Patents Assigned to Apple
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Publication number: 20250016292Abstract: A spatial light system that may, for example, be used to project image content onto surfaces of a room. The system may include two or more projection units for emitting light onto surfaces within a room. The system may include a controller and two or more projection units, each module including an LED array, an array of light pipes, and a condenser lens. Two or more projection units may be connected to a flexible strip that provides power and data (e.g., serial data) to the projection units. Two or more flex strips may be connected together. The flex strips provide a serially-connected, flexible modular architecture for spatial light systems that allow the projection units to be conformed to a variety of configurations and shapes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Felipe Bacim de Araujo e Silva, Stuart J. Wood, Noah D. Bedard, Bosheng Zhang, Dana F. Segler, JR., Blake M. Coughenour, Rong Liu, Yung-Yu Hsu
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Publication number: 20250010847Abstract: Signals usable to determine a path of a vehicle towards a particular stopping point in a vicinity of a destination are detected from an individual authorized to provide guidance with respect to movements of the vehicle. Based at least in part on the signals and a data set pertaining to the external environment of the vehicle, one or more vehicular movements to be implemented to proceed along the path are identified. A directive is transmitted to a motion control subsystem of the vehicle to initiate one of the vehicular movements.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Scott M. Herz, Sawyer I. Cohen, Samuel B. Gooch, Wolf Kienzle, Karlin Y. Bark, Jack J. Wanderman
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Publication number: 20250013203Abstract: First interaction data may be received and used to determine a beginning sleep time. Second interaction data may be received and used to determine an interrupted period during an expected sleep period. Third interaction data may be received and used to determine an end sleep time.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Roy J.E.M. Raymann, Jay Kriz Blahnik, Stephanie M. Greer, Aroon Pahwa, Jonathan T. Varbel, Kevin M. Lynch
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Publication number: 20250013292Abstract: Range finding methods and apparatus that may be implemented by VR/MR systems that include a head-mounted display (HMD) and an accessory that the user holds or wears. Range finding sensors (e.g., ultrasonic transducers) may be included on the HMD and on the accessory and used to track distances to and relative position of walls, objects, and other obstacles within constrained physical environments such as rooms, gyms, yards, or fields, or in unconstrained physical environments. Range finding information from the sensors on the HMD and accessory can be used to generate a 3D map of the user's environment that can be used for various purposes in the VR/MR system. In addition to mapping the user's environment, the range finding methods and apparatus may also be used to track the relative position of the accessory with respect to the HMD.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Wesley W. Zuber, Thayne M. Miller, Jae Hwang Lee
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Publication number: 20250016131Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for determining whether a message received by a client may be spam, in a computing environment that preserves privacy. The message may be encrypted. A client invokes the methods when a message is received from a sender that is not known to the client. A client can decrypt the message, break the message into chunks, and apply a differentially private algorithm to the set of chunks. The client transmits the differentially private message sketches to an aggregation server. The aggregation server receives a large collection of such message sketches for a large plurality of clients. The aggregation server returns aggregated message chunk (e.g. frequency) information to the client to assist the client in determining whether the message may be spam. The client can process the message based on the determination without disclosing the message content to the server.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Eric D. Friedman, Ritwik K. Kumar, Lucas Winstrom
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Publication number: 20250016550Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing discovery frames and group addressed frames communication. For example, some embodiments relate to a method including generating a first frame to be transmitted to a first electronic device. An association identifier (AID) value of the first frame is set to a first value to indicate that the first frame is an individually addressed frame addressed to the first electronic device. The method further includes generating a second frame to be transmitted to a group of one or more electronic devices. An AID value of the second frame is set to a second value different from the first value. The method also includes transmitting the first frame and the second frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Guoqing LI, Christiaan A. HARTMAN, Yong LIU, Jarkko L. KNECKT
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Patent number: 12190071Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for conversational augmentation. In various implementations, a device includes a display, a processor and a non-transitory memory. In some implementations, the method includes, while a user of the device is in a current conversation with a person, detecting a reference to a previous conversation. In some implementations, the method includes determining whether there are user-curated notes that satisfy a relevance threshold associated with the current conversation. In some implementations, the method includes presenting a portion of the user-curated notes that satisfies the relevance threshold associated with the current conversation.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Bart Colin Trzynadlowski
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Patent number: 12189736Abstract: In one implementation, a method of authenticating a user is performed by a first device including a camera, an eye tracker, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes obtaining, via the camera, an image of a physical environment. The method includes detecting, in the image of the physical environment, a second device. The method includes determining, using the eye tracker, a gaze of a user. The method includes determining that the gaze of the user is directed to the second device. The method includes, in response to determining that the gaze of the user is directed to the second device, transmitting authentication credentials to the second device.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Thomas G. Salter, Rahul Nair
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Patent number: 12189926Abstract: Systems and methods for proactively identifying user interface objects (e.g., internet links) directed to information of interest to the user and displaying the identified user interface objects in a user interface on an electronic device are disclosed herein. In one aspect, the method includes receive, via a user input device, a user input within a user interface of an internet browser application and displayed on the display of the electronic device; and in response to the user input, display, within the user interface, a first set of one or more user interface objects, each providing a suggested internet link obtained from one or more data sources, different than the internet browser application, on the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Alan S. Hshieh, Conrad A. Shultz, Karl Christian Kohlschuetter, Mateusz K. Rajca, Oluwatomiwa Alabi, Raymond S. Sepulveda, Shawn D. Moon, Zachary G. King, Garrett M. Davidson
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Patent number: 12192894Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing a hibernation mode for multi-link wireless communication networks such as a wireless local area network (WLAN). For example, some aspects relate to a multi-link device (MLD) including a first station (STA) associated with a first link of a wireless network and configured to communicate with a second MLD over the first link. The MLD also includes a second STA associated with a second link of the wireless network. The second STA is in a hibernation mode. The MLD also includes one or more processors communicatively coupled to the first and second STAs and configured to control operations of the first and second STAs.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yong Liu, Su Khiong Yong, Qi Wang, Tianyu Wu, Lochan Verma, Jinjing Jiang, Jarkko L. Kneckt
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Patent number: 12189756Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to managing passwords. In some examples, a computer system displays an autofill user interface object corresponding to a one-time password generated by the computer system and for use in authenticating a user with a remotely-authenticated service. In some examples, a computer system enters, saves, and submits a new username and a new password created via a password manager to a remotely-authenticated service.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Richard J. Mondello, Eryn R. Wells, Peter W. Roman
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Patent number: 12192617Abstract: Media user interfaces are described, including user interfaces for capturing media (e.g., capturing a photo, recording a video), displaying media (e.g., displaying a photo, playing a video), editing media (e.g., modifying a photo, modifying a video), accessing media controls or settings (e.g., accessing controls or settings to capture photos or videos to capture videos), automatically adjusting media (e.g., automatically modifying a photo, automatically modifying a video), and automatically managing a media capture mode (e.g., a photo media capturing mode, a portrait media capturing mode, a video media capturing mode) based on a set of conditions.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Johnnie B. Manzari, Alan C. Dye, Martha E. Hankey, Grant R. Paul, William A. Sorrentino, III, Andre Souza Dos Santos
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Patent number: 12192052Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs for configuring a network functions virtualization orchestrator (NFVO). In one aspect, a method can include actions of generating, by one or more computers, a message that includes data representing a request to upload a virtual network function (VNF) package, encoding, by the one or more computers, the generated message that includes the VNF package for transmission to a network functions virtualization orchestrator (NFVO), and transmitting, by the one or more computers, the encoded message to the NFVO.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Joey Chou, Niall Power, Jianli Sun
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Patent number: 12192644Abstract: A pulse-width modulation (PWM) image sensor is described herein. The PWM image sensor may have a stacked configuration. A top wafer of the PWM image sensor may have a charge-to-time converter and a logic wafer, stacked with the top wafer, may include a time-to-digital converter. The PWM image sensor may utilize variable transfer functions to avoid highlight compression and may utilize non-linear time quantization. A threshold voltage, as input to a charge-to-time converter, may additionally be controlled to affect light detection, dynamic range, and other features associated with the PWM image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nikolai E. Bock, Andrew Kenneth John McMahon, Dario Clocchiatti, Emanuele Mandelli, Gennady A. Manokhin, Robert H. Mullis
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Patent number: 12192923Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods of scheduling transmission of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) at a subcarrier spacing (SCS) of 480 or 960 kHz.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Huaning Niu, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
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Patent number: 12186645Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing, modifying, and/or outputting workout content.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2024Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Craig D. Bolton, Julie A. Arney, Edward Chao, Lynne Devine, Victoria E. Hinn, Daniel S. Keen, Julia K. Nichols, James P. Ochs, Jennifer D. Patton
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Patent number: 12192454Abstract: Offset values, such as Sample Adaptive Offset (SAO) values in video coding standards such as the High Efficiency Video Coding standard (HEVC), may be improved by performing calculations and operations that improve the preciseness of these values without materially affecting the signal overhead needed to transmit the more precise values. Such calculations and operations may include applying a quantization factor to a video sample and at least some of its neighbors, comparing the quantized values, and classifying the video sample as a minimum, maximum, or one of various types of edges based on the comparison. Other sample range, offset mode, and/or offset precision parameters may be calculated and transmitted with metadata to improve the precision of offset values.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Alexandros Tourapis
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Patent number: 12191685Abstract: A battery powered electronic device can include a wireless power system configured to receive power from a wireless power transmitter, a converter coupled to the wireless power system that converts a voltage from the wireless power system to a battery charging voltage, a battery comprising at least two cells, a power management unit that delivers power from one or more of the at least two cells to one or more subsystems of the electronic device, and a plurality of switching devices connecting the at least two cells, the converter, and the power management unit. The plurality of switching devices can be arranged so that a first switching configuration connects the cells in series for charging from the converter and a second switching configuration connects the cells in parallel for delivering power to the power management unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Weiyun Chen, Di Zhao
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Patent number: D1056898Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
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Patent number: D1056954Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Brian Andrew Schmitt, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson