Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Publication number: 20250030518
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for Remote Interference Management (RIM) in wireless networks, including RIM reference signals (RIM-RS) transmitted to assist victim Radio Access Network (RAN) nodes to identify aggressor RAN nodes due to, for example, atmospheric ducting. The RIM-RS is also bandwidth-flexible in order to enable detection of the RIM-RS by aggressor RAN nodes with different bandwidth configurations. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hassan GHOZLAN, Qian LI, Dawei YING, Geng WU
  • Publication number: 20250025766
    Abstract: A server system may establish sharing relationships between multiple user devices to enable sharing of user interface element data. A first communication including a first invitation to share a first updateable graphical user interface element may be received from a first user device. The first communication may be sent to a second user device, which may enable acceptance of the first invitation at the second user device. It may be determined that the first invitation has been accepted. A data structure may be updated to enable the second user device to receive updates corresponding to the first updateable graphical user interface element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Jay Kriz Blahnik
  • Publication number: 20250031061
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for enhanced layer 3 (L3) measurement reporting that supports L3 measurement assisted group-based beam reporting (GBBR). Some embodiments include a user equipment (UE) that can receive a first reference signal from a network at a first angle of arrival (AoA), and receive a second reference signal from the network at a second AoA. The UE can perform L3 measurements on the first reference signal and the second reference signal, and generate and transmit to the network, an enhanced L3 measurement report that includes L3 measurements as well as: a corresponding identity of an antenna panel of the UE; bits that correlate an antenna panel with a respective L3 measurements, or an implication that the L3 measurements in the enhanced L3 measurement report correspond to different antenna panels. The UE can receive simultaneous downlink transmissions from the network that are based on the enhanced L3 measurement report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Xiang CHEN, Yang TANG, Qiming LI, Jie CUI, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Konstantinos SARRIGEORGIDIS
  • Publication number: 20250030556
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to generate profiles, in an automated manner, for kernels to be utilized for data transfers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marawan Ragab, Alexandre Perematko, Catalin Giurca, Raphael Hudon-Voyer, Vitaliy Belitsky
  • Publication number: 20250030572
    Abstract: A first device can identify a trigger. The trigger can include a triggering event and an action to be performed on an accessory device in response to detecting the triggering event. When the trigger is delegated to the first electronic device, the first electronic device can execute the trigger by monitoring for the triggering event and transmitting a control message to the accessory device in response to detecting the triggering event. When the trigger is delegated to a second electronic device, the first electronic device can monitor a status of the second electronic device for a condition indicating that the second electronic device is unavailable to execute the trigger and execute the trigger in response to detecting the condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anush G. Nadathur, Kevin P. McLaughlin, Nathan E. Carroll
  • Patent number: 12206097
    Abstract: A cathode active material includes a plurality of cathode active compound particles and a coating disposed over each of the cathode active compound particles. The coating includes a lithium (Li)-ion conducting oxide containing lanthanum (La) and titanium (Ti).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Huiming Wu, Hongli Dai, Dapeng Wang, Hakim H. Iddir, Anh Vu, John David Carter, Xiaoping Wang, Yan Li, Zhenzhen Yang, Yanjie Cui, James Gilbert, Christopher S. Johnson, Arthur Jeremy Kropf
  • Patent number: 12206605
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing multi-transmission and reception point operation in a wireless communication system. A plurality of transmission control indication states may be indicated for future use, e.g., using one or more separately identified lists. A subset of the indicated states may be activated. One or more states of the subset may be used for performing multi-transmission and reception point operation in a single downlink control information mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Haitong Sun, Ankit Bhamri, Chunxuan Ye, Sigen Ye, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Jie Cui
  • Patent number: 12205249
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and non-transitory program storage devices are disclosed to provide enhanced synthetic Shallow Depth of Field (SDOF) images, e.g., by using information from images captured by image camera devices and one or more Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) trained to determine how much blurring should be applied to pixels in a mask region (e.g., a region of pixels having an indeterminate foreground or background status and threshold level of gradient magnitude) within an image, given context from surrounding pixels in a reference image and/or an unenhanced synthetic SDOF image. To train the DNNs, various sets of ground truth DSLR images of static scenes, captured at varying aperture settings, may be analyzed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Libin Sun
  • Patent number: 12206830
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to devices, systems, and methods for separately processing an image stream to generate a first set of images for display by a set of displays and a second set of images for storage or transfer as part of a media capture event. Specifically, a first set of images from an image stream may be used to generate a first set of transformed images, and these transformed images may be displayed on a set of displays. A second set of images may be selected from the image stream in response to a capture request associated with a media capture event, and the second set of images may be used to generate a second set of transformed images. A set of output images may be generated from the second set of transformed images, and the set of output images may be stored or transmitted for later viewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Alexander Menzies, Tobias Rick, Alexandre Da Veiga, Bryce L Schmidtchen, Vedant Saran, Bryan Cline, Michael I Weinstein, Tsao-Wei Huang
  • Patent number: 12207074
    Abstract: A method performed by an electronic device in a room. The method performs an enrollment process in which a spatial profile of a location of an artificial sound source is created and performs an identification process that determines whether a sound event within the room is produced by the artificial sound source by 1) capturing the sound event using a microphone array and 2) determining a likelihood that the sound event occurred at the location of the artificial sound source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hassan Taherian, Jonathan Huang, Carlos M. Avendano
  • Patent number: 12205399
    Abstract: Improving the accuracy of ultrasonic touch sensing and fingerprint imaging using acoustic impedance matching is disclosed. Acoustic impedance mismatches between an ultrasonic transducer array and a sensing plate can be reduced to maximize energy transfer and minimize parasitic reflections. A reduction in acoustic impedance mismatches can be accomplished using (i) a composite epoxy having a higher acoustic impedance than epoxy alone, (ii) one or more matching layers having an acoustic impedance that is approximately the geometric mean of the acoustic impedance of the sensing plate and the acoustic impedance of the transducer array, (iii) pores or perforations in the sensing plate, or (iv) geometric structures formed in the sensing plate. In addition, parasitic reflections can be suppressed using an absorbent layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Hiemstra, George Ho Yin Mak, Ehsan Khajeh, Hoishun Li
  • Patent number: 12207283
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to managing access to 5G cellular baseband resources for 5G-capable wireless devices. A wireless device can monitor application workloads by analyzing communication network performance requirements for a given application in-use or launching for future use along with system-level indications of overall device usage, battery level, and mobility status to determine whether access to 5G cellular baseband resources is recommended for an application. A 5G cellular baseband resource recommendation is provided for an application indicating a level of bandwidth in current use or expected for future use as well as a confidence metric in the bandwidth level indication. The 5G cellular baseband resource recommendation is used with additional device criteria to determine whether access to one or more 5G radio frequency bands is allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Madhusudan Chaudhary, Arun G. Mathias, Rajesh Ambati, Ajay Singh, Franco Travostino, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Ajoy K. Singh, Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Raghuveer Mallikarjunan, Faraz Faheem, Geoffrey R. Hall, Harshit Chuttani, Rohan C. Malthankar, Prashant H. Vashi, Hisham A. Mahmoud, Henri S. Berger, Divyaprakash P. Bhojkumar
  • Patent number: 12205531
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises a display and a controller. The controller is configured to provide a first frequency refresh rate to the display. The controller is also configured to generate a control signal configured to control emission of a light emitting diode of a display pixel of the display at a second frequency based on whether the first frequency refresh rate of the display is less than a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chin-Wei Lin, Hung Sheng Lin, Vasudha Gupta, Shinya Ono, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Shyuan Yang
  • Patent number: 12207246
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs for determining in a new radio (NR) integrated access and backhaul (IAB) system available soft resources for an IAB node. In one aspect, a method includes determining, by a mobile termination (MT) of the IAB node, a time-domain soft resource configuration for a distributed unit (DU) of the IAB node. The method further includes transmitting the time-domain soft resource configuration to the DU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Honglei Miao
  • Patent number: 12204287
    Abstract: A multi-chain measurement circuit is disclosed. The measurement circuit includes first and second chains of serially-connected buffer circuits coupled in parallel, each of which propagates an input signal. A set of storage circuits is configured to store logic values generated by the first and second sets of buffer circuits in response to the transitioning of a clock signal. The logic values stored in the storage circuits result in a digital value indicative of a total number of serially-connected storage circuits through which the input signal has propagated at the time of the transition of the operating clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bo Zhao, Joao Pedro da Silva Cerqueira, Pangjie Xu, Steven Lu
  • Patent number: 12204289
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a device body having a back surface, a band configured to fasten the device body to a user with the back surface facing a body part of the user, an optical sensor system, and a device removal detector. The optical sensor system has a first optical measurement path and a second optical measurement path. The first optical measurement path has a first optical path length that differs from a second optical path length of the second optical measurement path. The device removal detector is configured to generate a device removal indication responsive to either of, a first set of object proximity measurements received from the optical sensor system for the first optical measurement path, or a second set of object proximity measurements received from the optical sensor system for the second optical measurement path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas P. Allec, Ueyn L. Block, Xiyu Duan
  • Patent number: 12206969
    Abstract: Various embodiments include sensor shift flexure arrangements for improved signal routing. For example, a camera with sensor shift actuation may include a flexure for suspending an image sensor from a stationary structure of the camera, and for allowing motion of the image sensor enabled by one or more actuators of the camera. The flexure may be configured to convey electrical signals between the image sensor and a flex circuit in some embodiments. According to some embodiments, the flexure may include a stack of layers comprising an electrical grounding portion that has an additional conductive layer adjacent to a base layer, which may reduce the overall resistivity of a ground current return path. In some embodiments, the flexure may additionally or alternatively include an impedance adjusting feature configured to adjust the impedance of an electrical signal pad used to connect the flexure with another component of the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Himesh Patel, Phillip R Sommer
  • Patent number: 12206464
    Abstract: An apparatus to be implemented in a user equipment (UE), the apparatus comprising hardware circuitry to activate a timer for transmitting a measurement report to a base station; output a filtered signal value from a measured signal using a first parameter; determine a trend in signal quality based on the first filtered signal value and a second filtered signal value based on a second parameter; or some processing of the values either from the first filter or from the received signal; and determine whether to deactivate the timer based on the trend in signal quality. The filtered signal can be generated using a first layer 3 filter using network-configured parameters and a second layer 3 filter using proprietary parameters. Processing of the values can also be done using proprietary parameters and techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sharif Ahsanul Matin, Christian Hofmann
  • Patent number: 12206032
    Abstract: An electromagnetic radiation detector includes an InP substrate having a first surface opposite a second surface; a first InGaAs electromagnetic radiation absorber stacked on the first surface and configured to absorb a first set of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths; a set of one or more buffer layers stacked on the first InGaAs electromagnetic radiation absorber and configured to absorb at least some of the first set of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths; a second InGaAs electromagnetic radiation absorber stacked on the set of one or more buffer layers and configured to absorb a second set of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths; and an immersion condenser lens formed on the second surface and configured to direct electromagnetic radiation through the InP substrate and toward the first InGaAs electromagnetic radiation absorber and the second InGaAs electromagnetic radiation absorber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Alan Arbore, Matthew T. Morea, Miikka M. Kangas, Romain F. Chevallier, Tomas Sarmiento
  • Patent number: 12206476
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods to implement receive beamforming in communication systems are described. In one example, apparatus of an evolved Node B (eNB) comprising processing circuitry to receive, from a user equipment (UE), a beamforming reference signal received power (BRS-RP) measurement and in response to the BRS-RP measurement, configure a downlink (DL) transmit (Tx) beamforming and a receiving (Rx) beamforming process on the UE. Other examples are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Yuan Zhu, Gang Xiong, Ralf Bendlin, Jong-Kae Fwu