Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Publication number: 20200133469
    Abstract: Sonic embodiments provide an image editing application that edits an image. The image editing application displays an image in a display area. The image editing application displays a rotatable user interface item. In response to receiving a user input, the image editing application rotates the rotatable user interface item. The image editing application rotates the image displayed in the display area based on the rotation of the rotatable user interface item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Randy Ubillos, Timothy D. Cherna, Zehang Sun
  • Publication number: 20200133453
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for implementing near-view notification techniques. In some instances, a viewing distance with respect to a display screen of an electronic device may be determined. In accordance with a determination that the viewing distance is above a distance threshold, content may be presented on the display screen. In accordance with a determination that the viewing distance is under a distance threshold, until the viewing distance returns to being above the distance threshold, a visual notification may be displayed. The visual notification may disrupt the content presented on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Laura L. Walker, Jiaying Wu, Andrew B. Watson, Tim H. W. Cornelissen
  • Publication number: 20200137612
    Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing a target wake time (TWT) scheme that includes traffic differentiation and service period extension. For example some embodiments relate to an electronic device including a transceiver and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The one or more processors receive an indication of traffic associated with an application. The one or more processors determine information associated with the traffic and configure the TWT scheme associated with the traffic based at least in part on the determined information. The one or more processors further communicate initial information associated with the TWT scheme to an access point of a wireless network. The initial information associated with the TWT scheme can include at least one of traffic direction information, traffic pattern information, a traffic identifier (TID), or an access category, indication (ACID).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Guoqing Li, Yang Yu, Welly Kasten, Shehla S. Rana, Mete Fikirlier, Karthik R. Mekala, Charles F. Dominguez, Yong Liu, Rajneesh Kumar
  • Patent number: 10638618
    Abstract: A light-based output device may be used to display images, symbols, and other information for a user of a system such as a vehicle. A display may be formed from a display layer, a covering layer that covers the display layer, and components such as force and touch sensors and electronic shutters. Haptic feedback may be provided using actuators that are coupled to the covering layer. A movable button member may be used to press the covering layer outwardly within an opening, thereby creating a portion of the covering layer that protrudes from other portions of the covering layer. The button member may also be placed in a position in which the covering layer on the button member is flush with other portions of the covering layer. A touch sensor may be incorporated into the covering layer and may overlap a display and areas outside the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Romain A. Teil, Jack J. Wanderman, Dominic P. Cincione, Sawyer I. Cohen
  • Patent number: 10638293
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for supporting narrowband device-to-device wireless communication, including possible techniques for performing discovery in an off grid radio system. A wireless device may obtain synchronization with a peer-to-peer communication group. The wireless device may determine the location of the wireless device within the peer-to-peer communication group based at least in part on signal strength of a synchronization signal used to obtain the synchronization. The wireless device may perform peer-to-peer discovery in the peer-to-peer communication group, such that time and frequency resources used by the wireless device to perform the peer-to-peer discovery are determined based at least in part on the location of the first wireless device within the peer-to-peer communication group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tarik Tabet, Lydi Smaini, Ronald W. Dimpflmaier, Matthias Sauer, Venkateswara Rao Manepalli
  • Patent number: 10638608
    Abstract: Frames and other structures for system-in-package modules that may allow components on boards in the modules to communicate with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lan H. Hoang, Raghunandan R. Chaware, Chang Liu, Takayoshi Katahira
  • Patent number: 10638250
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for determining an estimated orientation and/or position of a user's head using worn ear pieces and leveraging the estimated head orientation and/or position to provide information to the user. In one exemplary method, first and second spatial positions of respective first and second ear pieces worn by a user may each be determined. Based at least in part on the first and second spatial positions of the respective first and second ear pieces, an estimated orientation of the user's head may be determined. The method may further include requesting information to be provided to the user based at least in part on the estimated orientation of the user's head and providing contextual information to the user responsive to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Joachim S. Hammerschmidt
  • Patent number: 10636355
    Abstract: An electronic device includes processors that generate image data. The electronic device also includes an electronic display that displays the image data over a first frame duration by programming a first row of display pixels with the image data. The electronic display also displays the image data over the first frame duration by causing the first row of display pixels to emit light for an emission duration that is based at least in part on a first luminance of the image data. The electronic display further displays the image data over the first frame duration by resetting the first row of pixels at least two times before an end of the first frame duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hung Sheng Lin, Mohammad Ali Jangda, Injae Hwang, Rui Zhang, Shengkui Gao, Hyunwoo Nho, Wei H. Yao, Mohammad Hajirostam
  • Patent number: 10638147
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for managing reference frames for gradual coder refresh (GDR) operation. A GDR frame may be partitioned into a plurality of units, at least one of which is coded by instantaneous decoder refresh (IDR) techniques and other(s) of which are coded by other techniques such as inter-coding. The coded GDR frame may be exchanged between an encoder and a decoder. The encoder and decoder both may decode the GDR frame. The encoder and decoder may store the IDR-coded portion of the GDR frame in a reference picture buffer in a modified frame that includes, for the other portion(s) of the GDR frame, replacement content instead of the content obtained by decoding. The modified reference frame are expected by bias prediction search operations performed on later frame toward selection of the IDR-coded content as opposed to the replacement content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Sudeng Hu, Dazhong Zhang, Xing Wen, Peikang Song, Jae Hoon Kim, Hang Yuan, Xiaosong Zhou, Hsi-Jung Wu, Jingteng Xue
  • Patent number: 10635287
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a mapping application that includes a novel dynamic scale that can be used to perform different zoom operations. In some embodiments, the scale also serves as a distance measurement indicator for a corresponding zoom level. The application continuously adjusts several different attributes of the scale, including the scale size, the number of segments on the scale and the representative distance of a segment on the scale. In some embodiments, the mapping application provides a smart zoom feature that guides a user during a zoom to a location. In particular, the smart zoom detects that a location of a zoom is near a pin on the map, and if so, zooms to the pin on the map. Otherwise, if the location is near a cloud of pins, the application zooms to the cloud of pins. Otherwise the zoom is directed towards the user's selected location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Bradford A. Moore, Alexandre Carlhian, Edouard D. Godfrey, Guillaume Borios, Albert P. Dul, Marcel van Os, Woo-Ram Lee
  • Patent number: 10635186
    Abstract: Electrical equipment such as a tablet computer cover, a laptop computer, or other equipment may include a keyboard. The keyboard may have an array of key members. The key members may have key symbols that are illuminated with light from light-emitting diodes. Each key member may be supported by a corresponding key member support structure. A fabric layer such as a woven fabric layer having warp and weft strands formed from polymer or other materials may be sandwiched between each key member and corresponding key member support structure. Opaque masking material may be formed on peripheral portions of each key member support structure. Each key member may have a symbol formed from coating layers such as a white ink coating for light diffusing, a patterned black ink coating with a symbol-shaped opening, and a clear overcoat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Xiaopeng Wang, Markus Diebel, Aidan N. Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 10637590
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry that handles millimeter wave communications. The wireless circuitry may be tested using a test system that includes a fixture, computing equipment, and a substrate placed in the fixture. The fixture may hold an array of antennas on the substrate at a selected distance from an array of antennas on the wireless circuitry under test. The array on the substrate may receive millimeter wave test signals from the wireless circuitry under test. A transmission line may convey the millimeter wave test signals to a signal analyzer without down-converting the signals. The analyzer and computing equipment may identify performance metric data based on the test signals and may determine whether the wireless circuitry has satisfactory performance based on the performance metric data. The test system may be calibrated using settings that are specific to the design of the wireless circuitry under test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Wassim El-Hassan
  • Patent number: 10636448
    Abstract: An audio processing system has a buffer, a first digital signal processing module that uses a first lookahead, a second digital signal processing module that uses a second, greater lookahead, and a cross-fader. The cross-fader fades between the output of the first digital signal processing module to the output of the second digital signal processing module, based on lookahead depth of data of the audio signal in the buffer. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Frank Baumgarte
  • Patent number: 10635267
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to managing user interfaces associated with physical activities. The user interface displays a scrollable list of affordances associated with physical activities. The affordances may contain physical activity and heart rate information. A user can launch a physical activity tracking function or an interface to change a workout metric using an affordance. Users can also control the music that is played in response to selecting a workout. Further, the interface can be used to compose a reply message to a received message that contains workout information. The interfaces can show a graph that includes heart data when the user's heart rate meets a heart rate alert criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Aled Hywel Williams
  • Patent number: 10637986
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to viewing and updating application views. A device receives a user input, the input, when received initiating display of a plurality of application views of a set of application views. The device, in response to receiving the user input, displays the plurality of application views of the set of application views, wherein the set of application views includes preselected application views and an adaptive view that corresponds to a most recently opened application that is not one of the preselected application views.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan De Vries, Lee S. Broughton, Kevin Will Chen, Christopher Patrick Foss, Stephen O. Lemay, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson, Giancarlo Yerkes
  • Patent number: 10636392
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display panel and an image data source designed to determine a differing region in the image frame by comparing source image data and image data corresponding with a previous image frame. The electronic device may also include a display pipeline between the image data source and the display panel. The display pipeline may include image processing circuitry to convert image data from a source space to a display space and image processing circuitry to spatially process the image data. The display pipeline may determine a crop region by converting the differing region to the display space and determine a partial frame region, based on the image data to be spatially processed, by the image processing circuitry. The display pipeline may also determine and retrieve a fetch region smaller than the image frame by converting the partial frame region to the source space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Peter F. Holland, Mahesh B. Chappalli, Assaf Menachem
  • Patent number: 10637635
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of transmitting, from an enhanced Node B (eNB), an indication of an uplink/downlink (UL-DL) subframe configuration of a scheduling cell and a scheduled cell in a wireless time-division duplex (TDD) system. Embodiments include identifying the type of the UL-DL subframe configuration of the scheduling cell and determining a UL-DL subframe configuration to use for UL resource allocation of the scheduled cell. Other embodiments include identifying a reference UL-DL subframe configuration to use for UL resource allocation of the scheduled cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Jong-Kae Fwu, Rui Huang
  • Patent number: 10636155
    Abstract: A method for depth mapping includes acquiring first depth data with respect to an object using a first depth mapping technique and providing first candidate depth coordinates for a plurality of pixels, and acquiring second depth data with respect to the object using a second depth mapping technique, different from the first depth mapping technique, and providing second candidate depth coordinates for the plurality of pixels. A weighted voting process is applied to the first and second depth data in order to select one of the candidate depth coordinates at each pixel. A depth map of the object is output, including the selected one of the candidate depth coordinates at each pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Alexander Shpunt, Gerard Medioni, Daniel Cohen, Erez Sali, Ronen Deitch
  • Patent number: D882588
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mikio Inose, Tiffany Jon, Marcel van Os, Emanuele Vulcano
  • Patent number: D882599
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Marcel van Os