawn Munetoshi Fukami, Benjamin K. Dodge, Vinodh R. Cuppu
  • Patent number: 11096244
    Abstract: Techniques, apparatus and methods are disclosed that enable non-adaptive Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) retransmission using SPS resources. Non-adaptive HARQ retransmission can be enabled in a configured Uplink (UL) resource (such as SPS resources). As it may not be beneficial to allow non-adaptive HARQ retransmission on SPS resources for all kinds of traffic, options for proper configuration can be provided either by network signaling or by predefined configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Umesh Phuyal, Yujian Zhang, Youn Hyoung Heo
  • Patent number: 11095252
    Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a baseband processor, a transceiver, a front-end module, and an antenna. The transceiver may include mixer circuitry. The mixer circuitry may include switches controlled by oscillator signals. The mixer circuitry may also include oscillator phase noise cancelling capacitors controlled by inverted oscillator signals. Operated in this way, the mixer circuitry exhibits improved noise figure performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Feng Zhao, Utku Seckin
  • Patent number: 11096076
    Abstract: A prioritized cell identification and measurement method is disclosed. The method classifies frequency layers to be monitored and measured by an user equipment into normal- and reduced-performance groups. Several different embodiments are described. Where appropriate, the corresponding signaling design is also suggested. User equipment can adopt one or several of these embodiments, and can change configurations in a semi-static manner based on operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Tang, Rui Huang, Candy Yiu
  • Patent number: 11092997
    Abstract: A computing system includes an electronic device, a cover or case for the electronic device, and an input device that is slidably movable yet attached to the cover or case. By positioning the electronic device on top of the input device, rotation of the electronic device which changes its vertical viewing angle also translates the input device. These can provide improved overall possible viewing angle adjustability, increased system stability at high viewing angles, laptop-like opening and closing behavior, lighter weight, and implementation using low-cost components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Santhana K. Balaji, Guangtao Zhang, John Raff, Ryan P. Brooks
  • Patent number: 11092773
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas D. Smyth, Alfred N. Mireault, Scott W. Miller, Shashank Sharma
  • Patent number: 11095334
    Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a baseband processor, a transceiver circuit, a front-end module, and an antenna. The front-end module may include amplifier circuitry such as a low noise amplifier for amplifying received radio-frequency signals. The amplifier circuitry is operable in a non-carrier-aggregation mode and a carrier aggregation mode. The amplifier circuitry may include an input transformer that is coupled to multiple amplifier stages such as a common gate amplifier stage, a cascode amplifier stage, and a common source amplifier stage. The common gate amplifier stage may include switches for selectively activating a set of cross-coupled capacitors to help maintain input impedance matching in the non-carrier-aggregation mode and the carrier-aggregation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Seyed Mohammad Hossein Mohammadnezhad, Xi Yao, Aly Ismail
  • Patent number: 11095766
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick L. Coffman, David Chance Graham, Afrooz Family, Aimee Piercy, Hugo Verweij
  • Patent number: 11095162
    Abstract: A wireless power system has a wireless power transmitting device and a wireless power receiving device. The wireless power transmitting device and wireless power receiving device may include control circuitry that measures operating parameters. During wireless power transmission operations, the wireless power receiving device may periodically send feedback to the wireless power transmitting device such as in-band wireless power adjustment commands requesting that the wireless power transmitting device adjust the amount of power being transmitted from the wireless power transmitting device to the wireless power receiving device. Faster estimates of desired adjustments to the amount of transmitted power can be made by the wireless power transmitting device using real-time measurements of wireless power transmitting device coil current and wireless power transmitting device coil voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Weiyun Chen, Stephen C. Terry
  • Patent number: 11095483
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for joint CSI-RS and SRS triggering. Embodiments may include DCI format(s) to support joint CSI-RS and SRS triggering, and UE QCL assumption when CSI-RS and SRS are jointly triggered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Guotong Wang, Alexei Davydov, Gang Xiong, Hong He
  • Patent number: 11095206
    Abstract: A power converter can include an input boost converter stage having an input configured to receive a rectified AC input voltage and an output configured to deliver a DC bus voltage and a second switching converter stage having an input configured to receive the DC bus voltage and an output configured to deliver a regulated output voltage. The input boost converter may be configured to be operated in a flat current mode to maintain a substantially constant DC bus voltage over a broad range of AC input voltages. The input boost converter may be further configured to be operated in an active blanking mode, wherein operation of the boost converter is prevented during a controlled blanking interval of each cycle of the rectified AC input voltage. The controlled blanking interval may be increased responsive at least in part to an increase in the AC input voltage and/or may be decreased responsive at least in part to a decrease in the AC input voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: InHwan Oh, Bharat K. Patel, Abby Cherian
  • Patent number: 11095967
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for determining when to wirelessly communicatively couple together a pair of untethered wireless audio output devices and for determining when to erase a connection history stored on one or both of the wireless audio output devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Robert D. Watson, David John Shaw, Ganesh Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta, Chandrahas Aralaguppe Chandramohan, Gregory Robert Burns, Benjamin Huth Byer
  • Patent number: 11090997
    Abstract: A suspension actuator includes an upper mount, a lower mount, a first actuator mechanism, and a second actuator mechanism. The upper mount is connectable to a sprung mass of a vehicle. The lower mount is connectable to an unsprung mass of the vehicle. The first actuator mechanism forms a first load path between the upper mount and the lower mount. The first actuator mechanism is one of an electromagnetic linear actuator mechanism or a ball screw actuator mechanism. The second actuator mechanism forms a second load path in parallel with the first load path between the upper mount and the lower mount. The second actuator mechanism is one of a mechanical linear actuator mechanism, an air spring actuator mechanism, or a hydraulic actuator mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan L. Hall, Troy A. Carter, Paul J. Keas
  • Patent number: 11095409
    Abstract: Technology for a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) operable to communicate over an anchor channel for Unlicensed Internet of Things (U-IoT) is disclosed. The gNB can encode control information for transmission on two discovery reference signal (DRS) subframes to a user equipment 5 (UE). The control information can be transmitted on an anchor channel having a set frequency for U-IoT in an adaptive frequency hopping system. The control information can include: a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) transmission, and a system information block for MulteFire bandwidth reduced (SIB-MF10 BR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Qiaoyang Ye, Huaning Niu, Wenting Chang, Salvatore Talarico
  • Patent number: 11096195
    Abstract: Technology for a user equipment (UE) using a self-contained scheduling resource to communicate with an eNodeB within a wireless communication network is disclosed. The UE can select, at the UE, a selected eNodeB transmission (Tx) beam and a selected UE reception (Rx) beam based on a highest power beamforming reference signal (BRS) received power (BRS-RP). The UE can signal a transceiver of the UE to transmit to the eNodeB a scheduling request (SR), using the selected Rx beam, on a scheduling request (SR) resource in a self-contained subframe according to a time and frequency location of the selected eNodeB Tx beam. The UE can process an advanced physical downlink control channel (xPDCCH), received from the eNodeB, for an uplink (UL) grant using the selected UE RX beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Wenting Chang, Huaning Niu, Yushu Zhang, Yuan Zhu
  • Patent number: D928180
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anton Davydov, Jane E. Koo, Wyatt R. Mitchell, Daniel J. Wiersema