Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 10769982
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to head-to-head (H2H) gate on arrays (GOA) for pixel-based displays that may have reduced dimensions. In the described embodiments, the H2H design with alternate logic may be used to drive groups of pixels (e.g., a pixel row or column) with a primary and a secondary driver, located in opposite ends of the bezel of the electronic device. In the alternate-logic design, a shared shift-register may be used to enable two rows or columns. Embodiments in which more than two rows or columns are controlled by a single shift register are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rungrot Kitsomboonloha, Szu-Hsien Lee
  • Patent number: 10771669
    Abstract: Sensor data produced in a multi-sensor environment is time synchronized, such as using a master time. A component that derives the master time transmits a signal to a first sensor of the multi-sensor environment, which signal indicates the master time. The component subsequently receives a signal from the first sensor, which signal indicates a first time determined by the first sensor based on the master time and a latency associated with the first sensor. The first time indicates a time of an event associated with the first sensor data. A determination is then made that the first sensor data corresponds to second sensor data produced using a second sensor of the multi-sensor environment based on the first time and a second time indicating a time of an event associated with the second sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Koussalya Balasubramanian, Paul A. Baker, Harold C. Ockerse, Brent E. Tweddle
  • Patent number: 10769669
    Abstract: A media channel can include a mix of media items and invitational content items. At some point during the playback of the media channel an invitational content item can be presented. In some cases, the invitational content items eligible for presentation can be of differing types, such as video and audio. In can be advantageous to restrict presentation of video invitational content items to times when a user is likely to view the screen of the client device during playback of the invitational content item. To accomplish this one or more heuristics or rules can be applied to client device data to predict a user attention level. The user attention level can then be correlated to an invitational content item type, which can then be used to select an invitational content item for playback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Donald W. Pitschel, Imran A. Chaudhri, Lucas Newman
  • Patent number: 10769525
    Abstract: A behavior planner for a vehicle generates a plurality of conditional action sequences of the vehicle using a tree search algorithm and heuristics obtained from one or more machine learning models. Each sequence corresponds to a sequence of anticipated states of the vehicle. At least some of the action sequences are provided to a motion selector of the vehicle. The motion selector generates motion-control directives based on the received conditional action sequences and on data received from one or more sensors of the vehicle, and transmits the directives to control subsystems of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua D. Redding, Luke B. Johnson, Martin Levihn, Nicolas F. Meuleau, Sebastian Brechtel
  • Patent number: 10771214
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media, for an uplink power control framework are described. Embodiments may include power control for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and power control for sounding reference signals (SRS). Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 10772064
    Abstract: Systems and methods of providing location techniques for a NB UE are described. The UE transmits, to a location server, a capability message that indicates position capabilities of the UE to support different positioning methods and common information related to the position methods, including that the UE is a NB UE. The UE receives a request for location information that includes a request for positioning measurements for a particular positioning method, a NB message size limit that indicates a limit on an amount of location information to return, and a NB response time to provide the positioning measurements. At least one of the response time or message size limit is different than for the NB UE than for non-NB UEs. The UE enters an idle state, performs the measurements, and transmits at expiry of or before the NB response time, a message containing the measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hyung-Nam Choi, Chandru Aswani, Karim E. Morsy, Marta Martinez Tarradell
  • Patent number: 10770965
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a flyback converter with a series-parallel mode (SPM) active clamp. The active clamp, coupled in parallel with the primary coil, may include a clamp switch, two or more snubber capacitors, and associated diodes. The active clamp may be configured to absorb and retain the leakage energy from the leakage inductance of the flyback converter. The clamp switch may be turned on selectively as the primary switch approaches one of a plurality peak values to adjust frequencies of the switching devices. With the active clamp circuit, the flyback converter may first re-capture the leakage energy in the active clamp circuit and then recover it back to the power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marco A. Davila, Joao L. Andres, Bogdan T. Bucheru, Vijay Phadke
  • Patent number: 10768792
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an electronic device. The electronic device generates for presentation on a display a user interface including a plurality of content items, a first heading, and a second heading. While the user interface is presented on the display, the electronic device receives input scrolling the plurality of content items. In response to the input, the electronic device scrolls the plurality of content items including: scrolling the first heading with a first content item of the plurality of content items that is currently playing; and scrolling the second heading with a second content item of the plurality of content items that is next in a queue of content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor G. Carrigan, Joe Howard, Joshua McGlinn, Jonathan Lochhead, Benjamin W. Keighran, William M. Bachman, Elbert D. Chen, Jeffrey L. Robbin, Jennifer L. C. Folse, Lynne Kress, Kory M. Westerhold, Monika E. Gromek, Policarpo Bonilla Wood, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10769950
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a method for identifying parking locations. The current disclosure presents a technique for identifying parking locations within a geographical area. In one embodiment, a database is populated and stores information associated with parking locations. The database can include coordinates associated with parking locations and other relevant attributes. In another embodiment, the information from the database may be used to identify and present a visual representation and route to available parking locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kjell F. Bronder, Scott M. Herz
  • Patent number: 10769279
    Abstract: An operating system (OS) update to a secure element (SE) may be commanded, for example, in order to fix a security bug, upgrade a version of an OS, provide mobile network operator (MNO) specific extensions such as to an application programming interface (API) or to cause OS/profile switching. Many of these OS updates will affect one or more profiles present on the SE. An MNO associated with a given profile will benefit in some instances by being provided with a notification of the OS update, since the OS update may affect SE capabilities and thus affect what a given profile can or cannot do after the OS update occurs. Embodiments provided herein create notification entries that will appropriately inform the concerned MNO. In some embodiments, a capability linking variable (“linkedcapability”) is used to determine whether an SE capability change should trigger transmission of a notification to the concerned MNO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Xiangying Yang
  • Patent number: 10771884
    Abstract: An electronic device such as an earbud may have control circuitry mounted in a housing. The housing may have portions such as an ear portion with a speaker port through which a speaker plays audio and a stalk portion that extends from the ear portion. Proximity sensors may be formed in the electronic device. For example, one or more proximity sensors may be formed on the ear portion to detect when a user has inserted an earbud into the ear of the user and/or one or more proximity sensors may be formed on a stalk portion to detect when a user is holding an earbud by the stalk or when a user is providing finger touch input such as taps, swipes, and/or other gestures on the stalk portion. The proximity sensors may be optical proximity sensors such as coherent self-mixing proximity sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mehmet Mutlu, Mark T. Winkler, Orit A. Shamir
  • Patent number: 10771606
    Abstract: An electronic device having a user interface for accessing phone features. The user interface accounts for whether the electronic device is connected to a companion cellular phone. The user interface accounts for a headset is available for use to carry on a call. The user interface permits transition between using one or more of cellular phone, headset, and/or the electronic device to be used for carrying on incoming or outgoing calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Y. Yang, Imran Chaudhri, Anton M. Davydov, Alan C. Dye, Dylan Ross Edwards, Christopher Patrick Foss, Jonathan P. Ive, Zachery Kennedy, Stephen O. Lemay
  • Patent number: 10770073
    Abstract: Systems and processes for selectively processing and responding to a spoken user input are provided. In one example, audio input containing a spoken user input can be received at a user device. The spoken user input can be identified from the audio input by identifying start and end-points of the spoken user input. It can be determined whether or not the spoken user input was intended for a virtual assistant based on contextual information. The determination can be made using a rule-based system or a probabilistic system. If it is determined that the spoken user input was intended for the virtual assistant, the spoken user input can be processed and an appropriate response can be generated. If it is instead determined that the spoken user input was not intended for the virtual assistant, the spoken user input can be ignored and/or no response can be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Philippe P. Piernot, Justin Binder
  • Patent number: 10768067
    Abstract: An apparatus with embedded water detection and heater includes a substrate including a number of conductive traces and a lid including multiple electrodes. Each electrode is coupled to at least one of the conductive traces through vias. A sensor is placed inside a cavity of the lid and is electrically coupled to one or more conductive traces of the substrate. A gel at least partially fills the lid and covers the sensor. The presence of water on the apparatus is detected by measuring a dielectric permittivity between at least two of the plurality of electrodes, and the electrodes can generate heat to eliminate the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory B. Arndt, Jiahui Liang, Ashwin Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 10771131
    Abstract: Embodiments of a Generation Node-B (gNB) and methods of communication are disclosed herein. The gNB may be configured with logical nodes including a gNB central unit (gNB-CU) and a gNB distributed unit (gNB-DU). The gNB-CU 106 may determine a first precoding matrix and a second precoding matrix for a precoding of one or more data streams for transmission on a plurality of antennas coupled to the gNB-DU. The precoding may be in accordance with a split functionality between the gNB-CU and the gNB-DU that includes: precoding by the gNB-CU with the first precoding matrix, and precoding by the gNB-DU with the second precoding matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Feng Zhou, Yushu Zhang, Xiaowen Zhang, Wenting Chang, Qian Li
  • Patent number: 10770921
    Abstract: A wireless power transmission system has a wireless power receiving device that is located on a charging surface of a wireless power transmitting device. The wireless power transmitting device uses measurement circuitry such as coil impedance measurement circuitry or impulse-response circuitry that makes coil inductance measurements to monitor the charging surface for the presence of the wireless power receiving device. In response to detecting that the wireless power receiving device is present on the charging surface, the wireless power transmitting device and the wireless power receiving device establish a wireless communications link. The wireless power transmitting device transmits information on wireless power transmission capabilities of the wireless power transmitting device to the wirelessly power receiving device. The receiving device selects desired settings and transmits these to the transmitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Zaki Moussaoui, Weihong Qiu
  • Patent number: D895607
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Chowdhury, Markus Diebel, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D895627
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, James A. Bertin, Markus Diebel, M. Evans Hankey, Jesse P. Harris, Simon C. Helmore, Julian Hoenig, Lee E. Hooton, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Daniel W. Jarvis, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Ian A. Spraggs, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D895659
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aurelio Guzmán, Pedro Mari, Christopher Wilson
  • Patent number: D895672
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Pani Page