Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 12191936Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for a signaling mechanism for user equipment (UE) assistance feedback in a wireless communication system. At least a radio frequency integrated circuit can be configured to receive a first configuration signal, and transmit a first message comprising a UE assistance feedback, generated based on the first configuration signal, in an uplink (UL) channel. The first message can contain an index of a profile with information on a service requirement, a traffic characteristic, or a combination thereof of a network. A processor, coupled to the radio frequency integrated circuit, can be configured to generate the UE assistance feedback based on the first configuration signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Toufiqul Islam, Hong He, Grigory Ermolaev
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Patent number: 12190898Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for reducing unwanted noise in an electronic audio signal, wherein a computing device having a microphone is configured to receive signals from a sensor on an external device such as a camera, second microphone, or movement sensor. The signals from the sensor are used to identify sound information or characteristics of sounds made by a source of noise, and the audio signal of the microphone is modified to reduce unwanted sounds based on that sound information or based on sounds identified a second audio signal obtained by the second microphone, thereby improving teleconference and video conference audio quality and removing distracting noises from transmitted audio output.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Kathleen A. Bergeron, Edward Siahaan, Jeffrey J. Terlizzi
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Patent number: 12190705Abstract: An electronic device may include an enclosure, an antenna within the enclosure and configured to transmit a wireless signal to a remote electronic device to allow a location of the electronic device to be determined, an audio output system configured to produce an audible output, and a processing system within the enclosure and configured to determine, based on an electrical response induced in the antenna, whether the audio output system fails an audio output performance criteria when provided with an audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Mruthun Rajkumar Thirumalaisamy, Justin D. Crosby, Mingzhou Li
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Patent number: 12190151Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to multi-stage thread scheduling. In some embodiments, processor circuitry includes multiple channel pipelines for multiple channels and multiple execution pipelines shared by the channel pipelines and configured to perform different types of operations provided by the channel pipelines. First scheduler circuitry may arbitrate among threads to assign threads to channels. Second scheduler circuitry may arbitrate among channels to assign an operation from a given channel to a given execution pipeline. The execution pipelines may provide backpressure information to the first scheduler circuitry based on execution status and the first scheduler circuitry may adjust priority of a thread for assignment to a channel based on the backpressure information. Disclosed techniques may reduce channel conflicts and starvation for execution resources.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Benjiman L. Goodman, Anjana Rajendran, Sheenam Jayaswal, Terence M. Potter, Yoong Chert Foo
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Patent number: 12189424Abstract: An electronic device housing may have upper and lower portions that are attached with a hinge. At least one portion of the housing may have a rear planar surface and peripheral sidewalls having edges. A display module may be mounted in the housing. The display module may have glass layers such as a color filter glass layer and a thin-film transistor substrate. The color filter glass layer may serve as the outermost glass layer in the display module. The edges of the display module may be aligned with the edges of the peripheral housing sidewalls to create the appearance of a borderless display for the electronic device. The display module may be provided with an opening that allows a camera or other electronic components to receive light. Traces may be provided on the underside of the thin-film transistor substrate to serve as signal paths for the electrical components.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Dinesh C. Mathew, Thomas W. Wilson, Jr., Victor H. Yin, Bryan W. Posner, Chris Ligtenberg, Brett W. Degner, Peteris K. Augenbergs
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Patent number: 12189888Abstract: Detecting a touch includes receiving image data of a touching object of a user selecting selectable objects of a target surface, determining a rate of movement of the touching object, in response to determining that the rate of movement satisfies a predetermined threshold, modifying a touch detection parameter for detecting a touch event between the touching object and the target surface, and detecting one or more additional touch events using the modified touch detection parameter.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lejing Wang, Benjamin R. Blachnitzky, Lilli I. Jonsson, Nicolai Georg
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Patent number: 12190309Abstract: The disclosed technology provides enhanced financial statements such as credit statements that provide customized payment options to a customer that takes into account the total amount owed by the customer, and past payments made by the customer. The customized payment options are determined with the goal of providing more payment options that encourage financial health, while not overwhelming the customer with too many options or irrelevant options. The customized payment options can be displayed in an interactive user interface for paying a credit statement that can visually inform a user of the benefit of the respective payment options with respect to the impact of the respective payment option on the customer's financial health—at least as it pertains to a credit account for which the statement was issued.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Aaron M. Melim, Christine A. Franco, Glen W. Steele, Mischa K. McLachlan, Michael Artemiw, Ashish C. Nagre, David T. Haggerty, Fadi S. Obeid, Katie M. McIndoe, Richard W. Heard, Rima Kakarla, Akila Suresh, Jarad M. Fisher
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Patent number: 12189634Abstract: Search results are improved, in one embodiment, through the use of subscription information about the status of a subscription to content. The subscription information can be transmitted to a cloud storage service used by a user account of a device; later, a search query from the device causes the receipt of search results from a search using the subscription information and these search results can show the status of the subscription such as whether the content is playable.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Anshu Chimalamarri, John Hornkvist, Kevin Decker, Steve Falkenburg
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Patent number: 12189439Abstract: An electronic device includes an enclosure formed of a plurality of layers cooperating to define an interior volume. The enclosure includes a first layer formed of a first material and defining a user input surface of the enclosure and a first portion of a side surface of the enclosure. The enclosure also includes a second layer, formed of a second material different from the first material, positioned below the first layer and defining a second portion of the side surface of the enclosure. The enclosure also includes a third layer, formed of a third material different from the first and second materials, positioned below the second layer and defining a bottom surface of the enclosure and a third portion of the side surface of the enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Mikael M. Silvanto, Simon J. Trivett, Matthew S. Theobald, Dinesh C. Mathew, Simon R. Lancaster-Larocque, Robert Y. Cao, Ari P. Miller, Kevin M. Robinson, Houtan R. Farahani, Francesco Ferretti, John Raff, Robert J. Lockwood, Genie Kim, Karan Bir, Keith J. Hendren, Gurshan Deol, Antonio Clarke, Prabhu Sathyamurthy, William A. Counts
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Patent number: 12189423Abstract: An electronic device having a display assembly is disclosed. Several layers may combine to form the display assembly. For example, the display assembly may include a touch sensitive layer (or touch detection layer), a display layer that present visual information, and a force sensitive layer (or force detection layer). The display layer may include a bend or curve that allows a portion of the display layer to bend around the force sensitive layer. Also, the connectors (that provide electrical and mechanical connections) may be positioned at different locations of the layers. For example, the display layer may include a connector on a first edge region, and the force sensitive layer may include a connector on a second edge region that is perpendicular, or at least substantially perpendicular, to the first edge region. By positioning the connectors on perpendicular edge regions, the display assembly may reduce its footprint.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Douglas G. Fournier, James R. Krogdahl, Daniel W. Jarvis, Edward S. Huo, Lee E. Hooton, Srikanth V. Thiruppukuzhi, Garrett R. Owoc, Michael Ngo, David A. Pakula, Robert F. Meyer
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Patent number: 12191511Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to an electrical feedthrough for a battery cell. The electrical feedthrough may include a pin configured to form an external battery terminal, an insulator surrounding the pin and configured to electrically isolate the pin, a channel, and a serpentine tab electrically coupled to the pin at a first end. The serpentine tab is nested within the channel to minimize use of space within an enclosure of the battery cell thereby increasing energy capacity of the battery cell by eliminating the need to allot space within the enclosure to accommodate the tab.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kyle Tse, Abhishek P. Shiwalkar, Shawn G. Fink, Christopher R. Pasma, Hirotsugu Oba, Brian K. Shiu
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Patent number: 12189899Abstract: Techniques for rejecting apparent (but false) touches caused by objects such as water droplets located in areas with parasitic capacitive paths to ground are disclosed. To minimize these false touches, one or more guard conductors can be located in proximity to the housing and driven with a stimulation signal to shield objects from being capacitively coupled to ground through the housing. In some examples images of touch can be obtained from a non-bootstrapped or bootstrapped scan and also an extended bootstrapped scan wherein the guard conductor is driven with a stimulation signal that has the same characteristics as the stimulation signal being applied to the sensed touch nodes. In some examples, the results of the extended bootstrapped scan can be subtracted from the non-bootstrapped or bootstrapped scan to identify and reject apparent touches resulting from capacitive coupling to ground.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Andrew William Shorten, Sai Zhang, Andreas Johannes Koeberl, Eric S. Winokur, Liqun Yang, Sabino Joseph Pietrangelo, II, Branislav Jovanovic, Ari Y. Benbasat
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Patent number: 12193053Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing wireless communications including channel access procedures for a user equipment (UE) and a base station. Techniques for signaling channel access types, use of channel access, and other channel access parameters are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Huaning Niu, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Hong He, Yushu Zhang, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Weidong Yang, Oghenekome Oteri, Chunxuan Ye, Haitong Sun, Sigen Ye
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Patent number: 12192440Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed for video compression, utilizing neural networks for predictive video coding. Processes employed combine multiple banks of neural networks with codec system components to carry out the coding and decoding of video data.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jiefu Zhai, Xingyu Zhang, Xiaosong Zhou, Jun Xin, Hsi-Jung Wu, Yeping Su
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Patent number: 12192554Abstract: An electronic device includes a wireless transceiver configured to receive content primitives via a wireless communication channel. The electronic device also includes control circuitry control circuitry coupled to the wireless transceiver, and configured to perform content provisioning operations based on the received content primitives, wherein the content provisioning operations comprise generating content image data and transmitting the content image data to the wireless communication channel using the wireless transceiver. In response to a bandwidth condition of the wireless communication channel being less than a threshold, the control circuitry is configured to perform adjusted content provisioning operations that decrease an amount of content image data conveyed by the wireless transceiver to the wireless communication channel.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Moinul H. Khan, Jim C. Chou, Sorin C. Cismas
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Patent number: 12190007Abstract: In one implementation, a method of displaying immersive video is performed at a device having a display, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes obtaining an image. The method includes selecting a processing spatial portion of the image based on a predicted pose of the device. The method includes performing image processing on the processing spatial portion. The method includes, after performing image processing on the processing spatial portion, selecting a display spatial portion of the processing spatial portion based on a current pose of the device. The method includes displaying, on the display, the display spatial portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Alan M. Moss
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Patent number: 12189347Abstract: An electronic watch may include a housing and a crown configured to receive a rotational input. The crown may include a knob external to the housing, a rotor coupled to the knob and configured to rotate in response to the rotational input, the rotor defining a recess extending about a circumference of the rotor, and a coating positioned in the recess and configured to reflect at least a portion of light incident on the coating. The electronic watch may further include an optical sensing system configured to detect the rotational input using the reflected portion of the light.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Richard A. Davis, Cole J. Bowden, Craig A. Horton, Ming Kun Shi
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Patent number: 12192144Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may establish communication with a plurality of transmission reception points (TRPs) and determine one or more beam failures associated with a first or second TRP based on reference signals received from the first and second TRPs. The UE may then transmit a scheduling request requesting resources for indicating the beam failures associated with the first TRP or second TRPs. Upon receiving a response to the scheduling request allocating resources, the UE may then transmit, using allocated resources, a beam failure indication of the first one or more beam failures associated with the first TRP or second TRP. After receiving a beam failure response from the first or second TRP, the UE may then communicate with the first TRP and the second TRP using one or more new beams based on the beam failure indication and the beam failure response.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng
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Patent number: 12192015Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques for wireless communications are described. A described technique includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE) from one or more Transmission and Reception Points (TRPs), a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission; determining, by the UE for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) carrying hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK), a TRP index in accordance with a control resource set (CORESET) scheduling the PDSCH transmission; and transmitting, by the UE via the PUCCH, HARQ-ACK information based on the receiving of the PDSCH transmission in accordance with the TRP index.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gang Xiong, Yushu Zhang, Bishwarup Mondal, Debdeep Chatterjee, Guotong Wang
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Patent number: 12191460Abstract: Battery packs having jelly roll battery cells of different designs or capacities may have an imbalance in the charging and/or discharging current supplied to and provided by each jelly roll due to differences in capacity specific impedance between the battery cells of the battery pack. A C-rate (i.e., current relative to rated capacity) of a first and second battery cell connected in parallel may be balanced by altering properties of an active layer and/or a thickness of a current collector of the second battery cell to reduce an impedance of the second battery cell.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Loren L. Roy, Qingzhi Guo, Premanand Ramadass, Hyungook Yoon, Jinjun Shi