Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 11144121
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a user input device and methods related to the use thereto. In one aspect, an embodiment includes a flexible fabric attachable to a user having a first portion and a second portion. The first portion may be moveable in relation to the second portion. The embodiment may further include a controller configured to identify an input configuration based on a position of the first portion relative to a position of the second portion within a three-dimensional space. The embodiment may further include a haptic feedback structure disposed adjacent the flexible fabric and configured to provide haptic feedback based on the input configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Paul X. Wang, Zheng Gao, Reza Nasiri Mahalati, Ray L. Chang
  • Patent number: 11145260
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to an electronic device with a display. The display includes an array of light-emitting diodes. The array includes a plurality of subarrays of the light-emitting diodes. At least one driver circuit is coupled to the array of light-emitting diodes. The at least one driver circuit is configured to generate an adaptive pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal to control at least one subarray of the plurality of subarrays of the light-emitting diodes. The adaptive PWM signal is designed with each pulse of a group having a pulse width W, each pulse width being reduced until reaching a threshold pulse width, and one pulse being removed from the group of pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vehbi Calayir, James E. Brown, Venkataraman V. Iyer, Bret Rothenberg
  • Patent number: 11147046
    Abstract: An interface circuit in an electronic device (such as an access point) may request a channel status in order to specify a subset of one or more frequency sub-bands. During operation, the interface circuit may provide at least a frame to the recipient electronic device, where the frame requests the channel status for the one or more frequency sub-bands. Then, the electronic device may receive one or more measurement results from the recipient electronic device that specify the subset of the one or more frequency sub-bands (such as one or more RUs) that are not to be used when communicating with the recipient electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guoqing Li, Yang Yu, Paul V. Flynn, Yaranama Venkata Ramana Dass, Vijay Kumar Ramamurthi, Camille Chen, Rajneesh Kumar
  • Publication number: 20210314469
    Abstract: A camera system may include one or more voice coil motor (VCM) actuators to implement focus, tilt and shift functions. The VCM actuators may include coils segmented into multiple coil segments having individually impedances lower than the impedance of the respective coil as a whole. The coil segments may be individually driven by respective currents at different points in time to interact with magnet(s) to produce motive forces along the same axis. Based on the winding configuration and driving mode of the coil segments, the motive forces may move a lens group relative to an image sensor in a direction substantially orthogonal to an image plane, tilt the lens group relative to the image sensor, or shift the image sensor relative to the lens group on the image plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shahrooz Shahparnia, Anish Bhide
  • Publication number: 20210312694
    Abstract: A mixed reality system that includes a device and a base station that communicate via a wireless connection The device may include sensors that collect information about the user's environment and about the user. The information collected by the sensors may be transmitted to the base station via the wireless connection. The base station renders frames or slices based at least in part on the sensor information received from the device, encodes the frames or slices, and transmits the compressed frames or slices to the device for decoding and display. The base station may provide more computing power than conventional stand-alone systems, and the wireless connection does not tether the device to the base station as in conventional tethered systems. The system may implement methods and apparatus to maintain a target frame rate through the wireless link and to minimize latency in frame rendering, transmittal, and display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur Y Zhang, Ray L. Chang, Timothy R. Oriol, Ling Su, Gurjeet S. Saund, Guy Cote, Jim C. Chou, Hao Pan, Tobias Eble, Avi Bar-Zeev, Sheng Zhang, Justin A. Hensley, Geoffrey Stahl
  • Publication number: 20210312029
    Abstract: The described embodiments perform a proximity unlock operation. For the proximity unlock operation, a first electronic device in a locked operating state detects that an authorized second electronic device is in proximity to the first electronic device. Based on detecting the authorized second electronic device in proximity to the first electronic device, the first electronic device transitions from a locked operating state to an unlocked operating state. In the described embodiments, the transition to the unlocked operating state occurs without the user performing a manual authentication step that is performed in existing electronic devices to cause the transition from the locked operating state to the unlocked operating state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Robert R. ULRICH, Jean-Pierre CUIDAD, Kevin N. ARMSTRONG, Andreas W. WENDKER, Craig M. FEDERIGHI, Steve S. KO
  • Publication number: 20210314885
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media are described for random access procedures triggered based on physical downlink control channel (PDDCH) orders. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yongjun KWAK, Daewon LEE, Gregory MOROZOV, Seunghee HAN
  • Patent number: 11137830
    Abstract: A control device for an interactive computing system includes a first elongated member, a second elongated member, and a biasing actuator. The first elongated member and the second elongated member are pivotably coupled at a pivot axis. The biasing actuator is coupled to the first elongated member and the second elongated member to provide an output torque between the first elongated member and the second elongated member about the pivot axis. The control device is configured to receive user input for controlling a virtual device displayed by the interactive computing system to visually resemble a physical device. The biasing actuator is controllable to provide tactile feedback to simulate physical behavior of the physical device. The control device is movable freely in space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin G. Jackson, Seung Wook Kim, David H. Bloom, Brenton A. Baugh, Steven J. Taylor, Madeleine S. Cordier
  • Patent number: 11140749
    Abstract: Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), a generation Node-B (gNB) and methods for communication are generally described herein. The UE may the UE 102 may receive from a gNB, control signaling that indicates: a first pre-coding matrix indicator (PMI) that indicates a first pre-coder for a first sub-band; and a second PMI that indicates a second pre-coder for a second sub-band. The first and second pre-coders may be included in predetermined candidate pre-coders. The UE may encode a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) block for transmission. The UE may scale the PUSCH block in the first sub-band by the first pre-coder. The UE may scale the PUSCH block in the second sub-band by the second pre-coder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Alexei Davydov, Wook Bong Lee, Dae Won Lee, Seunghee Han
  • Patent number: 11139876
    Abstract: Technology for a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) operable to communicate a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resource element (RE) mapping configuration to a user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The gNB can determine a CSI-RS RE mapping configuration that 5 identifies resource elements for a CSI-RS resource at a frequency domain location (k) and at a time domain location (l). The gNB can encode the CSI-RS RE mapping configuration for transmission to the UE via higher layer signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Sameer Pawar, Alexei Davydov
  • Patent number: 11140740
    Abstract: Embodiments of a next generation Node-B (gNB), User Equipment (UE) and methods for communication are generally described herein. A gNB may be configurable to operate as a master gNB (MgNB). The MgNB may transmit radio-resource control (RRC) signaling to provide information for dual connectivity to allow the UE to utilize radio resources of both a master cell group (MCG) associated with the MgNB and a secondary cell group (SCG) associated with a secondary gNB (SgNB). The MgNB may transmit, to the SgNB, an SgNB release request message that indicates a partial suspension of the dual connectivity, wherein: a first portion of a configuration for the SCG is to be maintained and a second portion of the configuration for the SCG is to be released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marta Martinez Tarradell, Youn Hyoung Heo, Sudeep K. Palat, Seau S. Lim
  • Patent number: 11138005
    Abstract: This application relates to a system for the automatic generation of software developer documentation. The system utilizes various machine learning algorithms and processes to facilitate at least a portion of the documentation process. Included are steps for extracting metadata from an undocumented symbol's declaration, processing a corpus of previously documented symbols, and generating output for the undocumented symbol. Consequently, a writer is provided with a document that is at least partially completed when the writer begins the process of documenting an undocumented symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael M. Dewitt, Diogo Manuel Delgado B. Almeida, Emily K. Van Haren, Santiago Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 11139946
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a cancellation device for cancelling interference caused by a non-linear device, the cancellation device comprising: an adaptive filter coupled in parallel to the non-linear device, wherein the adaptive filter is configured to filter an input signal of the non-linear device to generate an approximation signal approximating an output signal of the non-linear device; an error signal generator configured to generate an error signal based on a function of the output signal and the approximation signal; and a controller configured to adjust the adaptive filter based on the error signal and a phase and magnitude relation of the output signal and the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Venkatesan Nallampattiekambaram, Yang-Seok Choi
  • Patent number: 11139924
    Abstract: A method and system to improve the link budget of a wireless system using fast Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) protocol. In one embodiment of the invention, the Medium Access Control (MAC) logic in a base station determines whether the quality of the communication link with a mobile station is bad. When the MAC logic in the base station determines that the quality is bad, the base station uses a fast Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) protocol to indicate to the mobile station to send identical information to the base station in each of a plurality of successive or consecutive communication intervals before processing any received identical information from the mobile station. The fast HARQ protocol reduces the latency of receiving the identical information correctly, as compared with the current HARQ protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Aran Bergman
  • Patent number: 11140710
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe apparatuses and methods for signal designs for device-to-device (D2D) subframes. Various embodiments may include a UE with a radio transceiver to communicate with another UE via D2D communications. The UE may further include processing circuitry to generate a cyclic prefix (CP) for a first or second symbol of a D2D subframe at an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) resource block or a single-carrier frequency-division multiple access (SC-FDMA) resource block. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Debdeep Chatterjee, Seunghee Han, Gang Xiong, Huaning Niu
  • Patent number: 11138024
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed that create user interface (UI) instances for corresponding input/output resources, such as display resources, and each of these UI instances have separate lifecycle states or information maintained by the respective UI instances. System processes for the display resources (e.g. different displays or different windows for the same display devices) can control access to their respective display resource and can report changes in the lifecycle states to their respective UI interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen F. Holt, Gordon J. Freedman, Shubham Kedia, Stephen C. Moseley, Cindy M. Barrett, Patrick Coffman
  • Patent number: 11137596
    Abstract: A head-mountable device can include an optical module that provides a display element and/or an optical element that are adjustably mounted. The display element and/or another optical element can be adjusted by actuation of a mechanism that allows the display element and/or the optical element to move in one or more (e.g., six) degrees of freedom (roll, pitch, and yaw). The actuation allows for the position of the display element to be adjusted relative to the optical element to correct for any displacements caused during operation of the head-mountable device. One or more sensors within the optical module or external to the optical module and/or the head-mountable device can detect the position of the display at an initial state as well as thereafter. The sensors can check for changes in the position of the components to provide a basis for the actuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Ivan S. Marić, Jan K. Quijalvo
  • Patent number: D932332
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D932516
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Patrick Lee Coffman, Alan C. Dye, Stephen O. Lemay, Raymond Sepulveda
  • Patent number: D933092
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Broughton, Jonathan P. Ive