Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 10761563Abstract: An electronic device having a housing structure that is configured to receive at least one glass cover is disclosed. The glass cover serves to cover a display assembly provided within the electronic device. The glass cover can be secured to the housing structure so as to facilitate providing a narrow border between an active display area and an outer edge of the housing structure. The enclosure for the electronic device can be thin yet be sufficiently strong to be suitable for use in electronic devices, such as portable electronic devices.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Emery A. Sanford, Fletcher R. Rothkopf, Stephen B. Lynch
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Patent number: 10759246Abstract: A stability control system that detects a change in a vehicle operating characteristic and sends a stabilizing command to an actuator system based on identifying the change is described. The actuator system applies a first magnetic field having a predetermined strength to an electropermanent magnet for a predetermined duration based on receiving the stabilizing command. The first magnetic field transitions the electropermanent magnet from a first state to a second state. The electropermanent magnet generates a second magnetic field in the second state. The second magnetic field modifies at least one of a spring constant or a mechanical resistance of a suspension component within a suspension system of the vehicle, and the electropermanent magnet retains the second state after the predetermined duration in absence of the first magnetic field.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jack Erdozain, Jr., Jeffrey A. Sewell, Johnny L. Wall, Colin Szechy
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Patent number: 10764340Abstract: A messaging system, in one embodiment, can establish messaging accounts for a plurality of organizations (e.g., businesses) to allow customers or users of the organizations to conduct two-way messaging sessions between a customer and an organization. The messaging system can use a registration portal to allow an organization to set up a business/organization messaging account by providing account information. The account information can then be used to update one or more searchable databases that allow a customer to have multiple entry points into a messaging session with each of the registered businesses in the messaging system. For example, a search through a web browser or a map application can provide search results that contain or otherwise provide access to a selectable messaging option that is presented on a customer's device.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Grant Ritchie, Gokul Thirumalai, Philomena Lobo, Robert Y. Loh, Scott Lopatin, Mithilesh Kumar, Austin Marusco, Tommy Rochette, Aniket Zamwar, Alexandre Perematko, Daniel B. Pollack, Nicholas J. Circosta
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Patent number: 10763589Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antenna structures and transceiver circuitry such as millimeter wave transceiver circuitry. Antenna structures in the wireless circuitry may include patch antennas that are organized in a phased antenna array. Each patch antenna may include an antenna resonating element and a parasitic element. The parasitic element for the patch antenna may have dielectric-filled openings formed between coplanar parasitic conductors. The parasitic conductors may include a central parasitic conductor, four rectangular parasitic conductors formed around the central parasitic conductor, and corner parasitic conductors formed at the corners of the parasitic element. The corner parasitic conductors may be non-rectangular. For example, the corner parasitic conductors may have first and second perpendicular edges and a straight or curved third edge that joins the first and second edges.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jiangfeng Wu, Yi Jiang, Siwen Yong, Lijun Zhang, Mattia Pascolini
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Patent number: 10762716Abstract: An electronic device detects a first manipulation input directed to a respective virtual object of a plurality of virtual objects. In response to detecting the first manipulation input, in accordance with a determination that the plurality of virtual objects are displayed with at least a portion of a field of view of the one or more cameras, the device changes a display property of the respective virtual object based on the first manipulation input, and, in accordance with a determination that the plurality of virtual objects are displayed in a user interface that does not include the field of view of the one or more cameras, the electronic device changes a display property of the plurality of virtual objects based on the first manipulation input.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Grant R. Paul, Nicolas V. Scapel, David Lui, Xiao Jin Yu, Hon-ming Chen
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Patent number: 10761605Abstract: An item such as a glove may be formed from knitted fabric. The knitted fabric may form fingers for the glove and may form pockets in the fingers. Sensors such as inertial measurement units may be placed in the pockets to measure movements of a user's fingers in the glove. The sensors may be coupled to control circuitry in the glove using conductive yarn in the knitted fabric. The conductive yarn may form courses in the knitted fabric that run along each finger. Haptic components and other electrical components may be coupled to the control circuitry using the conductive yarn. Electrodes may be formed from metal-coated strands of material in the fabric on the sides of each finger. The wireless or wired communications circuitry coupled to the control circuitry may be used to convey information such as user finger movement information to external equipment.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Daniel D. Sunshine, Andrew L. Rosenberg, Andrew Sterian, Daniel A. Podhajny, Lia M. Uesato, Maurice P. May, Steven J. Keating
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Patent number: 10759389Abstract: Two different wireless protocols can be used for ranging between a mobile device and an access control system (e.g., a vehicle). The first wireless protocol (e.g., Bluetooth®) can be used to perform authentication of the vehicle and exchange ranging capabilities between a mobile device (e.g., a phone or watch) and the vehicle. The second wireless protocol (e.g., ultra-wideband, UWB) can use a pulse width that is less than a pulse width used by the first wireless protocol (e.g., 1 ns v. 1 ?s). The narrower pulse width can provide greater accuracy for distance (ranging) measurements.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Brent M. Ledvina, Robert W. Brumley, Sriram Hariharan
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Patent number: 10763750Abstract: A power converter circuit included in a computer system may charge and discharge a switch node coupled to a regulated power supply node via an inductor. During a discharge cycle, the power converter circuit may sense a current being discharge from the regulated power supply node through the inductor into a ground supply node. The power converter circuit may also sense a noise current flowing in the ground supply node, and generate a control current using both the current being discharge and the noise current. Using the control current, the power converter circuit may halt the discharge cycle.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nikola Jovanovic, Michael Couleur
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Patent number: 10762604Abstract: An electronic device may include enhancement circuitry to enhance high resolution image data to improve perceived quality of an image corresponding to the high resolution image data. The enhancement circuitry may include tone detection circuitry to determine one or more tones within the image and apply changes to the high resolution image data based on the one or more tones. The enhancement circuitry may also include example-based improvement circuitry to compare the high resolution image data to low resolution image data and apply changes to the high resolution image data based on differences between sections of the high resolution image data and sections of the low resolution image data. The enhancement circuitry may also include channel processing circuitry to apply the first and second changes to one or more channels of the high resolution image data.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jim C. Chou, Haiyan He, Yun Gong
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Patent number: 10760175Abstract: Anodic films that have a white color, and methods for forming the same, are described. According to some embodiments, the anodic films have multiple metal oxide layers. A first layer can provide scratch and chemical resistance and a second layer can provide a light diffusing pore structure that diffusely reflects incoming light and provides a white appearance to the anodic film. According to some embodiments, the anodic films also include a smoothed barrier layer that specularly reflects incoming light so as to brighten the appearance and enhance the white color of the anodic film. The resulting anodic films have an opaque white appearance not achievable using conventional techniques. The anodic films are well suited for providing cosmetically appealing coatings for consumer products, such as housings for electronic products.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2016Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Masashige Tatebe, Takahiro Oshima, Jody R. Akana, Yutaka Nakagishi, Junichi Katayama, Kenji Hara, Yasuhiro Ito, Ayumi Hongou
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Patent number: 10761570Abstract: An electronic device may have a hollow display cover structure. The hollow display cover structure may be formed from a structure having an inner surface. The structure may be an elongated member having a longitudinal axis. A material such as sapphire, other crystalline materials, or other transparent materials may be used in forming the hollow display cover structure. A flexible display layer such as an organic light-emitting diode display layer or other flexible display structure may be wrapped around the longitudinal axis to cover the interior surface of the hollow display cover structure. The electronic device may have a touch sensor, accelerometer, gyroscope, and other sensors for gathering input such as user input. The electronic device may use one or more sensors to gather information on rotational motion of the device and can display content on the flexible display layer accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Scott A. Myers, Derek Wright, Fletcher R. Rothkopf
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Patent number: 10762105Abstract: The preservation of the user interface state of first application on a first device allows, in one embodiment, a user to resume use of at least a portion of the user interface state on a second application on second devices. The first and second applications can be the same or different (with some common user interface UI features or elements and other UI features that are different). Other embodiments are also described.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Gordon J. Freedman
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Patent number: 10762836Abstract: An electronic display row drivers or column drivers that send reference currents or voltages to microdrivers to be used to drive micropixels to particular levels. The microdrivers, in turn, ship current to micropixels that display images based at least in part on the shipped current.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2016Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hopil Bae, Wei H. Yao, Mohammad B. Vahid Far, Yafei Bi, Xiaofeng Wang, Thomas Charisoulis, Hasan Akyol, Henry C. Jen, Derek K. Shaeffer
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Patent number: 10763323Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display may have rounded corners. A negative power supply path may be used to distribute a negative voltage to a cathode layer, while a positive power supply path may be used to distribute a positive power supply voltage to each pixel in the display. The positive power supply path may have a cutout that is occupied by the negative power supply path to decrease resistance of the negative power supply path in a rounded corner of the display. To mitigate reflections caused by the positive power supply path being formed over tightly spaced data lines, the positive power supply path may be omitted in a rounded corner of the display, a shielding layer may be formed over the positive power supply path in the rounded corner, or non-linear gate lines may be formed over the positive power supply path.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Tiffany T. Moy, Yuchi Che, Seonpil Jang, Warren S. Rieutort-Louis, Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran, Jae Won Choi, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Myung-Kwan Ryu, Hirokazu Yamagata, Keisuke Otsu
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Patent number: 10764066Abstract: Secure reception of a certificate revocation list (CRL) is determined. In some embodiments, a device initiates a CRL update by sending a message with a timestamp to an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC). The eUICC generates a session identifier, nonce, or random number and builds a payload including an internal time value based on a server time, and an internal time value based on a past message received from the device. The eUICC cryptographically signs over the payload and sends it to the device. The device obtains a CRL from a host server, checks the CRL, and, if the CRL passes the device check, sends it to the eUICC along with a second device timestamp and the nonce. The eUICC then performs checks based on the timestamps, the nonce, the CRL and the internal time values to determine whether the CRL has been securely received.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Li Li, Arun G. Mathias
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Patent number: 10761571Abstract: This application relates to a portable electronic device. The portable electronic device includes a housing including (i) a first case, and (ii) a second case that is capable of pivoting relative to the first case. The portable electronic device further includes a linkage assembly that includes a first joint that is joined to the first case, a second joint that is joined to the first case, a third joint that is joined to the second case, where the second and third joints define a first link, and a fourth joint that is joined to the second case, the first and fourth joints defining a second link, where when an input motion is applied at the second link, the second link oscillates to cause the first link to move such that the first and second cases pivot between a closed configuration and an open configuration.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Edward J. Cooper, Ari P. Miller, Kevin M. Robinson, Ian A. Guy
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Patent number: 10762820Abstract: System and method for improving displayed image quality of an electronic display that displays a first image frame by applying a first voltage to a display pixel and a second image frame directly before the first image frame by applying a second voltage to the display pixel. A display pipeline is communicatively coupled to the electronic display and receives first image data corresponding with the first image frame, where the image data includes a first grayscale value corresponding with the display pixel. Additionally the display pipeline determines an inversion balancing grayscale offset based at least in part on the first grayscale value when polarity of the first voltage and polarity of the second voltage are the same and determines magnitude of the first voltage by applying the inversion balancing grayscale offset to the first grayscale value to reduce likelihood of a perceivable luminance spike when displaying the first image frame.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher P. Tann, Taesung Kim, Sandro H. Pintz
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Patent number: 10762856Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to electronic devices with displays. A display may include an array of display pixels and control circuitry for operating the display. The control circuitry may determine, based on pixel values for a row of display pixels, that a current in common supply voltage circuitry for the display pixels will exceed a threshold, if the row of display pixels is operated using the pixel values. The control circuitry may modify the pixel values for the row of display pixels to reduce the current in the common supply voltage circuitry and/or prevent the current in the common supply voltage circuitry from exceeding the threshold.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Manev Luthra, Joseph P. Manca, Fenghua Zheng, David S. Zalatimo
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Patent number: 10764588Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for coding image data adaptively at different levels of downscaling. Such techniques may involve partitioning input data into pixel blocks for coding and performing content analysis on the pixel blocks. The pixel blocks may be input to block coders that operate at different pixel block sizes, which may code the pixel blocks input to them at their respective sizes. Except when a block coder operates at the partitioning size, block coders that operate at different pixel block sizes may perform downscaling of the pixel blocks to match their size with the block coders' respective coding size. A block decoder may invert the coding operations performed by the block coders, decoding coded image data at respective pixel block sizes, then upscaling decoded image data obtained therefrom to a common pixel block size. Image reconstruction may synthesize a resultant image from the decode pixel block data output by the decoders.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Xiang Fu, Linfeng Guo, Haiyan He, Wei Li, Xu Gang Zhao, Hao Pan, Xiaohua Yang, Krishnakanth Rapaka, Munehiro Nakazato, Haitao Guo
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Patent number: 10765019Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a portable electronic device having a substantially concealed barometric vent. The vent may be used to equalize air pressure within the enclosure while forming a barrier between external contaminants, moisture, and so on and various internal component and assemblies of the device. In one embodiment, the vent may include a screen configured to impede ingress of particulates and an air-permeable membrane configured to impede ingress of moisture.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher M. Werner, Maegan K. Spencer, Daniel J. Barrett, Brad G. Boozer, Daniel J. Hiemstra, Christopher D. Guichet, Amin M. Younes, James G. Horiuchi, Eugene H. Fox