Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12192753
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for managing the provisioning of voice services to a user equipment (UE) in a fifth generation (5G) network. For example, the UE generates a registration request message that includes 5G mobility management (5GMM) capabilities of the UE that are indicative of whether the UE supports voice over internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS), and transmits the registration request message to a next generation radio access network (NGRAN) node in the 5G wireless network. Based on the 5GMM capabilities, the NG-RAN node can determine whether voice over IMS can be provided to UE by comparing the 5GMM capabilities to capabilities of the NG-RAN node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Zaus, Roland Gruber, Alexandre Saso Stojanovski
  • Patent number: 12192085
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses provide for collecting end-to-end (e2e) one way latency measurements and solutions for performance data streaming. The e2e performance measurements and performance data streaming (real-time performance measurements) may be used for performance assurance of 5G networks including network slicing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yizhi Yao, Joey Chou
  • Patent number: 12191970
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for determining a beam for communication between a user equipment and a base station. For example, angle of arrival estimates may be utilized for determining the beam for communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yakun Sun, Rohit U. Nabar, Mithat C. Dogan, Parvathanathan Subrahmanya, Han Yan, Louay Jalloul
  • Patent number: 12189258
    Abstract: An electronic device has an electrically adjustable shutter. The shutter may be placed in a transparent state or a nontransparent state. The shutter may overlap a portion of a display, may overlap a liquid contact indictor or a structure with text in a device, or may overlap an optical component such as an optical proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, visible light-emitting diode or laser, infrared light-emitting diode or laser, visible light image sensor, or infrared light image sensor. Control circuitry in the electronic device may place the shutter in an opaque state to hide an overlapped component from view or may place the shutter in a transparent state to allow the overlapped component to transmit or receive light. The adjustable shutter may exhibit changes in its transmission spectrum in different modes of operation and may be used as a camera filter or neutral density filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael W. Firka, Ashley E. Fletcher, Benjamin J. Pope, Lee E. Hooton, Scott A. Myers, Benjamin Shane Bustle, Garam Young, Blake M. Coughenour
  • Patent number: 12189599
    Abstract: The subject technology provides a framework for evaluating activation functions of a neural network using lookup tables. In order to provide lookup table based activation functions with a desired precision within hardware constraints for the lookup tables, multiple lookup tables for each activation function can be provided. Each of the multiple lookup tables may correspond to a respective subrange of input values, within a full range of input values for the activation function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Antony, Francesco Rossi, Guillaume Tartavel, Xiaojin Shi, Marco Zuliani
  • Patent number: 12193159
    Abstract: A display assembly for an electronic device can include a printed circuit board, a display panel, and a support structure affixed to the display panel and disposed between the display panel and the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Sameer Pandya, Kiran S. Pillai, Kyle M. Zampaglione
  • Patent number: 12189853
    Abstract: A method includes displaying a plurality of computer-generated objects, and obtaining finger manipulation data from a finger-wearable device via a communication interface. In some implementations, the method includes receiving an untethered input vector that includes a plurality of untethered input indicator values. Each of the plurality of untethered input indicator values is associated with one of a plurality of untethered input modalities. In some implementations, the method includes obtaining proxy object manipulation data from a physical proxy object via the communication interface. The proxy object manipulation data corresponds to sensor data associated with one or more sensors integrated in the physical proxy object. The method includes registering an engagement event with respect to a first one of the plurality of computer-generated objects based on a combination of the finger manipulation data, the untethered input vector, and the proxy object manipulation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Adam G Poulos, Aaron M. Burns, Arun Rakesh Yoganandan, Benjamin R. Blachnitzky, Nicolai Georg
  • Patent number: 12189865
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to navigating user interfaces using hand gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tu K. Nguyen, James N. Cartwright, Elizabeth C. Cranfill, Christopher B. Fleizach, Joshua R. Ford, Jeremiah R. Johnson, Charles Maalouf, Heriberto Nieto, Jennifer D. Patton, Hojat Seyed Mousavi, Shawn R. Scully, Ibrahim G. Yusuf, Joanna Arreaza-Taylor, Hannah G. Coleman, Yoonju Han
  • Publication number: 20250003809
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes embodiments of a temperature sensor with full band PSR. The temperature sensor can include a reference voltage generator, a temperature circuit, and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The reference voltage generator is configured to generate a reference voltage. The temperature circuit is configured to operate under a substantially constant bias current and to generate a temperature signal proportional to temperature. The ADC is electrically coupled to the reference voltage generator and the temperature circuit and configured to convert the temperature signal to a digital representation based on a sampling frequency. The ADC comprises a frequency generator configured to generate a modulation frequency having a random variation. The sampling frequency is modulated by the modulation frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Soheil GOLARA, Daniel Joel Bankman, Robin Gupta, Seyedeh Sedigheh Hashemi, Mansour Keramat
  • Publication number: 20250005195
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to, among other things, monitoring a user device to determine whether a user associated with the device is safe. In some examples, a user (which may be referred to herein as an “initiator” establishes a device monitoring session (which may be referred to herein as “session”) with a user, or a group of users, so that the user(s) are notified either when the initiator has safely ended the device monitoring session or receives access to session data that was collected during the session. In some configurations, the session can be handed off from a first user device that is currently active to a different user device. Instead of the first user device always being the device that interacts with the server, a different first user device may be selected as the active device to interact with the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel P. Shepard, Michael P. Dal Santo, Ping-Ko Chiu, Kumar Gaurav Chhokra, Yannick L. Sierra, Andrew M. Pace, Richard L. Hagy, Lindsey McAllister, Dharini Sitaraman, Andrew N. Khoury, Richard Bower Warren, Brent M. Ledvina, Siva Ganesh Movva, Ronald Keryuan Huang, Robert W. Mayor, Stacey F. Lysik, Areeba Kamal, Ryan D. Shelby, Elizabeth Caroline Furches Cranfill, Kanika Malhotra, Gillian T. Verga
  • Publication number: 20250008538
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for capability reporting for antenna switching, AS, sound reference signals, SRS. A user equipment (UE) can transmit a capability report for AS SRS that includes a plurality of receive antenna (e.g., six or eight receive antenna), and receive SRS instructions based on the capability report. The UE can transmit a first temporary capability reduction for a duration, and transmit a first SRS according to the first temporary capability reduction and the SRS instructions, while maintaining phase continuity. To maintain phase continuity, the UE can calibrate one or more SRS ports participating in the AS SRS to transmit with substantially a same transmit power. The UE can determine that a second SRS overlaps an other transmission in a time domain, determine that the other transmission has an absolute priority over the second SRS, and transmit the other transmission but not the second SRS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Haitong SUN, Chunxuan YE, Dawei ZHANG, Hong HE, Huaning NIU, Sigen YE, Wei ZENG, Yushu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20250008399
    Abstract: Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE). The UE obtains a cell reselection indication from a network device. The cell reselection indication indicates to the UE whether a terrestrial network (TN) cell or a non-terrestrial network (NTN) cell serves as a camping cell for which the UE performs cell reselection; The UE performs the cell reselection based on the cell reselection indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fangli Xu, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Yuqin Chen, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Ralf Rossbach, Peng Cheng, Ping-Heng Kuo
  • Publication number: 20250008454
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing a synchronized short range communication protocol scan mechanism across multiple devices. Some aspects relate to an electronic device including a transceiver configured to communicate based on a short range communication protocol and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor receives one or more parameters from a peripheral electronic device and determines, based at least on the one or more parameters, one or more synchronization parameters. The processor further transmits the one or more synchronization parameters to the peripheral electronic device. The one or more synchronization parameters can include at least a scan offset associated with the peripheral electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yann LY-GAGNON, Arun UNKN, Chen GANIR, Duy N. PHAN, Langford M. WASADA
  • Patent number: 12184088
    Abstract: A wireless power transfer device can include a coil that couples to a corresponding coil of a counterpart device to facilitate wireless power transfer, a power converter coupled to the coil, and controller and communication circuitry that monitors one or more observable parameters associated with the wireless power transfer to detect a presence of a foreign object that is not the counterpart device and controls the power converter responsive to detection of the foreign object. The controller and communication circuitry can perform foreign object detection based on power accounting that includes estimating friendly metal losses associated with the counterpart device. The controller and communication circuitry can interrogate a machine readable tag associated with a case of the counterpart device and can receive from the machine readable tag information about the presence or properties of the case. The machine readable tag can be an NFC tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shubha Ramakrishnan, Adam L Schwartz
  • Patent number: 12181740
    Abstract: A transparent structure may have layers with curved cross-sectional profiles. The transparent structure may have inner and outer layers with curved portions formed by bending the layers. A display may be applied to one or more of the inner and outer layers. To reduce the strain applied to the display while being bent into a desired curvature, a carrier film may be used during bending operations. The carrier film may be modified with a patch or openings distribute the strain evenly across the display. Additionally or alternatively, a convex mold may be used to further decrease the strain on the display while being formed into the desired curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Peng Lv, Mahmut Tosun, Ho Hyung Lee, Paul W Tsao, Da Yu, Michael Vosgueritchian, Francois R Jacob
  • Patent number: 12185489
    Abstract: Housings for electronic devices are disclosed. According to one aspect, adjoining surfaces of electronic device housings can be mounted or arranged such that adjoining surfaces are flush to a high degree of precision. The electronic devices can be portable and in some cases handheld.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: David Pakula, Richard Hung Minh Dinh, Scott Myers, Tang Yew Tan
  • Patent number: 12184186
    Abstract: A power converter can include a DC-DC converter having an output with an active power buffer coupled thereto. The active power buffer can include an energy storage capacitor and one or more switching devices selectively coupling the capacitor to the output to alternately store energy in and discharge energy from the capacitor. Control circuitry can include a DC-DC converter control loop that operates the DC-DC converter to regulate an average voltage across the capacitor and an active power buffer control loop that operates the one or more switching devices of the active power buffer to regulate an output voltage of the power converter. The DC-DC converter control loop can include a relatively slower control loop that controls the DC-DC converter during steady state load conditions and at least one relatively faster control loop that controls the DC-DC converter during transient load conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yantao Song, Chanwit Prasantanakorn, Bharat K Patel, Abby Cherian
  • Patent number: 12185616
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display and an optical sensor formed underneath the display. The display may have both a full pixel density region and a pixel removal region with a plurality of high-transmittance areas that overlap the optical sensor. To mitigate reflectance mismatch between the full pixel density region and the pixel removal region, the pixel removal region may include a transition region at one or more edges. In the transition region, one or more components may have a gradual density change between the full pixel density region and a central portion of the pixel removal region. Components that may have a changing density in the transition region include dummy thin-film transistor sub-pixels, dummy anodes, a cathode layer, and a touch sensor metal layer. The transition region may also include anodes that gradually change shape and/or size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ricardo A Peterson, Yuchi Che, Warren S Rieutort-Louis, Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari, Yi Qiao, Yue Cui, Jean-Pierre S Guillou, Shyuan Yang, Tsung-Ting Tsai
  • Patent number: D1055956
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Woo Chang, Patrick Lee Coffman, Nathan de Vries, Christopher P. Foss, Robert Garcia, III, Heena Ko, Stephen O. Lemay, Marcel van Os
  • Patent number: D1056925
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Butcher, Alan C. Dye, Chance Graham