Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 10671166
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a haptic actuator. The haptic actuator may include a haptic actuator housing, at least coil carried by the haptic actuator housing, and a Halbach array of permanent magnets movable within the haptic actuator housing responsive to the at least one coil. The electronic device may also include a controller coupled to the at least one coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Arman Hajati
  • Patent number: 10674352
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for dynamic file system management of an embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC) in response to changes for electronic Subscriber Identity Modules (eSIMs) on the eUICC are disclosed herein. Hardware specific file information, e.g., hardware-based eUICC parameters, which may apply to multiple eSIMs and/or multiple Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), is included in a default eUICC file system. MNO specific information, e.g., MNO-specified parameters, is included in eSIMs. Customized eUICC level files are created, stored, modified and/or replaced based on a combination of default eUICC files and MNO specific information extracted from an eSIM at installation and/or in response to a change of state of the eSIM, such as when enabling, disabling, or updating the eSIM on the eUICC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Xiangying Yang
  • Patent number: 10674445
    Abstract: A user equipment device (UE) may transmit, in a packet to a base station, information associated with resource configuration/resource requirement corresponding to wireless uplink communications of the wireless communication device. The base station may assign resources to the UE based on the received information. The UE may receive an uplink grant from the base station, with the uplink grant specifying resources for use by the wireless communication device during the uplink communications based on the information previously transmitted to the base station by the wireless communication device. The UE may send the packet at the time a voice call with the UE is initiated, and/or the UE may transmit the information during voice calls in response the UE changing one or more resource configuration parameters during the voice call. The UE may use Robust Header Compression packets of various types to transmit the resource configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yingjie Zhao, Li Su, Sreevalsan Vallath, Wanping Zhang
  • Patent number: 10670786
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a color ambient light sensor. The color ambient light sensor may be used to measure an ambient light spectrum over a wavelength range of interest. Control circuitry in the electronic device can take actions based on the measured ambient light spectrum such as adjusting the brightness and color cast of content on a display. A display may have a display cover layer. The color ambient light sensor can be mounted under the display cover layer and may receive ambient light through the display cover layer. The color ambient light sensor may have a tunable wavelength filter such as an electrically adjustable Fabry-Perot resonator. A light collimator may be interposed between the display cover layer and the Fabry-Perot resonator to collimate ambient light that is passed to the Fabry-Perot resonator. A light detector measures the light passing through the Fabry-Perot resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dong Zheng, Ove Lyngnes, Prashanth S. Holenarsipur, Serhan O. Isikman, Tianbo Sun, Tingjun Xu, Xianwei Zhao, Xingxing Cai
  • Patent number: 10670466
    Abstract: This relates to sensor systems, detectors, imagers, and readout integrated circuits (ROICs) configured to selectively detect one or more frequencies or polarizations of light, capable of operating with a wide dynamic range, or any combination thereof. In some examples, the detector can include one or more light absorbers; the patterns and/or properties of a light absorber can be configured based on the desired measurement wavelength range and/or polarization direction. In some examples, the detector can comprise a plurality of at least partially overlapping light absorbers for enhanced dynamic range detection. In some examples, the detector can be capable of electrostatic tuning for one or more flux levels by varying the response time or sensitivity to account for various flux levels. In some examples, the ROIC can be capable of dynamically adjusting at least one of the frame rate integrating capacitance, and power of the illumination source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Miikka M. Kangas, Michael J. Bishop, Robert Chen, David I. Simon, Harold L. Sontag, III, George Dee Skidmore
  • Patent number: 10669642
    Abstract: This application relates to a part that includes a metal oxide layer having pore structures. In some embodiments, dye molecules having aromatic rings can be disposed within at least one of the pore structures. Additionally, the at least one pore structures can include dispersion molecules, where the dispersion molecules form non-covalent interactions with the dye molecules. By forming non-covalent interactions between the dye molecules and the dispersion molecules, the aromatic rings of the dye molecules are prevented from forming other non-covalent interactions with other dye molecules. Additionally, techniques for chemically stabilizing the color dye bath for dyeing anodized parts are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: James A. Dean, James A. Curran
  • Patent number: 10671844
    Abstract: The subject technology provides for receiving a new input stroke. The subject technology determines whether the new input stroke is associated with an existing line group based on a writing direction estimate of the existing line group. The subject technology merges the new input stroke with the existing line group in response to determining that the new input stroke is associated with the existing line group. The subject technology determines a local orientation of the existing line group including the new input stroke based on an estimate of a direction of writing and a scale of each stroke. The subject technology normalizes the existing line group including the new input stroke using the determined location orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan S. Dixon, Adrien Delaye, Daniel E. Gobera Rubalcava, Dominic L. Howell, Youssouf K. Chherawala, Martin Bresler
  • Patent number: 10672320
    Abstract: A display device may include a processor that may receive image data, such that the image data may include gray level data and display brightness value (DBV) data for a first pixel of a display. The processor may then determine a gain compensation factor associated with the first pixel based on a correction spatial map, a brightness adaptation lookup table (LUT), the gray level data, and the DBV data. The processor may then determine an offset compensation factor associated with the first pixel based on the correction spatial map, the brightness adaptation lookup table (LUT), the gray level data, and the DBV data. The processor may generate compensated gray level data by applying the gain compensation factor and the offset compensation factor to the gray level data and transmit the compensated gray level data to pixel driving circuitry associated with the first pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hung Sheng Lin, Soojin Park, Bhadrinarayana L. Visweswaran, Chieh-Wei Chen, Anshi Liang, Marc Albrecht, Pierre-Yves Emelie, Sean C. Chang, Hyunwoo Nho, Mohammad Hajirostam, Myung-Je Cho, Shengkui Gao, Wei H. Yao, Yafei Bi
  • Patent number: 10674280
    Abstract: A hearable has an audio amplifier circuit coupled to a speaker as a load. The amplifier circuit has current source drive, which attenuates electromagnetically coupled noise of the speaker. In other instances, the amplifier circuit has a first amplifier mode and a second amplifier mode, wherein in the first amplifier mode the amplifier circuit becomes configured to drive the speaker as a voltage source, and in the second amplifier mode the amplifier circuit becomes configured to drive the speaker as a current source. Control logic varies the amplifier circuit between i) the first amplifier mode for larger amplitudes of the audio signal, and ii) the second amplifier mode for smaller amplitudes of the audio signal. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Michael B Nussbaum, Roderick B Hogan, Todd K Moyer
  • Patent number: 10670732
    Abstract: It is proposed a determination device, a method for determining navigation information and a navigation device comprising: a receiving circuit configured to receive a first signal from a first navigation satellite, the first signal comprising a first timestamp; a determination circuit configured to determine a velocity of the first navigation satellite at the first timestamp in a second coordinate system based on ephemeris data of the first navigation satellite, the second coordinate system being tilted in relation to the equatorial plane; the determination circuit further configured to determine a velocity of the first navigation satellite in a first coordinate system that is earth fixed and rotating with earth, by applying a transformation matrix to the determined velocity of the first navigation satellite in the second coordinate system and adding a correction term based on a time derivative of the transformation matrix; a navigation circuit configured to determine navigation information of the receiving c
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qiang Zhang, Geraint Ffoulkes-Jones
  • Patent number: 10671796
    Abstract: A novel method of facilitating the authoring of content and the delivery of the authored content to different types of device is provided. The method supports the design of unique and aesthetically pleasing content while minimizes the amount of effort required from authors and/or publishers. The method does so by creating one single content presentation structure (CPS) for the authored content that is adaptable to different devices and different orientations. Such a universally adaptable content presentation structure is based on a standardized grid system that the publishers can easily become familiar with to author their content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Pepijn T. Zoon, Jean S. Metz, Matthijs Jacob Frederik Zoon, Mattijs Hoitink, Douwe H. Homans, Taskin Ahmed Rahman
  • Patent number: 10673541
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for a user equipment to mitigate interference in a wireless charging state. The user equipment may determine when the user equipment enters a wireless charging state and, when the user equipment enters the wireless charging state, activate an interference mitigation. The user equipment may further determine when the UE exits the wireless charging state and, when the user equipment exits the wireless charging state, deactivate the interference mitigation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Srinivasan Nimmala, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Vijay Venkataraman, Vijay Kumar Ramamurthi, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Sang Ho Baek, Yifan Zhu, Karthik Anantharaman, Rangakrishna Nallandigal, Sree Ram Kodali, Adesh Kumar, Xin Wang, Eyad Al-Shemali, Xiangpeng Jing, Sivaramachandran Ganesan, Longda Xing, Jianxiong Shi, Sami M. Almalfouh, Zhu Ji, Johnson O. Sebeni, Beibei Wang, Sunny Arora
  • Patent number: 10671222
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed. In some examples, the apparatus comprises a cover substrate having a front surface, a first edge and a first cavity adjacent to the first edge. In some examples, the apparatus comprises a plurality of touch sensor electrodes disposed opposite the front surface of the cover substrate. In some examples, the apparatus comprises at least one touch sensor edge electrode disposed within the first cavity on a surface that is angled relative to the front surface of the cover substrate. In some examples, at least one touch sensor edge electrode is disposed on an outward facing curved surface of the first cavity. In some examples, the plurality of touch sensor electrodes are formed from a first conductive material and the at least one touch sensor edge electrode is formed from a second conductive material. In some examples, the first conductive material is transparent, and the second conductive material is non-transparent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuta Kuboyama, Kevin F. Holz, Wesley W. Zuber, Massoud Badaye, Sudip Mondal, Chun-Hao Tung, Mengshu Huang, Der-Song Lin, Jinghong Chen
  • Patent number: 10671275
    Abstract: The embodiments herein describe a mode of applications on the portable electronic device that improves single-handed operation of the devices. For example, the embodiments herein describe an ergonomic mode of an application that displays the graphical user interface (GUI) of the application in a bottom area of the display screen of the electronic device to allow the user to more easily interact with objects. The embodiments herein also describe an ergonomic mode of a keyboard displayed on the display screen of the portable electronic device. During the ergonomic mode of the keyboard, the keyboard is shifted towards a vertical edge of the display screen to allow a user to more easily reach keys of the keyboard that were previously unreachable without the user switching to two handed operation of the device or repositioning the electronic device in the user's hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Daniel Tyler Kurtz, Jacob Xiao, Jason C. Beaver, Elisabeth J. Kain, Balaji Sarpeshkar, Kenneth Luke Kocienda, Freddy Allen Anzures, Andrew Wadycki, Joshua Hal Shaffer
  • Patent number: 10673605
    Abstract: TDD configuration may be dynamically and/or semi-statically signaled to user equipment devices by a base station. Semi-static TDD configuration may include: an initial portion for downlink transmission; a flexible portion; and a terminal portion for uplink transmission. TDD structure of the flexible portion may be determined later by transmission of dynamic physical layer configuration information such as downlink control information (DCI) and/or slot format indicator (SFI). (The SFI may be included in a group common PDCCH of a slot.) The downlink portion and/or the uplink portion may include subsets whose nominal transmit direction is subject to override by transmission of dynamic physical layer configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuchul Kim, Wei Zeng, Xiangying Yang, Dawei Zhang
  • Patent number: 10671762
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a non-volatile memory that may serve as both the main memory system and the backing store (or persistent storage). In some embodiments, the non-volatile memory is divided into a main memory portion and a persistent portion. Data in the main memory operation may be encrypted using one or more first keys, and data in the persistent portion may be encrypted using one or more second keys, in an embodiment. The volatile behavior of main memory may be implemented by discarding the one or more first keys in a power down event or other event that indicates a loss of main memory data, while the one or more second keys may be retained. In one embodiment, the physical address space of the non-volatile memory may be a mapping from a second physical address space that is used within the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Manu Gulati, Joseph Sokol, Jr., Jeffrey R. Wilcox, Bernard J. Semeria, Michael J. Smith
  • Patent number: 10671278
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure can provide systems, methods, and computer-readable medium for implementing user interfaces for interacting with a virtual instrument. For example, a user interface for a virtual instrument may be presented on a display of a device. The user interface may have any suitable number of strings (or keys) associated with a physical instrument. Each string/key may correspond to an associated audio file. Touch input may be received at the user interface. In some embodiments, the touch input may include a location corresponding to a particular string. The associated audio file may be selected based on the location. The associated audio file may be presented (e.g., via a speaker of the device) at a volume that corresponds with the pressure at which the touch input was provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Eli T. Manjarrez, Daniel P. Patterson, Christopher C. Lane
  • Patent number: D885805
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alice Marlin Brugger, Manuel Dejesus, Joshua Robert Edwards, Jean-Marc Gady, Wesley Bryan Hamm, Russell John Kaaihue Heirakuji, Allison Inouye, Moritz Wilsberg
  • Patent number: D886110
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D886130
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Imran Chaudhri, Christopher Foss, Jonathan P. Ive, Tiffany Jon, Chanaka Karunamuni, Stephen O. Lemay