Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 12197695Abstract: An electronic device displays one or more thumbnails. The device detects a first multi-contact gesture that includes movement of a first contact and a second contact; and, in response to detecting the first multi-contact gesture, the device displays content associated with a respective thumbnail and enlarges the content associated with the respective thumbnail to a respective enlarged size in accordance with the first multi-contact gesture. The device detects termination of the first multi-contact gesture; and, in response to detecting termination of the first multi-contact gesture: when a resizing metric based on the first multi-contact gesture is below a predefined threshold, the device ceases to display the content at the respective enlarged size; and, when the resizing metric based on the first multi-contact gesture is above the predefined threshold, the device displays the content on the display in a predefined arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Oliver P. Wagner, Michael Matas
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Patent number: 12197246Abstract: An electronic device may include a glass housing member that includes an upper portion defining a display area, a lower portion defining an input area, and a transition portion joining the upper portion and the lower portion and defining a continuous, curved surface between the upper portion and the lower portion. The electronic device may include a display coupled to the glass housing member and configured to provide a visual output at the display area. The electronic device may include an input device coupled to the glass housing member and configured to detect inputs at the input area. The electronic device may include a support structure coupled to the glass housing member and configured to support the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Keith J Hendren, Paul X Wang, Adam T. Garelli, Brett W. Degner, Christiaan A. Ligtenberg, Dinesh C. Mathew
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Patent number: 12200458Abstract: Digital audio signal processing techniques used to provide an acoustic transparency function in a pair of headphones. A number of transparency filters can be computed at once, using optimization techniques or using a closed form solution, which are based on multiple re-seatings of the headphones and that are as a result robust for a population of wearers. In another embodiment, a transparency hearing filter of a headphone is computed by an adaptive system that takes into consideration the changing acoustic to electrical path between an earpiece speaker and an interior microphone of that headphone while worn by a user. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ismael H. Nawfal, Joshua D. Atkins, Stephen J. Nimick, Guy C. Nicholson, Jason M. Harlow
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Patent number: 12200567Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for allowing a mobile device (e.g., a key fob or a consumer electronic device, such as a mobile phone, watch, or other wearable device) to interact with a vehicle such that a location of the mobile device can be determined by the vehicle, thereby enabling certain functionality of the vehicle. A device may include both RF antenna(s) and magnetic antenna(s) for determining a location of a mobile device relative to the vehicle. Such a hybrid approach can provide various advantages. Existing magnetic coils on a mobile device (e.g., for charging or communication) may be re-used for distance measurements that are supplemented by the RF measurements. Any device antenna may provide measurements to a machine learning model that determines a region in which the mobile device resides, based on training measurements in the regions.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Brent M. Ledvina, Robert W. Brumley, Robert William Mayor, William J. Bencze, Alejandro J. Marquez, Shang-Te Yang, Xu Chen, Indranil S. Sen, Mohit Narang
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Patent number: 12196964Abstract: An electronic device such as a head mounted device may have a head-mounted support structure. A portion of the head-mounted support structure may form a transparent housing member through which real-world objects can be viewed from eye boxes. A display system for the head-mounted device may have a display device that provides image light to a waveguide and may have an output coupler that couples the image light out of the waveguide toward the eye box. Peripheral portions of the transparent housing member or other peripheral device structures may be provided with a peripheral display that emits diffuse light into a user's peripheral vision. The peripheral display may use light guide structures, light sources, reflective structures, and other structures that provide transparency to real-world light.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Austin S. Young, Cameron A. Harder, David A. Kalinowski, Jae Hwang Lee
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Patent number: 12200610Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs, for selecting radio link control (RLC) entities to transmit packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) control protocol data unit (PDU). In one aspect, the method includes actions of accessing, by a device in a wireless communication system, data representing an index of RLC entities of a data radio bearer (DRB)/PDCP entity and RLC activation state information, the activation state information indicating whether one or more RLC entities of the DRB/PDCP entity in the index of RLC entities is activated or deactivated, selecting, by the device in the wireless communication system, a subset of the RLC entities of the DRB/PDCP entity based on an index position in the index and the activation state information for each of the RLC entities, and using the selected subset of RLC entities of the DRB/PDCP entity to transmit the PDCP Control PDU.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yujian Zhang, Junaid Ansari, Marta Martinez Tarradell
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Patent number: 12200472Abstract: Methods and systems are provided to indicate assistance information for radio access technologies to support interface selection for New Radio (NR) Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) processes. An upper layer entity exchanges information with lower layer entity while the upper layer can continue to use the existing interface for V2X transmission until it is not able to use the current interface. The upper layer can be a V2X layer and the lower layer can be an Access Stratum (AS) layer. The upper layer can request availability information from the lower layer for other applicable interfaces. The upper layer then instructs the lower layer to provide assistance information for one or more applicable interface(s), depending on whether mapped to the ongoing service. In providing availability information, the lower layer can continuously measure criteria, such as channel conditions, to determine the availability of relevant interfaces and indicate the availability information to the upper layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ansab Ali, Kyeongin Jeong, Sangeetha L Bangolae, Youn Hyoung Heo
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Patent number: 12200688Abstract: A user equipment (UE) in idle mode may use a preconfigured uplink resource for transmission, retransmission, and/or hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ). For example, the UE may store configuration data for a preconfigured uplink resource and a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) for idle mode communication. In idle mode, the UE generates an uplink transmission using the preconfigured uplink resource. After the uplink transmission, the UE starts a retransmission timer, and monitors physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) with the RNTI provided in the configuration data for HARQ acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK).Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Bharat Shrestha, Seau Sian Lim, Marta Martinez Tarradell
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Patent number: 12200524Abstract: A device may wirelessly communicate with a number of different cells used in a carrier aggregation. The device may monitor physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) on the different cells, dynamically switching between a dormant monitoring state (DS) and an active monitoring state (AS). In the DS, the UE may not monitor any PDCCH candidates on the active secondary SCells corresponding to the DS, or it may monitor PDCCH candidates in the search space (SS) set with the largest monitoring periodicity among the multiple SS sets on the active bandwidth part (BWP). In the AS, the UE may monitor a set of PDCCH candidates in physical resources configured by higher layers on the BWPs. Switching from one monitoring state to another may be facilitated through the use of a new downlink control information (DCI) format without data scheduling, a modified existing DCI format with data scheduling, and/or use of a DS timer.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hong He, Pengkai Zhao, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Yuchul Kim, Chunhai Yao, Yushu Zhang, Wei Zhang, Weidong Yang, Chunxuan Ye
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Patent number: 12197965Abstract: Collaborative environments can allow multiple users access to view and modify objects. In order to avoid conflicting requests from different users to modify objects in the environment, virtual semaphore objects can be made available to users in a collaborative environment. A virtual semaphore can confer an ability to edit or modify objects in the environment, upon being assigned to a user. Users can request changes to user-semaphore assignments, including summoning a semaphore to be self-assigned, surrendering a self-assigned semaphore, transferring a semaphore from one user to another, and scheduling a semaphore assignment to a particular user at a future time. Upon assignment to a particular user, a virtual semaphore can be moved to a location close to a virtual representation of the particular user. Users can request changes to user-semaphore assignments using input devices by making selections in a graphical user interface, or by performing gestures associated with virtual semaphores.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Pedro Fernando Gomez Fernandez, Ronald V. Siy
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Patent number: 12197694Abstract: A measurement engine of a wearable electronic device may compensate for wavelength variations of light emitted as part of blood-oxygen saturation measurements. In some cases, determining an estimated blood-oxygen saturation value is based at least partially on temperature data that may be used to compensate for temperature-based wavelength variations of the emitted light, drive current data that may be used to compensate for drive-current-based wavelength variations of the emitted light, and/or calibration information that may be used to compensate for manufacturing variability across different light emitters. In various embodiments, the measurement engine may use temperature data, the drive current data, and/or calibration information in a variety of ways to determine estimated blood-oxygen saturation values, including using lookup tables or calibration curves, applying functions, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ravi K. Shaga, Paul D. Mannheimer, Theodore Yu
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Patent number: 12195379Abstract: Techniques for making glass components for electronic devices are disclosed. The techniques disclosed herein can be used to modify a glass workpiece to form a three-dimensional glass component, such as a glass cover member. The techniques may involve reshaping the glass workpiece, fusing glass layers of the workpiece, or combinations of these. Glass components and electronic devices including these components are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Andrew J. Meschke, Thomas Johannessen, William A. Counts
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Patent number: 12198275Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology relate to generative scene networks (GSNs) that are able to generate realistic scenes that can be rendered from a free moving camera at any location and orientation. A GSN may be implemented using a global generator and a locally conditioned radiance field. GSNs may employ a spatial latent representation as conditioning for a grid of locally conditioned radiance fields, and may be trained using an adversarial learning framework. Inverting a GSN may allow free navigation of a generated scene conditioned on one or more observations.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Miguel Angel Bautista Martin, Nitish Srivastava, Joshua M. Susskind, Terrance Devries
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Patent number: 12200644Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may monitor a downlink frequency position to detect a synchronization block (SSB) from a cellular base station. When monitoring the downlink frequency position, the UE may be configured to use at least one step size in calculating a SSB frequency position. The UE may determine a subcarrier spacing (SCS) used by the cellular base station in response to monitoring the downlink frequency position, and the subcarrier spacing for one or more SSB transmissions may be determined at least in part based on the step size used in calculating the SSB frequency position. The UE may then utilize the determined subcarrier spacing of the one or more SSB transmissions in communicating with the cellular base station.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Huaning Niu, Yushu Zhang, Jie Cui, Sigen Ye
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Patent number: 12200496Abstract: Embodiments are described herein for transferring a subscriber identity module (SIM) or electronic SIM (eSIM) profile securely from a source device to a target device with verifiable signatures generated by secure hardware elements of the source device contingent on receipt of a secure intent gesture. Trustworthiness of the profile transfer is based on a mobile network operator (MNO) entitlement server releasing a transfer token after verification of a message signed by an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) of the source device. The eUICC signs the message only after verifying a message from a secure enclave processor (SEP) of the source device that signs the message based on receipt of the secure intent gesture via a secure interface. To validate communication between the SEP and the eUICC, an asymmetric cryptographic key pair generated by the SEP is bound to a unique eUICC identifier (EID) value of the eUICC.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Li Li, Mohanasundaram Kattavoor Sivakumar, Dennis D. Conway, Zexing Shi, Aurelien P. Raboisson, Ngabin S. Ng, Rajeev Verma, Raj S. Chaugule, Keizo Marui, Lukas M. Bugla, Patrick L. Coffman
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Patent number: 12199702Abstract: In an example method, a user equipment (UE) device determines one or more component carriers available to the UE device for at least one of transmitting or receiving data over a wireless network. The UE device transmits, to the wireless network, for each component carrier, an indication whether the component carrier supports at least one of transmitting or receiving data according to a multi-transmission and receiving points (multi-TRP) communication protocol.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Yuchul Kim, Hong He, Weidong Yang, Chunxuan Ye, Chunhai Yao, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zhang, Jia Tang, Tianyan Pu, Pengkai Zhao
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Patent number: D1057682Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2024Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: 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, 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
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Patent number: D1057709Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: 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, 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
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Patent number: D1057740Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Edward Chao, Kevin Will Chen, Yeo Been Chung, Diogo Jose Da Silva Valente Soares
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Patent number: D1057760Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2024Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Richard D. Lyons, Dan Tobin Smith, Wan Si Wan, Christopher I. Wilson