Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12238744
    Abstract: An apparatus of an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node includes processing circuitry coupled to a memory. To configure the IAB node for resource allocation within an IAB network, the processing circuitry is to decode radio resource control (RRC) signaling from a central unit (CU) function of an IAB donor node. The RRC signaling configures first time-domain resources for a parent backhaul link between a mobile termination (M) function of the IAB node and a distributed unit (DU) function of a parent IAB node, and second time-domain resources for a child backhaul link between a DU function of the IAB node and a MT function of a child IAB node. Uplink data is encoded for transmission to the parent IAB node based on the first time-domain resources. Downlink data is encoded for transmission to the child IAB node based on the second time-domain resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dawei Ying, Lili Wei, Qian Li, Hassan Ghozlan, Geng Wu
  • Patent number: 12236938
    Abstract: Systems and processes for providing and modifying an output of an electronic document using a digital assistant of an electronic device are provided. An example method includes, receiving, at a first electronic device, a user input requesting an audible output of an electronic document including text; and in accordance with a determination to provide the audible output of the electronic document: generating a media item based on the text of the electronic document; after generating the media item, outputting, based on a semantic structure of the electronic document, the media item; while outputting the media item, receiving a second user input; and in accordance with a determination that the second user input is associated with an intent to modify the output: modifying, based on the second user input and the semantic structure of the electronic document, the output of the media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel A. Castellani, Didier Guzzoni, Pierre-Louis Jallerat
  • Patent number: 12238311
    Abstract: A video encoding system in which pixel data is decomposed into frequency bands prior to encoding. The frequency bands are organized into blocks that are provided to a block-based encoder that encodes the blocks and passes the encoded blocks to a wireless interface that packetizes the blocks for transmittal over a wireless connection. The encoder may categorize the encoded frequency bands into multiple priority levels, and may tag each frequency block with metadata indicating the frequency band represented in the block, the priority of the frequency band, and timing information. The wireless interface may then transmit or drop packets according to the priority levels of the encoded frequency blocks in the packets and/or according to the timing information of the frequency blocks in the packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sorin C. Cismas, Jim C. Chou, Ling Su, Keangpo R. Ho
  • Patent number: 12237881
    Abstract: Devices and systems useful in concurrently receiving and transmitting Wi-Fi signals and Bluetooth signals in the same frequency band are provided. By way of example, an electronic device includes a transceiver configured to transmit data and to receive data over channels of a first wireless network and a second wireless network concurrently. The transceiver includes a plurality of filters configured to allow the transceiver to transmit the data and to receive the data in the same frequency band by reducing interference between signals of the first wireless network and the second wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hsin-Yuo Liu, Peter M. Agboh, Mohit Narang, Indranil S. Sen, Nicholas M. McDonnell, Chia Yiaw Chong
  • Patent number: 12236251
    Abstract: A device implementing a system to render user interface timeline views for display of dynamic application content includes a processor configured to retrieve a data structure corresponding to user interfaces of an application associated with respective times, and at least one declaratively defined user interface element. The processor is further configured to determine whether a rendering cost of a plurality of the user interfaces complies with an update budget of the application, where the rendering cost includes interpreting the at least one declaratively defined user interface element for the respective times. When the rendering cost is determined to comply, the processor is further configured to render the plurality of the user interfaces in advance of the respective times associated with the plurality of the user interfaces. The processor is further configured to display at least one of the rendered plurality of the user interfaces based on a current time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Schimon, August L. Joki, Joshua C. Weinberg, Matthew S. Koonce
  • Patent number: 12237855
    Abstract: An amplifier of a transmitter includes an input that receives an input signal and generates an amplified signal at an output. A digital power meter is coupled to the input of the amplifier, generates an estimated amplified signal, and determines peak and average powers of the estimated amplified signal. An output power detector coupled to the output of the amplifier determines peak and average powers of the amplified signal. A controller coupled to the digital power meter and the output power detector determines an estimated crest factor based on the peak and average powers of the estimated amplified signal, an amplified crest factor based on the peak and average powers of the amplified signal, and an error vector magnitude based on the estimated and amplified crest factors. The controller, which is also coupled to the amplifier, then adjusts operation of the amplifier based on the error vector magnitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Andrea Camuffo
  • Patent number: 12238633
    Abstract: A relay user equipment (UE) configured to operate as a relay between a remote UE and a network component performs a method. The method includes determining at least one relay capability of the relay UE and performing a relay access control operation that indicates to the remote UE whether the remote UE is permitted to use the relay UE as the relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuqin Chen, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijng Hu, Longda Xing, Murtaza A. Shikari, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Sree Ram Kodali, Srinivasan Nimmala, Srirang A. Lovlekar
  • Patent number: 12236072
    Abstract: The subject technology provides for displaying applications on a display while avoiding the display's irregular or undesirable features. The disclosed techniques include determining whether a triggering condition related to an application executing on an electronic device is present, and if so, determining a user interface (UI) adjustment value. The UI adjustment value is applied to a frame that represents all of the content including a user interface of the application to be rendered on the display. The UI adjustment value represents an adjustment to the frame such that, when the adjusted frame is rendered, the user interface of the application is presented on the display except on a predefined portion (e.g., a portion including an irregular feature or region) of the display. The adjusted frame is then rendered to present the user interface of the application on the display except on the predefined portion of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin J. Van Vechten, Chad E. Jones, Jesse E. Donaldson, Kristin M. Forster, Mark P. Hamlin, Ryan N. Armstrong
  • Patent number: 12238455
    Abstract: During a communication session facilitated by a first communication service between a first device and a second device, a processor may receive a request to execute a feature not supported by the first communication service. The processor may also identify a second communication service that does support the feature. Further, the processor may then cause the communication session to transition from the first communication service to the second communication service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Wood, Peter Westen, Pierre De Filippis
  • Patent number: 12238514
    Abstract: An example technique for security key derivation in a wireless system includes: sending a radio resource control (RRC) suspend message from a first node, to a first user device, the RRC suspend message including a first next hop (NH) chaining counter (NCC) value; releasing access stratum (AS) resources associated with the first user device; deriving a first node key based on the first NCC value; receiving a first uplink message from the first user device without allocating AS resources to the first user device; and unscrambling the first uplink message based on the first NCC value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fangli Xu, Shu Guo, Yuqin Chen, Haijing Hu, Huarui Liang, Dawei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12238551
    Abstract: A base station configures a user equipment (UE) to monitor a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH). The base station receives, from the UE, a reduced PDCCH monitoring capability for at least one group of search space sets (SSS) of a PDCCH, determines a reduced monitoring capability (MO) configuration for the UE based on the reported reduced PDCCH monitoring capability and transmits the reduced MO configuration to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12238469
    Abstract: This disclosure includes several different features suitable for use in circumaural and supra-aural headphones designs. Designs that include earpad assemblies that improve acoustic isolation are discussed. User convenience features that include automatically detecting the orientation of the headphones on a user's head are also discussed. Various power-saving features, design features, sensor configurations and user comfort features are also discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Edward Siahaan, Daniel R. Bloom, Jason J. LeBlanc, Phillip Qian
  • Patent number: 12238559
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device is configured for performing a signal measurement for wireless communication in a new radio (NR) network. The UE is configured to determine a frequency range (FR) of a serving cell configured to send a signal that is measured by the UE using a signal measurement. The UE configures a measurement gap (MG) pattern to perform the signal measurement. Configuring the measurement gap includes determining that the frequency range of the serving cell includes frequencies of a second frequency range (FR2), determining that a measurement object (MO) configuration for the FR2 is available, setting a measurement gap repetition periodicity (MGRP) value for the signal measurement, and setting a measurement gap length (MGL) value for the signal measurement. The UE performs a signal measurement using the MGRP value and the MGL value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Qiming Li, Zhibin Yu, Hua Li
  • Patent number: 12236244
    Abstract: A multi-degree branch predictor is disclosed. A processing circuit includes an instruction fetch circuit configured to fetch branch instructions, and a branch prediction circuit having a plurality of prediction subcircuits. The prediction subcircuits are configured to store different amounts of branch history data with respect to other ones, and to receive an indication of a given branch instruction in a particular clock cycle. The prediction subcircuits implement a common branch prediction scheme to output, in different clock cycles, corresponding predictions for the given branch instruction using the different amounts of branch history data and cause, instruction fetches to be performed by the instruction fetch circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Han Lien, Muawya M. Al-Otoom, Ian D. Kountanis, Niket K. Choudhary, Pruthivi Vuyyuru
  • Patent number: 12236563
    Abstract: An electronic device may include an electronic display to display an image based on processed image data. The electronic device may also include image processing circuitry to generate the processed image data. The image processing circuitry may receive input image data corresponding to an image in a first perspective and warp the input image data from the first perspective to a second perspective, generating warped image data. Additionally, the image processing circuitry may determine one or more occluded regions in the second perspective and determine fill-data corresponding to the occluded regions. The processed image data may be generated by combining the warped image data and the fill-data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jim C. Chou, Jian Zhou
  • Patent number: 12236526
    Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that determines generates a three-dimensional (3D) model based on depth data and a segmentation mask. For example, an example process may include obtaining depth data including depth values for pixels of a first image, obtaining a segmentation mask associated with a second image, the segmentation mask identifying a portion of the second image associated with an object, and generating a 3D model based on the depth data and the mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Praveen Gowda Ippadi Veerabhadre Gowda, Quinton L. Petty
  • Patent number: 12238342
    Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress video data using an in-loop noise generation process that generates noise in the compression loop at a sub-image portion level of granularity, such as at a block level. The encoder includes noise model and/or noise model input parameter information in an encoded bit stream. Also, a system includes a decoder configured to receive such a bit stream and decompress the video using an in-loop noise generation process that generates noise in the decompression loop at a sub-image portion level of granularity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hye-Yeon Cheong, David W. Singer, Alexandros Tourapis
  • Patent number: 12237269
    Abstract: Multi-chip modules and methods of fabrication are described. The MCM may include a plurality of dies in which die-to-die routing can be partitioned within multiple metal routing layers for shorter die-to-die routings, while longer die-to-die routing can be routed primarily in a single metal routing layer. The plurality of dies may also be arranged in a spaced apart relationship to accommodate additional wiring area, while preserving direct routing areas for the longer die-to-die routing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjay Dabral, Ravindranath T. Kollipara
  • Patent number: 12236905
    Abstract: A device may include an electronic display having a backlight that generates light and multiple display pixels that modulate the amount of generated light emitted from the electronic display based on compensated image data. The backlight may include multiple illuminators that generate the light, and a first color component illuminator may have a slower response rate than a second color component illuminator. The device may also include image processing circuitry that generates the compensated image data by compensating input image data for a color shift associated with a change in brightness of the backlight and the slower response rate of the first color component illuminator. The input image data may be compensated by increasing first color component pixel values of the input image data relative to second color component pixel values of the input image data, and the compensated image data may be output to the electronic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chengrui Le, Fang-Cheng Lin, Alexey Kornienko
  • Patent number: 12238401
    Abstract: A tablet computing system may include a housing member defining a first portion of a back exterior surface of the tablet computer, at least a portion of a side exterior surface of the tablet computer, a raised rim extending from the back exterior surface and at least partially defining a sensor assembly hole extending through the housing member, and a support ledge positioned in the sensor assembly hole. The tablet computing system may also include a frame member positioned at least partially in the sensor assembly hole and coupled to the support ledge, a camera bracket coupled to the frame member, a first camera module coupled to the camera bracket, aa second camera module coupled to the camera bracket, the camera bracket fixing the relative positions of the first camera module and the second camera module, and a cover member positioned in the sensor assembly hole and attached to the frame member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: John K. Queeney, James A. Stryker, Jeremy Hill, Kienan D. McCarty, Lee B. Hamstra, Tavys Q. Ashcroft, Trevor M. Cardiff